We just got word that effective April 30, we will no longer be providing paper bags at the registers. I thought that this was another stupid town directive, but no; it's company-wide "in an effort to reduce waste".
Customers need to either buy a reusable bag (for which the price has gone up, and will probably be increased again because they can) or bring their own. The backlash is already starting, and there is a certain subset of customers who grab as many paper bags as they can just because they can.
I don't know how--or if--this affects my department. I'd been lobbying for at least a year to let customers use their own bags (they could state on the invoice that they have bags; we would either not bag the order or transfer it carside both of which I have done). Some stores charge for using reusable bags for orders, but it's $2 per bag (I can't tell if it's also per order). There's been negative customer feedback about that repeated charge. They haven't figured out how to let customers bring the reusable bags back to reuse If my department is somehow allowed to keep using paper (which I somehow doubt) someone is going to need to police things to keep walk-in SCs from taking all my bags.
Customers need to either buy a reusable bag (for which the price has gone up, and will probably be increased again because they can) or bring their own. The backlash is already starting, and there is a certain subset of customers who grab as many paper bags as they can just because they can.
I don't know how--or if--this affects my department. I'd been lobbying for at least a year to let customers use their own bags (they could state on the invoice that they have bags; we would either not bag the order or transfer it carside both of which I have done). Some stores charge for using reusable bags for orders, but it's $2 per bag (I can't tell if it's also per order). There's been negative customer feedback about that repeated charge. They haven't figured out how to let customers bring the reusable bags back to reuse If my department is somehow allowed to keep using paper (which I somehow doubt) someone is going to need to police things to keep walk-in SCs from taking all my bags.
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