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Now, this was a regular occurrence about three-ish years ago in my store, which used to have a policy where if you brought you own recyclable bags, you would get five cents off your order per bag used (i.e. if you brought in twenty bags, and we only used three of them to bag your groceries, you'd get fifteen cents off the order). There was this extremely unpleasant man who would inevitably bring in around fifty dirty, torn paper bags, buy barely enough groceries to fill four or five of them, and then loudly DEMAND to receive credit for each and every one he brought in (and, if anyone pointed out the policy, would sneer something to the effect of, "Well, you better put one item in every bag, then" 
). It got the point where, when I'd see that pile of filthy bags coming down the belt towards me, I'd inevitably cringe and quietly seethe while this jerk berated whoever my cashier was to make sure that EACH and EVERY bag got credited. People like this are probably why we stopped giving credit for reusable bags about a year ago (that, and enough customers were bring in their own bags anyways, making it a redundant perk). And it's just so petty...five cents per fifty bags equals a whopping $2.50 off per order, enough to buy one-and-a-half newspapers. 
I realize the value of stretching one's budget, but come on.
). It got the point where, when I'd see that pile of filthy bags coming down the belt towards me, I'd inevitably cringe and quietly seethe while this jerk berated whoever my cashier was to make sure that EACH and EVERY bag got credited. People like this are probably why we stopped giving credit for reusable bags about a year ago (that, and enough customers were bring in their own bags anyways, making it a redundant perk). And it's just so petty...five cents per fifty bags equals a whopping $2.50 off per order, enough to buy one-and-a-half newspapers. I realize the value of stretching one's budget, but come on.
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