Boulder to institute 10-cent bag fee for paper/plastic- aka Boulder= full retard

[MrPrena]

I went to Seattle few month ago. I didn't want to pay 10 cents, so I just carried the damn merchandise.

[Zundfolge]

Why are you bagging milk? Doesn't it have a handle for a reason?

I bag my milk because I can carry two gallons of milk along with a dozen other bags, if I rely on the milk jug's handle then I can't get a grip a second gallon jug and bunch of bags. It's my God given right as an American to make only one trip from the car to the kitchen

Actually it's my God given right as an American to NOT have the government try to impose its "morality" on my with stupid fines, fees, regulations and laws. Take your Cass Sunstien "nudge" Bovine Scat and leave me the hell alone. I AM NOT HOMER FUCKING SIMPSON AND EVEN IF I WAS IT'S NOT THE PLACE OF A BUNCH OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS, PETTY BUREAUCRATS TO GUIDE MY EVERY FUCKING MOVE!

Besides that I have cats, so I like my free bags for litter box cleaning.

[Ronin13]

Experienced the fun today at King Soopers during my lunch break. After paying (including the 10 cents) and walking towards the door, the self checkout overlook person came running after me "sir did you pay for the bag!?!"...full retard in affect

I was wondering about this- How do they know, if you're using the self-checkout, how many bags to charge for? Or is that going to be separate? Like a hall monitor at the end counting your bags and asking for their $.40... To which I would apologize and say that I don't have any spare change and pretty sure I'm not charging 40 effing cents on my debit card.

[akumadiavolo]

When I was in Taiwan a couple years ago there was a one dollar fee for a bag, which is about 4 cents in USD. It extends to plastic cups and plastic forks and such so you didn't see them very often. Even that little fee pushes a lot of people away and saves over 14 billion plastic bags alone. That's quite a lot of oil saved that can be put to better use.

[griebel303]

I was wondering about this- How do they know, if you're using the self-checkout, how many bags to charge for? Or is that going to be separate? Like a hall monitor at the end counting your bags and asking for their $.40... To which I would apologize and say that I don't have any spare change and pretty sure I'm not charging 40 effing cents on my debit card.

It's on the honesty/hall monitor system. At this self checkout you had to enter the quantity you were going to use before you could proceed to the payment...and then get hounded on your way out to make sure the receipts match the bag total. So ridiculous haha

[Ronin13]

It's on the honesty/hall monitor system. At this self checkout you had to enter the quantity you were going to use before you could proceed to the payment...and then get hounded on your way out to make sure the receipts match the bag total. So ridiculous haha

Very ridiculous. All it's gonna take is one instance where someone used 5 bags, but paid for 4... is the store going to report them for shoplifting? "Oops, I already paid but don't have any spare change." Think they'll let it slide? I think someone in Boulder might make a stink about this- more likely there than most other places in this state.

[meatman]

It wouldn't be so bad if they had refund system in place so I could bring my grocery bags full of grocery bags to Boulder and get $0.10/bag refund.

[Sawin]

It wouldn't be so bad if they had refund system in place so I could bring my grocery bags full of grocery bags to Boulder and get $0.10/bag refund.

Don't count on it... at least not for long. That sounds like a money maker to me. I bet we could find someone who manufactures such bags for fractions of a penny and "return" them for profit...

[DangerLee_Industries]

Most countries I've been to in Europe over the years do that as well. Who cares just take some bags with you. If you want to have some fun with this then take a 55 gallon contractor bag with you and have them use that for your milk and bologna.

[GilpinGuy]

Keep one or two of those rubbermaid bins in the trunk of your car. At checkout, explain that you refuse to pay the extra tax and that you need assistance getting your groceries to the car. The high school kids gets to haul your shit to the car in the shopping cart and load it into your bins for you. (It creates a job! It must be good!)