Buy a Plastic Grocery Bag
@ 9:17 amHefty® has outdone them selves this time. They have taken something that we get free and have an overabundance of and boxed it up 10 to a pack for your convenience. How do these companies do it?
Yet, somehow Hefty® seems to think we need to buy these bags because there are “101 uses” for our convenience. I jotted down a few, I’m sure there are more (surprise, Hefty does not have a list of the 101 uses in the box).
How many grocery store bags do you have? I have way too many to count, but if I boxed up 10 to a box and sold them for 50¢, I would be offering a better deal than Hefty® and their dollar ‘deal’. So what if mine are slightly used, no wait, that’s even better, I’m being green and I could charge 2.00 instead, for 10 of them. Put big letters across the front that says “100% RECYCLED”, because it would be true!
GET REAL Hefty®!
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Dawn C. is site owner of Frugalforlife.com and is residing in Colorado with her spouse, Teri, of 11 years. Dawn can be reached at Frugalforlife@gmail.com
December 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I honestly feel sorry for someone who would actually buy a product like this, I mean it’s almost shocking if you really think about it.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
The biggest question is: Would they need a grocery bag to carry it out of the store? I’m thinking yes.
December 17th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Next they’ll be selling us string.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Well, you can’t blame Hefty for trying. Now if I were savvy supermarket manager, I’d place them in the bottled water aisle — pretty much the same customers.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Here in San Francisco stores aren’t allowed to give out plastic bags anymore. Bags must be recyclable paper or compostable corn starch. The legislation just went into effect and I must say it has been an adjustment. I never really realized how often I re-used plastic bags.
December 18th, 2007 at 6:31 am
I can’t believe they actually sell these. You don’t need a new box to keep them organized:
“Stuff them in an old sock, cut the toe off and pull them out one by one.” Here’s the how-to: “Open the sock at the toe seam. Sew top and bottom opening with elastic thread so that the openings will hold bags, but let you pull them out. Tack or screw to the inside of the cabinet door under sink. Stuff plastic grocery bags into top of sock and dispense from the bottom.” Or you can use a paper towel cardboard roll… no sewing required.
Also John makes an excellent point comparing it to bottled water. Fastcompany provided their interpretation here in Message in a Bottle.
“A chilled plastic bottle of water in the convenience-store cooler is the perfect symbol of this moment in American commerce and culture. It acknowledges our demand for instant gratification, our vanity, our token concern for health. Its packaging and transport depend entirely on cheap fossil fuel.”
“Yes, it’s just a bottle of water–modest compared with the indulgence of driving a Hummer. But when a whole industry grows up around supplying us with something we don’t need–when a whole industry is built on the packaging and the presentation”it’s worth asking how that happened, and what the impact is. And if you do ask, if you trace both the water and the business back to where they came from, you find a story more complicated, more bemusing, and ultimately more sobering than the bottles we tote everywhere suggest.”
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