Why or why don%26#039;t you use cloth shopping bags instead of plastic? There is a shift happening in the way we do our grocery shopping and it has to do with the bags we use. More and more cloth shopping bags are popping up and I would like to gather a little information about them. Do you use cloth shopping bags to do your shopping? If you do, what is it that you like about them? What do you dislike? What would prompt you to use them more often? Would you use them for shopping outside of the grocery store? If you do not use cloth shopping bags, why don%26#039;t you? What would cause you to use them? 20% 1 Vote

I do use cloth bags. The main problem that I think is that people usually do not want to carry bags to the store. They ae used to the store supplying plastic/paper bags. Should the stores stop supplying bags to customers, that would be a step in the right direction. 0% 0 Votes

Thats a really good question..Star for you :D
I just started using cloth shopping bags because you keep hearing about pollution and cloth is better, befor ei used paper . but really I dont know how muhc safer the plastic is from the paper and the cloth...I would like to know to :D 0% 0 Votes

No don%26#039;t use them, don%26#039;t really care to, if they were free I guess I might, I don%26#039;t see the big deal about plastic, we reuse them for the small trash cans in the bathrooms. 0% 0 Votes

Many stores are changing to cloth bags. The world is going GREEN! Plactic is bad for the world. Cloth is reusable 0% 0 Votes

i use cloth because im an environmental freak and they dont break as easily and dont crowed my pantry 0% 0 Votes

Shift is certainly the correct term. Recyclying is the ticket all around. Yes I do use them when I remember to take them into the store with me. I have 4. Two of them I got off HSN or QVC and they are really awesome heavy duty and hold 50 lbs nicely. They have clips that fit over the sides of the shopping cart, so you fill them as you shop, remove the items and the clerks refill them. You just lift um up and place them in the car. They fold down nicely too. Two gallons of milk fits in the bottom, with lots more small stuff on top. Two of those fit in the carts. I also have the smaller Store variety cloth type as well. They are great too, as they have a stable bottom again will hold 2 gallons of milk plus. I do not dislike the cloth bags at all.
Prompting me to use them more often would be a BIG NEON sign outside the Grocery Store reminding me to take them in with me. I never remember until I am checking out at the register and am asked what kinds of bags I want my groceries in....Last time I told the Checker they should put up a PA Speaker in the Parking lot reminding people to bring in the cloth grocery bags....Maybe I would remember then....In time I will remember....it is a change we all need to adhere to especially in Calif where soon we will have to by new laws enacted. 0% 0 Votes

I buy fresh fruits and vegetables, and when I buy small (one of each) I sometimes don%26#039;t use the individual plastic bags. I also buy meat, and the package sometimes leaks. It would take more energy to wash the cloth bag every time I went shopping than it does to just use the plastic shopping bags. And the alternative IS salmonella.

Also many purchase decisions are made on the fly - - the kids and I are on the way back from the playground and the sign says there%26#039;s a sale on X - I realize that I can just buy X and, together with ingredients already at home, I can make something for dinner, instead of going out later for many ingredients to make something else.

Also, I re-use the plastic shopping bags as trash bags. I haven%26#039;t bought a plastic trash bag in years.

So, net, I don%26#039;t use more plastic than someone who walks home with a box of Heftys in a cloth bag. 20% 1 Vote