This just rankles me. Even way back in the ’70’s, when I was in the department store trade, the accountants were always trying to come up with ways to get people to pay for their supplies. Now they have the environmental card to play. Our local supermarket just started charging $.05 a bag and had signs up showing how plastic bags were strangling seals in the ocean. PUUULLEEEEZZEE stop patronizing me! We’re not that stupid- none of our bags get dumped in the ocean; most get recycled or reused in our municipality or, at worst, some end up in the landfill.
As one WALMART clerk said to me (when she didn’t charge me for the bag): “Is it worth it to alienate a customer for the sake of 5 cents?”
This just rankles me. Even way back in the ’70’s, when I was in the department store trade, the accountants were always trying to come up with ways to get people to pay for their supplies. Now they have the environmental card to play. Our local supermarket just started charging $.05 a bag and had signs up showing how plastic bags were strangling seals in the ocean. PUUULLEEEEZZEE stop patronizing me! We’re not that stupid- none of our bags get dumped in the ocean; most get recycled or reused in our municipality or, at worst, some end up in the landfill.
As one WALMART clerk said to me (when she didn’t charge me for the bag): “Is it worth it to alienate a customer for the sake of 5 cents?”
She’s got more smarts than the COO’s.