It’s hard to tell from this picture, but here’s a plastic bag of cherries inside of another plastic bag. Also purchased by my line mate was four potatoes also in a plastic bag. Those things are already dirty! How is this kind of thing not illegal? Of course, said person brought their own satchels.

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I think I’ll just move to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, actually.

61 replies on “Meanwhile at the White Center Safeway”

  1. Wow. Can’t ya just let a person shop for groceries in peace? I mean, seriously, you take a snapshot of their cart contents and then get all judgmental about it in a blog? Really? This is how you spend your energy?
    And yes, that’s right — now I’m judging you.

  2. Should be laws against – the excessive number of Strangers dropped off in multiple locations, along with the ads wrapped around them…the gas consuming vehicle used for delivery of same. The filthy cloth bag used over and over again allowed to be placed near food service areas, children pushing grocery carts…Safeway,

  3. I’ll make sure to walk my dog by the stranger office next time he has to drop one. Not really but, if not for plastic grocery bags there’d be a lot of dog shit lying around everywhere.

  4. Every time I decline bags they give me the line, “we need to ask because other people get upset if you don’t bag every item.” Does anyone have any data on this phenomenon of people demanding more bags? I’ve never seen it.

    I just went to Staples and bought a single ream of paper that they were going to put in a plastic bag on a sunny day. Why?

  6. @46: The rest of the slogger who are talking about bags are mentioning pretty realistic uses for them. Bagging round veggies so they don’t roll all over the scale? Legitimate use. I am double-bagging for the sake of all the melodramatic hippies who think that crying about garbage on a blog will do any good.

  7. @44 In Seattle we lug all of our garbage down to Oregon via train, and it goes to a dump. I haven’t seen OR dumps, but I have seen California dumps and all of the plastic bags fly in the air with the slightest amount of wind. Any tree in the area looks like some modern artwork, completely covered in bags. From there the bags likely find their way to some bush or tree, and eventually decompose. Note “decompose” when it comes to plastic bags doesn’t mean goes away – it means they break down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic until they’re just part of the environment. I’m not sure that having a massive amount processed petroleum is a great thing for the enviromnent, but I don’t really know the actual effects. Either way, I guess it’s OR’s problem.

    I just put my potatos in the cart, but these things are a great idea too. They’re $1 for three at Fred Meyer’s and I use them at the farmer’s market (I’ve even been given a discount for using my own bag!).

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