ADDENDUM to the Earth Grocery Bag ADDENDUM
I came back to my computer after browsing Walmart (!) today to find the following string of IMs from...well, let's call her WiseDCJewess to protect her identity -- with apologies to anyone ACTUALLY with that screen name...
(1:37:24 PM) : i think you should use your blog to continue to expose the farce that is the Reusable Tote Shopping Bag.
(1:38:17 PM) : until the supermarkets actually provide the infrastructure to use them beyond the first purchase, it's all a bullshit scheme to get you to part with your 99 cents
(1:40:22 PM) : better to do what Aldi and Costco do -- either sell the plastic (or paper, or what have you) shopping bags at a nominal fee each time you use a new bag -- thereby providing incentive for you to re-use them -- or don't provide bags at all and let the sheep (baaaa) figure it out on their own
(1:40:40 PM) : Humans are stupid and lazy. Let's be honest.
I couldn't have said it better myself. This got me fixating on my plan to buy a bag. I 95% agree with the above IMs. But there's a part of me that says "well, it's ONLY 99 cents...and where ELSE am I gonna find a sturdy bag for groceries?" In other words, unless u already have something laying around your house, u'd NEED to part with at LEAST 99 cents to buy one. I also like the idea of a single Go-To grocery bag; it fits nicely with my super organized and structured personality, and i'm sure the marketing geniuses had people like me in mind when they hatched their "Let's throw the words EARTH FRIENDLY and GROCERY onto this regular tote bag" scheme. This actually reminds me of an even GREATER scam I'd meant to blog on from a couple weeks back...oh, this is good...deserves its own blog, which I'll write after this. But, yeah, it's all about marketing and making money. So I WILL search my life for an appropriate FREE bag to use for groceries...and I urge you to fuckbuck the system and do the same...but if I don't find one, then i'll probably bite the organic bullet and part with my dollar. In conclusion, we now have two goals...1) save the earth, 2) fuck the marketers.
(1:37:24 PM) : i think you should use your blog to continue to expose the farce that is the Reusable Tote Shopping Bag.
(1:38:17 PM) : until the supermarkets actually provide the infrastructure to use them beyond the first purchase, it's all a bullshit scheme to get you to part with your 99 cents
(1:40:22 PM) : better to do what Aldi and Costco do -- either sell the plastic (or paper, or what have you) shopping bags at a nominal fee each time you use a new bag -- thereby providing incentive for you to re-use them -- or don't provide bags at all and let the sheep (baaaa) figure it out on their own
(1:40:40 PM) : Humans are stupid and lazy. Let's be honest.
I couldn't have said it better myself. This got me fixating on my plan to buy a bag. I 95% agree with the above IMs. But there's a part of me that says "well, it's ONLY 99 cents...and where ELSE am I gonna find a sturdy bag for groceries?" In other words, unless u already have something laying around your house, u'd NEED to part with at LEAST 99 cents to buy one. I also like the idea of a single Go-To grocery bag; it fits nicely with my super organized and structured personality, and i'm sure the marketing geniuses had people like me in mind when they hatched their "Let's throw the words EARTH FRIENDLY and GROCERY onto this regular tote bag" scheme. This actually reminds me of an even GREATER scam I'd meant to blog on from a couple weeks back...oh, this is good...deserves its own blog, which I'll write after this. But, yeah, it's all about marketing and making money. So I WILL search my life for an appropriate FREE bag to use for groceries...and I urge you to fuckbuck the system and do the same...but if I don't find one, then i'll probably bite the organic bullet and part with my dollar. In conclusion, we now have two goals...1) save the earth, 2) fuck the marketers.
posted by Gregoire at 9:58 PM
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