Current Events > I'm Team-Mask, but stores banning reusable grocery bags is horse shit.

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My wife and I have been Aldi superfans for years now and do 90% of our shopping there. But now they started a new store policy where you cant bring your own reusable bags into the store. They'll actually stop you at the door and take them away, place a sticker on them so you can get them on the way out.
Wouldn't be a big deal, BUT Aldi also has a policy where you have to "rent" a cart for $0.25. To get a cart, you need to stick a quarter into a slot to get your cart, and when you bring it back, you get your quarter back.
(That on top of the fact they also charge you for plastic/paper bags.)

Like, I am 100% down with social distancing, wearing masks, etc... But this is a little ridiculous. People can carry pocketbook bags in. Your clothes probably have germs on them. You just walked through a parking lot with shoes on. What the hell makes reusable bags so dangerous, especially when people are probably washing them after every trip to the store now?

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That seems unnecessary. Stores here are just requiring you to bag things yourself if you're using your reusable bags.
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I think the whole point is avoiding the employees having to handle bags that you brought into the store. They aren't handling your pocketbook or your shoes, and if you really think that everyone can be trusted to wash their bags before coming to the store then lmao

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I just ask for no bags and load up my reusable bags when I get back to the car

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You sure it isn't just some over-the-top state or municipal policy ordered by the governor or mayor such as Illinois, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts?
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eston posted...

I think the whole point is avoiding the employees having to handle bags that you brought into the store. They aren't handling your pocketbook or your shoes, and if you really think that everyone can be trusted to wash their bags before coming to the store then lmao

They don't have to handle your bags. You bag your own groceries in Aldi. They don't have baggers, and cashiers just toss your groceries into the cart they have at each aisle.

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That's weird. I know Sprouts has said that the costumers have to bag their own groceries if they use reusable bags, which is fine
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Ironic, we were just starting to get environmentally friendly and Mother Nature (or China) throws this virus at us...

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Paragon21XX posted...

You sure it isn't just some over-the-top state or municipal policy ordered by the governor or mayor such as Illinois, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts?

Nah, surprisingly not a NY thing. It's only at Aldi. All other grocery stores let you bring them in.
They only just started doing it this week too.

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Particularly stupid at Aldi where they make you bag your own shit anyway

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emblem boy posted...

That's weird. I know Sprouts has said that the costumers have to bag their own groceries if they use reusable bags, which is fine

Mizznox posted...

Stores here are just requiring you to bag things yourself if you're using your reusable bags.

Totally! That policy is perfectly reasonable and I would have no problem with it whatsoever.

But now you're forced to either buy their bags, or rent their carts.

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