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A Grocery Store's Plan to Shame Customers into Using Reusable Bags Backfired
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- duxup 7y agoHe tried to make it sort of undesirable...but didn't go far enough and just chose amusing.
- Splognosticus 7y agoEven if they had successfully made their bags offensive, deliberately offending your customers doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
- js2 7y agoA pretty good example of the cobra effect. I'm not sure how the owner didn't see this as the likely outcome.
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- aaron695 7y ago"Grocery Store fools news outlets into free advertising"? Not, really NPR etc know what's going on it's still good for clicks, it's symbiotic. Sucker's reading story actually believe, the store believed the bags would reduce people asking for them, so the news readers get to feel superior. Symbiotic or Toxic?
- gdy 7y agoI wonder how much of outrage and calling out would've happened if he instead of warts or weird adult video had chosen, for example, homo- or transexuality as something to be ashamed of. Shaming people with warts as a collateral apparently is fine with everyone.
- typenil 7y agoThere's a great planet money episode that analyzed the actual effect of removing plastic bags from grocery stores - and how it really doesn't match the hype. Straight off, it claimed that at least 30% of the plastic "savings" was offset by people buying more trash bags (because people reuse shopping bags). Most of the rest of it focused on how many times you had to reuse non-plastic bags for them to actually be environmentally better than plastic. The numbers are quite striking. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-plastic-bag-bans-garbage https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...