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>"This law is a huge inconvenience for most people in the state. How can I tell? Because from my experience, the overwhelming majority of people choose not to w
by taurusnoises 4y ago
>"This law is a huge inconvenience for most people in the state. How can I tell? Because from my experience, the overwhelming majority of people choose not to walk around with a bag full of reusable bags."
Wow. Excellent analysis! Haha. Figure. It. Out. You're an adult. I keep a bag of bags in my car, and for when I walk to the grocery store, I have another bag of bags. So far my life hasn't changed much.
- moate 4y agoSo prior to banning single use bags, people relied on single use bags. Who would have guessed!? I have a spoiler alert for the future for this author: The overwhelming majority of people will start choosing to walk around with a bag full of reusable bags when they need to.
- csw-001 4y agoThis is my lived experience. I moved from a place without a bag policy to a place with a hefty bag tax. At first I was caught without my reusable bags a bunch of times - each time buying new reusable bags for my purchases (instead of wasting money on the tax)... Now I am awash in reusable bags and I almost never forget them. For me the shift was very akin to masking up during COVID-19. I found it hard and weird for about 3wks, now it's just part of going out. Leaving the house? You need a mask and your bags.
- moate 4y agoI would imagine the curve of "people buying new bags because they forgot" over time is real real high over the first 6 months, with sharp drop at some point and a thin tail in the future. The idea of people frequently forgetting bags and needing to buy one at check-out just doesn't seem to jive with long term reality from what we've seen in other places that have done similar things.