I suppose the legislation around here has gone through a couple iterations, but I don't really know. Decades ago I would make grocery runs on the bus, just car

I suppose the legislation around here has gone through a couple iterations, but I don't really know. Decades ago I would make grocery runs on the bus, just carry an empty backpack and perhaps another bag, stuff them tightly full, and any overflow was in disposable bags. Only as much as I could carry. I also received weird looks and attitudes at certain stores when I'd check out with a duffel bag on the conveyor belt. The checker would grimace and exhibit disdain and a reluctance to even touch the filthy thing? Gee, sorry. It often resulted in "pack my own goods" rather than a bagger willing to do it for me. My appreciation for expert, efficient baggers has grown immensely. I started picking up reusable totes where I shopped. They're all branded! So I'd feel weird being disloyal and packing the "wrong" tote at a different store. Shame led me to purchase a variety of totes everywhere I shopped... overkill! And, as others have mentioned, I often shop on a whim and unprepared, so those fancy bags all get left at home, 80% of the time, and I come home with more disposables. The disposables can really add up. You may find yourself hoarding if you think that you can reuse them. I clamped a limit on bag storage, and gleefully discard excess ones. I took note when my farmer's market switched from disposables, to slightly thicker plastic touted as "reusable" but really just from the same process, and you feel like a villain when discarding them! To their credit, I believe they still have a recycle bin, where you can bring them back. Now that I use delivery services most of the time, it's simply a one-way deluge. Often the bags are knotted and I just cut into them. Disposables are lower-quality, often with holes or defective handles, never fit for reuse. Yeah, I purchase custom trash bags, because they fit and they hold... garbage... correctly.