• Harvest Market to Charge 10¢ for Paper Carryout Bags Beginning February 1

    When the first handles were stitched onto paper bags by a Minnesota grocer in 1912, he charged customers 5 cents—about $1.12 in today’s money. Eventually grocers began to give the bags away to customers, but by the 1980s, the rising cost of paper bags caused most stores to switch to the much cheaper, plastic T-shirt…

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