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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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Saving the Planet—One Bag at a Time
Delaware’s Revised Plastic Carry Out Bag Ban, effective July 1, 2022, has an additional provision concerning “exempt” plastic bags. This provision has caused us to no longer provide new, empty plastic bags for you to use in our produce aisle. Instead, three sizes of paper bags are available for you to use. You may also…
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