• 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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  • A reminder to all of our customers: please use a cart or basket and do not shop into your personal bags.

    We need your help. We recently caught someone shoplifting by shopping directly into their personal bags, claiming the items in the bag were products purchased from another store, and leaving the store without paying for those items. We have been encouraging our customers to bring in their own carryout bags for years, and pay 10…

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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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  • We’re a BYOB Establishment

    Notice the BYOB craze these days? (And no, we’re not talking about the bring your own booze trend, although that’s appealing, too!). We’re talking about the Bring Your Own Bag movement, which has helped reduce the number of single use plastic and paper bags consumed in our culture by encouraging consumers to bring their own…

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