Another bitch session from Nick: grocery bag frenzy
Today I did some very basic grocery shopping. I bought mostly vegetables because I was baking chicken for dinner for my roommates tonight. Anyway, I am at the checkout isle, I pay for my produce. I look down the conveyor belt and see seven bags. SEVEN bags for one day's worth of veggies! I bought broccoli, grapes, two cucumbers, lettus, mushrooms, asparagus, eggs, four apples, milk, and OJ. I almost had a bag for each individual item. On top of that, the bagger-lady double bagged the grapes, lettus, and shrooms.
I was mad, but I didn't want to make a scene, so I left the store without commenting on this neurotic activity. I carted everything to my car and drove. I was just wondering to myself if each individual item I bought required it's own bag. They do not.
It may seem inane to comment on how my groceries were bagged, but the reason I am so aggravated is because I believe the environment is is dire straights. Oh Hell...the environment is in dire straights. Plastics take thousands of years to biodegrade into the environment. In fact, the plastic bags I am talking about were banned in India, and a few other middle-eastern countries, because of their hugely negative environmental impact. Plastic grocery bags clogged some vital parts of a drainage system in India, and flooding misplaced over a million people sometime in the late 1990s. The reason I talk about plastic bags is because, yet again, something as innocuous that humans use on a daily basis just seems to really fuck shit up for our planet.
Do people even realize that our lifestyles are ultimately hurting us? Our "I-don't-give-a-shit" attitude may affect us now, but it will definately affect our children in the very near future. In this day and age with what we know it burns me to know that some clueless lady who bags my groceries was so careless to waste the number of plastic bags she did. She didn't even ask me if I wanted individual bags for my produce items.
Why do grocery stores feel the need to bag groceries in this fashion? It does not matter why, really. The next time I go grocery shopping, I will tell the bagger to not get carried away with this neurotic need to bag everything individually. Or, I could ask for paper.
Moderation, people.
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I was mad, but I didn't want to make a scene, so I left the store without commenting on this neurotic activity. I carted everything to my car and drove. I was just wondering to myself if each individual item I bought required it's own bag. They do not.
It may seem inane to comment on how my groceries were bagged, but the reason I am so aggravated is because I believe the environment is is dire straights. Oh Hell...the environment is in dire straights. Plastics take thousands of years to biodegrade into the environment. In fact, the plastic bags I am talking about were banned in India, and a few other middle-eastern countries, because of their hugely negative environmental impact. Plastic grocery bags clogged some vital parts of a drainage system in India, and flooding misplaced over a million people sometime in the late 1990s. The reason I talk about plastic bags is because, yet again, something as innocuous that humans use on a daily basis just seems to really fuck shit up for our planet.
Do people even realize that our lifestyles are ultimately hurting us? Our "I-don't-give-a-shit" attitude may affect us now, but it will definately affect our children in the very near future. In this day and age with what we know it burns me to know that some clueless lady who bags my groceries was so careless to waste the number of plastic bags she did. She didn't even ask me if I wanted individual bags for my produce items.
Why do grocery stores feel the need to bag groceries in this fashion? It does not matter why, really. The next time I go grocery shopping, I will tell the bagger to not get carried away with this neurotic need to bag everything individually. Or, I could ask for paper.
Moderation, people.
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