So New Jersey wants you to bring your own recyclable multi-use bags to grocery stores to put your food in. Right when we are in the middle of a health pandemic and the CDC stated directly that you should not being multi-use grocery bags to food stores - because it spreads COVID. And most grocery stores have banned people from bringing their own bags -- requiring new plastic or paper bags to be used with every visit. Are the politicians in New Jersey nuts? Are they really pushing this nonsense in the middle of a pandemic?
Arent those bags made from plastic for the most part? And if they are made from recyclable materials...give them away for free like you did the plastic and paper bags so people can use them. Bags dont spread covid.
Accordingly to friends in the New York area (not New Jersey)...people are concerned that the store clerks and the people bagging your groceries are not using a hand sanitizer between each customer. Here in Québec, just yesterday at the grocery store...there were about 10 people in front of me. Everybody was wearing face masks and properly social distancing. In contrast, I watched to cashier clerk not once using hand sanitizer after scanning the groceries hand to here by each customer. He even shook hands with three different customers. Same with the bagger putting groceries in plastic bag, paper bag (some people had their own paper bags - big ones) and reusable cloth bag. Here's the thing, they have hand sanitizer for their own personal use next to the register. The outbreaks that have occurred in the grocery stores here in Québec, Canada were not by the customer...it was either a cashier or the bagger that was Covid-19 positive. I myself bring my own bags, bag my own groceries and I tell the bagger to step 6 feet away from me. I've been in the hospital once from a deadly airborne disease back in 2016 that nobody could figure out how I caught the infection. Today, in grocery stores during a Pandemic...I tell the bagger... Back the fuck away. My son came up with a simple solution - After they scan my groceries. My groceries are put back into my grocery cart...not the bagger. Go out to my car and then put the groceries in 3 - 4 empty milk crates for easy carry when we arrive back home. No Paper Bags...No Plastic Bags...No Reusable Cloth Bags wrbtrader