In California there are still paper grocery bags, you just pay 10 cents for them. If I forget my reusable bags, I pay 10 cents a bag and recycle the paper when the bag is no longer useful. Is it different where you live?
One thing in the article that is kind of cool is the free angle. A sponsor provides them to stores for free, and they are free to people who want to use them, and they just print advertising stuff on them. That's a win-win, provided somebody wants to pay for creative advertising. I doubt anybody is going to get filthy rich on the idea, but maybe it's one more way to make it even more cool to use one's bike in the eyes of the general public. Baby steps On Monday, September 15, 2014 2:24:38 PM UTC-7, Peter M wrote: > > I think its a great idea but grocery stores left paper bags behind a while > ago. IMO it would be a hard sell to ask them to stock these for the once in > a while occurrence where someone on a bike forgets their panniers. its a > subset of a subset market, very small. > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Ron Mc <bulld...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I'm with Bill in that it's a brilliant option compared to none. >> >> >> On Monday, September 15, 2014 4:07:19 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, September 13, 2014 5:56:57 AM UTC-7, Deacon Patrick wrote: >>>> >>>> First we were killing the planet with paper bags, then because we used >>>> plastic, but now it's good to buy cardboard panniers if we're biking to >>>> the >>>> grocer without our real panniers? I don't get it. >>>> >>>> With abandon, >>>> Patrick >>>> >>> >>> Deacon >>> >>> I don't get what you don't get. If somebody needs to carry some stuff >>> on their bike, and the store has a commodious solution that is cheap, >>> effective and made from and of recyclable materials, there's not a whole >>> lot to not get. It's not the best solution to carrying stuff on your bike, >>> but it's the nicest sub $5 solution I've seen lately. :-) >>> >>> Bill >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
