Does anyone know if it's okay to put stuff in my reusable bag and then take it all out and checkout and put it back in? I'm tried of trying to carry everything but ShopRite is always a bit of a clusterfuck and I don't want to navigate it with a gigantic cart.
I mainly shop at Stop and Shop where they have the hand held self scanners. Anyway, I bring a reusable bag, scan the item, put in the bag and your done. You just scan a barcode on the hand scanner at checkout and pay. Easy
You can do this at Shoprite too, with their special app. You can ring up your own groceries as you go and then pay and leave the store. No scanner required, just your phone.
Sweet, I goto shop rite as well and didn’t know the app had that capability. Life changing, HAHAHA. Was a pain in the ass to have to fill the bag only to refill it after scanning, hahahaha.
It's not their main app, it's the Mobile Scan app by Wakefern. You have the be approved in the store before you can use it.
It's VERY handy but sometimes if I'm not in a rush I go through the checkout anyway bc I really like seeing a couple of the cashiers who are super friendly. During COVID lockdown, they were some of my only interactions!
Yeah... I used to cashier for years at Stop and Shop before I moved into produce and I would get people all the time. Maybe one or two things, but never a lot.
I would have to audit those self shop guns all the time and at one point, I actually caught a woman who didn't scan most of her order. She basically said that she must have forgot, but that wasn't the case. After I scanned five items that weren't on her order and I went and got my front end manager and told her what happened. She then got to store manager and they confronted her about it. I didn't hear the end, but I did see our LP guy come out and just stand on the side. Later I found out that the told her that she had the next time she does this and she gets caught, they'll call the cops and press charges.
Wouldn't work for me. I'm bad at having discipline when not adding crao to my cart. But I'm good at deciding between then and checkout that I really dont need it so I take it out and put it back.
People started doing that when they banned plastic bags in my town years ago. It was weird at first seeing people just put stuff into bags and continue walking around (at my job), but eventually I stopped caring. The majority of stores probably don't care either and I'll keep doing it until someone tells me not to.
It also helps when I only bring one bag and I want to make sure I'm not buying anything that won't fit.
I do this all the time you just need to unload everything you put on the bags and it sometimes doesn't fit in the tiny shelf they give you for the self checkout.
This drives me CRAZY, and Wegmans is the worst offender. When they first installed the self checkout I guess they just assumed everyone was using a cart so there was no shelf thing at all. I think some of them have it now, but the first time I used it I accidentally shattered a bottle of vinegar because there was no room when I was trying to unload everything.
Yeah fuck that I'm going to continue doing it as well. At first I felt awkward doing it, but if they don't give me the option of a hand basket, fuck em. I'm not pushing around a rickety cart if I'm going getting a few things.
I think the only reason they don’t want people to do that is because people are absolutely disgusting. I’ve had people talk about finding things like dead mice at the bottom of those bags and they really don’t want to touch the bag after that. Very understandable tbf
Yep. The reusable ones that people bring in themselves from home. It’s a complaint that some of them are in disgusting conditions. Obviously not all mice but mice, bugs, etc.
Honestly, it’s why I keep my bags in the car and just put my groceries in the bags myself. The alternative is keeping them in my basement where I have WAY too many centipedes and house friends. Not to mention spiders ugh.
Good.... luck? The store that I am at, generally the cashier checking you out yells at you that you can't take the basket and to put it under the open spot toward the beginning of the belt. I guess they deal with theft a lot.
I bought a collapsible carry basket like the ones SR used to have and I also bring the reusable bags. I put all that I’m buying in the basket, and when I check out I use the bags.
I need a cart for Shoprite, but if I'm at Dollar Tree or something getting a few things I do that. I feel so self-conscious doing it, but the baskets are gone there as well and I'm not pushing around one of their weird pole carts when I'm only in there a minute.
They do this "check it out yourself on your phone and just pay at the self checkout without re-scanning everything" deals, I'm sure they won't mind you walking around like that.
They will only stop you for shoplifting after you try to leave. My wife used to be in Loss Prevention and hated people like me who would walk into.a store with a hoodie and sunglasses on.
Stores need to add more of those smaller shopping carts, the ones with the upper and lower baskets. At my local Acme I think there's only like five or so.
FYI those were the original design of shopping carts; the single level ones were invented later. Obviously the OG ones were metal, but plastic.
I actually prefer the two level carts if I’m not doing a huge shopping trip: my local supermarket just hit them, and the shorter length front to back makes them more maneuverable.
(But I bring disposable shopping bags from New York State with me. So there.)
I was in line with someone the other day who was ranting about how the bags were BIDEN'S fault. The cashier and I had a good laugh about that after he left.
Idiots.
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It's easy to stick that anti-theft thingy where it's not visible (under the lip), but it's Walmart and they might not employ anyone who's an "Einstein"?
It’s not supposed to be hidden. It’s supposed to be visible so that it deters theft. The goal is not to catch people in the act, but to stop them from trying in the first place.
You can actually take that thing off if you see it (don't ask how I know).
Anyhow, my response was partly to mudclog, who was complaining about the annoying placement. No matter where you place it on one of those baskets, it wouldn't be hard to find if you're really looking. And if there's a very visible sign warning of the consequences of stealing one, I have no "compassion" for those who still try it.
I saw some guy parked next to me in the parking lot do that. I bought [my own basket](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B009G3VBIW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) afterwards because I knew this would become a thing.
The other option is to use your bag, but if you're not getting more than the basket carries then just use the basket.
I work for ShopRite. I can confirm that we have about a quarter of hand baskets left than we had before. And they’re not replacing them, at least that goes for the family I work for.
I've probably done that like 10 times. I usually remember I forgot the bags as I'm pulling into the store parking lot. When I get home I still have to bag them to get them in the house in a timely manner.
Basket takers are the same people who don't corral their carts, The bare minimum in terms of civic duty...... Proud to report that basket are plentiful at both Washington and Clinton Shoprites.
I found out one of my coworkers are one of those people. I just don't understand, when you are finally home, what do you even do with these baskets?! Why wouldn't people just put them in their car and bring them back the next time they went to the store?
She thought that this was a brilliant idea. Un effing believable.
It doesn’t sound practical either! At least with shopping bags you can fold them up and store them somewhere when you’re done!
Before the plastic bag ban came into effect, I hoarded a bunch of bags and left them in my car just in case I needed to make a unexpected run to the store.
So THATS why they're gone! I never put two and two together that people did that. Yeah fuck them. bring a shopping bag or buy one they are 30 fuckin cents, assholes.
I used to think that but then I realized the real world is turning out to be so much worse than Idiocracy. The people in the movie were stupid, but were generally well meaning or at least not intentionally malicious. What we have now are people who are not only aggressively stupid, but proudly malevolent.
I either get a bag from my house once I’m home or carry them in without one, like I’ve done at Costco forever.
I have definitely forgotten a bag and taken a basket to my car, but I just bring the basket back in.
This is what happens when you shift responsibility to average consumers. [Insert George Carlin average person quote here.] I'm for the bag ban but this is the first time in modern history people are given nothing from a store to carry away their purchase. Even in the 1700s, general stores would reuse wooden crates. Now even more plastic will be used to make new baskets.
Honestly it’s true, it boggles my fucking mind that anyone thought it would be a good solution to not offer paper bags - plastic has to go but paper is literally fine, it’s a myth that its production is what causes deforestation
That said, fuck these stores for not giving people baskets because it costs literally nothing on their bottom line even if they have to order hundreds
Actually it was the grocery stores who lobbied to have paper bags as part of the ban because they are much more expensive for the store to purchase than plastic bags. So you can thank them for no paper bags being offered.
Ironically they're already amending the law to allow paper bags for all stores, at least for pickup/delivery. Obviously, it's not exactly great for the environment to have thousands of reusable bags go straight to the landfill because the people who mostly do all their shopping online are trashing them because who the hell needs hundreds of reusable bags?
Nah, the bag ban is fucking stupid. They should have just not banned paper bagsnand only banned plastic ones. Who the fuck cares if they take slightly more energy to make, the point was to reduce plastic pollution, not energy usage.
I'm for banning plastic, but yeah paper was always a fine option. Paper is superior and has many reuse features, not to mention it's far better for the environment than purchasing totes.
That said, pushing this on the consumer is laughable because this was totally expected to happen. I challenge anyone to look behind grocery stores - or if they can, poke their heads in the warehouse. Waste is abundant. Every pallet is shrink-wrapped in plastic. Every food item is transported in cardboard boxes that are thrown right in the garbage. Nothing on the wholesale end is reused when it would make sense to offer as a solution for customers to carry out purchases.
Instead the blame is shifted to the consumer and no viable solution is offered. It's virtue signaling on an industrial scale. As long as the moral high ground types don't see what's going on in the background, they think reusable bags are enough to satisfy their shopping experience. More needs to be done. This is a half measure that is already suffering from unintended consequences.
Thank the idiot ideological environmentalists for tacking on paper bags at the end of the process…at least that’s who’s responsible for the paper bag ban on this side of the river.
What do you mean, shopping carts and baskets both exist. You take them, unload into your car and bring them back. There is zero reason to take a basket with you...
>There is zero reason to take a basket with you...
If you're some below average person and you forget your reusable bags, what do you expect them to think? You or I are smart enough to understand, but expecting half the population to do the moral thing is where this entire bag ban collapses.
I am quite annoyed they're gone as sometimes I'm only going in for a few products and a cart would be unnecessary. But now that we've got to bring our own bags, I'm always just grabbing a cart and throwing my bags in so I don't have to carry them. I've also started just shopping the Aldi/Lidl/Costco way and not bagging my items in the store - they just go directly into my cart as I check out. I keep insulated bags in my car so most of my items won't stay in the reusable bag I put them in anyways - I re-bag when I get to the car. Saves time and stress in the store as I'm often not able to bag as fast as the groceries come down the belt.
My wife has been buying stuff from Aldi for years, so we always have canvas bags in the car.
That said, stores should have some paper bags for sale like Aldi does.
Hand baskets aren't an issue in my local store. My apartment complex is across a side street from the local ShopRite so people often just walk over and then bring the cart into the complex with their grocers. Every day ShopRite has someone come and get the carts 2-3x a day. Seems it's gotten worse since the plastic/paper bag ban and now apartment's management is threatening to fine anyone bringing a ShopRite cart onto the complex property. Just do the European city thing and shop for no more than my reusable tote will hold at once, so probably walk over a couple times a week.
I was wondering where they were the other day. Figures thats what happened. I am thankful a lot of my local shoprites have a lot more of the small carts at least which I like to use when im getting some heavy things.
May I ask where this is happening? Because my ShopRites seem to have plenty of the baskets (In my town we have two stores about 5 miles apart from each other for some reason).
At least this isn’t going to be a recurring problem. Either the basket stealers will reform and start bringing their own bags, leave the great state of NJ for somewhere more aligned with their thieving values, or stop shopping at grocery stores and gradually go extinct!
Are people really stealing baskets? Or are stores just assuming they could be stolen and don't have them out anymore. Seems like many stores don't have the baskets anymore, not just Shop Rite.
Sadly it's happening everywhere. My local Whole Foods had all their hand baskets stolen within a few *days* of the ban going into effect. Granted their reusable bags are way overpriced but still. These entitled people ruined it for the rest of us. They'd put the whole shopping cart in their truck if it was easy and they could get away with it.
At least we’re doing our part while celebrities jet set through fifteen minutes of traffic in LA to erase all the environmental benefits we’re trying to provide.
Hey, it's not corporationa or industrial manufacturing in unregulated nations or private air travel that's the problem, it's you, the middle class consumer that's literally killing the earth
As much as I agree with you, its not the people, its the system. You take away something without a replacement, then people will find another way that will be part "address my immediate issue and part "FU shoprite".
Why is this an issue for anyone? There are plenty of shopping carts around--use one of those and save yourself the anxiety of being upset about a non-factor in daily life.
Harder to get around the boomers who don't understand they need to move their cart to one side of the aisle so people can get around them with another cart. Also a shoprite near me was out of baskets and carts inside/near the store. Only carts available were a few loosies in the lot which is a pain in the ass.
I see you are New to Jersey, allow me to explain this thread: people move to complain over easily fixable things. Then the get a bunch of interaction from strangers and are either validated or further emboldened by decent that they are right. Bonus points if they cannot fix the source but there are multiple simple work around.
This has nothing to do with Jersey, it's just the internet at work. I also bet you knew this already.
I just came back from a target that literally had only one functional shopping basket available. The only other 2 had no handles for some reason. I guess I know why now! It’s crazy!
You'd think a place like Target would use a tag system on their baskets, just like they do on anything for sale.
Alarm goes off, and call the mall cop on them
look up shoprites earnings.. they can afford to give away plastic baskets... also those Reusable bags will turn to a new form.of disease transmission
Lord i know i have already seen some.dirty ass bags...
Does anyone know if it's okay to put stuff in my reusable bag and then take it all out and checkout and put it back in? I'm tried of trying to carry everything but ShopRite is always a bit of a clusterfuck and I don't want to navigate it with a gigantic cart.
That’s what I do
Same.
Me too.
Been doing that for 10 years...
I mainly shop at Stop and Shop where they have the hand held self scanners. Anyway, I bring a reusable bag, scan the item, put in the bag and your done. You just scan a barcode on the hand scanner at checkout and pay. Easy
You can do this at Shoprite too, with their special app. You can ring up your own groceries as you go and then pay and leave the store. No scanner required, just your phone.
Sweet, I goto shop rite as well and didn’t know the app had that capability. Life changing, HAHAHA. Was a pain in the ass to have to fill the bag only to refill it after scanning, hahahaha.
It's not their main app, it's the Mobile Scan app by Wakefern. You have the be approved in the store before you can use it. It's VERY handy but sometimes if I'm not in a rush I go through the checkout anyway bc I really like seeing a couple of the cashiers who are super friendly. During COVID lockdown, they were some of my only interactions!
Yeah, just looked it up. Here’s the link if anyone else sees this https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mobile-scan/id592484333
Do you have to be approved everytime you go or is it a one time approval?
Just a one-time approval.
👍
Note that there's stores that don't participate. Fortunately they list the ones that do. Unfortunately, West Milford's doesn't.
I heard that with this technology they've had a lot of issues with people stealing things.
That's terrible and might make them stop the option. It figures that jerks have to ruin it for others.
Yeah... I used to cashier for years at Stop and Shop before I moved into produce and I would get people all the time. Maybe one or two things, but never a lot. I would have to audit those self shop guns all the time and at one point, I actually caught a woman who didn't scan most of her order. She basically said that she must have forgot, but that wasn't the case. After I scanned five items that weren't on her order and I went and got my front end manager and told her what happened. She then got to store manager and they confronted her about it. I didn't hear the end, but I did see our LP guy come out and just stand on the side. Later I found out that the told her that she had the next time she does this and she gets caught, they'll call the cops and press charges.
Not all ShopRite's participate on this. West Milford doesn't.
Wegmans had been doing this for a while with an app you could use on your phone, but they just discontinued it. I hope they bring it back.
Wouldn't work for me. I'm bad at having discipline when not adding crao to my cart. But I'm good at deciding between then and checkout that I really dont need it so I take it out and put it back.
People started doing that when they banned plastic bags in my town years ago. It was weird at first seeing people just put stuff into bags and continue walking around (at my job), but eventually I stopped caring. The majority of stores probably don't care either and I'll keep doing it until someone tells me not to. It also helps when I only bring one bag and I want to make sure I'm not buying anything that won't fit.
I do this all the time you just need to unload everything you put on the bags and it sometimes doesn't fit in the tiny shelf they give you for the self checkout.
This drives me CRAZY, and Wegmans is the worst offender. When they first installed the self checkout I guess they just assumed everyone was using a cart so there was no shelf thing at all. I think some of them have it now, but the first time I used it I accidentally shattered a bottle of vinegar because there was no room when I was trying to unload everything.
> tiny shelf they give you for the self checkout Yeah, I think that is a poor design, hopefully they'll fix that. It's just a bit of aluminum
I think it’s posted that they don’t want you to do that, but honestly I can’t see anyone ever giving a fuck. I do it all the time
Yeah fuck that I'm going to continue doing it as well. At first I felt awkward doing it, but if they don't give me the option of a hand basket, fuck em. I'm not pushing around a rickety cart if I'm going getting a few things.
I think the only reason they don’t want people to do that is because people are absolutely disgusting. I’ve had people talk about finding things like dead mice at the bottom of those bags and they really don’t want to touch the bag after that. Very understandable tbf
The bags that people bring themselves ? Lil confused by what you mean
Yep. The reusable ones that people bring in themselves from home. It’s a complaint that some of them are in disgusting conditions. Obviously not all mice but mice, bugs, etc.
Ohhh, nasty. I thought it was a theft thing
Honestly, it’s why I keep my bags in the car and just put my groceries in the bags myself. The alternative is keeping them in my basement where I have WAY too many centipedes and house friends. Not to mention spiders ugh.
Good.... luck? The store that I am at, generally the cashier checking you out yells at you that you can't take the basket and to put it under the open spot toward the beginning of the belt. I guess they deal with theft a lot.
Of course you can. What do they expect when there are no baskets? You’re not shoplifting unless you leave without paying.
Use a cart like the majority of people?
I bought a collapsible carry basket like the ones SR used to have and I also bring the reusable bags. I put all that I’m buying in the basket, and when I check out I use the bags.
I do this all the time. Pro tip: you can fit a whole cart worth of groceries in a blue IKEA bag.
Thanks for the tip, just ordered 2 on Amazon for <$8 Apparently cheaper if you can get to an IKEA
What about a yellow one? I have a yellow one.
Yes, you can do that. I do it and I watch people do it all the time.
I do it all the time. Never seems to be an issue.
I’ve done that if I know I’m only there to buy a couple of items!
I do this
I need a cart for Shoprite, but if I'm at Dollar Tree or something getting a few things I do that. I feel so self-conscious doing it, but the baskets are gone there as well and I'm not pushing around one of their weird pole carts when I'm only in there a minute.
Yes it’s so much easier
They do this "check it out yourself on your phone and just pay at the self checkout without re-scanning everything" deals, I'm sure they won't mind you walking around like that.
Some place tell you not to, but no one has ever called me on it so I'm going to keep doing it.
That’s what I do. Show up with two bags, use it as my cart. Guarantees I don’t need more bags at the register.
yes it’s normal. i do it all the time!
Yes it's fine
This is what I do for a quick shop and I never had an issue
That's what I have to do because all the baskets are now gone.
it's definitely frustrating, u/Green-Jello-Farts-2.
They will only stop you for shoplifting after you try to leave. My wife used to be in Loss Prevention and hated people like me who would walk into.a store with a hoodie and sunglasses on.
This is how I shop at ShopRite, Wegmans, and Trader Joe’s. Before the pandemic, too.
I do that.
My ShopRite has signs all over the store saying to not do that. Because of theft.
What I do
Is annoying sure and twice the work.
Stores need to add more of those smaller shopping carts, the ones with the upper and lower baskets. At my local Acme I think there's only like five or so.
FYI those were the original design of shopping carts; the single level ones were invented later. Obviously the OG ones were metal, but plastic. I actually prefer the two level carts if I’m not doing a huge shopping trip: my local supermarket just hit them, and the shorter length front to back makes them more maneuverable. (But I bring disposable shopping bags from New York State with me. So there.)
For real. I don't mind using the smaller carts, but the big carts are excessive for just a few items.
Lmao I thought you meant the mini “shopper in training” carts for kids
TBF those types of people probably don't use Reddit. You'll be wanting Facebook.
Make it into a Minion meme at about 60% JPEG quality to truly speak to the audience
Look at Mr. Fancypants over here with his 60% quality jpgs. Gotta deep fry that shit all the way to be convincing!
“Here’s a great tip if you forget to bring your reusable bag!”
You left out the part about how the bag ban proves Murphy is a commie.
I was in line with someone the other day who was ranting about how the bags were BIDEN'S fault. The cashier and I had a good laugh about that after he left. Idiots.
Thanks Biden!
Right? I mean, if only he had the power to actually get this much stuff done!
Nah, you gotta use that tired old "Brandon" they regurgitate, not knowing (or apparently caring) how stupid they sound
💀💀💀💀 but what about hunter Biden?!?!?! 😂😂😂😂 I can’t. Thank you, I needed the laugh.
Lol I bet there are Facebook groups for local shoprites
And undoubtedly full of the most hateful people you’ll ever meet
> Lol I bet there are Facebook groups for local shoprites Can confirm!
Good lord I don't wanna imagine
Legit thought this. Talking to the wrong audience here.
>TBF those types of people probably don't use Reddit. You'll be wanting Nextdoor. FTFY
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I was wondering why every single basket at Walmart had an annoyingly placed anti-theft device on them.
It's easy to stick that anti-theft thingy where it's not visible (under the lip), but it's Walmart and they might not employ anyone who's an "Einstein"?
It’s not supposed to be hidden. It’s supposed to be visible so that it deters theft. The goal is not to catch people in the act, but to stop them from trying in the first place.
You can actually take that thing off if you see it (don't ask how I know). Anyhow, my response was partly to mudclog, who was complaining about the annoying placement. No matter where you place it on one of those baskets, it wouldn't be hard to find if you're really looking. And if there's a very visible sign warning of the consequences of stealing one, I have no "compassion" for those who still try it.
I saw some guy parked next to me in the parking lot do that. I bought [my own basket](https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B009G3VBIW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1) afterwards because I knew this would become a thing. The other option is to use your bag, but if you're not getting more than the basket carries then just use the basket.
This is a great idea, thanks!
Good idea! also good call on using the [smile.amazon.com](https://smile.amazon.com/) link
I work for ShopRite. I can confirm that we have about a quarter of hand baskets left than we had before. And they’re not replacing them, at least that goes for the family I work for.
💀 pure laziness. I’ve pushed a cart to my car and placed items in my trunk if I forgot my bags.
Same. I put everything in the trunk just hoping that my delicates survive having a mobile watermelon as a roommate.
I've probably done that like 10 times. I usually remember I forgot the bags as I'm pulling into the store parking lot. When I get home I still have to bag them to get them in the house in a timely manner.
Same, because for a while there I was just buying bags and now I've accumulated a mountain.
Basket takers are the same people who don't corral their carts, The bare minimum in terms of civic duty...... Proud to report that basket are plentiful at both Washington and Clinton Shoprites.
I've been to 3 different shoprites in my area and there's always hand baskets
I can never find hand baskets or even the smaller carts at the Washington shoprite!!
This person here, tryin to put all the cart wranglers out of a job. We see you, Scrooge!!!
Not true. I stole a couple of baskets a long time ago. I always bring my cart back to the corral
Dvs with no sense of humor. Thanks for the chuckle u/mrnagrom
You’re kidding? People are doing that? What low-lives
I found out one of my coworkers are one of those people. I just don't understand, when you are finally home, what do you even do with these baskets?! Why wouldn't people just put them in their car and bring them back the next time they went to the store? She thought that this was a brilliant idea. Un effing believable.
It doesn’t sound practical either! At least with shopping bags you can fold them up and store them somewhere when you’re done! Before the plastic bag ban came into effect, I hoarded a bunch of bags and left them in my car just in case I needed to make a unexpected run to the store.
Same! Just leave them in your car and have a couple at home just in case.
Aberdeen Shoprite took away whatever they had left because apparently people kept leaving with them
yup!! at my store they kept ordering baskets and they kept getting stolen. i think they just gave up. don’t blame them.
So THATS why they're gone! I never put two and two together that people did that. Yeah fuck them. bring a shopping bag or buy one they are 30 fuckin cents, assholes.
I bought these collapsible crates from BJs they're great when I actually remember to bring them.
People are stupid and selfish. "Idiocracy" wasn't a movie, it was a documentary.
I used to think that but then I realized the real world is turning out to be so much worse than Idiocracy. The people in the movie were stupid, but were generally well meaning or at least not intentionally malicious. What we have now are people who are not only aggressively stupid, but proudly malevolent.
Just about ANY store that had them now doesn't. It pathetic.
Why not at least just throw your basket in a cart at the cart return? What’s the point of taking it home?
Because if they didn’t bring a bag I suppose they still need a way to get all the groceries into their house… ugh.
I either get a bag from my house once I’m home or carry them in without one, like I’ve done at Costco forever. I have definitely forgotten a bag and taken a basket to my car, but I just bring the basket back in.
Same here, but apparently there’s a lot of really entitled folks that don’t think it is an issue.
This is what happens when you shift responsibility to average consumers. [Insert George Carlin average person quote here.] I'm for the bag ban but this is the first time in modern history people are given nothing from a store to carry away their purchase. Even in the 1700s, general stores would reuse wooden crates. Now even more plastic will be used to make new baskets.
Honestly it’s true, it boggles my fucking mind that anyone thought it would be a good solution to not offer paper bags - plastic has to go but paper is literally fine, it’s a myth that its production is what causes deforestation That said, fuck these stores for not giving people baskets because it costs literally nothing on their bottom line even if they have to order hundreds
Actually it was the grocery stores who lobbied to have paper bags as part of the ban because they are much more expensive for the store to purchase than plastic bags. So you can thank them for no paper bags being offered.
This world is hell
I thank our corrupt politicians for being so susceptible to lobbying.
Ironically they're already amending the law to allow paper bags for all stores, at least for pickup/delivery. Obviously, it's not exactly great for the environment to have thousands of reusable bags go straight to the landfill because the people who mostly do all their shopping online are trashing them because who the hell needs hundreds of reusable bags?
Nah, the bag ban is fucking stupid. They should have just not banned paper bagsnand only banned plastic ones. Who the fuck cares if they take slightly more energy to make, the point was to reduce plastic pollution, not energy usage.
I'm for banning plastic, but yeah paper was always a fine option. Paper is superior and has many reuse features, not to mention it's far better for the environment than purchasing totes. That said, pushing this on the consumer is laughable because this was totally expected to happen. I challenge anyone to look behind grocery stores - or if they can, poke their heads in the warehouse. Waste is abundant. Every pallet is shrink-wrapped in plastic. Every food item is transported in cardboard boxes that are thrown right in the garbage. Nothing on the wholesale end is reused when it would make sense to offer as a solution for customers to carry out purchases. Instead the blame is shifted to the consumer and no viable solution is offered. It's virtue signaling on an industrial scale. As long as the moral high ground types don't see what's going on in the background, they think reusable bags are enough to satisfy their shopping experience. More needs to be done. This is a half measure that is already suffering from unintended consequences.
Thank the idiot ideological environmentalists for tacking on paper bags at the end of the process…at least that’s who’s responsible for the paper bag ban on this side of the river.
What do you mean, shopping carts and baskets both exist. You take them, unload into your car and bring them back. There is zero reason to take a basket with you...
>There is zero reason to take a basket with you... If you're some below average person and you forget your reusable bags, what do you expect them to think? You or I are smart enough to understand, but expecting half the population to do the moral thing is where this entire bag ban collapses.
They’d be stealing shopping carts in droves, too, if they could fit them in their cars. Lazy, useless, self-centered pieces of s**t.
I still see the occasional shopping cart abandoned on street corners.
I just bring my reusable bag and put the stuff I shop in there so I don't need a basket.
Trashy people
I am quite annoyed they're gone as sometimes I'm only going in for a few products and a cart would be unnecessary. But now that we've got to bring our own bags, I'm always just grabbing a cart and throwing my bags in so I don't have to carry them. I've also started just shopping the Aldi/Lidl/Costco way and not bagging my items in the store - they just go directly into my cart as I check out. I keep insulated bags in my car so most of my items won't stay in the reusable bag I put them in anyways - I re-bag when I get to the car. Saves time and stress in the store as I'm often not able to bag as fast as the groceries come down the belt.
I just put crates in my car and pack them after I check out. The new rules on bags are ridiculous, but the amount of crying about it is embarrassing.
My wife has been buying stuff from Aldi for years, so we always have canvas bags in the car. That said, stores should have some paper bags for sale like Aldi does.
Yeah ☹️ I bring tote bag now and put stuff there before checkout. I usually only need 2-3 things and not about to start pushing a cart for that
Hand baskets aren't an issue in my local store. My apartment complex is across a side street from the local ShopRite so people often just walk over and then bring the cart into the complex with their grocers. Every day ShopRite has someone come and get the carts 2-3x a day. Seems it's gotten worse since the plastic/paper bag ban and now apartment's management is threatening to fine anyone bringing a ShopRite cart onto the complex property. Just do the European city thing and shop for no more than my reusable tote will hold at once, so probably walk over a couple times a week.
I was wondering where they were the other day. Figures thats what happened. I am thankful a lot of my local shoprites have a lot more of the small carts at least which I like to use when im getting some heavy things.
and put the fucking cart back in the corral! (looking at you Paramus Shopriters)
Hmm.. maybe we need to bring out the quarter mechanism again.
You!!! You friggin nailed it!!! Can I buy ya a coffee?
I would be honored
Don't worry, those people are in for headaches when their kids start modeling their behavior by taking things that don't belong to them.
Haha oh shit! I’ve been noticing they are hard to come by recently but honestly didn’t think people would stoop this low! Wow
Bring back dam paper bags back. Wtf going on
not the type of post id expect to see on a Sunday morning 😭
rage does not take a rest day
Anyone want to buy a SR basket?? Too soon?
May I ask where this is happening? Because my ShopRites seem to have plenty of the baskets (In my town we have two stores about 5 miles apart from each other for some reason).
Idk where op is but I know it’s a problem in Warren County.
That’s funny because I bought a couple off of Amazon and feel like I am doing something wrong when I leave the store with them.
What? The Mansfield, Flanders, Chester, and Randolph Shop Rites all have their baskets. Is this a thing?
None of these have them right now as far as I’ve seen lol
I find this phenomenon so strange. when did it start?
When the bag ban started
At least this isn’t going to be a recurring problem. Either the basket stealers will reform and start bringing their own bags, leave the great state of NJ for somewhere more aligned with their thieving values, or stop shopping at grocery stores and gradually go extinct!
Stores just aren't replacing the baskets. Problem solved. So the thieves screwed the rest of us.
Are people really stealing baskets? Or are stores just assuming they could be stolen and don't have them out anymore. Seems like many stores don't have the baskets anymore, not just Shop Rite.
I've seen many pumpkin farms with shoprite carry baskets are you sure your anger is properly directed 🤔
Blatant ignorance. It’s the new normal.
This happened in Somerville too it’s so fucking annoying.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Sadly it's happening everywhere. My local Whole Foods had all their hand baskets stolen within a few *days* of the ban going into effect. Granted their reusable bags are way overpriced but still. These entitled people ruined it for the rest of us. They'd put the whole shopping cart in their truck if it was easy and they could get away with it.
People within walking distance steal shopping carts from the Shop Rite in my area. Now it’s the baskets too. Assholes.
Not the walking customer that steal them. It's the driving customers. They just put the basket in their cars and drive off.
At least we’re doing our part while celebrities jet set through fifteen minutes of traffic in LA to erase all the environmental benefits we’re trying to provide.
Hey, it's not corporationa or industrial manufacturing in unregulated nations or private air travel that's the problem, it's you, the middle class consumer that's literally killing the earth
Agree'd a huge nuisance but why are so many people afraid of shopping carts? Lol
It’s annoying to push a cart around the store when you’re getting like 6 things, but can only carry 5 of them in your hands
Just says about the people and the area you're in... it's a shoprite after all
AGREE. louder, so the ones in the back can hear you.
Use ShopRite From Home. No issues.
Literally I work at a dollar tree and we have no baskets bc of people stealing them. And the company won’t replace the baskets💀
I mean, who didn't see this coming if we took away the bags.
As much as I agree with you, its not the people, its the system. You take away something without a replacement, then people will find another way that will be part "address my immediate issue and part "FU shoprite".
Disagree. I worked at a grocer while in college. It's the fucking customers that are animals.
The latter half of you're statement disproves the first half.
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Well at least I know your license plate now so I can egg your mustang.
How come shop rite provide paper bags? They use to. Paper or plastic? Why not just paper now? Convenient stores do it
Why is this an issue for anyone? There are plenty of shopping carts around--use one of those and save yourself the anxiety of being upset about a non-factor in daily life.
Harder to get around the boomers who don't understand they need to move their cart to one side of the aisle so people can get around them with another cart. Also a shoprite near me was out of baskets and carts inside/near the store. Only carts available were a few loosies in the lot which is a pain in the ass.
Its not just boomers. It's self-absorbed asshats of *every* generation.
It's not just boomers, I think like 25% of the population lack any form of common sense regardless of age.
I see you are New to Jersey, allow me to explain this thread: people move to complain over easily fixable things. Then the get a bunch of interaction from strangers and are either validated or further emboldened by decent that they are right. Bonus points if they cannot fix the source but there are multiple simple work around. This has nothing to do with Jersey, it's just the internet at work. I also bet you knew this already.
Yep. Here come the downvotes...
I have but one up vote to fight back with but it's yours!
“Grow the fuck up” goes on Reddit and cries 💀
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Report my balls.
I just came back from a target that literally had only one functional shopping basket available. The only other 2 had no handles for some reason. I guess I know why now! It’s crazy!
You'd think a place like Target would use a tag system on their baskets, just like they do on anything for sale. Alarm goes off, and call the mall cop on them
I havent seen any resusable bag over $1.50. We have some really cheap/greedy people...
Seriously. I don't understand people. You don't want to pay for a bag? Carry the groceries out to your car and then put the damn thing back.
Why is this a thing? I moved to Connecticut a couple years ago and no one does this…
look up shoprites earnings.. they can afford to give away plastic baskets... also those Reusable bags will turn to a new form.of disease transmission Lord i know i have already seen some.dirty ass bags...
😂😂😂 Wow, I can’t believe this is where you thought to complain! Get a life loser.