terlingua springs market does it right. photo by trevor reichman It is easy for cashiers to go on autopilot sometimes at the grocery store, placing one or two items in a plastic bag before you can even say “Hello”. When you explain that you already have your own bag or that you don’t need a bag for your one already well packaged item, they remove the item from the plastic bag

and then THROW THE PLASTIC BAG IN THE TRASH. Many franchises have rules which don’t allow a cashier to reuse a bag that has already been ‘contaminated’ with another customer’s item. And so, it has been an ongoing experiment to find the best and most polite way to avoid the cashier putting th…

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