Do you bring a reusable bag to the grocery store?
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Green With Loyalty
Aug 2, 2010 12:00 PM,
By JULIE GALLAGHER
Retailers are rewarding green shoppers for doing their part with discounts and donations to ecological projects
At checkstands across the nation, shoppers are silently chiding themselves for forgetting their reusable bags. For the average family, the slip-up costs 15 plastic bags per grocery trip. A lot considering that it could take as many as 500 years for one to degrade in a landfill.Read more at supermarketnews.com
PCC Natural Markets gives rebates to shoppers who pack their groceries in reusable bags.
Now retailers hope to help more consumers remember with incentives ranging from a dollar off a future visit to donations to a charitable cause. Some are even persuading shoppers to make greener choices in the grocery aisle where organics and other earth-friendly products equate to bigger basket rings.
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