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| Sprouts . . . |
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| Whole Foods. . . |
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| but not Albertsons |
Albertson's is no longer giving a credit when you bring your reusable bags to put your groceries and other items in. Just the other day they gave a customer a five cent credit per bag but no longer. I don't need a credit to recycle. However, I'd rather patronize a place that shows that it values recycling by giving the credit. I called Sprouts and they give a five cent credit. Whole Foods gives a ten cent credit. Want to know where I will be shopping from now on? Not Albertson's.
Some claim that the official El Paso flag is the plastic grocery bag. When the wind blows, it adorns ocotillos, hangs in trees and sticks to shrubs and brush. Several years ago an effort to ban plastic shopping bags did not make it past a City Council committee. The excuse was that too many El Pasoans can’t afford the bags.
Now the Sierra Club El Paso Group plans to hand out 500 large reuseable shopping bags to shoppers for free. They hope that the idea will catch on with other organizations that want to promote the use of reuseable bags.
Any group that wants to participate can get in touch with El Paso Group Vice Chair Jim Tolbert at 915-525-7364 or diegotolbert@gmail.com. Their own logo will be imprinted on the tote bag and there are a number of colors of bags from which to choose.
