I'm not a plastic bag, and I'm not willing to wake up early and wait in the rain for any bag, unless of course, it's filled with enough cash so that I never have to do my own food shopping again. But that's just me. Plenty other folks came out today for the Prius of grocery bags. You have to see it to believe it. Best line: "It's status, my dear!"
More about the bag madness here.
Oh, jeez, you subarbites all have too much on your hands -- the shoppers to line up for bags and the baristanet reporter who validates them by covering it as a story....
Where is Lizzie Grubman when you need her to take out those numbskulls?
Really, if you want a recycled plastic grocery bag (better and stronger than cotton in my eyes), they have them at A&P for $2 each and that $2 goes to charity.
You just wont have the label that gives you "status". Argh!
You think the rain will hurt the subarbite?
Not if it's got a plastic bag.
NJMom,
Is my location at Crisco considered the burbs?
Really though, I don't have too much time on my hands. Just a short fuse with an ever growing vapid society.
Maybe there's another reason that people are waiting out in the rain.
What I love about the status seekers in town is that if you peel back that designer shell - you'll find a horrid person.
My Upper Montclair neightbor growing up, did everything possible to scam money - from getting her kids to lie at the BBTC to avoid paying guest fees, borrowing money from friends to hide credit card debt from her husband and once stealing something out of my mothers closet - wearing it - and later trying to blame its disappearance on our maid. If she still lived in town she would have been in that crowd - no doubt - the question is what would she have tried to cram in her purse before getting to the registers?
Spicoli, to the heart of the matter, and isn't that just what it always is? The clown with the three bags, who's he kidding? At least he could have been straight about it. But let's not brush this with too broad a stroke, folks. I happen to be a, what's it called, subarbite with not nearly enough time on my hands, in fact, what the hell am I doing here, gotta run . . .
I don't think the point of reusable shopping bag is to brag about it. These bags are lame and if it took a designer grocery bag to get you to stop using plastic bags when you go shopping, you are pathetic. Did you drive your Hummer up the street to wait in line for these today?
Idiots: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=i%27m+not+a+plastic+bag&category0=
I love how the bags are double-bagged in plastic. Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
I pray these people are not in charge of Home Land Security. Hello wake up people, this is just gross...waiting in line to get a cotton bag that is wrapped in plastic and then leaving without shopping...and then tell your friends that you went to whole foods to get a bag to use the next time you go shopping this is just to much...i am stunned at the stupidity, and shear nerve of people to waste gas to do this.
Naw, they didn't drive any Hummer there. They drove their Japanese car to pick up their Chinese shopping bag to save the enviornment and to hell with the American balance of trade & the economy.
Way back when, before it was trendy and Whole Foods was known as Fresh Fields, you could buy canvas bags for about 3.00 each. Kings sold them as well. Kinda dumb to pay 15. for 1 bag. If that's status -- well, to each his own.
$3 each? I just bought a nice one for 99 cents the other day at Whole Foods.
The first thing I thought when I saw that vid was that those jerks with armfuls were going to sell them on ebay, and sure enough, there they are. Ridiculous. People are actually bidding it upwards of 100 bucks. No takers for the ones starting at $150.
if any of these bitches want a male nanny then the iceman is your boy...i'll double bad for ya.
If they use them and stop using disposable bags than I see nothing wrong with it. Impulse items and the new "it" make up most of consumerism. Insult Doggie Day Spas instead. (At least they can exploit the pretentious)
“To create awareness you have to create scarcity by producing a limited edition"
And that's why she [Anya Hindmarch] is a successful fashion designer. She has business smarts and understands marketing to consumer psychology. Despite what the naysayers might say, getting shoppers to re-use durable fabric bags is better for the environment in the long-term than using single-use plastic plastics.
“To create awareness you have to create scarcity by producing a limited edition"
And that's why she [Anya Hindmarch] is a successful fashion designer. She has business smarts and understands marketing to consumer psychology. Despite what the naysayers might say, getting shoppers to re-use durable fabric bags is better for the environment in the long-term than using single-use plastic bags.
You can buy status, but you can't buy class.
And you certainly can't buy me love.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's Whole Foods recycled plastic bag.
Plastic bags are not so damned evil anyway. They're light and easier for seniors to carry. They cost much less to transport and produce than paper (including fuel). Paper making is usually not an environmentally friendly exercise (neither is plastic making, but there's less runoff of chemicals into watersheds from plastic production). Plastic takes up less landfill space.
Canvas? I wonder what the Chinese prisoners and sweatshop workers are thinking when they sew $15 grocery bags (other than "I hope I make 60 of these an hour for the next 14 hours so that I can get my state-provided dinner")?
Oh, what's my point? Maybe that the easy answers aren't always so easy. Maybe that people aren't "pathetic" if they use plastic bags (especially those who repurpose the bags to contain biohazardous dog poopies).
Small bags will be fine to take with you to the vegetarian reeducation camp.
(nobody believes me, but it's only a matter of time)
I will use previously bought LL Bean totes and bag swag from various conferences.
If lining up to get a bag makes someone's day, so be it. To me, it is pathetic; however, to the proud bag holders, it is another step to status, I guess.
Gag me with a plastic spoon...
When I saw the video, I thought, "Darn I missed it!" But then I read that they PAID for the bags! I thought the line in the rain meant they were free!
I bought 4 green cloth bags for 99 c each at Shoprite. They are great! the handles are strong. The flat bottoms are reinforced with a plastic card and are very easy to pack and put a lot of stuff in.
Two issues though. One is I keep them in my trunk and sometimes forget to bring them with me and the other is that every time I give them to the packer at Shoprite the cashier tries to charge me for them.
When I forget them, I just ask the packer to put the stuff back in my cart and I pack the stuff in my trunk.
I think these people will use them as handbags and totes. Then they'll use plastic bags at the grocery store.
It doesn't seem any less ridiculous than the $1000 Hermes version, or the $495 Stella McCartney version.
http://papierblog.papierdoll.net/?p=1879
How ridiculous. And I don't even have guilt about the plastic bags, I reuse them to pick up after my dog. I know, I should probably find a way to recycle them after that...
My collection of Elizabeth Haub, A&P grocery designer totes manufactured with 100% post consumer recycled content is the way to go.
www.kssf.de/EHF
They are .99 cents and each new design release is spectacular.
The bulck of the money raised ACTUALLY is donated to environmental causes.
The video of people placing their bags in a plastic bag was a hoot!
These people are so shallow.
Do what is right not stylish for a nano second.
Let's save our environment a little each day.
Somewhere out there some PR people are getting $$$$$
"My collection of Elizabeth Haub, A&P grocery designer totes manufactured with 100% post consumer recycled content is the way to go."
These are the bags I was talking about. They are great bags! We use them all the time.
Gee with the right word out on the street we can start our own environmental revolution!
If they could just hire more cashiers and keep the lines down at the A&P
This one is great. A girl wants to buy the bag for $60 to give to her mom for her 25th wedding anniversary!!!! http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wan/377470329.html
Jimmy,
That is just sad.
That being said; man I wish I could have been there to make a cool $100 on e-bay from other people's stupidity.
And of course; www.kristopherdukes.com/2007/06/25/im-not-a-smug-twat-bag
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Something about that video sickened me. None of those people were there for any environmental statement, that is clear. Kind of sad that our culture can invent a status symbol out of a simple cotton rag with a designer name. It's as bad as Beanie Babies.
A pack of slobs hoping to be redeemed socially by a bag. They'll need more than that to look chic.