Plastic bag charge in stores?


What I can't figure out is how the money will be collected. If you bag your own groceries, the bill for the groceries will already be paid... in the past you have sufficient time to start (or finish) bagging. No-one will know how many plenty you will use until you finish bagging the groceries. Then the checker will have to wait till the customer is done bag for the 'bag count' to have you pay for the bags, holding up the file for the other customers. Meanwhile he checker has been checking out the next customer. My foremost question is: "How can you implement this in the store?" The King says to do... you digit out the how!
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It is either a City-County-State or US law. It is almost going green. I feel sorry for the poor checkers having to explain to the customers why they are required to do it. I am so tired of hearing Henny Penny "The sky is falling." or "This is the 50th time I enjoy cried wolf" Instead of mandating laws, let some volunteers contemplate about other options. Meaningful walk-a-thons, "Trash for cash" Scientists are studying asteroids when and how they might impact life on this planet, that is something eloquent! I am going to stand outside every store in my neighborhood to make sure every one is complying and then pat myself on the put money on for contributing to society, I
Let's say you have 30 check-out lanes within a store. Each is open 24 hours a day and you ring out 20 people an hour at respectively register. Each customer gets 3 bags. Each bag costs give or take a few $0.02. The store blows $864/day in bags. That is $315,360 a year on bags per store. A backpack fee might seem justified, but that's chump modify when you are talking about a multi-billion dollar corporation. At a small chain, that's closely of money. However at a small grocer, they might only have 5 lanes and might individual be open 12 hours a day. At the most, they would spend $72/day on bags. I once in a blue moon spend less than $35 a trip at my local grocery store. They make the cost up for the bags contained by 2-3 sales. It hardly seems worth it to tag on a surcharge for bags. Secondly, the bags are almost all 100% post-consumer fabric to begin with. Recycling bags doesn't lower the cost for the store. They can't in recent times use the bags you bring back. They still have to be recycled. So what we see here, within all cases, is business attempting to shift the cost of doing business back to the consumer in decree to increase their profits. They aren't going to lower the prices on the goods. What's next; will they turn off the lights and own us all bring our own flashlights so we can see what we are shopping for?
The question I have is who gets this money and how can you prove how oodles bags are used? I guess Obama will need to hire a Czar for plastic bag accountability LOL! I can't stand this clown they ring up president.