Plastic grocery bags add up fast, especially in a busy house. Even if you try to bring reusable totes, they still sneak in.

New Jersey grocery stores are going to hell in a handbasket. Garden State shoppers who are ticked off over the state’s plastic bag ban are fighting back – by stealing hand-held shopping baskets ...

The Connecticut Food Association is calling it an "unintended consequence" of the state's tax on plastic bags; Retailers are losing their plastic shopping baskets after people take the baskets to ...

REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Redmond Safeway customer told NewsChannel 21 on Friday shopping baskets have been disappearing from the store since the plastic bag ban took effect. At Oregon grocery stores, ...

Grocery store customers are walking off with those plastic hand baskets you find in the supermarket, an apparent consequence to New Jersey's plastic bag ban that went into effect this past spring.

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In the wake of a plastic bag ban, shoppers at one supermarket are avoiding purchasing reusable bags by stealing supermarket baskets, shop staff claim. After the US state of New Jersey put the ban in ...

Shortly after New Jersey enacted a strict plastic bag ban three months ago, employees at the Aberdeen ShopRite noticed something unusual — the store’s handheld plastic shopping baskets were vanishing.

One of the unintended consequences of Connecticut’s tax on single-use plastic bags is that stores are now losing their hand-held shopping baskets to people who take them to hold groceries or other ...

That’s the question you’ll be asked in Lowell supermarkets later this week when the plastic bag ban goes into effect. On Jan. 1, the Mill City will join a rising number of Massachusetts communities ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — For centuries, Mexico City residents brought warm tortillas home in reusable cloths or woven straw baskets, and toted others foods in conical rolls of paper, “ayate” mesh or net ...