Yes i do still go to the grocery store. I love to hear if some people have no need for it anymore.
Many people in Whitehorse must use grocery stores, because we have many.
My husband and i mostly only use the superstore, which is not very well liked in general. We go to Save on Foods, only for bulk organic oats. and we go to Super A for Yukon milk and manna bread.
We like the superstore best :) whatever there is to like.
A few weeks ago i had the loveliest cashier, he, personally acknowledged all his clients, waved them goodbye even. last week i forgot to look for him, but saw him from a few isles over, doing his thing, the people around him smiling.
My husband and i ended up with a new guy. quite lovely too, but my husband noticed he was taking the plastic bags of the vegetables turning them inside out and looking for the barcode.
What is going on you think, I should have told you and him, that we reuse bread bags. i turn them inside out so the barcode of the bread is hidden. Not good enough ofcourse...
It takes him a while to understand me, he keeps wanting to apologize for the strange bag.
So as we are giving all our vegetables back, which were scanned as bread.
in the end i clearly say: I did it! it is me who put them in these bags, i reused old bags.
he says: why (on earth) would you do that? he did not say on earth, but i am stressing his surprise.
I hope for most these days it is obvious why we would reuse plastic bags.
In Whitehorse at the check out, plastic grocery bags are banned, and so will be paper bags January 2023. People are using their own grocery bags. And it is wonderful to see that the great majority of people now do come in with their own grocery bags.
Now lets work on the rest of plastic, i do have a few cloth bags already, which will out live any plastic bag.
Which plastic are you eliminating from your life.
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Plastic bags have disappeared in shops here for several years. If you need one, you must buy one but people usually put the food into backpacks and bring containers or use paper bags. Plenty of glass containers, cardboard, netting etc.
The plastic I am trying to cut out this year is stuff like shampoo bottles, tooth paste tubes, floss containers, dishwasher liquid etc. It's easier than I expected. I have worked my way through a variety of solid shampoo bars which was fun and as for most other stuff, many producers seem to compete with each other for the best solution.
This of course, is all a distraction for the interested private household.
My work place stipulates twice weekly rapid covid tests, we are a department of 50+ people, that is 100 test cassettes every week . . .
That is great Sabine, the having to buy one did not work here, people just paid for them or the store gave them for free even when they did had a price tag. so now they are banned, hurray.
Yes, i smile at your comment about the shampoo bars, when i find one i like, next time around it does not exist anymore:)
yes to the floss, little glass container and refills, which i did buy in Pemberton, i don't know if they have it in Whitehorse. What do you do for toothpaste? i do not like baking soda... I am almost out of dishwashing liquid, i think there is a refill place somewhere in Whitehorse. I will find out, and go there with my reuse glass jar
OMG about the covid-tests, that is terrible.
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