Rome, NY Sucks

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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Bag Bad

 Not just the free market, but best practices put a long-term hold on the state bag ban. Grocery workers faced with handling someone's dirty used cloth bag during a pandemic made it too hard of a sell after March. The state has softly restarted the ban, but most stores who want to keep customers are taking advantage of the grace period.

One store that is not is Price Chopper. Luckily, the new Hannaford store in Rome is not charging for crappy paper bags and has the good plastic bags for free. So, my new call is to exploit the free market by avoiding the stores which are following the state rules to make the transition easier for themselves.

I suspect that when things "get back to normal" this bag garbage may be implemented. At least now, I have a stockpile of bags from months of stores giving up on paper. After that, maybe I should relocate.

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