Trader Joe's uses too much packaging for my shopping

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In a message dated 5/7/2006 5:19:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

kmpelley writes:

 

I have shopped @ Trader Joe's in the San Francisco

Bay area and found that they use a lot of packaging

 

 

Really? I don't find that at my store. The things I buy are just in a single

package, and I get those lovely paper bags which I use over and over before

I use them for recycling stuff. I also have 3 of their big twill bags that I

use, but 2 of them got commandeered for beach towel storage over the winter.

AmyF

 

 

 

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Thanks for your response. Maybe others have never shopped as we do at our local

Coop :-). Maybe Trader Joes has improved since I was there about 18 months ago.

 

I am accustomed to bringing almost all of my own small brown paper bags to

purchase all of my bulk purchases such as spices, teas, coffees, herbs, flour,

pasta, legumes, sugar, etc. I can even buy tofu & deli items and put them in

the old plastic yoghurt containers I bring with me. I bring in my old glass

juice bottles and fill them with vinegar, soy sauce, olive oil, maple syrup,

etc. I can buy herb pills [yes, they have a pill counter] and reuse small

pastic zip-lock bags. I can buy herbal tinctures and reuse amber bottles. I

buy milk in glass bottles that I return & the store recycles. I then put them

into a bigger bag that I brought in to the store. I plan to begin bringing in

my own plastic bags for produce so I don't have to recycle so many of those. I

occasionally use cloth bags when I run out of old large paper grocery bags. [My

ugly little secret is that I use them for storing my knitting projects]. I get

money back for reusing bags, etc.

 

The tomatoes and lettuce I purchased at Trader Joes were in packages--that

never happens where I shop. I was shopping on a weekend so maybe that is the

reason that the french bread was not fresh. Needless to say, I don't know where

to shop in the SF Bay Area where it is more recycling friendly, when I visit my

children and cook for them. My boys, their lovely wives, and one grandson live

in San Mateo & Pacifica. Any ideas?

 

I do know women who crochet or knit shopping bags out of plastic bags from the

grocery store. [ I do wash, dry, and reuse plastic bags for storage at home.] I

do knit and crochet with cotton, wool, silk, synthetics and reuse yarn when I

take old garments apart and reknit them. I just don't care to knit plastic bags

:-) .

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

 

 

 

 

I have shopped @ Trader Joe's in the San Francisco

Bay area and found that they use a lot of packaging

 

 

Really? I don't find that at my store. The things I buy are just in a single

package, and I get those lovely paper bags which I use over and over before

I use them for recycling stuff. I also have 3 of their big twill bags that I

use, but 2 of them got commandeered for beach towel storage over the winter.

AmyF