Kroger Supermarket Bans Plastic Bags Across U.S., Others Could Follow
Kroger shoppers will have to get used to bringing in their own reusable bags, as the supermarket chain announced it would eliminate single-use plastic bags by 2025.
That means all your local Cala Foods, City Markets, Copps, Dillons, FoodsCo, Fred Meyer Stores, Fry’s, King Soopers, Mariano’s Fresh Market, Metro Market, Pick ‘n Save, Quality Food Centers (a.k.a. QFC), Ralphs, Food 4 Less, and Smith’s Food and Drug will be affected by this change.
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Several states already have implemented such bans by law, as Californians and Floridians can attest to, but Kroger is the largest grocer to put a plastic bag ban on all its stores nationwide, regardless of state law.
Of course this ban, as most plastic bans, is in an effort to reduce waste, which makes organizations such as Green Peace happy.
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Don’t be surprised if other major grocery chains follow, as we saw a chain reaction of plastic bans, just earlier this year. When McDonald’s banned single-use plastic straws in the U.K., we saw companies like Starbucks. Even Disney implemented straw bans of their own.
While it might mean that we can no longer reuse their bags as our home trash bags, hopefully it’ll all be worth it if, like, the world doesn’t burn of our own doing.
