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Offset your $.10 charge at checkout with a Richmond District grocery tote

Posted on by Sarah B.

Today legislation goes into effect in the city that eliminates plastic bags at checkout, and charges shoppers $.10 per paper bag if they don’t provide their own at grocery stores.

Most of us already have reusable grocery bags laying around, but if you want to freshen your collection AND show off your neighborhood pride, pick up a Richmond District tote in our store for $14.95.

Choose the “In Fog We Trust” design, or get one with the blog logo – one with the website address, and one without.

An organic fabric version is also available for $19.95 – just click the “Organic Grocery Tote” under style and color on the shopping page.

Happy grocery shopping!

Sarah B.

11 Comments

  1. I feel bad for all the cashiers who have to deal with people yelling at them today.

  2. I have been using my own bag for a while, but there is a difference between a personal choice and this city telling you how to live you life and nickeling and diming you to death… we so need a new set of sups.

  3. Well, apparently some people really could use some life advice, given the continent-sized floating islands of plastic crap in the oceans, so I can’t really get too worked up about it.

    And I’ll be in for a tote or two when v2.0 is released with “[The] Richmond District” instead of “Richmond The District”, which makes less than an optimal amount of sense.

  4. apparently some need to read the ordinance. It is not about plastic or the ocean. It is about making it mandatory for stores to charge for recyclable bags made out of recyclable material: compostable bags, recycled paper bags, or reusable bags. It is about city bureaucracy and fines.

  5. We love the new bags and are spreading the word! If anyone needs a free bag, the Department on the environment gave us a bunch to hand out, too.

    And while this is a difficult switch for people, we do think it’s the right thing to do.

    The purpose of this is to encourage customers to bring their own bags to reduce the impact of disposable bags to the City and the environment.

    This policy helps reduce waste which is expensive for the taxpayers of San Francisco, as well as harmful to marine life.

    No one wants to make anyone do anything for the sake of it; this is a policy that places like Germany have taken to really reduce their environmental harm.

  6. Supervisor Mar – that’s great! Where can I get one from you?

  7. Mr. Mar,
    I’m a big proponent of reusable bags and have been toting mine to TJs, Safeway, Thoms, etc. for years. This law doesn’t bother me in the least; I think it’s good.

    That said, I do hope you will find the time to be a regular contributor and viewer of this blog after the upcoming election. You have only recently started making an appearance here. My skepticism about your motivation is understandable, I think.

  8. I have some fab, reusable bags that I bought when I used to live in Austin that feature Texas skylines, UT, and other HEB (CenTex grocer) stuff. They have held up for more than 3 years. I typically take them to Safeway for shopping, but in the past, I often underestimate how many I needed and have had to get more paper bags at checkout. I guess the fortunate part of this underestimation is that I have a stockpile of paper bags (which I also use for dry compost collection) to take to the store. I also have a few plastic bags too that my hubby can use for stuffing his weekly lunch makings into his bag when biking to work.

  9. I’m all for this new legislation. Plastic bags are a massive source of pollution and people were not making the change on their own. This is an incentive to do the right thing.

    Remember – we all live together and sometimes that means rules that are for the benefit of all. This isn’t the wild west anymore. It’s not a free for all.

    If you really just want to do whatever you want whenever you want then move out of a dense city and get off the grid. Then you won’t have to worry about it.

  10. Wait, you mean we are going to change the junk/trash culture of Clement Street . . . funny though, as always, as I went onto my corner store @ 10th for some always suspect greeeeeeeeen bananas––they immediately went for the plastic bag.

    Are we going to have N’hood volunteers to go out and monitor the shops. I’ll volunteer, just as soon as I clean up the trash blowing through my “front yard”

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