Ikea

I read this story from Reuters about Ikea starting to charge for bags in the US.

Every store in Denmark does this to cut back on waste. There is just a stack of bags at the beginning of the checkout line, and you throw as many as you want on the conveyor belt with your stuff. About 50% of the people get bags. The other 50% bring a backpack, etc to put their groceries in. I'm not sure how much the bags cost, because I've never bought any.

Those big Ikea bags are very nice though. DIS gave us one (our books came in it). Very heavy duty bag, and quite large. I use it to do laundry.