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Nickel bags

Posted on February 23, 2020February 26, 2020 by Wegmaniacal

Attention, shoppers.

Some of you are bringing in stained, smelly paper bags for reuse. All to save a blessed 5 cents.

Really?

If you think you’re going to buy groceries at least twenty more times in your life, it’s worth buying a reuseable bag for 99 cents.

Redirect your moral outrage to another cause like climate change or voter registration. Grocery bags are a dead issue. In a week, by law, every retailer in New York State will drop plastic.

P.S. I wish I had thought of the above headline on my own. But credit has to go to Judith Miller on Twitter.

Bought my first nickel bag in decades. At Wegmans, of course. #PipingHotRotisserieChicken

— Judith Miller (@MillerJudithA) February 15, 2020

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Upstate New Yorkers love their Wegmans, with a bond that newer customers in other parts of the East are discovering. As a customer and former employee, I share the obsession.

I launched Wegmaniacal in December 2019, to examine the cultlike following the company has developed since its founding in Rochester more than a century ago.

The site stagnated when I left Wegmans and returned to other endeavors. But with rising grocery prices, lowering environmental regulation, and pharmaceutical challenges, it’s time to resume writing here.

Much of what I have to say is positive. Nevertheless, the company is family owned and most of its operations are conducted in private. As a longtime journalist, I’ll also delve into topics Danny Wegman would prefer to keep behind closed doors.

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