Friday, June 11, 2010

Most will bring their own grocery store bags

By: Alan Markoff | alan@cfp.ky

Caymanian Compass

More the 71 per cent of the 482 respondents to last week’s caycompass.com online poll said they will take their own shopping bags when grocery stores start charging for plastic bags. Cayman’s major supermarkets started charging five cents per bag on Wednesday.

In total, 343 people - 71.2 per cent - said they would take their own bags to the store instead of paying the five cents.

“Of course, there will be the inevitable times I forget, so I’ll probably end up buying about 50 of the reusable ones - or just not use a bag, depending on what it is,” said one person. Read the full story here.

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