Whole Foods - paper or nothing?

Whole Foods Market just announced that they will not be using plastic bags for groceries. It will be paper or nothing. This industry changing decision will launch on Earth Day, April 22nd.

I am so cool with that. I really never understood why they went to plastic in the first place. I guess when petroleum was inexpensive, so was plastic.

Funny how times have changed. It's one of the rare times in the world that progress takes us back in time. It's like going to 1978 when all you had was paper bags.

I remember my mom always made me fold the bags up after we emptied them of groceries. That was my big job. I was only 11 at the time. Not like she was going to trust me to put away the eggs and light bulbs.

Let me warn you about something else that is coming. The day is coming quickly when we will need to bring our own cloth bags. Many stores are already selling their own cloth bags for $2 - $5 each. It's their way of telling us that we will need our own bags soon.

This also is okay with me. I don't mind bringing my own bags to the store and I will even bag my own groceries. I just want them to pass the savings on to me. Because if not, I will go somewhere else. Fresh & Easy here in Southern California is one place that asks you to bag your own groceries and then passes the savings on to you.

One last predicition. I also am going to predict that Walmart grocery is finaly going to bust into Southern California. Right now we have Walmart stores, but they won't allow these locations to sell full grocery. It totally sucks. You gotta love unions. Working nice and hard to keep the money flowing to their memebers and not caring about the public. Of course, this is another post.

You can only keep the biggest company in the world down for so long.

Get ready for change.