After the United States implements a ban on plastic, consumers are reluctant to buy shopping bags to steal shopping baskets

Polar News reporter Manda

Intern Luo Yan

According to the "New York Post" reported on September 20, in May this year, New Jersey's New Jersey officially implemented a prohibited plastic order. The supermarket no longer provided free disposable plastic bags, which caused consumers in the state to be very dissatisfied with this. Ten tens of cents to buy reusable plastic bags, but instead use the way to steal the supermarket portable shopping basket to resist.

New Jersey One Supermarket no longer provides shopping baskets (source: source: New York Post)

In 2020, the state passed the law that prohibited the use of disposable plastic bags. In May of this year, the ban on the plastic order officially took effect. But then, the common plastic shopping baskets in local supermarkets almost disappeared.

On Tuesday, Casey, who worked in a chain supermarket in New Jersey, told the New York Post that when the customer was told that they could not take the basket out of the shopping area, they were very angry, and some people would steal shopping baskets. Casey said: "They seem to think that it is a supermarket rather than the governor issued a ban. Some customers have forgotten their own shopping bags and do not want to spend 34 cents to buy a reused shopping bag. ","

In a Shoprite supermarket in Palisai Park, a staff member said that after the customer stole the shopping basket, the supermarket simply emptied all the shopping baskets. The staff member explained that many customers took the shopping basket to the car and took it home. The supermarket had thought they would send the shopping basket back the next day, but did not.

The staff member also said that the act of consumers' sneaky basket was "very stupid", and he couldn't understand why customers do not directly buy a reusable bag. He said, "I would rather spend 99 cents to buy a bag, and I didn't want to bring the shopping basket. Will it be inconvenient to bring it out of the store?"

An employee of a chain of the supermarket in Libburg said that there were many shopping baskets available in the supermarket, but now it is gone. "They were all stolen." The employee said that the state's plastic ban caused consumers to steal the shopping basket in the supermarket. Another employee also stated: "Shopping basket theft occurs everywhere. One day I just entered the supermarket and found that the shopping basket was gone."

In this regard, a spokesman for the US chain supermarket company Stop & SHOP said that the stolen of the shopping basket was a consequence of the accidental accident. However, the spokesman said: "Customers are getting used to this rule now, we will continue to remind them to bring their own shopping bags, and they will also provide a reused shopping bag of $ 1."

SHOPRITE spokesman Karen Aola said that their stores were forced to discovers to remind customers to leave the shopping basket on the cashier.

"This is a new regulation. We will continue to remind customers to bring reused shopping bags to help them adapt to this new regulation. We hope to use the shopping basket to keep the shopping basket in the store after shopping. It is convenient for other customers, "she said.

In the face of this situation, some leaders in New Jersey began to call for the amendments to the ban. Michael Tetta, a Republican senator of the Chanberlan County, said this week that he hopes to "completely reform" the ban on the plastic order. In a press release on Monday, he said: "New rules lead to an unexpected consequences, and people's baskets that are used to install bread and milk are disappearing. Super no longer provides such convenience services. "

In Manhattan, not far from New Jersey, a similar ban took effect in 2020. The local business super -staff members were shocked when someone stole the basket in New Jersey.

"No one here steals the basket, which is really strange. When we started to implement the plastic order, there was no incident of stolen shopping baskets." David David, the manager of the Key Food store in Shangxi District.

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