Maybe this was brought up earlier, but I forget to check PWC often.

Meijer will take $.05 off your bill for each bag you bring in and re-use. I always offer to help bag since reusing is less convenient for the cashier. Also, if you forget your bags, you can ask the cashier to put more than six items in each bag. Cashiers are told not to otherwise.

Finally, the one reason my family makes trips to Wal-Mart is to put holey plastic bags in recycling there.

Ultimately, as some places do, stores here could have plastic or paper bags as back up but charge for them. People used to bring their own bags, and eventually, we would all relearn. . .