OftenWrong

We used grocery bags for garbage bags, rendering them a multi-use plastic. The extra grocery bags we didn't use for garbage bags went in the recycle bin. Sometimes they were used to hold other recycling, such as newspaper.

Now, we go out and buy plastic garbage bags- a single use plastic.

My point- if the objective was to divert the plastic bags from the landfill, that is not being accomplished here.

Instead what we have

is yet another

Classic Government Boondoggle

So you admit you don't use re-use all your grocery bags. 

You'll always need single use plastic to contain garbage. I actually find, more times than not, the Grocery bags suck as garbage bags, we just used them because they were either free or 5 cents. 

As Aristes points out, these compostable bags are actually quite good. A take-out place was using them instead of plastic recently. 

The biggest shocker about this lack of bags comes at the mall. You can easily condition yourself to bring bags to the Grocery store, but it's harder behaviour to break when going to the mall to Window Shop. 

They're pushing you to buy their re-usable bags. At least, with Freshco, they provide their empty cardboard boxes (from produce and other stuffs) - free - for use in lieu of bags. 

That's practical.  Not only does it save them time from breaking down those boxes, but it's environmentally friendly.  Other stores don't do that.