Visited the Tukwila Sears last weekend, they were NOT following Washington State law which requires retailers to stop using single use plastic shopping bags as of October 2021. They have had plenty of time to get into compliance, other stores have to, Sears isn’t special. When I worked at a Sears in Portland, Oregon we were required by city ordinance to use paper bags, and we did! I have reported Sears at Tukwila to the state ecology department which is in charge of the bag compliance.
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It's a bad law and only a complete tool would report them for this.
Although, Sears could just pass the cost onto the consumer. This is what Macy's now does in NJ, they charge you 10 cents for a paper bag.
In NJ it's worse though. Department stores can give you paper bags (at all except Macy's, they are free), but supermarkets are banned from giving you any bag including paper. This has nothing to do with the environment since paper bags are actually good for the environment. Instead they force you to purchase so-called reusable bags that the state collects tax revenue from.
You do realize that it’s possible to live and work in a city and have your own opinions on things. Not everything needs to be political. I worked at the Lloyd Center Sears in Portland, OR and I will tell you, the crime in our neighborhood would put Detroit to shame (and this was 5 years ago)
Someone has wayyyyy too much time on their hands. All the tragedies and disasters in the nation and world today and you're worried about paper or plastic bags. Geeez.
Maybe those store will follow that law when your governor follows federal immigration law and stops being a sanctuary state. Your Governor set the precedent for not following laws they don’t like so why can’t this store choose to ignore a law it doesn’t like?!
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When is they're last day?
Wow OP got the response they deserved. Some people are so cheap they use these bags instead of buying real garbage bags. Leftism at it's worst.
Maybe they didn’t like you? I got a paper bag from them. You sound like a douche.
Fu-k off.
What bags you use is between you and the merchant. Quit being a busybody.
And spare us the plastics hysteria, plastic shopping bags have been fully biodegradable for over 20 years.
Who the fu-k cares ? Get a life
I bought tools regularly from Sears at Silver Spring, MD before they went out of business. They changed to paper bag coz they were in Montgomery county. Sometimes associates had to triple bag for me....
Another one caught up in the mean green agenda. Get a life!
Oh no. The horror.
Seriously, they probably don't sell enough that anyone notices a plastic bag or 2 being used every month, so they get away with it.
Also, the store in Union Gap Washington needs to be in compliance with this law, so it’s more then one store.
They wouldn’t need to be “branded” the store I worked at in Portland, Oregon ordered a pallet of generic bags every few months. It was around $600.
I suspect they would sooner shut the store down than make branded paper bags for just one store as they will have a large stock of plastic ones from all the stores and warehouses closing. The stores still will have large amounts of bags in their store rooms and they just hoped to not be noticed using them.
It's a ridiculous law and ridiculous laws should always be ignored. If there's still a huge stock of these bags, it would be silly not to use them.