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Written by Kevin Johns   
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 19:00
 While shopping for gorceries at the Westboro Superstore on the way home from work yesterday, there was an in-store announcement over the speaker system: "Attention customers! Here at the Superstore, we care about the environment, so in an effort to make the store more green, we will soon begin charging five cents each for all plastic bags. Together, we can save mother earth."

Give me a freaking break!

Charging for something that used to be free is not a "green" initiative. It's a corporate initiative meant to increase store profits by reducing the number of plastic bags the company needs to order and by creating two new revenue streams (the charge for plastic bags, along with the new line of Superstore-brand reusable bags).

Somehow I doubt there was a huge public outcry regarding the store's free plastic bags; especially when most people re-use grocery store plastic bags for things like their kitchen garbage can, picking up dog crap in the yard, etc.

You're not fooling anyone Superstore! There is only one kind of "green" that you care about and that's money.

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April Yorke
April Yorke
April 08, 2009
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Shut up, Superstore

If they really cared, they'd give you 5¢ off for not using a bag like they do at SAQ.

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Kevin Johns is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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