Item 4: Ordinance on Suspension of Paper Bag Pass-Through Charge

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because they HAVE to make sure EVERY bag is paid for. This is turning their lives and my self-serve life upside down over paper bags. I suggested they get some bag dispensing device where I press a button and it spits out a bag and adds it to my bill if the bag gestapos need this level of security and scrutiny. Got any ideas? I can't stand this treatment. I think that Albertsons values their products very highly and has systems in place to reduce shoplifting, but somehow it is a big penalty to them if they let paper bags be purchased on the same honesty system as the rest of the stuff and someone messes up (a customer fails to add it). Never mind that they could look at a receipt before you leave (like Costco) without the humiliating of making you beg for a bag and have to have it escorted to your self-serve checkout center and not released to your hands until and unless they enter the price for it... It is wasteful not having a selection of bags to fit the size of merchandise I need . It is wasteful to have small bags cost 5 cents like a big one because the incentive is to get the biggest one since you are already paying for it anyway. I see how wasteful it is for the store to turn their cashiers into little police at the self-checkout, the wasted manpower, and then the wasted person time from my life having to go beg for bags and have them escorted by Brinks to my self-checkout. I'm wondering if you have any ideas on how this could be improved? And soon.. Bill Northrup * 5/7/13 I was just reading the article on the bag ban that states "Wic" holders are able to get free bags. Either paper or reusable. Maybe it wasn't made clear to ALL participants, as Friday while checking out at WalMart the gal told me that anyone with Food Stamps was able to get free bags. The article says they are not eligible. Maybe a little more training is needed. Either way, it is totally a rotten deal that anyone gets free bags while I'm having to pay for them! If they can afford Beer and Cigarettes they can pay the bag!!! Oh and I had a clerk at Albertsons tell me, if I needed a bag to get one from the produce or meat department. Jackie DesChamps * 5/2/13 From: adamsdaddy123@gmail.com [mailto:adamsdaddy123@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:10 AM To: *Eugene Mayor, City Council, and City Manager Subject: Plastic Bag Ban in Eugene Hello to all concerned, I am an ordinary man, father and husband who lives in Eugene very close to Gateway Mall. I am not political and couldn’t even tell you what Ward I am in. I just wanted to pass on my opinion about your new plastic bag ban. I’m no fan of plastic bags. I worked as a grocery sacker when plastic bags took