Would you like a bag for that? If you are lucky you may here that before you get plastic bags forced on you. It doesn't matter the quantity or the size of what you are getting, cashiers try to plastic bag it before you can say a word. I would like to think that most of them don't even realize that they are doing it. Or maybe they are just tired of people asking for an unneeded bag, so they bag anything and everything. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting the blame on cashiers for our plastic bag addiction. Lets put the blame where it really belongs. The store owners? Maybe to some extent, but they will be a later topic of discussion. The guilty ones I'm referring to now are the end users, the group with the real power to make a serious change, the CUSTOMERS!! I can continue to complain about how plastic bags are constantly forced on us over and over again by apathetic store owners and cashiers, but we are the ones with the ability to just say no, after all the customer is always right! Right? I promise you if you walk up to the register with your items and your own reusable bags(especially the ones with environmental literature on them) the cashier will not even attempt to ask if want a plastic bag. Some bigger grocery stores are even giving discounts to customers that bring their own reusable bags. If all stores could be persuaded to follow suit more and more customers would wake up and start using them. Its amazing how many people can be persuaded to do the right thing if there is a monetary bonus in it for them. I guess money really does talk. Ok, back to the customer or us! We can really make a difference if we all started using our own reusable tote bags for all our shopping needs. I'm not going to quote all the statistics about how bad plastic bags are for our environment or how many animals they kill every year, I'm sure you all have heard it over and over again. Instead I'm just going to simply ask you to please consider using reusable tote bags to reduce or even eliminate your dependency on plastic bags and encourage your family and friends to do the same. And the next time the kid behind the counter asks, "Do you need a bag, man?" JUST SAY NO!!!