Backlash Prompts Safeway to Bring Back Paper Bags With Handles at Some Stores

Backlash Prompts Safeway to Bring Back Paper Bags With Handles at Some Stores

Safeway recently eliminated handles on its paper bags, citing supply chain shortages, but after receiving complaints, the company has since restocked the original bags with handles at some of its locations.The customer backlash was reportedly swift over Safeway’s decision to switch to paper bags without handles. While Hollywood would like to believe that handleless paper bags persist throughout the ages, most people consider them a thing of the …

Safeway blames a "wood pulp shortage" for its handleless paper bags

Karen Aitchison, a senior who has shopped the Diamond Heights Boulevard Safeway for 30 years, lives three flights up. When her grocery store stopped stocking paper bags with handles last month, she did what any sensible person would do — she hoarded the old ones and started reinforcing them with strapping tape. — Read the rest The post Safeway blames a "wood pulp shortage" for its handleless paper bags appeared first on Boing Boing.