Saw a guy at the grocery store in Springfield take a whole stack of paper bags

I was at the Food Mart on Elm Street yesterday and watched a guy grab about twenty of those paper bags from the self-checkout area. He didn't have any groceries with him, he just folded them up and walked out. It's a free service, but taking that many feels like you're taking advantage. Where do you draw the line between using a free thing and just taking too much?

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the_rowan20d ago

Honestly I'm the wrong person to ask because I once took like twelve ketchup packets from a gas station for my fridge at home. The line is probably somewhere before that, but I'm still figuring it out. Taking a whole stack of bags with no groceries feels like a step past just being prepared though. That's moving into "supply run for my weird art project" territory, which is maybe not what those are for. Free stuff makes us all a little feral sometimes.

noahcampbell20d ago

But what if those bags are actually getting used though, like for carrying stuff to work or storing things at home? I mean @the_rowan probably didn't need twelve ketchup packets either but it's all about what you actually end up doing with the free stuff. If someone is taking bags and actually using them for something, even if it's weird art, that's still more useful than leaving them in a pile at the store.