During my lunch break I went to the supermarket to pick up some stuff. Not many items, I could have gone through the fast check-out which is for people with 10 items or less.
I ended up with 4 bags. Now, you may ask me if the items I bought were extra heavy or bulky. The answer is no. Peruvian supermarkets just really like putting stuff into bags.
To be fair, I suppose I bought 4 types of groceries : produce, non-perishables, bread, and deli stuff. 4 bananas and three potatoes, 2 non-perishables, 2 deli stuffs, and one bag of bread. Obviously this warrants 4 normal sized bags. Heaven forbid that the bread be forced to share a bag with some bananas, or that my lunchmeat should have to hang with my oil. For me, this is ridiculous. You do NOT need to seperate everything. Once, I bought some floss and it came in its own bag. Just toss it in another bag!!! Honest, it´ll be fine!
Too much plastic is being used here and I feel like it is such a waste of plastic bags. Half of the time I ask the baggers to just put it all in one bag (or at least in fewer bags), I get blank stares as their hands are automatically parcelling out goods into seperate bags. If I manage to catch them before they start bagging groceries, the baggers look particularly pained when they are mixing produce with cleaning products and dry goods. I´m sure they are inwardly rolling their eyes and chalking it up to me not being Peruvian. Too bad,
I´m not going to apologize for wanting to use less bags.
The only problem with getting them to consolidate bags is that I don´t have enough trash bags....how to be ecological AND practical? Thanks, Peru for making me problem solve.
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