No Plastic Bags? Reality Meets Enviromentality
Monday, March 9, 2009 at 12:44PM From Apple Insider, comes word that Apple is no longer offering plastic bags with purchases. Instead, they will offer to assist you with purchases of more than a handful to your car.
Macnn speculates this is related to the ban on plastic bags in San Francisco. Well, we pride ourselves on being green (read our report) but there's a problem with this move by Apple: there's no good alternative. Imagine how popular Apple-branded reuasable canvas bags could be! What a great way to advertise the brand (ok, maybe they don't need much more of that right now) and help the environment, without inconveniencing customers. Maybe, just maybe, Apple could even bring itself to throw in a canvas bag with a certain purchase amount. Crazy, I know, but if you buy MobileMe and AppleCare with that new laptop, the least you deserve is a $3 canvas bag from Apple.
Keep up the "green" work Apple, but help customers to have a viable alternative too.
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Reader Comments (4)
I'd like an apple cavas bag, and I'd even pay a dollar for it...strange that other retail stores realize this, but Apple doesn't.
Also, not using any bag may increase theft in the stores. "I just paid for this..."
Yeah, that will work well in New York City...NOT. Canvas is fine, no bag is not.
Bring you own bag.
So Apple is now like the low-cost , brand-name-less food stuff stores that don't have bags. Where's the prestige of walking out into the mall with your Apple-logo bag?
This green crap is just getting out of hand.