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Article: Area groceries offer shoppers brand new bags
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 1990
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Katherine Ritter is a new kind of bag lady.
The Deerfield housewife and mother of three brings her own
canvas and mesh bags to the grocery each week to carry home an
estimated $200 worth of "environmentally friendly" products.
She is part of an emerging trend of shoppers nationwide who tote
sacks and bags to market.
"It started in California, but now they are selling well across
the country. The reusable shopping bag is making its way eastward,"
said Thomas Cullen, vice president and co-founder of Do Your Share, a
six-month-old Englewood, Colo., manufacturing company.
"I have five big ones, one insulated one and six different sizes
of the mesh bags for produce," Ritter said last ...