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• As of July 1 in Delaware, retail stores were no longer allowed to supply plastic shopping bags for their customers' purchases.
No problem, said shoppers at Acme in Christiana -- we'll just walk out with your plastic shopping baskets.
Delaware Online reported that the store's supply of baskets has been wiped out, and manager Kaitlyn DiFrancesco is not going to buy more.
Customers had the option of buying reusable shopping bags or paying 5 cents for paper bags at checkout, but instead, as soon as the ban went into effect, they started lifting the baskets.
Employees were asked to stop customers, but some shoppers just ignored the warning or slipped out unseen. [Delaware Online, 8/10/2022]