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Singapore's supermarket trust system (they started charging for plastic bags on July 3) 
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We've the same problem here in Burlington. Nowadays I just drive the schizojeep right through the store so there's no need to buy plastic bags!
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I'm surprised people would steal bags over there. Don't you get the death penalty for petty theft in singapore?
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it's a new initiative, everyone's used to taking plastic bags and reusing it as garbage bags
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Classic ahjumma move. If you want to get a middle aged Korean woman's heart, give her your hoarded plastic bag supply.
Seriously tho I resent the idea that I'm so incapable of housekeeping that I need the government to force me to do it properly. And as the world's #1 expert on being trans-asian, I take all of Singapore's laws very personally.
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You'd be surprised at how bad people are at simple things
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Every Balkanoid has a drawer full of bags that gets exponentially fuller the older the balkanoid is
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Were you the Balkan that couldn't find work because you were a foreigner?
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Nope, I'm the balkan who's about to graduate uni in the uk
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Congrats.
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Meh it's a bit of a pain to remember to grab my reusable bags from my car but Aldi's been very effective at getting me to actually use them. Force > people's goodwill.
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Reusable bags are nice except that every goddarn time I'm shopping with my family I end up with one less.
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We got cucked like that a few years ago. Nowadays we have to eat our takeaway food with those awful wooden utensils and paper straws which melt after 2 minutes.
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some places have straws that feel exactly like plastic
but the wrapper says "biodegradable". idk if it's real or if they found 
a loophole to frick with the government.
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how much do they cost now?
plastic bags have been $0.07/ea here for a while. I always just bring my own larger bags (although usually it's just a backpack to make it easier to carry) so I basically never pay the tax, tho.
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5c but we are
i've been using a reusable bag for years but this still feels annoying lol
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Yeah plenty of people here bitched about it when it was introduced but tbh I've probably paid the 7c fee less than a dozen times in several years. I never really took the store bags before tbh, my own bags are far larger, sturdier, and easier to carry.
Although there's lots of self-checkout lanes these days and I'd bet people just use the bags and select "0 bags". Not like the scale is sensitive enough to tell when you take a plastic bag.
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I think it’s all a distraction for our VAT going up by 1% recently
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altho I can't laugh too hard bc here in Chicago we have what's called the "amusement tax" lol
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tax-payers:
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Everytime time because frick em and frick government for its imposed fee. The good plastic bags cost less than a penny each, while the shitty recycled plastic bags are overpriced (and wasteful environmental nonsense).
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This is what surprises me. Given the car limitations of Singapore, I would have thought most people were already using reusable bags. When I lived in an apt complex and had to carry my groceries from the parking lot up 2 flights of stairs, first thing I did was switch to reusables since they're more trustworthy and comnfortable.
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They did this (charging for plastic bags) in India. Stores moved to light fabric bags, some even charge for them.
I just bring my own canvas tote now. It's easier to wash and there's less plastic crap everywhere.
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A lot of stores charge for bags.
or they make the bags so garbage you have to just buy the totes to reuse.
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What's with the 2 free eggs? That looks like a carton of a dozen.
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LMAO it’s to appeal to the
because eggs usually come in 10s and it works because I just bought the same thing today
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Lol, I thought I'd miscounted. But I suppose I've only ever had to buy eggs carton in 2 countries (native shithole and USA) so it didn't occur to me that other countries might be selling them in different numbers. Singaporeans are so fu...Wait...egg prices
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dont worry just compare our car prices to feel better
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Not even in America do people steal plastic bags
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I literally for the life of me don't understand why people find breasts to be fun to look at, they genuinely grosses me out whenever i see a picture of one. I weirdly wish I was as horny for them as other dudes because I feel like I'm missing out on a key feeling in my life. Boobs are hyped up to be the gods ruling this world, the item that wars seem to be fought for, but I don't seem to be able to understand their true power. It's a curse.
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