Well, I know this might not be much help because I live in Canada but I know that, while it’s not “credit” for bags Superstore charges per bag, so in the end it’s kinda like credit.

I don’t think there are ant superstores in the USA because it’s called “the real canadian superstore” LAWLS

Kroger gives $.03 credit for each bag I bring when shopping there. This is in western Kentucky.

Also, IKEA doesn’t give you credit, but you don’t get charged .59/bag by using your own. If you don’t have your own, you have to pay for theirs.

Our local store which is a southern chain “Brookshires and Brookshire Brothers” give you a credit on your receipt for each bag you use of your own. So you may ask. I did not know til one day while I had my bags being used and the clerk said something. I was politely surprised.

I live in Colorado, and we have a small grocery store/ health food store called Sunflower Market. Apparently New Mexico, and Arizona also have these stores. Anyway, they give a 10 cent credit for every bag that you reuse of theirs. When you are buying for 8, that can add up!

Our Trader Joe’s offers a raffle each week, and you get a ticket if you bring your own bags.

I think IKEA has the right idea. The only thing that’s going to make us remember our bags is if it costs us when we don’t…

Fry’s (Kroger affiliate) gives $.05/bag, as does Sprouts (farmer’s market type chain mostly in AZ and CA).

I did not know that Target would give you a credit for bringing your own bag. I’ll have to remember that.

And as far as Giant is concerned, the Giant stores in Pennsylvania DO NOT give a credit for bringing your own bags. The manager of mine told me that once they started selling reusable bags, they stopped offering a credit. That sort of irritates me, especially since Shop Rite DOES offer a credit.

Unfortunately, Shop Rite is more expensive than Giant, so a bag credit doesn’t make up for how much more I would spend shopping at Shop Rite. Too bad, too. I like their stores better.

Here’s a post I wrote on grocery shopping on a shoestring: http://suddenlyfrugal.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/grocery-shopping-on-a-shoestring/ Soon after I wrote this post, I stopped using Shop Rite at Home and went back to shopping at Giant, bag credits be damned.

Leah

WinCo gives you a .06 shopping credit for each bag you bring. However, many cashiers don’t notice the big pile of bags in your cart so you have to politely tell them, “I also have 6 bags” or whatever.

Our Aldi makes you pay for bags, although they often have leftover boxes at the front for free if you want to pack your food in them (or you can find empty boxes as you wander in the aisles and use them).

It is fine to bring your own bags. (The clerks toss — literally throw, it is hard not to wince as the cans go crashing in — the items into your cart, and you are expected to go to the counter that runs along the front of the store and pack it yourself. The funny thing is that I’ve read that the clerks at Aldi’s in England throw the items into the carts as well.)

And, yes, you do have to have a quarter deposit to use a cart.

It took some getting used to, but we really cut down on our Walmart shopping after Aldi opened up. Kroger is cheaper on some things than either store, but it is often harder in our case to get to Kroger.

Thanks, everyone! Anyone know about Martin’s? We don’t have Giant here, but Martin’s is owned by Giant.

Annchan:

Actually superstore does give credit for bags when you bring reuseable ones, as long as you have their credit or debit card. When you do they give you points that can be redeemed for free groceries. You also get points just for using the cards and for certain groceries that you buy. I have been using both of my cards for a about a year and half now, and have 220$ worth of points to use.

This is in Saskatchewan, and I’m talking about the pc financial mastercard and checking account.

Superfresh also gives you credit when you bring your own bags. If I remember correctly it is 2¢ for paper or plastic, 3¢ for cloth shopping bags and 5¢ for the heavy duty plastic bags that they sell.
I keep an empty cube type tissue box filled with plastic grocery bags in my car trunk. I started doing this when my boys were little and cannot tell you how many times I was so thankful I had them. Now even if I forgot to put my cloth bags back in the car I always have bags for shopping and don’t lose out on my bag credits. An empty paper towel tube also works great for storing plastic bags.

Our Kroger use to give us .05 for bring our own bags. They have discontinued it here in my part of Texas. I’m bummed about it.

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kim

Safeway in Washington state gives a 3 cent credit if you bring your own bag. I have heard that Fred Meyer gives a 5 cent credit.

The local Pak-N-Save (Safeway) no longer gives any bag credit at all.

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