Paper or Plastic: Plastic!

Sent to Whole Foods corporate:

Paper or Plastic: Plastic!

Recently I stopped shopping to the Whole Foods store in White Plains, NY. The reason: Whole Foods no longer makes plastic bags a free option, only paper. I am guessing this is because of pressure from shoppers who think they are superior (Whole Foods has the snootiest and most insufferable customers of any food store) because they do not use plastic, thinking this is better for the environment. Wrong!

In the abstract this is not at all clear. As a practical matter, consider this:

1. Most of the insufferables DRIVE to Whole Foods in their pollution-mobiles. I walk. That alone trumps any possible advantage paper might have.

2. Trees are destroyed to produce the paper bags.

3. I use the plastic bags to dispose of my garbage in my apartment building. Plastic is the only option, so they are reused.

4. Whole Foods gives a parking voucher to driving customers. Walkers get nothing.

5. You penalize walkers by asking us to PAY for plastic bags.

Let me know when plastic bags are again a FREE option. Then I may shop there again. Now I am forced to drive to Stop & Shop, which is further away.