Well isn’t that nice. The grocery store I love to hate is trying to change before they are forced to. With the plastic bag debate heating up all over the world, Whole Foods is acting before they are required to by legislation banning or taxing plastic bags.

Whole Foods will still offer free paper bags and will sell re-useable plastic bags, for $.99. The new bags are cheap enough for consumers to keep chucking in the garbage, but strong enough to last for a few dozens trips to the store.

Ever since empty foods, as I like to call them, moved to Maine I have become an ever increasing antagonists. Not just because they insulted the entire lobster fishing industry in Maine, and used local farmers and producers to prop up their local-washing campaign, but mostly because they are a big-box store plain and simple, and I prefer LOCAL.

Read the Whole Foods press release here