What will it cost me?

Okay, first of all, I am one of those people who brings cloth bags to the grocery store.

I do this for a variety of reasons.  First and foremost that he makes me (something about the environment?).  Following that, there's the 5 cents per bag I save for bringing my own.  (Incidentally, at No Frills, at least, you can actually bring your own used plastic sacks and they will still give you the 5 cents.)
An added benefit is that I no longer have a surplus of plastic bags EVERYWHERE in my home and vehicle and desk at work, which is very nice.  I forget my cloth bags just often enough that I still have plastic bags on hand when needed, but I don't have trash bags filled with plastic bags desperate for a purpose.

I do sort of get the whole environmental thing, as well.  After all, I can go in and buy 3 items and somehow they pack them in eight grocery bags.  I've never figured out how they do that.

BUT I HAVE A RANT.

I am now at the point where I am willing to PAY the baggers in cash if they will just pack each cloth bag so that it weighs less then I do!

Explain to me how I can buy $90 worth of groceries and they all fit into two bags?  I mean, I brought five bags into the store with me, so they actually handed me back three empty bags.  

And this is not the first time they have done this.   I don't know if I am being punished for not using their bags (which they clearly like to give away, because if I had NOT brought in cloth bags, these same $90 worth of groceries would have filled fifteen plastic bags and three paper bags.

I am particularly riled up today after lugging one of the overweight bags out of the car, dropping it heavily twice on the driveway, kicking it through the front door and quite literally dragging it through the house to the kitchen (snagging it only slightly on the door jam) and discovering, after that journey, that the bag of fresh grapes was neatly stowed at the bottom of the sack.

Gee, thanks.

I believe I am going to buy one of those handy luggage weights, and tell them if they all weigh in at under 50 pounds each there's a fiver in it for them.

Now that's money well spent!