Pre-COVID.
Waged blitzkrieg public opinion 'green' campaign against plastic bags with ADN, Local news stations.
Quickly passed anti-plastic bag laws and ordinances requiring local small businesses to
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start charging customers for plastic bags by the bag.
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Quickly use up their inventory or destroy it. Many wound up destroying/sending to landfill. Every one questioned the reasoning. We were all asleep.
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required customers to purchase crappy long lasting 'reusable' plastic bags. if you forgot yours, you wound up paying 3-5$ everytime you went to the store to avoid hassle of carrying out stuff without a bag.
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Everyone mad
Fast forward a couple weeks ENTER COVID
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Oh no, your heavy duy long lasting plastic bags that you have 20+ of instead of 20 tiny plastic bags are no longer allowed because they can't be sanitized. Can't use those anymore. Throw them out.
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The plastic grocery bags are now allowed again, for our safety. Oh you just threw away your entire inventory? Too bad. Restock :)
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oh and charge customers 5cents each on the plastic bags now too.
STEP OUTSIDE THIS MORNING
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see local anchorage daily news rag, which is available online digitally, piled up 6 deep cuz they are forced to give it away now, because no one believes thier shit after their anti-trump, anti-small business, anti-citizen months of propaganda
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IT'S WRAPPED IN (*@#&(#$ING PLASTIC!!!
Yes, the Anchorage City Council all need to be recalled and replaced. They all belong somewhere in the Lower 48.
I don't that is unique to Anchorage... ?
Send in the grizzlies to take care of them.
I thought Alaska was a refuge from wokeness. Oh well.
It is. Except Anchorage. It's an armpit similar to Seattle. The rest of the state is great, fortunately Anchorage doesn't overpower the state.