This is almost a no-brainer...yes, people who can't use there own bag should pay! Most of them are just too lazy to place the cotton or reusable bags next to them in their car!!

No way would I pay to use plastic! The only two things I DO use plastic bags for are garbage(but I buy those!) and to pick up my dogs's droppings. I know, I should buy a pooper-scooper, but while grocery stores use them for my purchases, why shouldn't I? I do own several recycled shopping bags however, and I do try to remember to take them when I go to the stores.

I wish the stores or government would impose a fee on plastic bags. Here in CA, they charge you for the recycling of electronics equipment at the time of purchase, as they foresee it will eventually need to be recycled. I don't understand why this concept has not caught on for plastic bags and other waste (other than cans and bottles with CRV in some states). Personally, we walk the couple of miles round trip to get our groceries. We load up our 2 babies (yes, my hubby is a grad student but we have kids) in their stroller and wheel them through stores! We pack the stroller with the groceries, check out, and re-load the stroller without any bags. We often get questioned at the checkout and threatened that security will want our receipt, no prob, I tell them. I just tell them "I don't do plastic" and it seems to be catching on out here!