I love my reusable bags. I use them often. I love stores that give a little incentive to customers that reuse bags, like Giant. Target is now jumping on board! Yay! (I love Target!)
The program begins on November 1st for all stores. For each bag you bring in and use, you get 5-cents. The program was tested in 100 stores and resulted in a reduction of 58% of plastic bags used. That's a lot of bags not ending up in the landfill!
Of lesser excitement is CVS's new reusable incentive. Customers will be required to purchase a 99-cent tag to be scanned with their rewards card. Customers will get $1 cash bonuses on their CVS cards every four times they buy something but don't request plastic bags. I guess it's comparable to buying a 99-cent reusable bag, but the whole scan a tag card, wait 4 purchases for a reward just isn't as exciting.