You are quite right about that! For years I have taken my canvas bag to the grocery and my reusable carry out meal container('turkey') to restaurants to avoid getting either plastic bags or styrofoam containers. These days I shop mostly at the local 'fresh' market where canvas bags are the norm but if I wander into a conventional grocery with my canvas bag usually the clerk frowns and asks 'Do we sell these?'. When I explain that I carried it in to hold my purchases, I usually have to prevent the bagger from just putting the plastic bags into it. My friends that I eat with are used to me bringing along my 'turkey' but they regard this as 'ecentric' behavior and none of them have elected to do the same despite considering themselves as 'environmentally aware'. They all do get the styrofoam 'doggie bags' at nearly every meal for leftovers.