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Stop & Shop Discontinues Bring-Your-Own-Bag Incentive

Grocery retailer will no longer give customers 5 cents off their shopping bills for each bag they reuse.

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Written by Jennifer Sloat. 

Stop & Shop's rebate program that gives customers 5 cents back each time they reuse a shopping bag ended earlier this month, the supermarket chain announced in a letter to customers.

According to the letter, signed by Stop & Shop New York Metro Division President Don Sussman, the rebate program, which launched in 2008, has kept millions of paper and plastic bags from the waste stream.

While we have been greatly encouraged by this, the program has reached a plateau in its effectiveness to encourage shoppers to reuse their bags," Sussman wrote. 

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Stop & Shop said it would put support behind other programs to reduce environmental impact, including making a $10,000 donation to The Nature Conservancy on Long Island.

Stop & Shop has a location on Union Boulevard in West Islip.

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With Additional reporting by Brendan J. O'Reilly.


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