Plastic Bag Ban
In July 2010 Fred Meyer announced that, effective August 1, it would no longer offer plastic bags at any of its 10 Portland stores, due to their negative environmental impacts. To date, Fred Meyer is the largest retail chain in the Portland metropolitan area to adopt this policy. A spokesman indicated that an increasing number of the chain's customers have been choosing to use reusable bags, noting that Fred Meyer's own sales of such bags at its check stands had increased 30 percent from 2008 to 2009.
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