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"I ran into Jewel for the first time in a while and forgot to bring my reusable bags with me, and now I have a Jewel bag"

@TechConnectify We called them "urban tumbleweeds".

Well, we did but they're banned here now.

@TechConnectify huh, I don't think I've ever heard that! to me they're just plastic bags, and the paper grocery bags are, as one might expect... paper bags.

I like 'Jewel bags' though, it's charming! Makes it sound like they should come in a bunch of random colors.

@TechConnectify In my family, we usually call the plastic supermarket bags “The *market brand* bag”

Dialog example: “Grab a couple Walmart bags, please”

Side note: We don’t have Walmart in 🇧🇷; they went bankrupt and was bought by a big brand called “Atacadão” then later bought by Carrefour - worth reading about it

@TechConnectify yes, I find myself doing something similar. If referring to the basket full of old plastic bags in our pantry I'll call them "Schnucks" bags (even though only some of them are from that chain). Same when asking for a bag... it's usually by that brand name even though any plastic bag will do.

In fact the Schnucks brand bags are inferior quality compared to competing chains so I would probably prefer a Dierbergs bag or a Target bag. But I'll still default to Schnucks as the reference.

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My grandmother used to call very large bags "Neckmanntüte" (Neckermann bag), after a popular mail order and department store chain that started in the 50s in Germany.

I have never heard anyone else use this term.

@TechConnectify oddly I've heard of them as jewel bags a couple of times, though there have never been Jewel stores near me.

Plastic bags have always been "plastic bags" around me. Paper bags were often "grocery bags" though, until the fabric(-like) ones took over that term.

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I just call them plastic bags here in MD. We don't have Jewel that I'm aware of out here on the East Coast, I've never heard of them before.

The branding of disposable plastic bags is relatively new @TechConnectify, so in my country we've had them for ages without anything printed on them.

As a result, they're just "plastic shopping bags" since they don't declare anything on them otherwise :-)

And then, later, printed with branding all over. But by then there's no reason to refer to them by some brand name since, well, why give them free marketing effort

@TechConnectify Here in Vancouver (maybe all of BC?), plastic t-shirt bags have been a thing of the past for a while now

Growing up on the east coast of Canada, I definitely called them "Sobeys bags" (after the dominant grocery retailer out there)