Mastodawn

Technology Connections Aug 14, 2023

Suddenly I'm wondering something.

I call disposable plastic grocery bags "Jewel bags" after the Chicagoland grocery store chain. I don't even shop there all that much these days, but any such bag is still a "Jewel bag" in my head.

Anybody else do this? Like, not Jewel specifically but your local store chain?

(Oh and, fun fact, an industry term for that kind of bag is T-shirt bag, despite it resembling a tank top if anything)

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bignose

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