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That's very interesting finding. I can see how people buy the reusable bags more frequently than might be originally though. I often forget that I brought my bags in from my car and have to mentally remember to keep a couple in my trunk for the times when I'm out shopping. To be honest, because I have a car, when I forget, I just forgo the bag entirely and load everything in my trunk anyways.

I've settled on using the catering bags from Panera because they

- come with catering orders anyway

- are incredibly heavy duty, I've used them dozens of times and they still are in great shape

- are very large

- usually just get trashed after the lunch

My workplace caters lunches once a week or so, and so there's been plenty of bags leftover at the end so...

edit a quick look on ebay shows that there's a secondary market for the bags where they go for around $10 each.