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We stopped at McDonald's for ice cream cones last night. For 3 ice cream cones, they gave us 27 napkins! Not an exaggeration and not a misprint! Here's a picture:
Now my boys are messy, but even they don't need 9 napkins for 1 ice cream cone (a very tiny ice cream cone at that)!
We visited Applebee's and the boys were given the plastic kids' cups with lids and straws. When they asked for a refill and tried to give the waitress their cups, she set them down and brought them brand new plastic cups....?!? So instead of 3 plastic cups, lids, straws (which was bad enough), we ended up with 5 of each...for 1 visit.
And then there was our visit to Walmart. We all love low prices, but sometimes you have to wonder at what price these low prices come. But now TerraCycle has partnered with Walmart, so it makes me want to give them a chance. Well, the Walmart that I visited here didn't have any TerraCycle items to be found and when I asked 2 of the workers, they looked at me like they had never heard of TerraCycle before...so I wasn't off to a good start. I did need some allergy meds., though, so I purchased a few things while I was there. When I pulled out my reusable bag to ask the lady in the 'less than 20 items' lane to use it, she shook her head 'No' and told me to push my items up and she was shoving them as quickly as she could into her plastic bag. All around me, I watched carts piling up with tons of plastic bags....it seems that Walmart has a policy of only putting 5 items in a bag, no matter what their size. Some people had what looked like 10 plastic bags for what I'm guessing was no more than 30 items. ?!? Did I mention that the entire Walmart store smells like badly offgassing plastic? What is that all about? They are not really doing much to improve my impression of them, although I do realize that their prices are hard to beat and there are many people who depend on them for cheaply priced items. I have a love / hate relationship with Walmart. I really want to love them, but I keep finding more reasons to hate them. I guess this story is to be continued...
And I now have 3 letters to sit down and write. I'm hoping they will be taken seriously. Have you ever written a letter to a company and gotten a really great or satisfying response?
What's your Walmart story? What do you think about fast food and restaurant waste? Lots more food for thought....
