Do any of you buy and use the canvas bags some stores have available?

I have to admit I bought a few of the canvas bags and I continually forget to bring them with me. The plastic bags they give out at the stores around here aren't any good for re-using since they're so flimsy. I end up using them for trash. Not all the stores have recycling bins for these anyway and if it saves me buying trash bags, I guess it's a form of recycling. Anyway, I bought the reusable bags because I thought it was environmentally sound, I don't like the idea of all that plastic floating around, and of course hopefully they are a better choice because they won't tear and break..whit

I have a couple of fabric bags that I keep in my truck for trips to the grocery store. Most of the time I forget to bring them in and use them though :-( I'm trying to be better about it though. However, I do reuse the plastic bags for the wastebaskets at home, so it is not completely wasteful. At the moment, we have such a surplus of plastic bags that I am trying REALLY hard to remember to use the fabric bags for a while.

I must be hones and it might sound silly but I bought 5 bags but only because they were purple so i take my purple bags and my little purple fold up trolly to the supermarket...

As I work in a grocery store, they actually gave us one of these free and I recently purchased another one. I like them and it is nice to not have so many plastic bags around. However, I do recycle the plastic ones too and use them for several other things including trash. It is a option to take my own bag or get theirs and I choose to do both- depending on where I am and what I am doing.

I dont. But my mom does. Probably because carrying one big bag of her own is more convenient than having a dozen of them flinging in her two hands. I like the way you're thinking though, about the savings and passing it along even to the customers.