Pandemic deals blow to plastic bag bans, plastic reduction

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All the stores in the SF bay area use paper bags if you don't bring your own. I can't remember when I last saw a disposable plastic bag (except for the produce department).

Yeah, I'm not sure why a ban on reusable bags means plastic bags are coming back.
...because they are? Of all the stores where I shop, only Trader Joe’s uses paper bags — the rest all use plastic.
I don't understand that. Plastic shopping bags are illegal throughout California, and have been for some time. How have all those stores been getting away with it? Disposable plastic shopping bags just don't exist here in Northern California.
The Albertson's near me uses the thicker plastic bags that are meant to be reused.