The differences in packaging among our locations blows my mind.
Other than berries (which are in plastic clamshells for avoiding squishing, I imagine), I haven't found one vegetable/fruit that regularly comes in plastic, or is only available that way. Maybe English cucumbers? Last week I couldn't find any naked cauliflower, but that's unusual. And the extra expense you have with bulk food
@Fresh Bread , really sucks, I'm sorry :(
On the other hand, all of our cheese comes in plastic, unless you buy it somewhere fancy or straight from the deli and ask them to put it in your own container. Pretty much anything that is pre-portioned has some amount of plastic - meat from the deli plastic wrapped in a polystyrene tray, plastic bag inside the box to contain your crackers/cereal/cookies, plastic bag of chips, big plastic window in your pasta box, plastic bags of chocolate or nuts or dried fruit.
What really needs to happen is we all need to combine the best parts of our homes - unwrapped lettuce, paper wrapped cheese, cheaper bulk food, milk in glass/paper, employees who are totally cool with pre-tareing your containers. It'd be super awesome.
On that note, we just had a butcher shop open in our local shopping center, and I'm super excited. I'm tired of buying most of my meat in plastic, and it looks like everything in his shop is really fresh and amazing. I'm looking forward to being able to buy a whole chicken to roast without also getting a yard of plastic around it. Their advertising says they try to buy "local" (within a 200 mile radius), too.