shoppers holding nonplastic carry bags walk during rains at a market in mumbai india saturday june 23 2018 indias western state of maharashtra enforced its statewide ban on a wide range of singleuse plastic items including disposable cutlery and thermocolphotorajanish kakade pune paper pouches and cloth bags flooded supermarkets across the city as shoppers carried their daily groceries in the new pouches that replaced the plastic variety in use for ages most supermarkets across the city have stocked brown paper bags for vegetables fruits and other items the scenario in the malls was different as most brand owners said they had switched over to the paper bags long ago and the ban on plastic did not affect them advt sunday shoppers in kalyaninagar were seen packing vegetables in brown paper pouches stacked at the supermarkets the switchover from plastic carry bags to paper pouches gave them a different experience as they found the latter consuming more space diksha nathani a shopper at a supermarket in kalyaninagar said we are adjusting to the change the advantage with plastic bags was that they were transparent it was easy to see through the bags while shopping and make out what has already been packed and whats left to buy the brown pouches do not have this advantage shopping tends to get a bit difficult as one has to open the bag each time to find what has already been packedsupriya navle saleswoman at a supermarket in kalyaninagar said we had fallen short of the paper bags on saturday evening because of the weekend rush but we quickly managed to replenish the stock and continue with our services we have not found any difficulty as yet because most customers are welcoming the change and are packing fruits and vegetables in the paper bags at the checkout counters we have kept own mill cotton bags the customers can use these bags to carry the items home if they have not brought their own bagspashan resident seema mehta said we are now managing with the paper bags provided at the supermarkets its a positive change we can also put the news bags in the refrigerators advt anusha joshi a resident of kothrud said the paper bags are handy although a bit stiff besides the paper pouches are reusable everybody will eventually get used to the ecofriendly way of shopping by swati shinde gole tnn published on jun 26 2018 at 1200 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan