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Safeway blames a “wood pulp shortage” for its handleless paper bags

Ellsworth Toohey
May 08, 2026
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Karen Aitchison, a senior who has shopped the Diamond Heights Boulevard Safeway for 30 years, lives three flights up. When her grocery store stopped stocking paper bags with handles last month, she did what any sensible person would do — she hoarded the old ones and started reinforcing them with strapping tape. Her alternatives…

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