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Some shoppers question if the five-cent fee is a deterrent or a penalty. Lawyer and mother of two Tierney Grieve is annoyed, she says, pushing a cartload of groceries in plastic bags to her car where she has defiantly left her reusable bags. “People judge you,” she says.

She needs the plastic to line rubbish bins at home. “There’s a lot of social pressure to demonstrate how socially conscious we are,” says Grieve. “Screw it. I need some bags.”