.mujiusa has implemented a fee for shopping bags to encourage NYC consumers to use their own.
JUST BAG IT: New York’s statewide ban on single-use plastic bags won’t go into effect until March 1, but Muji is already trying to encourage shoppers to use their own bags.
New York’s new law applies to retail outlets required to pay sales tax, although there are numerous exceptions such as bags for takeout and newspaper deliveries and garment bags. Three years ago, California was the first state to institute a statewide plastic bag ban and fee on allowable alternatives.
Muji’s effort is not in direct response to New York’s new legislation, although executives have been cognizant that this was coming, according to Eric Kobuchi, general manager of sales support and store development for Muji USA. Nine of its 19 stores in the U.S. are in New York City, including a new East 59th Street location with a full-service café and a customization center with a laser-engraving machine, monogramming and fabric printing.
Muji typically uses between 6 million to 8 million bags a year in North America. Muji also has locations in California and Massachusetts — where legislators are still hammering out the parameters to ban plastic bags in select cities. The retailer’s stores in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Angeles and Arcadia, Calif., charge shoppers 10 cents for a reusable shopping bag.
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