If you’re old enough, you might remember bagger competitions: teenagers racing to pack the most cans, the heaviest milk jug, the most delicate loaf of bread into a single brown paper sack without it tearing. Those bags had structural integrity. They stood up on their own in the trunk. They got reused to cover schoolbooks, wrap packages, line garbage bins, start fireplace fires. They were the multitaskers of the grocery world, and it only took one paper bag to carry what 8 (because some items need double bagging) plastic bags carry now. Then came the choice: “Paper or plastic?”