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Pretty sure sign said if have own bags you also pack your own bags.

Why not just bring your own in case and find out when you get there? That way you'll be prepared either way.  
 
I'd prefer to pack my own things anyway, especially right now.  
Keep cloth and/or reusable bags in your vehicles, people. You never know when you're going to need them.

With the Covid 19, most stores prefer you to use plastic. Cloth can hold the virus easily and transport it from location to location to location....you get the picture.  
If they haven't banned cloth bags yet, it will happen soon. Just go plastic for now. You will possibly be protecting your family and the vulnerable by NOT recycling for the time being.

More misinformation. Covid survives the longest on plastic. Days. Things that are rough and have spaces are difficult for the virus to survive on. So cloth bag is a better choice.

Cloth bags are not the better choice, which is why most grocery stores have banned them at this point. Plastic bags are NEW, and untouched when used at the store, versus a cloth bag that a person had taken from store to store for months, heck even years, and rarely Washed.  
 
“Reusable bags are notoriously dirty and may spread the Virus”. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-plastic-bag-ban-backfires-11584399666  
 
Entire states (New Hampshire & Maine) have banned cloth bags: https://grist.org/climate/one-state-just-banned-reusable-shopping-bags-due-to-covid-19/  
 
Save on foods bans Reusable bags: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/vancouver-island/2020/3/19/1_4860576.html  
 
Use plastic for now. Cloth bags are grossly dirty and put us all at risk.

Still charged me the 5 cents per bag this morning. I thought all stores were waiving that at this time.  
So ya, take your bags to walmart or pay their bag fee.

Yesterday I left my bags at home intentionally, because I had heard they didn’t want them and had temporarily gone back to plastic.  
 
I was wrong. They are still using and selling reusables, so my collection grows yet again.

I bring my own bags when I shop, I picked u a few things yesterday after work and used my bags. When I unloaded stuff at home I washed my bags that are now in my car ready to use again.....

Cloth bags have been banned out of fear and dubious claims from plastic and right wing lobby groups. That have been waiting for a reason to crush reusables.  
 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/27/rightwing-thinktanks-use-fear-of-covid-19-to-fight-bans-on-plastic-bags  
 
Let’s use logic for a minute. If I practice social distancing and pack my own groceries how do I get or give anyone covid with my reusable bag? As long as the stainless surface where groceries are packed is wiped. All good.  
 
Versus the plastic bags where if the person before you or hours before you coughed or sneezed on them bingo virus spread.

I shopped at sobeys earlier this week and took my own bags as I always do. I don’t think they’ve brought back plastic bags so your only other option would be to purchase their reusable or paper bags. I don’t see how my bags would contaminate anyone or anything as they don’t leave the cart. I pack my own groceries while the bags are in my cart. The employees don’t touch them and they don’t touch any other surface besides the shopping cart.

I think the whole point is to protect the workers, which is why if you're bringing your own bags you should pack your own groceries.  
 
Yes, the worker could have coughed and sneezed on the plastic bags, but that's only one person. If the worker is touching reuseable bags, however, they are touching the germs of potentially hundreds of people in a shift.  
 
A plastic bag, theoretically, you can just take home and toss and have no further contact with it.  
 
It seems logical to me.