So get reuseable bags? They're $1/each at Trader Joe's and last years and years. You won't need more than 4 over the course of 10 years.

I've had them since I was poor.

Here we use the big hiking backpacks for a big purchase. How would you even carry those amounts in plastic bags? You plan these trips, so you bring enough bags with you.

I carried wet vegetables in paper bags on public transportation for years with no problem. Where are you hearing this?

When I was poor I carried groceries on public transport using a large rolling suitcase on wheels. Worked pretty well and would not have been a problem with paper bags.

Superthin plastic bags are better? I walk home with groceries all the time, I've had many plastic bags break on me, but never a paper or cloth one.

Perhaps instead of destroying the environment to help the poor, we should simply give the poor more money and stop them being poor at all.

Reusable bags are cheap and durable.

paper bags are far preferable for walking around with to thin plastic bags with weak "handles"

Poor people in America drive. The rich live in places that are served by transit.