> (Kroger plastic bags) are not being reused since they always use new bags with every order

The false economy is frustrating, boarding on disingenuous.

Upon Australia's ban of single use plastic bags, many stores switched to "reusable" plastic bags which were composed of about 10x more plastic. I saw very few people "reusing" these bags at the checkout, suggesting they went into landfill at a very similar rate to the single use ones, but just with 10x the plastic.