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BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself and the Environment

Using scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and controlling for consumer heterogeneity, the authors demonstrate that bringing one’s own bags increases purchases of not only environmentally friendly organic foods but also indulgent foods.