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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Friday. It's October 1st. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Starting Friday, Philadelphia businesses will begin phasing

out single-use plastic bags. A six-month grace period will give customers and establishments time

to adjust to the bag ban. enforcement will begin in April of 2022. Wawa says it's ready. With its

skip the bag for good initiative starting at 7 a.m. today, Wawa is offering a thousand free

reusable bags with a purchase

in all 42 Philly stores while supplies last. I got mine already. Nice. It's a red bag. It's very

sure I'll have my Wawa red bag. Yeah, Kathy, my wife is at the Target over here on City Line Avenue

last weekend. She got free Target ones. They were giving away free ones at Target. And listen, so for, I think it was Christmas last weekend, she got free Target ones. They were given away. Free ones at Target.

And listen, so for, I think it was Christmas last year, I got my wife some, like, designer reusable

bag.

This can be a gift you can buy for someone now for the time being.

And then they can sit in your garage in a little neatly organized basket and then you never

take them to the store.

You forget, leave them in the car. Exactly. In the trunk. Like that causes a mess. I'm going to need a, I think we talked about this before. In the trunk. They'll spread out all over. You need like, I need to contain it in something. Yeah. I think we actually had this conversation. I said I need to move my basket into the trunk of my car.

I keep a small bureau in my trunk.

Yeah.

That's what I need.

Yeah. I think we actually had this conversation. I said I need to move my basket into the trunk of my car.

I keep a small bureau in my truck.

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