10″ x 15″ HDPE Plastic Produce Bags
These are the plastic bags I’ve used for five years now for my sales at our farmers market. They’re on the thinner side, but comparable to what you would find in a grocery store’s produce department. While I’m all for reducing single-use plastics, the reality is that the majority of your customers won’t be happy if you hand them a few dozen shishito peppers or a mound of green beans and thank them for their business, and I would prefer to keep the pulp containers I display them in given their cost. These bags get the job done while using only the amount of material necessary.
This is a great all-purpose bag for just about all the produce I sell except for winter squash, which most people don’t want bagged anyway. The bags are long enough to accommodate a bunch of green onions and wide enough for full, leafy greens like kale to fit with room to spare. Do your own research before you purchase though, as a lot of produce bags look alike online but come in a variety of sizes.
I like that this pack comes with four rolls instead of one large super roll. I always keep an extra roll in my market pack-out in case a fellow vendor gets in a bind and needs some help to get through the day.
While the prices on supplies such as these have spiked in the past couple of years, they are still a very small percentage of my operational costs. When I last purchased these in spring 2023, they were right around a penny and a half per bag.