Bag Law

I continue to be discouraged by the total and utter hypocrisy of the Santa Monica bag law. I go to the grocery store, they charge me for bags, and yet they have this ridiculous McDonalds-Monopoly style game for which they give me like 20 little cards and a game board and all this paper nonsense that will basically go straight into the trash. So let me get this straight - Santa Monica charges consumers for bags for "environmental" purposes and yet allows advertisers to create all sorts of wasteful products to help sell their bullshit? What a joke. Especially since I reuse those grocery store bags for garbage and recycle bags. So annoying.