I've Been Ahead of the Green Curve, Now Target and CVS are joining the GREEN Band Wagon!

I've Been Ahead of the Green Curve, Now TARGET and CVS have joined the GREEN Band Wagon!

I've been ahead of the Green Curve, Now Target and CVS have joined the green band wagon.  Remember right before gas prices sky rocked?  It was that fall that I decided to look for a new car.  I had been putting upwards of 30,000 miles on my SUV as a real estate agent and decided my kids were older and it was time for a sedan.  I started looking for something practical with good gas mileage.  I was on a lot and saw a Prius.  I was intrigued, no I can't., well maybe.  I sat inside, took a ride and decided my first instinct was right ....I couldn't.  I needed something bigger and let's face it, with a bit more luxury.  I spend too much time in my car to go without all the bells and whistles.  I was shown a Camry Hybrid.  Took a ride and loved it.  It has an electric and gas engine, GPS, leather, satallite radio, you get the picture.  I was on my way to going GREEN!

That year about February gas prices shot through the roof and everyone was selling  their SUV's.  Hybrids were on back order all over the country.  I couldn't believe I was ahead of the curve.  My cfriends were so impressed at how green I was being.

That same year reusable shopping bags began to show up in stores.  I figured I'd give them a try.  It took me a good month to reset my thinking and remember to actually bring them in to the store.  But darn it I wanted to go green!  Picture me taking my reusable shopping bags out of the trunk of my Hybrid.  How GREEN is that!!

I even bought a set of reusable shopping bags for my girlfriends for Christmas so they could be green too. I wansn't doing this alone.

Now TARGET and CVS have announces that they are giving cash back for using reusable shopping bags.  TARGET will offer $.05 for every reusable shopping bag used.  CVS will pay $1.00 on the 4th visit that you are using your reusable shopping bags.  In a pilot  market TARGET  saw a reduction of 58% of plastic bag use.  



I've Been Ahead the Green Curve, Now Target and CVS have joined the Green Band Wagon! was first published in Discover Cary - A Real Estate Blog by Linda Lohman

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