4/28/2018 0 Comments FINALLY getting closer! This past week has been quite a productive week for our group. On Monday we were able to get some feedback on our solution from multiple members of the faculty at our school. We were given many ideas from this feedback and have gained much from this experience. We learned that it would be hard to sell the bags at a school event as we had previously planned so we decided we would rather sell them at a farmers market. A concern was that the majority of people don’t even know that these bags already exist and a common question was that how are we gonna get the word out. We decided that we would advertise them while we are at the farmers market . We were also given the great idea of making bags that are different sizes in order to accommodate different types of produce. We plan on going through with this idea. But all in all our current solution ,with all the new feedback taken into consideration, is to create a reusable and washable canvas produce bags. We want to make sure that shoppers are saving plastic and money. So, we came up with this idea: We will stand outside the market to ask consumers what they thought about the bag they bought and tell/advertise the bags to people coming into the market. Then, we will record this data and, if necessary, talk to the market about the suggestions to increase customers satisfaction. We’ll be giving a free survey with specific questions to record data. Luke will be in charge of recording our data. Currently the market that we are looking towards implementing this at is at the Ralphs market in the pacific palisades. We think that this solution will tackle a very important problem. When most think of plastic bags they think of takeout bags but no one ever think of the produce bags that we always reach for. No one ever takes those into consideration. But these bags are still plastic and are still hurting the environment but we simply skip over that fact. For some reason we’ve forgotten that these bags are just as harmful. That’s why we feel that this is a really important problem. Not only do we want to raise awareness to this problem while at the farmers market, we want to sell these reusable bags so that the customers can try them out. If the bags do work out we would be saving lots of plastic because though those bags are little, it adds up. If we give these out to at least 75 people, as we hope to do, that means that there our 75 people who instead of using plastic bags are using these bags every time they go to the market. Assuming one person uses around 5 plastic bags each time they go and they go 1 a week that means they use 20 in one month. 75 people doing this means that they use, in total, around 1,500 plastic bags in one month. This means that only 75 people use around 18,000 plastic bags a year. But if they were to use our bags which would last a while and have to replace around 4 times a year at most. With those odds that means that 75 people who have 5 bags who would then replace them, at most, 4 times a year would use only 1,500 reusable bags. This is a 16,500 difference in bags used. This just shows how useful our product would be. It would cut back the plastic usage by quite a lot. Of course these odds aren’t facts or proven exactly, so to get data we will also ask people while we are there approximately how many plastic produce bags they use whenever they go to the market and how many times they go to the farmers market within a month. This would just be to get baseline data to see just how much plastic is being used. We would also give them a survey ,as stated before, to ask the questions about our bags. We hope to hear that the bags are easy to use and work just as well as th plastic bags. But we won't know until we try. Hopefully by the time we write our next blog post we will have at least started to implement our solution. So until then, See ya! Remember to contact us if you have any questions.
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