Letter: Plastic bag requirement undermines Smith’s portable scanner option

I love my smartphone and I appreciate new ways to streamline grocery shopping (“New portable grocery scanners are rolling out in Utah Smith’s stores,” April 25), but I share concerns recent writers have expressed about displaced store employees and other potential complications.Another big concern for me is: plastic bags? To use the smartphone shopping app, one has to bag one’s purchases in see-through plastic bags? At a time when we know that plastic bags are a scourge o