Whatever happened to the paper bag?

 Remember in the good ole days how you'd go to the grocery store and have your purchase packed in beautiful paper bags? 

Over the past few decades this has disappeared completely from our culture and we're left with the cheap plastic bags that you always have to double bag because they get thinner each year. 

I remember also loving the smell of the paper bag. These things hardly ripped and stacked neatly in your car or trunk.

.....Yeah, it was a slow day for me, so I got to thinking about this.