I have some stellar cloth bags that fold into tiny pouches and fit in my purse. They look like larger versions of the plastic Walmart bags, but in vibrant colors. Got them for 1 Euro each at a discount store in Holland.

The store brand bags there are woven from tarp material, and I used them the entire 24 mos we lived over there with no problems at all. I’ve still got them here, though I’m currently using World Wildlife Fund bags I bought at a French grocery store 2 wks before we moved back to the States.

I paid from 0.69 – 1.50 Euro each for these bags ($1-2), and they wear like iron. So much better than here!

Also for the 99 cent bags, they’re cheap enough where you could get twice as many, still spend less (I actually use them for sorting laundry as well), and if you aren’t using the same bag every trip, then they will last longer. but again I think it does depend on the retailer. the Meijer bags appear to be the best built of any of the ones I’ve bought (though the Target bags are pretty)

@Wendy – Which ones were the Green Concept bags? We’ve seen so many this month I think I may explode bags out of my brain.