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Consumers have demonstrated they care about the amount of plastic they consume: shoppers in the U.S. and Canada are walking away from purchases in stores over worries about plastic or other unsustainable packaging.

Shops have stayed open even on holidays, and at dusk, dozens of cars line up the streets as a string of flashy signboards beckon shoppers into the flower-adorned stores.

Jack in the Box, the San Diego-based fast food chain offering burgers, chicken and more, announced plans to close 150 to 200 stores.

When more people shopped in physical stores, processing a return was often a matter putting an item back on the rack.

Sometimes I would stop by one of my stores — usually the Silver Lake one, because it’s the closest to where I live.