For grocery stores
Free bags.
You keep 100%.
We custom-print 500 reusable bags with your store’s name and deliver them to your door at no cost. Sell them or give them away — every dollar stays with you.
The part owners ask about first
You approve every ad before it prints.
Every sponsor is shown to you first. If you do not want a competitor, a category, or one particular business on your bags, say so and it does not go on. Nothing reaches the printer without your yes — in writing, every run.
- → You see the artwork
- → You can veto any sponsor
- → No category you compete in
The whole arrangement.
There is no long version of this. Four points, and none of them cost you anything.
- It costs you nothing
- We print and deliver 500 custom bags. No setup fee, no per-bag cost, no invoice at the end. Local businesses pay for the ad space, and that covers the bags.
- You keep 100%
- Sell them at checkout or hand them out — whatever you charge is yours. We take no cut of the bags and no cut of your register.
- Your name is on the front
- The front panel is printed with your store's name alongside the MarketBag mark. Sponsors only ever get the back and the sides.
- No contract
- Nothing to sign that locks you in. If you do not want another run, there is not another run.
What owners ask.
What is MarketBag?
We print reusable grocery bags and give them to independent grocery stores for free. Local businesses buy the ad panels on the back and sides, and that pays for the bags. The store keeps 100% of anything it makes on them, shoppers get a bag that lasts months, and the advertiser rides home in it.
Why is it free for stores?
Local businesses pay for the ad panels, and that covers printing and delivery. The store gives us the checkout counter and its name on the front; it never sees an invoice and keeps 100% of anything it charges for the bags.
Who decides what goes on the bag?
The store does, before anything prints. Every sponsor is shown to the owner first, and any business, category or competitor they do not want is left off. Sponsors then approve their own artwork. Nothing reaches the printer without both saying yes.
What happens after 500 bags?
The bags keep circulating — a reusable bag lasts months, not one trip. When the run is handed out, the next run opens for the same store, and current sponsors get first refusal on their panel before it is offered to anyone else.
How long until it launches?
We are pre-launch. We are in conversation with independent grocers across several Staten Island neighbourhoods, and the first run prints once its panels are claimed and a store is confirmed — then design approval, print and delivery take about two to three weeks. Founding sponsors choose the neighbourhood. Nothing is charged until a store is confirmed.
Five minutes, in person.
We come to the store, show you a sample bag, and answer whatever you want to ask. If it is not for you, that is the end of it — no follow-up calls.