Target Going Green with Reusable Bags

Target is going green and it could save customers some money. The giant hometown retailer is now giving financial incentives to shoppers to bring their own reusable bags.

The Minneapolis-based retailer, the fifth largest in the country, has quietly rolled out a program that gives customers money back for bringing in reusable bags.

For every reusable bag that you fill when checking out, Target will take five cents off your purchase. You use five of those bags and that's a 25-cent reduction at the cash register. According to Target statistics, the company has 1.5 billion transactions at its stores annually.

It figures for every reusable bag used, it will save almost three of the plastic ones.

That means nearly four billion less bags will be going out into circulation and potentially polluting the environment.

Target isn't alone in its efforts to go green. Drug store chain CVS recently announced a similar incentive for customers.