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Reusable bag advertising · NYC

Your ad in thousands of local kitchens.

MarketBag puts local business ads on the reusable bags grocery stores hand out every day. Your ad rides home, lives on the counter, and comes back to the store for months. One new customer pays for the whole thing.

I want to advertiseI own a store
seen by the same household
~30×seen by the same household
bags per placement
500bags per placement
back panel, all in
$599back panel, all in
MARKET BAGYOUR BRAND. THEIR WORLD.
What MarketBag is

Free bags for the store.
Ad space for you.

We print reusable grocery bags and give them to independent stores at no cost. Local businesses buy the panels on the back and sides, and that pays for the whole thing. There is no other revenue and no catch to find.

  1. A local business

    pays for a panel

    From $249. That is the only money in the whole model.

  2. MarketBag

    prints the bags

    500 reusable totes, custom-printed with the store's name on the front.

  3. The grocery store

    pays nothing

    Bags arrive free. The store keeps 100% of anything it makes on them.

Then the shopper

takes the bag home, leaves it on the counter, and brings it back to the store for months. Your ad goes with them every trip.

Choose your path

For grocery stores

Free bags. You keep 100%.

We custom-print reusable bags with your store's name and deliver them free. Sell them or hand them out — every dollar stays with you.

  • Zero cost, delivered to your door
  • You approve every ad before it prints
  • No contracts, no catch
Book a 5-minute visit

For local businesses

Be the ad they can't throw away.

A flyer buys you one look. A bag buys you the same household, about thirty times, over three to six months — until yours is the name they already know.

  • ~30 exposures per household, not one
  • Back panel: full ad + QR code to your promo
  • Every scan counted — monthly report
See your name on the bag
What you are actually buying

Repeated exposure.
Not one impression.

Nobody hires a plumber off one flyer. They call the name they have been looking at all month. Every other local channel sells you one look at a lot of strangers — a bag sells you the same household, over and over, until your name is the familiar one.

One bag · one household

About 30 shopping trips over three to six months. Your name is in that kitchen for every one of them.

Then multiply

500 bags

500 bags go home from checkout — call it 500 local households, each one seeing you about 30 times.

How often the same household sees you

  • Printed flyerOnceBin by the door
  • Postcard mailerOnceBin with the junk mail
  • Instagram adOne scrollThe feed moves on
  • MarketBag panel~30 timesStill on the counter

And it costs less per look

  • Billboard$0.14
  • Instagram ads$0.08
  • Printed flyer$0.05
  • MarketBag back panel$0.02

500 bags × ~30 trips each × 2 sets of eyes per trip ≈ 30,000 exposures. Divide the $599 back panel by that and you get $0.02 each. Change any assumption and the number moves — that is the point. Comparison figures are typical industry ranges, not quotes for your business.

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How to buy a placement

Three steps, about a week of your attention.

No contracts, no ad account to set up, no minimum spend. You pick a panel, approve the artwork, and the bags print.

  1. 01

    $599 back · $249 sides

    Pick a store and a panel

    Check live availability on the map, then choose the back panel or both sides. One flat price per 500 bags — nothing metered, no minimum term.

  2. 02

    Design included

    We design it, you approve it

    Send a logo, a finished ad, or nothing at all — design is included either way. You see the artwork on the bag and sign off before it goes anywhere near a printer.

  3. 03

    2–3 weeks to print

    The bags go out

    About two to three weeks from approval. 500 bags hand out at checkout and stay in kitchens for months. Back panels get a scan report every month.

Reserve a placementSee your ad on the bag first

● First run price — sides $249 instead of $349

First run · 500 bags

The first run,
panel by panel.

Every bag has one back panel and two sides. The first run prints once these are claimed — that is the trigger, not a date. No waitlist theatre: this is the actual board, and every slot on it is open.

Back panelYour brand hereBack panelYour brand hereBack panelYour brand hereBack panelYour brand hereBack panelYour brand hereBack panelYour brand hereSide panelYour brand hereSide panelYour brand here

● All open — 6 back panels · 2 sides · founding sponsors

See the store map →Reserve a placement →

Staten Island, NYC

Who runs this

I bagged the groceries first.

I worked in a grocery store on Staten Island. Every month I watched thousands of bags go out the door, get carried home, and land on a kitchen counter — and every one of them was blank.

Meanwhile the businesses down the block were paying for flyers nobody reads. So I put the two together: the store gets its bags free, the local business gets a spot that rides home and stays there, and I keep the whole thing running on the ad space.

That is the entire business. No app, no membership, no fine print — 500 bags, printed once, carried for months.

MuhannadFounder · MarketBag

Questions people actually ask

Straight answers.

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 if I don't like the design?

Then it does not print. Ad design is included, and you see a mockup of your ad on the bag before we go to press. We revise until you sign off — the run only starts once every panel has been approved by the sponsor and the store.

How do I know anyone sees it?

Start with what you are buying: a bag goes home from checkout and comes back roughly thirty times over three to six months, so the same household passes your name on every trip. That repetition is the product. On top of it, the back panel carries a QR code that opens your promo — a first-visit offer, a booking page, whatever you want people to do. Every scan is counted and you get a monthly report. Side panels are simpler and cheaper, and do not include a QR or a report; the back panel is the one to pick if you need proof.

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.

What does it cost?

One price per 500 bags. Back panel $599 with the QR code and monthly report. Both side panels $349, or $249 while the first run is open. Design is included in both.