Calgary Co-Operative Association Ltd.’s executives weren’t all that concerned this spring when the federal government revealed its plan to ban shopping bags and other single-use plastics. The grocery chain — which runs dozens of supermarkets, liquor stores, cannabis shops, and gas bars — had already swapped plastic shopping bags for compostable ones a few years earlier.

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