The Sheboygan Discount Warehouse stands as a monument to the art of the deal, a sprawling retail wonderland where “full price” is a foreign concept and “just browsing” becomes an all-day expedition.

Despite the ban on polythene bags, they are still being produced, sold, and used across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), laments Seema Babar, a social worker, who makes cloth bags and distributes them free ...