The other day I returned a garbage full of bottles to Kroger's. When I was a kid in Detroit my friends and I used to go around gathering pop bottles to take back to the candy store. We got .02 a bottle. Five bottles gave us .10 cents - enough money to buy either a big candy bar or lots of penny candy. Today we get .10 cents a bottle. If you return 5 bottles you get .50. Not enough to buy anything. Hmmmmmmmm.