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Plenty of customers at the Jersey City Heights Stop & Shop left the store Wednesday with a new item that may become a part of their grocery shopping routine: a reusable bag. It was the best, and only, option, for those who came in unaware or forgetful of the statewide single-use plastic shopping bag ban that took effect Wednesday. Plastic bags were no longer for sale for 10 cents. All the cashiers could offer customers was a reusable bag for purchase. It was that or juggling a cart’s worth of groceries in one’s arms. Grocery stores and shoppers in Hudson County broadly welcomed the first day o…