Patent ID: 6840676

Claim:
A plastic shopping bag comprising: a pair of registering front and back walls, said walls being secured together along their side and bottom edges and open across at least a portion of their top edges; said walls, when pulled apart from each other, defining a space into which articles may be placed; at least one of said secured together side edges being gusseted; a plastic strip disposed within said at least one gusset, said strip having a first end and a second end and being of a length not greater than a length of the gusseted side edge; said first end of said strip being heat sealed to the bottom edges of the bag walls and the second end of the strip being adhered in the vicinity of the top edges of the bag walls; a portion of said strip between its first and second ends being removably attached to a remainder of the strip; and promotional material, said promotional material being printed upon at least one of an upper surface and a lower surface of said portion of said strip between its first and second ends that is removably attached to the remainder of the strip.