Plastic shopping bag with promotional strip ad

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;
• a plastic strip disposed upon at least one of the front and back walls between the side edges, said strip having a first end and a second end and being of a length not greater than a length of the walls;
• 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;
• 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;
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• at least a portion of said strip between its first and second ends being detachable from the remainder of the strip and removable from the bag walls.