But nonetheless, he said, they would end up with "a bin full of plastic bags" after supermarket deliveries, with each bag often only carrying a few goods.
Balkhy's first design was a bag called "Daddy I want a Birkin, " an ironic nod to Saudi's love of shopping for luxury goods, such as the expensive Hermes Birkin bag.
But as I walked around various gift shops and watched people purchase bag after bag of Disney products, I wondered what the ultimate fate of most of the goods would be.