Printed Christmas bags for Los Angeles, covered in holiday art from top to bottom.

A San Diego market's bag, and what it means for an LA shop

The bag at the top of this page belongs to Vinh Hung Supermarket, 10550 Camino Ruiz in the Mira Mesa part of San Diego. It's the one real customer print on this site, and they gave us the okay to show all of it. They skipped the small corner logo idea. They asked for a whole Christmas scene, and their name, street address and phone number sit in the middle of it.

Now picture that in Los Angeles. December here is tamale month. Families put in big orders at the corner market, the panadería and the taquería, and those orders go home in bags. Office parties downtown order trays. Bakeries sell cookie boxes by the dozen. Every one of those bags walks into a house full of relatives.

A blank brown bag says nothing. A bag with your name on a red bow says where the food came from, and people ask. If you run a small grocer or deli, our page on logo bags for LA corner markets goes deeper on how markets use them the rest of the year.

How Christmas colors behave on brown kraft

Your design looks bright on a phone because the screen lights it from behind. Paper can only bounce light back, and our paper is brown. So the bag is never a copy of your screen. It's your art sitting on kraft.

Here is what the real order taught us. Deep navy and pale gold both come out a step softer, so give them more weight than you think. Reds lean warm. Greens lift. Fine print holds up: the store address on that bag is small and you can still read it from arm's length. And you get room to work, because we print full color edge to edge, up to 12 × 14 in on the front.

LA's holiday season starts at Union Station

Los Angeles Union Station holds its 11th annual tree lighting on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Ticket Concourse. It's free with an RSVP, Charles Phoenix hosts, and the decorations stay up through Dec. 27, 2026.

From that night on, LA eats out and orders in. Holiday lunches, team parties, potlucks, family pickups on Christmas Eve. The weeks between the tree lighting and Christmas are when your bags get seen the most.

Source: NBC Los Angeles, story on the Union Station tree lighting, published Nov. 9, 2026. Check the station's own listing for any changes.

What to order, and when to send your art

Boxes usually arrive 3 to 4 days after they ship, and shipping is free. The part you control is the art. Get your Christmas design final early in December so it isn't the thing holding up your order.

First time? Get the Kraft Discovery Box: 50 bags printed with your design plus 50 food tamper-evident stickers to seal each order. Busy kitchens skip ahead to the box, 150 bags for $85 on Subscribe and Save, or the bundle with 300 bags for $152.

Each bag is 110 GSM kraft, 12″ wide, 7″ deep with 3.5″ gussets and 14″ tall, and it holds 22 lb. A dozen tamales and a quart of champurrado fit fine. Every LA neighborhood we write about is on the home page for printed bags in Los Angeles.