Those of us who are perfectly honest have a GREAT reason to bring them into the store - why should we be FORCED to PAY for other bags when we have perfectly useful ones? (and I can't say for everyone, but I have a large quantity of the reusable ones and most were obtained at no cost over time - store promotions, people looking for donations etc.).storewanderer wrote: ↑March 6th, 2022, 11:19 am
If you are an honest customer who does not plan to engage in theft, you do not need to bring a reusable bag or backpack into a retail store. You can leave it at the door or leave it in your vehicle/pocket and keep it there during the duration of your shopping. I suppose the other option would be that you require the customer to use a cart or basket while in the store and the reusable bag is stored on a little shelf attached to the cart/basket, folded or something, and cannot be taken out of there until checkout.
They can sit in the cart just fine and cause ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES - even be carried around with NO ISSUE WHATSOEVER when getting just a few items and not using a cart/basket!!!
That's why the laws in this country are INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY, not ASSUMED GUILTY until proven innocent as you seem to think - go back to doing it that way.
Start stopping anyone walking out with a bag and no receipt to prove they paid or not going through a checkout with a bag full of stuff and stop annoying those who aren't doing anything wrong and these problems will disappear, instead of being so afraid of some frivolous lawsuit (since if you stop someone who is guilty they have no cause to sue anyway)!