As customers increasingly bring their own bags to retail outlets following July's introduction of charges for plastic bags, guidelines for personal-bag use are being advocated to prevent their use to aid shoplifting.Earlier this month, a Tokyo-based antishoplifting nonprofit organization created a poster urging customers to use shopping baskets provided by stores and to keep personal bags folded until after purchases are made.It also counseled keeping bags containing products bought at other stores closed. The move followed an alleged shoplifting case on Aug. 10, in which a man was arreste…READ FULL ARTICLE
