The answer to this ask far as I see is for the business to have a few small lockers and provide the customer with a key to a locker - the customer puts his bag inside and takes the key and gets his bag out when they leave. I have never seen such a setup.
Quote from: jcs0001 on October 21, 2017, 01:19:23 AMThe answer to this ask far as I see is for the business to have a few small lockers and provide the customer with a key to a locker - the customer puts his bag inside and takes the key and gets his bag out when they leave. I have never seen such a setup.Lockers for customers are common in my neck of the woods. But I have never witnessed their use being enforced for shoulder bags. As we are a bicycle nation, people tend to use the lockers as a convenient place to stash groceries bought prior to entering the store in question.Asking me to part with my man purse is a recipe for having a bad day at work.-Tom
When I lived in a big city without a car, I bought/wore pants I could fit tons of stuff in, so I wouldn't need to carry a bag. Groceries were always last stop. The only bag I ever carried was for lamp parts when I did on-site lamp repair. It was clear see-through and nobody ever asked me to leave it. HahaNot playing devil's advocate, but a coin has two sides!Blame a few bad apples about bag checking. If the clerks ask for the bag to be put behind the counter, the company is avoiding discrimination issues by checking everyone. Shifty looking or not. Understandable. As a former retail worker, people who raise hell about bag checking don't accomplish anything positive. It actually makes the worker's day a lot worse and heightens stress. All asking for a manager does is get the employees yelled at for not "handling the situation". Believe me, having to hand your bag in isn't as bad a feeling as being a retail employee asking honest looking people to hand the bags over. The worst feeling in retail work. When I worked retail, I used to pray under my breath a bag carrying person would just hand it over and I wouldn't have to ask. If the worker asks and you aren't comfortable handing it over, then say have a good day and leave.
Quote from: gerleatherberman on October 21, 2017, 06:12:27 AMWhen I lived in a big city without a car, I bought/wore pants I could fit tons of stuff in, so I wouldn't need to carry a bag. Groceries were always last stop. The only bag I ever carried was for lamp parts when I did on-site lamp repair. It was clear see-through and nobody ever asked me to leave it. HahaNot playing devil's advocate, but a coin has two sides!Blame a few bad apples about bag checking. If the clerks ask for the bag to be put behind the counter, the company is avoiding discrimination issues by checking everyone. Shifty looking or not. Understandable. As a former retail worker, people who raise hell about bag checking don't accomplish anything positive. It actually makes the worker's day a lot worse and heightens stress. All asking for a manager does is get the employees yelled at for not "handling the situation". Believe me, having to hand your bag in isn't as bad a feeling as being a retail employee asking honest looking people to hand the bags over. The worst feeling in retail work. When I worked retail, I used to pray under my breath a bag carrying person would just hand it over and I wouldn't have to ask. If the worker asks and you aren't comfortable handing it over, then say have a good day and leave.That's all understandable, but in support of the OP's point, did your store provide a secured area for customers' bags?I agree with the OP because IF a company demands the right to divest me of my property, THEY assume responsibility for ALL the contents of the bag AND the bag itself.If a shoplifter takes the bag or contents, or a robber comes in and steals the bag along with the till, or there's a fire, or an active shooter, etc...the store has made themselves responsible for it. Then if/when the customer wants to claim the loss, the store will claim ignorance. They'll say, "we don't know if you had a bag or not. We don't know what was in the bag. We don't know the value of the contents", etc. So it's really not worth it to comply with the demand.I've only been 2 places that wanted to hold my bag and one was a university library that had a very organized system for keep and identifying students' bags.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk