In the wake of a plastic bag ban, shoppers at one supermarket are avoiding purchasing reusable bags by stealing supermarket baskets, shop staff claim.
After the US state of New Jersey put the ban in place three months ago, employees at the Aberdeen ShopRite noticed the store’s handheld plastic shopping baskets were vanishing.
Brazen shoppers who didn’t bring their own bags and didn’t want to buy 33-cent reusable bags were reportedly leaving the store with their groceries stuffed in the shopping baskets.
