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RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. - A popular grocery store chain in the Inland Empire has updated its bag policy in an effort to crack down on retail theft.

What we know:

Customers at the Grocery Outlet store in Hemet, located about two miles east of Los Angeles , will no longer be allowed to carry their own reusable shopping bags while browsing the store. Instead, shoppers will be required to use hand baskets or carts.

Customers will be stopped at the entrance and must hand over their shopping bags and any personal bags bigger than a small handbag. They will be stored at the front counter.

Visitors are allowed to take their wallets, phones, and other essentials from bags before handing them over.

What they're saying:

"While this has always been posted on our front door,

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