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They could probably help prevent this by selling better reusable cloth bags. Bigger, sturdier, and with quality handles. If handbasket theft wasn't much of an issue when people could get plastic bags they just need to have an option that's at least that useful.

The cloth bags I usually see are too small and shallow. The other issue I have with them is that you have to remember to have them with you. Stores should have them easily available at the entrance and the checkout for people who forget.

I'm glad the stores around me still have plastic bags tho. I reuse them all the time, mostly as either bags (if they are good quality) or trash liners. I'd have to pay for plastic bags if I couldn't reuse the ones I get from the store.

Not that I'm not paying for them now, the cost for those bags is just factored into the food prices I pay. I wonder if anyone has looked at food prices in places where they've banned plastic bags to see if they went down after stores were no longer constantly having to buy all those plastic bags.