Requiring pharmacies and food retail stores to staff self-service checkout areas and impose a 15-item maximum for self-service checkout purchases to help combat retail theft.

This bill would require pharmacies and food retail stores to staff self-service checkout areas with a ratio of one employee for every three self-service checkout kiosks, and to impose a 15-item maximum for self-service checkout purchases. Failure to do so would be punishable by a civil penalty of $100 employee of the pharmacy branch location or food retail store branch location present at the time of the violation of this section. Each day that such violation is not cured, the penalty would increase by an additional $100 employee of the pharmacy branch location or food retail store branch location present at the time of the original violation of this local law, up to a limit of $1,000 per employee per day for each day in which the violation remains uncured. This civil penalty is enforceable by the department of consumer and worker protection, who shall implement rules and regulations as necessary for the implementation and enforcement of this local law and shall provide on the website of the department educational information about this law.