I dunno. Just a thought.

As a 31-year-old man living alone, I buy many daily necessities at convenience stores. But I cannot browse my favorite magazine any more because it is covered in a clear plastic bag.

Checking seven convenience stores around JR Kanda Station near my workplace, four stores wrapped magazines and books with plastic bags or used rubber bands. Ministop Kanda Station East Exit branch, one of the four, began doing so in December.

Its floor space is about 130 square meters. The store is located near a business district, and it is often crowded, with about 300 people buying lunch at the store each day.

A complaint about a large crowd disturbing other shoppers at lunchtime on the release date of a popular comic magazine motivated the measure.

The bookstore owner, 57, said: "We take off the rubber bands at register counters when a customer wishes to check a magazine's contents. We heard customers are pleased that we took the browsing-prevention measure."

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