AUGUSTA, Ga. – Ja Ho Market, a convenience store in Augusta, is standing its ground against customers wearing saggy pants, and some in the community are applauding the effort.

WRDW.com reports that a simple handwritten sign on a notebook-size sheet of paper reads, “Pull your pants up before entering. No saggy pants, no loud music, or no service.”

Cashier Laturah Weems told the news source that “Numerous males come in with their underwear showing, and we're just asking for the respect or go to another store,” adding that the sign has received mixed reviews from customers.

"We get comments every time someone comes in," he said. "It's kind of 50/50. The young are more of, ‘Why this up there? You didn't buy my clothes,’ but the elderly are saying thank you."

However, all the customers the news source spoke with said they support the sign and the no baggy pants rule, including 11-year-old Carl Wilkinson. “I think it's a great sign. It's a fair rule,” he said.

Weems said the sign has encouraged at least one customer to pull up his pants. "I had a 9-year-old to come in just yesterday. He stopped and he read the sign, and right when he hit the door, he pulled up his pants, he tightened his belt, came in bought his snacks, juice, walked back out. Didn't pull his pants back down or anything," he said.

And of course, what’s a story about saggy pants without a little sarcasm peppered into the mix. One reader had this to say about the debate: “If I owned a business, I'd serve butt naked people, and deny service to someone with sagging pants or a very short skirt.”