Shoppers will find an unusual addition to the traditional decorations at Macy’s, Barneys New York and other major stores this holiday season: a “Customers’ Bill of Rights” that addresses racial profiling.

The one-page document, released on Monday by retailers after meetings with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights advocates, is the latest and most public effort by stores in New York City to respond to accusations of profiling of black shoppers. Three customers have sued in recent months, and many others have informally shared their tales of unpleasant encounters while shopping in the city.

“Profiling is an unacceptable practice and will not be tolerated,” reads the document, to be posted in coming days in stores like Bloomingdale’s, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue. “Employees who violate the company’s prohibition on profiling will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.”

The document, which draws from existing store policies prohibiting racial profiling, amounts to a promise from retailers to abide by those strictures and a recognition of the deep resonance that reports of profiling have had with a large number of minority shoppers.