You walk into Walmart expecting a quick scan-and-go, but lately the experience feels riskier and slower. Theft, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a grocery store in Dorchester, a “worst case scenario” took place at the self-checkout machines. “A member was intervening when ...

What once looked like a simple convenience has become a pressure point across the grocery store. Self-checkout was designed to speed up small trips and reduce waiting, but a growing mix of scanning ...

Technology has a way of both making life radically more convenient and upsetting organized labor. This has always been the case. A case in point is California’s perpetual war on self-service machines ...

You wouldn’t think we’d need a law to protect human interaction from being programmed out of what’s considered an everyday exercise. But when it comes to checkout lines at grocery stores, that’s ...

Anaheim might become the latest city regulating self-checkout stands on the heels of ordinances being adopted in Costa Mesa and Long Beach.

One California city is set to roll out new self-checkout rules that may impact shoppers and retailers. Costa Mesa, in Orange County, California, is making its first steps to implement new rules ...

Anaheim, Orange County’s largest city, could soon follow in Costa Mesa’s footsteps and mandate staffed self-checkout stations.