In a pattern that has begun to disappear in some Walmart stores, the bank of self-checkout kiosks that dominated the front end has increasingly become a thing of the past. The machines have been ...

The SW Florida Grocery Shopping Chronicles is a recurring feature discussing local grocery shopping topics. A recent poll ...

Let's be real, when you walked into your local Walmart expecting to breeze through the self-checkout line, you probably didn't anticipate becoming part of a retail revolution. Over the past couple of ...

Grocery stores are no different and the arrival of self-checkout stations, where shoppers scan and bag their own food items, ...

A study tracked purchases at grocery stores during the rollout of self-checkout between 2008 and 2011. Shoppers were significantly more likely to buy stigmatized items—especially condoms and pregnancy ...

For months, KTLA has been tracking the problems with self-checkouts across the country—companies struggling with how to staff the lanes while also securing their products. Now, one Southern California ...

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 ...

Walmart’s recent decision to eliminate self-checkout stations from select locations has sent shockwaves through the retail industry, marking a significant departure from the automation trend that has ...

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 ...