Walmart and Dollar General are pulling back on self-checkout at roughly 9,000 locations, a sharp reversal for two chains that once treated automation as the future of the front end. I see that shift ...

Walmart, one of America’s biggest retailers with more than 4,600 stores and over $568 billion in sales, is quietly pulling ...

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 ...

More shoppers are stealing from self-checkouts, and what they're taking may surprise you. In a new study by Lending Tree, 27% of respondents admitted to stealing something from the self-checkout ...

Self-checkouts may save time at the store, but a growing number of shoppers admit they’ve also used it to steal. Among Americans who’ve used self-checkout, 27% say they’ve intentionally taken an item ...

Self-checkout lanes may speed up shopping trips, but a growing share of customers admit they’ve also used them to steal. A new LendingTree survey found that 27 percent of Americans who’ve used ...