Self-checkout promised speed and convenience, but it has quietly become one of the easiest places for criminals to steal card data in bulk. As retailers push more shoppers toward unattended terminals, ...

Target is rolling out an accessible self-checkout experience in stores nationwide beginning this holiday season, continuing into early 2026. The system was built with and for people who are blind or ...

Aldi, superstar of international superstores, is fast becoming everyone's favorite German import in the U.S., mainly for how they help consumers save more money on household essentials and even finds ...

Target has initiated several changes at its self-checkout registers, each designed for guests with disabilities, including those who are blind or have low vision. The accessible solutions will roll ...

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 ...

A recent grocery run in Brooklyn left me properly confused. When I approached the registers, little coconut waters in hand, two options presented themselves: I could get in the self-checkout line, in ...

Customers use self-checkout kiosks at Stew Leonard's grocery store in Paramus, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in New York. Self-checkout faces a reckoning of sorts just as retailers are in the midst ...

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 ...

SEEKONK, Mass. (WPRI) — A Massachusetts lawmaker is pushing to limit self-checkout at grocery stores across the state. Sen. Paul Feeney is pushing for the state to take a step back and prioritize ...

In a new Lending Tree survey, 27% of respondents said they had purposely taken an item without scanning at the self-checkout.