PennyGem on MSN

Walmart rolls back self‑checkout in key stores as theft crisis triggers dramatic retail U‑turn

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

Walmart is forced to kill self-checkout lanes as automation unravels

Walmart spent years telling shoppers that scanning their own groceries was the future. Now the retailer is quietly ripping ...
Yahoo

Walmart limiting self-checkout, but it's not exclusive to subscribers | Fact check

A March 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows clips of people running from security and scanning the wrong barcodes at Walmart self-checkout lanes. A narrator says the store started ...
Yahoo

Is Walmart's self-checkout changing? Here's what to know

Whether you've got sundries or other essentials to pick up at Walmart, it's possible you may discover that the self-checkout lanes in your local store are closed or open only to Walmart+ members and ...
ABC7

Target to officially launch new self-checkout policy March 17

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Target has officially launched its new self-checkout policy and it's set to start next week. Last year, the retail giant tested the new policy at about 200 stores, restricting ...
ABC7

Customers have soured on self-checkout, according to Drexel University study

PHILADELPHIA -- From theft to scanning errors, retailers are running into headaches with self-checkout after rolling out the technology aggressively over the last decade. Now, research finds another ...
The Daily Dot

‘I don’t get a discount for doing it nor am I a paid employee.’

In a video with over 35,000 views, TikTok user Kevin (@commachaser714) says that he was doing some pre-football game shopping at a grocery store when he was invited to use a self-checkout machine. He ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Walmart, Target are making key self-checkout changes

In parts of the world, public bathrooms come with a charge, but people pay on the honor system. The money charged allows for better upkeep of the facilities and most people don’t mind dropping a small ...
Fast Company

Target self-checkout rules are changing at almost every store this weekend. Here’s how

Target has announced that it will change its self-checkout policies at almost all of its nearly 2,000 stores this weekend. From March 17, Express Self-Checkout lanes at most of its stores will be ...
Forbes

What If Self-Checkout At The Grocery Store Was More Like TSA PreCheck?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a Target executive-turned reporter who covers retail. Busy Self checkout vs busy cashier check out at Target Store ...
CNN

The self-checkout reversal is growing

Dollar General is joining the growing list of retail chains reversing course on self-checkout technology. “We had started to rely too much this year on self-checkout in our stores,” Dollar General CEO ...