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

In 1986, a company named CheckRobot invented self-checkouts. They claimed to reduce long lines, human interaction, make checkout lanes faster and reduce labor costs. These self-checkouts reduced ...

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 ...

Costco is reshaping one of the most sensitive parts of the warehouse experience: the moment you pay. Self-checkout, once a ...

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 ...

UPDATE: The Self Checkout Bill failed to advance out of committee and as a result is dead for the 2025 legislative session. OLYMPIA, Wash. – A new bill seeks to regulate the use of self-service ...

Do you use the self-checkout at the grocery store? A new bill in Washington could change your shopping habits. House Bill 1739 by Representative Mary Fosse (D-Everett) would create rules for when ...