Some Walmart shoppers are grumbling about the retailer's self-checkout lanes. The benefit of self-checkout is in the eye of the consumer. For every shopper who is upset there's no self-checkout lane ...

Walmart is quietly rewriting the rules of checkout, and the rest of big-box retail is being forced to react. By scaling back self-service lanes, tightening who can use them, and experimenting with new ...

Self-checkout (SCO) has evolved from a cost-saving measure to a strategic enabler of modern retail. Driven by consumer demand for speed and convenience, retailers have rapidly adopted SCO solutions to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walmart's quiet experiment in one Missouri store has turned into a national shockwave, showing how fast a retailer can pivot ...

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 ...

Retail giant Target has limited self-checkout to customers with 10 items or less, but denies claims the move is due to theft. Like several other retail stores, the Minneapolis store has been hit with ...

Behavior at the kiosk is shifting in measurable ways, underscoring how sharply food costs are reshaping the shopping ...