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

Walmart spent years telling shoppers that scanning their own groceries was the future of retail. Now the company is quietly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Wilson is the senior editor of Supermarket News, covering the latest in supermarket and grocery news. He has been a B2B journalist for over 25 years and has won two Roger F. Boger awards for ...