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

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 ...

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 ...

Self-checkout machines seemed weird and impersonal when they first showed up at grocery stores. Now most of us scan our own items without thinking twice. That shift took less than twenty years, and it ...

S.237, filed by state Sen. Paul Feeney, D-Foxborough, would limit grocery stores to eight self-service checkout stations. It would also require stores with self-checkout stations to have a minimum of ...