Readers react to our grocery store self-checkout question

The SW Florida Grocery Shopping Chronicles is a recurring feature discussing local grocery shopping topics. A recent poll ...

Grocery Shopping Poll: Self-checkout. Does it benefit you or the store?

Grocery stores are no different and the arrival of self-checkout stations, where shoppers scan and bag their own food items, ...
Naples Daily News on MSN

Self-checkout at the grocery store? Some say 'Yes,' others say 'No'

SW Florida grocery shoppers are sharing opinions about self-checkout at the grocery store. Some like it and some, well, you ...
Yahoo

Self-checkout at grocery stores characterized as creating unsafe workplace, rise in theft

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a grocery store in Dorchester, a “worst case scenario” took place at the self-checkout machines. “A member was intervening when ...
AOL

Surprise: Some grocery stores moving away from self-checkout

Self-checkout lanes were first introduced in grocery stores in the 1980s to bring down labor expenses. But fast-forward a few decades and things are changing to the point where some stores are now ...
Wellbeing Whisper on MSN

Why self-checkout is disappearing in some US stores and what replaced it

In a pattern that has begun to disappear in some Walmart stores, the bank of self-checkout kiosks that dominated the front end has increasingly become a thing of the past. The machines have been ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Mass. lawmaker pushes to limit self-checkout stations in stores

REGISTERS AT SUPERMARKETS ALL ACROSS THE STATE. JENNIFER BENITEZ IS LIVE IN DEDHAM TONIGHT WHERE NOT EVERYONE IS BUYING THAT IDEA. RIGHT, JEN? YEAH. ED AND ERIKA. SOME SHOPPERS SAY THAT THEY LIKE THE ...
Los Angeles Times

Grocery store, pharmacy self-checkout lanes could be regulated in Costa Mesa

Interceding on behalf of grocery and retail drugstore workers fed up with too many self-checkout stands and the complications they engender, Costa Mesa officials this week supported the idea of ...
SlashGear

This State Wants To Crack Down On Self-Checkout Tech In Grocery Stores

Self-checkout has continued to grow in grocery stores across the United States, with companies using the system to create shorter wait times and relieve staff stress. However, Massachusetts ...

Orange County city to require workers at self-checkout lanes

Grocery stores in yet another Southern California city will be required to staff their self-checkout kiosks in a move aimed ...
Progressive Grocer

Costa Mesa Passes Self-Checkout Staffing Law For Grocers, Pharmacies

The Costa Mesa City Council voted Tuesday to approve an ordinance that will require grocery stores and retail pharmacies to ...

Costa Mesa becomes second California city to regulate self-checkout lanes

The ordinance means no more than 15 items at shelf-checkout lanes, other changes. Businesses that violate the law could face penalties of up to $1,000 per day.