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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...