Self-checkout promised speed and convenience, but it has quietly become one of the easiest places for criminals to steal card data in bulk. As retailers push more shoppers toward unattended terminals, ...

A study tracked purchases at grocery stores during the rollout of self-checkout between 2008 and 2011. Shoppers were significantly more likely to buy stigmatized items—especially condoms and pregnancy ...

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 ...

You may have a love or hate relationship with the supermarket's self-checkout lanes. On days when I feel particularly impatient or have a small grocery load, I head for the self-checkout lane, hoping ...

Target is rolling out new self-checkout features, geared toward customers who are blind or have low vision. Target announced on Sept. 26 that it has added new, accessible technology to self-checkout ...