Self-checkout lanes were supposed to revolutionize shopping. They promised faster transactions, lower labor costs, and a ...

Grocery stores are preparing for a new kind of checkout problem: the register saying “no” to everyday foods, and making the line behind it pay the price. It rarely looks dramatic in the moment. A ...

Stephanie Gravalese is a food and beverage writer, photographer, recipe developer, and creator of the Slow Living Kitchen blog. Her writing focuses on food, farming, and craft beer industry topics.

Police are searching for a shopper who threw an epic, fist-pounding tantrum and stole items after becoming aggravated over a New Jersey supermarket’s self-checkout. The incident happened at Acme ...

More shoppers are stealing from self-checkouts, and what they're taking may surprise you. In a new study by Lending Tree, 27% of respondents admitted to stealing something from the self-checkout ...

A growing share of Americans are stealing at self-checkout kiosks — 27% admitted doing so, in a survey from LendingTree. That’s up from 15% just two years ago. Yes, the machines are finicky. But most ...

Self-checkout kiosks may be convenient, but they also provide more opportunities for shoplifting. More than one in four shoppers who have used self-checkouts admit to giving themselves a five-finger ...

A recent grocery run in Brooklyn left me properly confused. When I approached the registers, little coconut waters in hand, two options presented themselves: I could get in the self-checkout line, in ...

“The receipt itself has a seed phrase printed on the bottom, which creates a custodial wallet on Ethereum that holds the digital copy of the receipt,” Butcher explained to me on the fair’s opening day ...