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, ...

Self-checkout machines increasingly overwhelm retail from groceries to airports with the promise of speed and lower labor costs. A new screen request for tips on machine-only transactions, however, ...

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 ...

Self-checkout lanes may speed up shopping trips, but a growing share of customers admit they’ve also used them to steal. A new LendingTree survey found that 27 percent of Americans who’ve used ...

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.