Target, Dollar General reducing self-checkout lanes 00:52. Walmart is joining the ranks of retailers rethinking self-checkout, with the industry giant in the process of removing the self-service ...

Safeway also added a receipt-scanning gate at self-checkout areas in multiple store locations and even eliminated self-checkout entirely at some stores. Read more. about grocery stores: ...

Safeway has installed receipt-scanning gates at some supermarkets in the San Francisco Bay Area. The gates are meant to deter theft at self-checkout and could become more common in the US.

According to a November 2023 LendingTree survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, 15% of self-checkout users have purposely stolen an item − and 44% of self-checkout thieves plan to do it again.

Is self-checkout checking out? Target customers are claiming — and complaining — that the popular retailer is removing self-checkout stations from stores. However, Target representatives say ...

San Francisco stores have quietly disabled self-checkout recently, indicating a trend in “defensive retailing” that may soon spread across the city. While innovative measures to prevent theft ...

Some Safeway stores in California have installed security gates by self-checkouts that won't open unless shoppers scan their receipts. The gates are theft-deterrent that are already widely used in ...

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Target will now limit self-checkout to customers with 10 items or less. They're not the first retailer to scale back on self-checkout lanes as companies are losing millions of dollars from theft.

Major players in the self-checkout systems market are Diebold Nixdorf Inc., NCR Corporation, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, Fujitsu Limited, ITAB Group, Gilbarco Inc., Pan-Oston Corporation ...