Willie Kennedy used a self-serve checkout lane at a grocery store about two years ago but found them annoying. "I like talking to check-out people better, so I can yak my way to the other side of the ...

You walk into your local Walmart expecting the usual routine. Grab your items, head to the self-checkout, scan, pay, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walmart's quiet experiment in one Missouri store has turned into a national shockwave, showing how fast a retailer can pivot ...

Woolworths revealed to Yahoo Lifestyle that self-serve checkouts have been rolled out to 98 per cent of their supermarkets.