Source: UFCW Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and UFCW Local 328, which represents grocery workers across Rhode Island, released statements celebrating the Rhode Island legislature’s passage of S. 2342/H. 7290, which mandates a staffing ratio of one grocery worker for every three self-checkout stations. This is a major win [...]
By C. Jarrett Dieterle Source: Yahoo! News Self-checkout machines are in the crosshairs. In recent months, numerous states and localities have considered legislation to curtail the use of automated checkout in grocery stores. These bills are often positioned as part of an effort to cut down on retail theft, but it [...]
Source: The Independent onesty is a precious thing, and about as common as a day’s peace and quiet from Donald Trump. So here’s to Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman for admitting that retailers’ obsession with installing self-checkouts is partly to blame for an epidemic of middle-class shoplifting. He told [...]
By Sara Cardine Source: Daily Pilot Interceding on behalf of grocery and retail drugstore workers fed up with too many self-checkout stands and the complications they engender, Costa Mesa officials this week supported the idea of regulating the use and operation of automated kiosks citywide. The issue was brought before [...]
By Beth Treffeisen Source: Boston.com The blinking red light and error message at a grocery store self-checkout can be annoying for shoppers. But for longtime Stop & Shop employee Celine Blaisdell, it’s more than a nuisance — it can be dangerous. “I understand that the self-checkouts are promoted as cost-saving [...]
By Mark Hamstra Source: Supermarket News Albertsons has closed the self-checkout lanes at five supermarkets in Long Beach, Calif., after the city placed restrictions on the service. Last month the city passed an ordinance prohibiting customers from using the self-checkout to purchase age-restricted items such as alcohol and tobacco and [...]
By Molly Burke Source: San Francisco Chronicle For more than a year, California businesses’ concerns about retail theft have taken top billing in the Capitol, spurring more than a dozen new laws. But the grocery and drug store workers who deal with thefts and other crimes every day have their [...]
Source: NBC Bay Area Safeway has made "operational changes" at select Bay Area stores in response to increasing theft, including removing self-checkout kiosks from a few locations. The supermarket chain didn't specify which Bay Area stores had the self-checkout areas removed. "Like other local businesses, we are working on ways [...]
By Ginger Conejero Saab and Ian Cull Source: NBC Bay Area California lawmakers are considering a new bill that could force stores to close self-checkout lanes. Senate Bill 1446 would prohibit grocery stores or retail drug stores from offering self-checkout options unless all of the following conditions are met: Checkouts [...]
By Iman Palm Source: KTLA.com Target is rolling out new changes to its self-checkout lanes that limit how many items customers can purchase. Beginning on March 17, express self-checkout lanes will debut at nearly 2,000 stores nationwide. The new lanes allow customers to purchase 10 items or less, the company [...]