Self-checkout machines are themselves designed to negotiate several trade-offs. Employers want lower costs. But they also ...

Houston ISD is installing self-checkout kiosks at campus libraries in the 2025-26, district budget documents show, to comply with a state law that requires parents to have access to their child's ...

We’ve all been there: You’re ready to buy your items in a supermarket or store and head to the self-checkout machines to complete your purchase on your own, only for the kiosk to cause trouble when ...

For a while, it seemed as though stores like Walmart and Costco were considering eliminating self-checkout due to customers' complaints about malfunctioning machines and incorrect pricing. But it ...

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 ...

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