Walmart is scaling back on its self-checkout machines at two stores, as more retail giants are reducing the self-service option at their stores, citing an effort to combat theft. A Walmart in a suburb ...

Old tricks at the self-checkout machine — like trying to pass off a bottle of vintage Bordeaux as a banana— are becoming harder to get away with. Ever since retailers hit on the idea that they could ...

(CNN) - Walmart, Costco, and other chains are revising their self-checkout strategies after noting higher numbers of intentional shoplifting - or "shrink." Self-service machines were first introduced ...

Twenty years after McDonald’s first introduced self-serve soda machines, the days of self-serve refills are now numbered. McDonald’s will phase out its self-serve soda machines by 2032, a move that’s ...

Imagine an invention that is worse at what it does than humans, threatens jobs and increases the potential for crime. You might think it would go nowhere fast. In fact, the supermarket self-checkout ...

Some Californians will recall a time in the dusty past when there was no such thing as self-service at gasoline stations. Motorists pulled up to the pump, a friendly lad in uniform and peaked cap ...