Walmart and Dollar General are pulling back on self-checkout at roughly 9,000 locations, a sharp reversal for two chains that once treated automation as the future of the front end. I see that shift ...

Let's be real, when you walked into your local Walmart expecting to breeze through the self-checkout line, you probably ...

Self-checkout was supposed to be the future of fast, frictionless shopping. Instead, it has turned into one of retail’s biggest headaches, with theft spiking just as major chains quietly rip out the ...

More shoppers are stealing from self-checkouts, and what they're taking may surprise you. In a new study by Lending Tree, 27% of respondents admitted to stealing something from the self-checkout ...

DG's push to curb inventory shrink fuels a 107-basis-point gross margin jump in Q3 FY25, making shrink reduction its biggest margin driver.