Self-Scan Turns Customers Into Criminals
Researchers say allowing us to scan and pay using our phones, will turn many of us into criminals.
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Self-Checkouts Get Less Annoying and Bossy
A grocery chain is replacing the voices in its self-checkout machines, to make them less “shouty” and “irritating”.
New Self-Checkout is Good for Couponers, Bad for Scammers
A newly-designed self-checkout machine introduces a new way you can scan your coupons yourself – while thwarting coupon abusers.
Someday We’ll All Be Checking Ourselves Out
Love them or hate them, a new survey predicts that self-checkouts are the wave of grocery stores’ future.
Walmart Self-Checkout Attacker Sentenced for “Register Rage”
A Florida man is sentenced for attacking a fellow shopper who had too many items in the Walmart express lane.
Angry Walmart Shopper Destroys Self-Checkout Machine
Police in Tennessee are called to referee a fight between a man and a Walmart self-checkout machine.
Don’t Buy Extra Items In The Express Lane, Or You Might Be Attacked
A Florida senior citizen is charged with attacking the man in front of him, for having too many items in the self-checkout express lane.
Tech-Savvy Shopper Allegedly Helps Herself to Supermarket Scanner
There’s apparently a new problem with supermarket self-scanners – theft, of the scanners themselves.
Are Self-Checkouts an Endangered Species?
Plenty of grocery stores don’t have loyalty cards. But when Albertsons very publicly eliminated them in its newly-acquired grocery chains earlier this year, it was enough to generate headlines speculating that loyalty programs as a whole were officially on the way out. That being the case, is it time to declare the impending death of self-checkout lanes? Because now, the[Read More…]
Shaw’s Coupon Policy Disappears, But It Totally Hasn’t Changed, No Siree
If you’ve ever come across a cashier or manager who misinterprets or makes up their own rules about coupons, your best defense is a printed copy of your store’s coupon policy. That can clear up any confusion real quick. But now, one grocery chain’s coupon policy is causing more confusion than it’s solving lately – because it’s vanished. And store[Read More…]
