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Someday We’ll All Be Checking Ourselves Out

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.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 9:28 AM Grocery & Retail News
Walmart Self-Checkout Attacker Sentenced for “Register Rage”

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.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 9:00 AM Grocery & Retail News
Angry Walmart Shopper Destroys Self-Checkout Machine

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.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 9:55 AM Grocery & Retail News
Don’t Buy Extra Items In The Express Lane, Or You Might Be Attacked

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.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 8:27 PM Grocery & Retail News
Tech-Savvy Shopper Allegedly Helps Herself to Supermarket Scanner

Tech-Savvy Shopper Allegedly Helps Herself to Supermarket Scanner

There’s apparently a new problem with supermarket self-scanners – theft, of the scanners themselves.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 10:38 AM Grocery & Retail News
Are Self-Checkouts an Endangered Species?

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…]

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 10:15 AM Grocery & Retail News
Shaw’s Coupon Policy Disappears, But It Totally Hasn’t Changed, No Siree

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…]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:44 AM Coupons In The News
Self-Checkout Scratched: Hy-Vee Ends 15-Year “Experiment”

Self-Checkout Scratched: Hy-Vee Ends 15-Year “Experiment”

Self-checkout stations have always been polarizing. Shoppers either love them, or hate them. They’re considered either a convenience, or an excuse to offer customer “no service”. Various stores either seem to be installing them, or tearing them out. Now you can count Hy-Vee among those that are coming down on the side of doing away with them. The Iowa-based grocery[Read More…]

Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 10:18 AM Grocery & Retail News
How to Scam Another Shopper Into Paying for Your Groceries

How to Scam Another Shopper Into Paying for Your Groceries

You can’t beat this deal – in exchange for scanning and bagging all of your own groceries, you get to take everything home for free! Pity the poor person in line behind you who gets stuck with your bill, though. That’s what was apparently happening to many shoppers, before a southern California grocery chain and a local TV news investigation[Read More…]

Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 10:05 AM Grocery & Retail News
The Five Biggest Myths About What Shoppers Want

The Five Biggest Myths About What Shoppers Want

Whatever happened to customer service? It seems more retailers are asking you to serve yourself – and claiming it’s a convenience. The customer is always right, it’s said, but exactly how many customers are clamoring to scan, bag, price match and otherwise do all the work themselves? While supermarkets and other retailers are eager to show how hip and high-tech[Read More…]

Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 10:11 AM Grocery & Retail News
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