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 ...

Fast Retailing, the parent company of Japanese clothing store Uniqlo, deployed the new self-checkout tech earlier this year. It came to national attention through a recent Wall Street Journal visit to ...

Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country ...

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