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Grocery chain Safeway is removing self-checkout kiosks from several stores ... The move by Safeway comes after one of its locations in Oakland, California, already did away with the self-checkout ...

As more retailers fret over theft in California ... closing self-checkout in New Mexico stores, and Costco beefed up employee surveillance in its self-serve areas. In San Francisco, Safeway ...

A newly proposed bill in California ... The idea of removing shelf checkout machines to curb theft isn’t new. Last month, Walmart said it was scaling back on its self-checkout machines at ...

SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento Safeway installed additional retail theft protection at self-checkout ... measures are becoming more common across California, as retail crime increases and companies ...

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Grocery retailer Safeway revealed ... that it was also removing its self-checkout lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, citing ...

They do not need California's state Senate deciding for them." Steven Greenhut, western region director of R Street Institute, doesn't believe removing self checkout helps stores prevent theft at all.

A bill advancing through the California Legislature would require more cashiers to monitor self-checkout stations, but some business groups say the cost of the increased surveillance is too high.

Safeway officials said they're removing the kiosks because ... Meanwhile, a California lawmaker is pushing to crack down on self-checkout kiosks, noting that they are essentially a freeway to ...

Grocery retailer Safeway revealed earlier this month that it was also removing its self-checkout lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, citing the need to create a safe environment for ...

Safeway has made "operational changes" at select Bay Area stores in response to increasing theft, including removing self-checkout kiosks from a few locations. The supermarket chain didn't specify ...