Rethinking Self-Checkout: City Bills, Staffing Caps, and Retail Experiments Reshape the Checkout Landscape

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A nationwide push limits self-checkout with item caps and staffing rules to curb theft and protect workers, led in New York City by Amanda Farías and spreading to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Long Beach, with Walmart and Costco shifting toward more supervised checkout.

Costco’s new checkout limits will affect stores across the US under new bill
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Costco’s new checkout limits will affect stores across the US under new bill

In an effort to curb theft self-checkout limits and staffing requirements are being imposed across the country.