Some companies are starting to dial back the once-popular self-checkout option.

<div class="block">Some companies are starting to dial back the once-popular self-checkout option.</div>

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Some Companies Rolling Back Self-Checkouts

Ok. Finally, many companies are starting to dial back the once popular self checkout option. A British supermarket chain called Booth has completely removed them and all but two of its locations here in the States stores like Walmart Costco and we are revising their self checkout strategies. And the machines were first introduced in the 19 eighties but really blew up in the past decade for companies to save money by having customers check out themselves. Well, now the machines are leading to higher merchandise losses. The issues include customers not knowing what fruit or vegetable that they're scanning as well as intentional shoplifting with some customers skipping some scanned items.