An ingenious Idaho man used a homemade barcode-inscribed ring at Walmart’s self-checkout to pay the price of a can of soup for pricey goods, according to authorities. Dylan Rockwell, 32, allegedly ...

Cash registers at Cub grocery stores experienced technical issues Wednesday afternoon requiring cashiers to manually enter item codes instead of scanning items during checkout. The problems impacted ...

Note: This article has been changed and updated to reflect information provided by Walmart officials. Walmart is further innovating the checkout process for shoppers. The retail giant’s self-checkout ...

Searching a product for the barcode – it’s a necessity of self-checkout. But that time-consuming act could be changing for some products purchased from the country’s largest retailer. Walmart is ...

New checkout technology at Walmart and other stores may be making it even more difficult for people to shoplift. Shoppers are now able to scan certain items at the self-checkout counter by simply ...

The landscape of retail is constantly shifting, and few areas reflect this evolution more dramatically than the checkout process. For many years, the self-checkout lane promised a swift, solitary exit ...

In a new Lending Tree survey, 27% of respondents said they had purposely taken an item without scanning at the self-checkout.

Self-checkout—it’s a term that seems pretty self-explanatory. You bring your items to a machine designed for customers to scan and pay for items themselves. One Walmart employee and TikToker Chris ...