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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 ...

While innovative measures to prevent theft at Bay Area retailers have been well documented this year, the changes to self-checkout are a more recent development. The Safeway at 1335 Webster St ...

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 ...

Retailers in crime-riddled San Francisco are abandoning their self-checkout lanes in a “defensive retailing” move to counter surging thefts in the city. A Safeway supermarket in San Francisco ...

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 ...

Walmart is joining the ranks of retailers rethinking self-checkout, with the industry giant in the process of removing ... which Safeway has done at multiple locations in California, in addition ...

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 ...

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 some ...