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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...