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Old 03-21-2024, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Guzzel View Post
Did OP verify before posting? A simple search seems to have debunked this claim.

Walmart, Target new policy not charging extra for self checkout | verifythis.com
But only partly false. Not charging extra for self checkout unless....

If the stores have the option to close some or all self checkouts then it could happen that the only self checkouts left open are those for Walmart+ members. In that case, whether you want to phrase it this way or not, the customers would have had to pay extra to use the self checkouts. Even if other self checkouts were open, if I am in the self checkout line and head to those that are reserved I am going to be told that I am not allowed to use them because I have not paid extra.

So maybe a glass half-full/half-empty situation: not as bad as the headline made it sound but not entirely false either.
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