In my hometown, Walmart just did remodel and now there are 30 self checkouts and three regular checkouts. No one is charged extra and they are open all the time. My only complaint is whoever set up the self checkouts was left handed because you have to scan left to right as the bags are on the right hand side.

It may "seem" like that to some of us, but a wildly successful business like WM sure doesn't have a track record of mistakes or misjudgments. I would make a considerable bet that ALL of the variables were put into a matrix and MBA"s covered every possible result: drop in weekly/monthly sales, social media "screaming", people vowing to never step foot in a WM again, and some keep the vow, for 3 months, 6 months, and the initial drop in sales is quickly recovered (like the number of people who vowed to never buy Anheuser Busch again) PLUS a bonus of a billion, maybe more, when those same people give in and buy a card that allows them the quick in and out for about $8 a month. Don't think that all of our outrage, and "vows" was not "baked into the cake" from the beginning of this revenue enhancing plan ! Who would ever have thought it was a "brilliant idea" when they sat around in the board room of Costco, B.J.'s, Sam's club and said, "Let's CHARGE people for the privilege of coming into our store instead of having to beg customers; we can simply tell them it's a "club". Often we look only through out own bank of experiences and circumstances, but most corporations see the "big picture". Guess we'll see soon !

It may "seem" like that to some of us, but a wildly successful business like WM sure doesn't have a track record of mistakes or misjudgments. I would make a considerable bet that ALL of the variables were put into a matrix and MBA"s covered every possible result: drop in weekly/monthly sales, social media "screaming", people vowing to never step foot in a WM again, and some keep the vow, for 3 months, 6 months, and the initial drop in sales is quickly recovered (like the number of people who vowed to never buy Anheuser Busch again) PLUS a bonus of a billion, maybe more, when those same people give in and buy a card that allows them the quick in and out for about $8 a month. Don't think that all of our outrage, and "vows" was not "baked into the cake" from the beginning of this revenue enhancing plan ! Who would ever have thought it was a "brilliant idea" when they sat around in the board room of Costco, B.J.'s, Sam's club and said, "Let's CHARGE people for the privilege of coming into our store instead of having to beg customers; we can simply tell them it's a "club". Often we look only through out own bank of experiences and circumstances, but most corporations see the "big picture". Guess we'll see soon !

Love love love Ace Hardware. Seems no matter what city or state you are in, the employees are THE BEST. Apparently (?) it can't be only excellent employee training, they must have a nation wide policy, even though individually owned, that they do not hire lazy, disinterested, sarcastic, "sour puss" faced, or otherwise sub parr employees ! Is that even possible ? Is it even "allowed" ? LOL !

What I heard was this is for only the area in the country that is having problems with thief. As you know FL will prosecute you if you steal from anywhere unlike places like California that you can still up to $900 and nothing happens so this is what happens when you allow your state to run amok.

Who in their right mind would pay to check out their own products. Don’t believe this thread

Yea ,they call it skip-scan

Thank you. Again someone reads half an article, jumps to conclusions and then throws it out to everyone to cause a stir

FALSE! Do some fact checking. This is untrue.

I agree! I feel like I'm actually doing Walmart a favor since I'm not a paid employee and they opt to have 2 checkers working about every time I shop. I am not going to pay for PLUS and get less! Trust me, I don't mind using self check-out however I really don't like someone about 3" away from me because I look like a criminal.... more like a normal person that they feel comfortable to confront! I'll go elsewhere, was never a fan of Walmart but accepted it when I moved here. The 'crime' doesn't only come from SCO, people are walking out of the store with their carts FULL of merchandise not purchased.....

It's funny, when these stores went to self scan, what did they think was going to happen ? These CEO's must be from Harvard.

Love kroger delivery!

I went to Lowes in Wildwood yesterday afternoon and they did not have any cashier lanes open. Only self checkout.

Spam
 

Spam, and not the kind you can add pineapple to and buy at Walmart

Hard to believe - 5 pages about a nonexistent issue.
 

So it turns out to be fake news, no surprise. The truth of the matter is that it is academic because the future of shopping is already active in Britain where there are no cashiers, no self-checkout, no lineups and certainly no theft. Check out (no pun intended) https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011 the Amazon Go store which is new kind of corner store.