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If you’ve shopped at Walmart recently, you may have noticed a few changes. First, many Walmart locations have swapped out their price tags with new, ...

Grocery stores promise speed with self-checkout, but shoppers can experience delays. Learn why self-checkout can waste time ...

Costco is quietly reshaping what it feels like to get through the register, slipping in two structural checkout tweaks ...

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While self-checkout was designed to speed up your shopping experience, certain generational habits can transform a quick scan ...

Right now, the device attached to Walmart carts appears to be a location tracker used for cart management, not a tool for ...

Earlier this year, San Jose politicians announced they were targeting the thousands of abandoned shopping carts clogging creeks and blighting streets. Now the first data on a pilot program aimed at ...

Global e-commerce has crossed the $6-trillion mark and according to Shopify, cross-border commerce is now growing faster than domestic sales in many regions. As more shoppers buy from brands outside ...

Shopping carts are convenient for bulk purchases at supermarkets and other stores, but some shoppers don't want to bother returning them and end up abandoning them far from the store. A study has been ...

TORONTO, Jan. 5, 2026 /CNW/ - A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp (NASDAQ: AZ), a global leader in smart retail technology, announces that its smart carts will be available at select stores of Migros Ticaret ...

Costco is testing a new pre-scan checkout system to reduce customer wait times. Employees scan items in shoppers' carts while they are in line before reaching the register. The new process has ...