Costco quietly speeds up checkout with two major changes [Yahoo! Finance]
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That follows recent trends where both Walmart and Target have limited many self-checkouts to a maximum amount of items. In some ways, those changes were made to limit theft opportunities and to prevent scanning errors that lead to accidental shoplifting, while it also keeps self-checkout for people with only a few items. That's pretty similar to the "10 items or less" checkouts that used to be common in grocery stores. But just because Costco has backed away from self-checkout, it does not mean the chain has given up on helping you pay for your items more efficiently. It's actually implementing two ways to speed up checkout in its stores, including letting customers scan as they go. One of the challenges facing Costco shoppers is that the chain sells in bulk. Many of its items are large, and in a traditional self-checkout, it can be challenging to manipulate those items to scan the UPC code. Scan and Go technology will fix that, but it does require customer buy-in. "We foun
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