Beyond the innovations of favorable pricing and above-average signature label products, both Aldi and Costco also take a singular approach to the grocery store checkout experience. What shopper ...

(CNN) - Walmart, Costco, and other chains are revising their self-checkout strategies after noting higher numbers of intentional shoplifting - or "shrink." Self-service machines were first ...

Costco now seems to be merging the worst elements of self-checkout with “employee-assisted” self-checkout to help crack down on shared memberships and theft, while also enabling lines to move ...

Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down. When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop.

But for friends and relatives of members, there was a well-known hack for scoring Costco’s low prices without paying an annual fee: the self-checkout lanes. Some users found they could borrow a ...

Sam’s Club has already gone all-in on this type of technology, removing traditional checkout lanes at locations like its ...

Costco is currently testing a “Scan and Go” system. It is similar to the program that Sam’s Club uses, enabling customers to scan items with their phones using the Costco app and pay that way, instead ...

Costco has done its part to expedite the checkout process by installing self-checkout lanes. But when the store is ...