Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer uses a self-checkout machine while shopping at Albertsons in Arcadia in July 2023. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...

City officials in Costa Mesa, California, are monitoring developments in Long Beach regarding self-checkout regulations as they consider implementing a similar ordinance, reports the Los Angeles Times ...

LOS ANGELES — Tired of rampant shoplifting scaring away citizens and shoppers, Long Beach is trying to force stores to add staff and reduce dependence on self-checkout. The beachfront city, with a ...

As my luck would have it, I was stuck in the longest line inside the Monterey Park Costco when I visited last week. Shoppers in the self-checkout queue varied from those with carts jam packed with 20 ...