An Ohio florist has expanded her business beyond a traditional storefront by launching a floral vending machine at Mercy ...

Self-service checkout theft is surging - and some government officials may be becoming concerned. Several states have rolled out major modifications to self-service scanning for customers, including ...

More than 107,000 Americans died from drug overdose in 2021, highlighting the need for evidence-based interventions. New research from the University of Cincinnati, in partnership with local nonprofit ...

Old tricks at the self-checkout machine — like trying to pass off a bottle of vintage Bordeaux as a banana— are becoming harder to get away with. Ever since retailers hit on the idea that they could ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the ...

Imagine an invention that is worse at what it does than humans, threatens jobs and increases the potential for crime. You might think it would go nowhere fast. In fact, the supermarket self-checkout ...

Technology has a way of both making life radically more convenient and upsetting organized labor. This has always been the case. A case in point is California’s perpetual war on self-service machines ...