The initiative was not a success and Walmart has dropped its test of using RFID to stop theft people from stealing at self-checkout, per The Street. Store patrons got to scan their items and then ...

Walmart (WMT) has quietly rolled out a new feature at its stores that is beneficial for paying customers, but bad news for ...

“And we were worried Big Brother was going to be the government,” he concludes. Over the years, Walmart has tried numerous methods to reduce shoplifting, including a brief test of tagging items with ...

Now, before anyone gets carried away, the Fayetteville Walmart store is not a “self-checkout only store ... be used for correlated real-time theft prevention by way of smart readers in ...

Walmart declined to answer questions on its ratio of self-checkout kiosks to traditional ... checkouts make it harder to deter theft. Matt Kelley, a loss-prevention expert at security solutions ...

Walmart employees say working with anti-theft technology at self-checkouts has led to some tense confrontations with customers. If the technology detects a problem — such as an unscanned item ...

While some retailers are prioritizing theft prevention with the deployment of body cameras, Walmart, which has 95 locations in Michigan, is focusing the test on employee safety. A shopper in ...

Here’s why • Major retailers are scaling back or removing self-checkout lanes due to an increase in retail theft. • Target and Walmart have reevaluated self-checkout services, with Target ...

CLEARFIELD — An Altoona woman allegedly involved with a theft ring targeting Walmart stores has been ... items before they walk out through the self-checkout area with their cart and leave ...

Tim Funk was arrested in August 2023 and charged with a misdemeanor count of theft for failing to scan several items at a local Walmart store ... Funk was using the self-checkout at the store and ...