Warehouse club chain Costco has launched a scan-and-go pilot program in an effort to reduce lines, speed up checkout and free up parking spaces. Similar to a system used by Walmart-owned Sam’s Club, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Here’s the thing: If the Costco community banded together to share tips for breezing through checkout, we’d all save so much time. So let’s get into the intel we all need. Get Reader’s ...

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 ...