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Other Safeway stores in California cities such as San Francisco and Emeryville have also removed their self-checkout kiosks, with an unspecified number of stores now planning to remove theirs.

Safeway has made "operational changes" at select Bay Area stores in response to increasing theft, including removing self-checkout kiosks from a few locations. The supermarket chain didn't specify ...

While innovative measures to prevent theft at Bay Area retailers have been well documented this year, the changes to self-checkout are a more recent development. The Safeway at 1335 Webster St ...

California. Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP Concerns about theft had previously forced Safeway to remove self-checkouts at stores throughout California and the Bay Area. The Fillmore ...

A newly proposed bill in California ... The idea of removing shelf checkout machines to curb theft isn't new. Last month, Walmart said it was scaling back on its self-checkout machines at some ...

SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento Safeway installed additional retail theft protection at self-checkout ... measures are becoming more common across California, as retail crime increases and companies ...

Grocery retailer Safeway revealed earlier this month that it was also removing its self-checkout lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, citing the need to create a safe environment for ...

A newly proposed bill in California ... The idea of removing shelf checkout machines to curb theft isn’t new. Last month, Walmart said it was scaling back on its self-checkout machines at ...

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER Grocery retailer Safeway revealed ... that it was also removing its self-checkout lanes in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, citing ...

Safeway officials said they're removing the kiosks because ... Meanwhile, a California lawmaker is pushing to crack down on self-checkout kiosks, noting that they are essentially a freeway to ...