You walk into your local Walmart expecting the usual routine. Grab your items, head to the self-checkout, scan, pay, and leave. Only this time, the self-checkout lanes are gone. Completely removed.

Self-checkout lanes were supposed to revolutionize shopping. They promised faster transactions, lower labor costs, and a ...

You wouldn’t think we’d need a law to protect human interaction from being programmed out of what’s considered an everyday exercise. But when it comes to checkout lines at grocery stores, that’s ...