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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.

Once heralded as the future of speedy shopping, the self-checkout lane is facing an unexpected retreat. In 2025, a growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...