RFID tags can store information such as the product name, price, expiration date, and origin. RFID readers can read this information from a distance, without requiring direct contact or line of sight.

At Uniqlo’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, shoppers can checkout simply by placing their goods in gleaming bins of automated stations. Unlike the self-checkout process at many stores, customers of ...

From increasing the number of employees monitoring self-checkout machines to limiting the number of items purchased through self-checkout—these are just a few of the recent measures retailers across ...