Walmart Tests a Cashier-Free Store in Arkansas
Testing an arrangement meant both to limit human contact to reduce the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus and to speed up checkout times, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) launched a cashier-free store configuration at their Fayetteville, Arkansas location. The store now features only a lineup of self checkout lanes, with zero traditional cashiers or cash registers.
To ensure shoppers can receive assistance if they have trouble with the self checkout machines, and presumably to maintain Walmart's current standards of frequent sanitation, "self checkout hosts" are stationed nearby. According to company statements, customers can also request the hosts run their groceries through the self checkout process while they wait, effectively using the checkout stations like normal registers.
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