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Target to reportedly limit self-checkout to 10-items or less in effort to decrease wait times

Cashier Kevin Cruz bags a customers order as Merideth Lembke of Brookfield and her four children line up to pay for their school supplies and groceries at the remodeled Super Target store in Broadview, Friday, July 20, 2018
Cashier Kevin Cruz bags a customers order as Merideth Lembke of Brookfield and her four children line up to pay for their school supplies and groceries at the remodeled Super Target store in Broadview, Friday, July 20, 2018
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Having your items checked out by a cashier is a pretty rare occasion these days, but it soon could become the norm again at one of America's favorite stores.

Reportedly, Target will begin limiting the number of items people can purchase at self-checkout machine to just ten!  If a customer has more items in their basket, they will be redirected to a traditional cashier.


CNN reports this is a part of a "trial" for the store, in which Target hopes to shorten wait times and gain a "better" understanding of "the preferences of its customers."

And though stores with with self-checkout lanes and apps had a loss rate of about 4%, which is double the industry average, Target says that these merchandise losses, otherwise known as shrink, were "not a factor" in testing new self-checkout policies.

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