Self Checkout

Recently Walmart started issuing citations and involving authorities when customers make mistakes or attempt to shoplift items while using their self-checkout lines. The crackdown is due to all the unpaid merchandise that is leaving the store by customers using self-checkout and not paying for their purchase.

Trader Joe's remains committed to its traditional approach of having crew members working at the registers interacting with their customers. In an episode of a Q&A Trader Joe's Podcast with Trader Joe's CEO and President, Bryan Palbaum and Jon Basalone, they were asked a series of true and false questions.