In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modell’s, Subway (although somehow the ...

Self-checkout machines are themselves designed to negotiate several trade-offs. Employers want lower costs. But they also ...

Checkout-free stores use sensor technology to identify items for purchase. The system has worked mostly in smaller venues. A new form of self-checkout that enables shoppers to pay and retailers to ...

Less than four years after opening its first Chicago-area grocery store in Naperville, Amazon Fresh has redesigned two of its locations in the western suburb. The stores, at 1351 E. Ogden Ave. and ...