Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it's going through a reckoning

NEW YORK -- The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs.

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