There’s a push on Beacon Hill to limit self-checkout at grocery stores in Massachusetts.
Democratic state Sen. Paul Feeney is sponsoring “An Act Regulating Self-Checkouts in Grocery Establishments.”
“We’ve gotten a lot of momentum behind it,” Feeney told WBZ-TV. “We see this as a common-sense piece of legislation.”
What does the self-checkout bill do?
The bill says, “Grocery stores shall not have more than 8 self-service checkout stations operating at any one time per location.” It would require grocery stores with self-checkout kiosks to have at least one manual checkout station for every two self-checkouts…