Bill would put limits on self-checkout at grocery stores

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…

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