Self-checkout in grocery stores isn’t that new, but one chain–Albertsons–has decided to do away with it.  Even a Kroger store in Texas got rid of the feature.  News/Talk 960’s Timothy Martin has more on the status of self-checkout lanes at Kroger stores in the Roanoke Valley:

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