Article: Kmart Rolls Out Self-Serve Cash Registers; Customers Check Out Themselves.

By Cathleen Ferraro, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 8--Besides Christmas trees that tip over in their stands and visiting relatives you don't like much, one of the season's top endurance tests arguably is w-a-i-t-i-n-g in long, exasperating lines.

Kmart's answer to the evergreen frustration? Make the customer do it. That's right, you check yourself out.

That's the philosophy behind the mass merchant's year-long rollout of self-serve cash registers. The latest high-tech machines -- operated by customers instead of clerks -- now dot more than 1,000 Kmart stores nationwide including outlets in Citrus ...

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