The San Jose City Councilmember Domingo Candelas, District 8, listens to a speaker during a council meeting at San Jose City Hall in downtown in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)
“I represent a lot of seniors, and they ultimately feel like shopping is no longer an easy task.”
— San Jose City Council Member Domingo Candelas, who along with Council Member David Cohen co-authored a memo calling for the city to explore making San Jose the first Bay Area city to regulate self-checkout kiosks at grocery stores and pharmacies with staffing requirements to provide assistance to shoppers using the machines.