{"id":41275,"date":"2025-11-06T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:04:08","slug":"costa-mesa-considers-monitoring-self-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/41275\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Mesa considers monitoring self-checkout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">City officials in Costa Mesa, California, are monitoring developments in Long Beach regarding self-checkout regulations as they consider implementing a similar ordinance, <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/socal\/daily-pilot\/news\/story\/2025-11-05\/grocery-store-self-checkout-lanes-could-be-regulated-in-costa-mesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">In August, Long Beach <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/grocery-technology\/albertsons-vons-close-self-checkouts-in-long-beach-calif-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">passed<\/a> an ordinance requiring retailers to staff self-checkout areas with at least one employee for every three self-checkout stations and to limit self-checkout purchases to no more than 15 items. Customers also cannot use self-checkout to purchase age-restricted items such as alcohol and tobacco or items locked to prevent theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">The Safe Stores are Staffed Stores law applies to grocery and pharmacy retailers larger than 15,000 square feet, as well as some big-box stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">About 20 miles southeast of Long Beach, Costa Mesa is considering a similar measure that would affect 14 grocery stores and five drugstores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">When a city official recently audited the stores, he said drugstores already met the proposed staffing requirements for self-checkout. Of the 14 grocery stores offering self-checkout, six had such stations, and only one employee staffed each station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Long Beach announced that stores failing to comply will face fines starting at $100, increasing by $100 per day, up to a maximum of $1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">In response to the new law, Albertsons closed self-checkout at all four of its Vons supermarkets and at one Albertsons store.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supermarketnews.com\/grocery-technology\/afresh-has-a-new-platform-to-manage-fresh-at-dcs\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Afresh has a new platform to manage fresh at DCs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Costa Mesa officials have interviewed grocery store workers and community members. Worker unions support the proposal, saying it would increase oversight of self-checkout areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">However, the California Grocers Association opposes the measure, arguing that it does not prevent theft because employees are prohibited from intervening in such incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">At the last Costa Mesa City Council meeting, members made a motion to draft an ordinance for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials in Costa Mesa, California, are monitoring developments in Long Beach regarding self-checkout regulations as they consider&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-41275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}