{"id":166861,"date":"2026-03-18T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166861\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:24:15","slug":"15-items-or-less-nyc-weighs-self-checkout-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166861\/","title":{"rendered":"15 items or less: NYC weighs self-checkout changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

CITY HALL, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 The New York City council is considering a bill that would change self-checkout at grocery stores and pharmacies.<\/p>\n

It would require stores with self-checkout to ring up no more than 15 items, and require plenty of employees to be on hand to help customers who run into issues with the machines.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Farias has proposed the regulation<\/a>, which would ensure any store with self-checkout kiosks has one employee manning every three kiosks available\u2013 to preserve retail jobs and help customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just to help address some of the real problems we\u2019re seeing in our communities,\u201d Farias said.<\/p>\n

She also believes this will help curb retail theft.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most common sense part of this is more workers on the floor means more eyes, which is a deterrent for people many thinking about theft,\u201d Farias said.<\/p>\n

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As for concerns about the increased cost of labor driving up the costs of necessary goods\u2013<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen is the complete opposite of that,\u201d the Councilmember contends. \u201cLess workers means more retail theft, which increases the price of commodities people are buying\u2026 we\u2019re seeing this with Target rolling back self-checkout kiosks, and we\u2019re seeing this in other states where this is being implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n

This proposal to regulate self-checkout still has to go through the full city council process.<\/p>\n

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