Self checkout arrives at the grocery store!

Last night I went to my preferred grocery store for my shopping. On the way in I noticed a new thing.  At first I thought they'd replaced all the checkouts, then I saw it was just a few checkouts were brand new....

Dangerous SUPERMARKETs II - Stop thief, get shot

More and more supermarkets get the target of determined thiefs. The first report Dangerous Supermarkets was about France. The II report is about a UK supermarket, a brave shopper wanted to stop the...

Man With Knives in Pants Stabs Himself

Don't run with scissors. Don't steal knives by hiding them in pants."A man who hid hunting knives in his pants to try to steal them from a western Michigan store tripped while fleeing and stabbed himself in the abdomen, police say. The suspect was hospitalized after Monday...

Nova Scotia lifts Sunday shopping ban

"The Nova Scotia government has swung the door to Sunday shopping wide open now that the province's Supreme Court has sided with two grocery chains. In a ruling released Wednesday, Justice Peter Richard said the...

Chinese Consumers Gang Up on their Retailers

"ON AN otherwise quiet Friday afternoon in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, 500 shoppers gather outside a Gome electrical superstore in the downtown district. They arrive en masse at the designated time—June...

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