California Bill Would Require Stores to Have 1 Employee Monitoring 2 Self-Checkouts

The proposed California bill SB-1446 would impose new restrictions on self-checkout for grocery stores and drugstores.

A self-checkout station at a Safeway grocery store in Pleasant Hill, Calif., on May 22, 2024. Keegan Billings/The Epoch Times

A proposed California bill would impose new restrictions on self-checkout for grocery stores and drugstores.

The bill, SB-1446 would require that for every two self-checkout stations, there must be one employee monitoring them, and employees must be relieved of all other duties while monitoring the stations.