An oddity in all of this is that Wal-Mart has been removing the self-checkouts from here in Canada. The comment I got from a family member who is a contractor

An oddity in all of this is that Wal-Mart has been removing the self-checkouts from here in Canada. The comment I got from a family member who is a contractor for them is that they removed them due to the fact that there was an increase in theft upon their installation. Having been unable to reign it in, they have since been removed and the express check-outs were doubled.