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Grocery workers urge guardrails on self‑checkout; retailers warn against prescriptive statewide rules
Summary
House Bill 17 39 would require large grocery stores to staff manual checkouts when self‑checkout is operating, limit self‑checkout to 15 items or fewer, and require dedicated monitoring staff; the committee heard extensive testimony on Feb. 12, 2025.
House Bill 17 39 drew extended public testimony on Feb. 12, 2025, with grocery workers and unions describing unsafe and stressful conditions when one employee must monitor many self‑checkout machines, and retail groups warning that the bill would impose inflexible, prescriptive requirements on diverse store operations.
Committee staff Ben McCarthy summarized the bill: it applies to grocery stores over 15,000 square feet (excluding discount warehouses and membership stores), requires at least one manual checkout whenever self‑checkout is operating, limits self‑checkout to 15 items or fewer with…
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