Everyone hates self-checkouts, from customers to shareholders. They're disappearing in U.S. stores.

Self-checkout stations looked like a great way to redundify human clerks and make marginal retail outlets proftable again, but it isn't working out. Dollar General is the latest major chain to report plans to get rid of them.

Dollar General had aggressively expanded self-checkout stations, adding them to more than half of its approximately 19,000 stores. — Read the rest