In the Wild – Scan and Go Checkout
Update May 3, 2025 — Walmart Scan & Go: Does It Really Save Time? — Walmart’s Scan & Go is a promising tool in the quest for faster, less stressful shopping. However, it’s not a cure-all. If you tend to make large, complex, or bulk shopping runs, or if you’re technology-averse, you may hit snags that erase the time savings.
Note — since we are talking Walmart, we can say “Scan and Go”. Krogers used “Scan Bag Go” (reminds me of scumbag). Yes, “Scan & Go” is a registered trademark. The trademark is owned by Walmart Apollo, LLC and is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under Registration Number 4937019. Kroger hasn’t trademarked “Scan Bag Go”.
Other recent links
- Walmart Self-Checkout March 2025 Update — covers mistaken press coverage of Sam’s Club adding Scan and Go to all its store. There is nice article on Walmart Tech blog from December 2024 about it but as usual media jumped at snappy headline.
- Walmart Self Checkout – 2025 Edition – Kiosk Industry
- Walmart Self Checkout – Current Challenges – Retail Systems
Original Article
We stopped by our friendly King Soopers off 120th today for a green matcha tea at Starbucks ($9 showed on mobile app as available) and at the front door were greeted by Scan Bag Go. City Market has installed these first two out by Boulder where we live.
Seemed pretty easy to do. We’re going to work up a grocery list and put it to the test. Vegetables, paper coupons, online coupons and anything else we can throw at it.
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Here is an earlier article on the City Market deployment where we guessed as the design and manufacture as Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. We checked the manufacturer tag on the back and sure enough we were right.