California threatens businesses with ridiculous self-checkout regulations

California Democrats seem intent on making it clear that the only thing they do efficiently is destroy businesses and innovation.

California is looking to bring down its regulatory might on retail and grocery stores by heavily restricting self-checkout stations. The bill in question would mandate that employees who supervise self-checkout be working for only that reason, meaning that they could not perform any other functions when they are tasked with supervising.

It would also mandate that employees can supervise only two self-checkouts, meaning that if your local Walmart or Target has eight such stations (as mine do), the store would have to have four people working in that station who can do nothing else on the clock other than watch the stations.

This bill would

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