On Tuesday and Wednesday a single store, in Rodgers, Arkansas, tested out a new app for the iPhone.
The app allows customers to scan their items for themselves, and even pay via the phone.
Walmart spends nearly twelve million dollars on cashier wages, every second, in the US alone.
They are hoping that the new app would help them become more cost efficient, and allow for faster checkouts.
Eventually it would be added to apps for other phone platforms.
Recently, the company has been greatly expanding their use of regular self checkout machines, which still require one cashier per two or four registers.
If the app is successful, it could put thousands of cashiers out of jobs, in the name of customer satisfaction.
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