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It's been a rough year for discount retail stores, and it's not getting any better.

You can safely assume that if you're shopping in Illinois, you're being watched. Most would assume that would be done only by overhead security cameras, but that assumption is now wrong as retail workers will soon be equipped with body cameras if they're not already.

It was supposed to be the wave of the future, but now it's fast becoming a thing of the past. Yet another major Missouri retailer is reportedly axing self-checkout aisles from all of its stores.

If you're a fan of Wayfair and also happen to live in or near Illinois, great news for you. This retailer will finally have a brick and mortar location and it will be exclusively in the Land of Lincoln.

I would make a terrible cashier. How do I know? I've gone through self-checkout so many times and it's almost always been a miserable experience. For people like me, it's great news that a Missouri store is about to remove all of its self-checkout lanes and it appears to be the first of many that will do so.

Already this year, I've had the sad task of sharing a lot of stores that are closing their doors for one reason or another. In this case, it's the opposite. It appears there are at least two new Target stores that will open in Missouri soon.

It's not easy keeping a brick-and-mortar business afloat. Just ask Best Buy who just announced they will be shuttering up to 15 more stores and I can confirm that one location in Missouri has already shut its doors forever.

There's a lot of wheeling and dealing in the retail world already in 2024 and that now includes shoes. Shoe Carnival reportedly just purchased a chain of 28 stores which includes many in Wisconsin and Illinois.

I don't want this to be awkward because I realize that discussing what people earn at their jobs is personal business. However, Walmart just shared some details publicly about the earnings of their store managers in Missouri and it looks like life just got a lot better for them.