Bad news if you’re mooching off of someone else’s Costco membership: The retail giant is cracking down. When you enter Costco, you need to show your membership card to an employee to shop.

“Once deployed, all members must scan their physical or digital membership card before entering.” The new entry system will require all members to use the barcode or QR code associated with ...

Now, customers will need to scan their membership cards before entering ... Additionally, if your membership card does not have a photo, please be prepared to show your valid photo ID.

The company’s newest technology — Scan ... but the system also works through the Kroger app on smartphones. All the shopping trips start by scanning your Kroger membership card, and then ...

Instead, they use computer vision and depth geometry to process and identify the shape and size of each hand they scan before charging a credit card on file. The system, code-named “Orville ...