Target says 10-item limits made self-checkout twice as fast — and your store is likely next

• Target plans to limit self-checkout to 10 items or fewer at most of its stores beginning Sunday.
• The retailer has been testing the move at about 200 pilot locations in recent months.
• Target says item limits helped make self-checkout twice as fast.

Big baskets will be banished from self-checkout at most Target locations starting Sunday.

The bull's-eye retailer is making the policy change it calls Express Self-Checkout following a test run of limiting self-service lanes to 10 items or fewer at about 200 stores in recent months.