Chapter 94 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting in Section 1 the following definitions:

Business, any retail business or quick service restaurant as defined in this section.

Customer-operated point-of-sale (POS) station, also known as self-scanning checkout or self-checkout (SCOs or assisted checkouts (ACOs) or self-service checkouts, a designated point-of-sale area where customers pay for and bag their own merchandise without interacting with a human cashier.

Point-of-sale system (POS), any computer or electronic system used by a retail establishment such as, but not limited to, Universal Product Code scanners, price lookup codes, or an electronic price lookup system as a means for determining the price of the item being purchased by a consumer.

Quick Service Restaurant, an establishment selling food or beverages where products are served to patrons primarily over a sales counter or a drive-up window sales point, where there is minimal or no direct service to patrons seated at tables, and where employees are paid at least the minimum required hourly wage.

Retail Business, a business that sells goods or products for use or consumption by individual purchasers, including but not limited to grocery stores, pharmacies, liquor stores, cannabis establishments and hardware stores.

And again after Section 184E by adding the following section:-

Section 184E ½

Section 2: Notwithstanding any special or general law to the contrary, any business that operates more than one Customer-operated point-of-sale station at any one time per location shall be required to offer patrons using said Customer-operated point-of-sale station not less than a 25% discount on all goods and services purchased per transaction.