Grocery chain Safeway is removing self-checkout kiosks from several stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, citing retail theft as a growing problem.

The move by Safeway comes after one of its locations in Oakland, California, already did away with the self-checkout machines, replacing them with a display of soda cans. Other Safeway stores in California cities such as San Francisco and Emeryville have also removed their self-checkout kiosks, with an unspecified number of stores now planning to remove theirs.