A new kind of lockdown from Marketplace. I'm Sabrina Banishore in for David Brancaccio.

First, a divided Federal Reserve did indeed cut interest rates yesterday. But what it does at its next meeting in January is anybody's guess, as Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzor reports.

The Fed voted nine to three to cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point.

The central bank cited a softening labor market.

The lower rates are meant to encourage businesses to borrow money and hire more workers.

But Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the Fed's next move is not a foregone conclusion.

We're well positioned to wait and see how the economy evolves from here.

Powell says upcoming government data will factor into the Fed's coming decisions.

That data is laid and in some cases incomplete because of the government shutdown.

Though November jobs and inflation reports won't be issued until later this month.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

27% of people admit to stealing at self-checkout kiosks.

That's according to a survey from Lending Tree.

That is up from 15% just two years ago.

Daniel Ackerman looked into why self-checkout theft

is on the rise. Yes, the machines are finicky, but most Americans say they like self-checkout.

And not just because they can walk through without paying. Matt Schultz is chief consumer

finance analyst with LendingTree.

They like it because it's fast.

They like it because it's convenient.

For respondents who did admit to stealing, the top reason cited is that things are just unaffordable these days.

We're not talking about people going through the checkout counter with a diamond

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