DMV kiosks coming to some NC grocery stores

The DMV may be coming to a grocery store near you.

The North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles announced it will install 20 kiosks in grocery stores and other settings that are open for long stretches of the day.

Similar kiosks are already in states like California.

Users will be able to renew their driver license and vehicle registration at the kiosks, among other services.

The goal is to alleviate long wait times currently plaguing many North Carolina DMVs.

The first 10 kiosks will come online this fall and the following 10 will be available starting in 2024. The initiative is part of a pilot program.

“If the public responds well to this pilot program, then I plan to make even more kiosks available statewide,” Commissioner Wayne Goodwin said in a statement when the program was initially announced earlier this year.

Kiosks will first go to Wake, Mecklenburg, and Cumberland counties.