The following report is by Instacart:
We’re excited to announce the arrival of the newest model of the Caper Cart – Instacart’s smart shopping cart – at the ShopRite of Spotswood in New Jersey, and a planned launch in the coming weeks at Fairway Market located in Kips Bay in Manhattan, NY. The new and enhanced Caper Cart automatically recognizes and rings up groceries, provides tailored shopping recommendations, and makes it easy for customers to check out directly from the Cart.
We’re delighted to work with Instacart to bring this innovative technology to our customers at some of our stores.
Our goal is to offer our customers the best possible shopping experience, and the new, enhanced Caper Cart streamlines the shopping and check out process while offering new opportunities to engage with customers at the point of purchase.
Cheryl Williams, Chief Information Officer at Wakefern Food Corp, the retailer-owned cooperative with banners that include ShopRite and Fairway Market, said
To get started, customers at the ShopRite of Spotswood and the Fairway Market in New York City can grab a Caper Cart at the front end of the store. Powered by AI and computer vision technology, the Caper Cart recognizes and scans items as they are placed in the Cart, allowing customers to easily stay on budget with a running total shown on the screen. To checkout, customers simply scan the barcode displayed on the Cart’s screen at the store’s self-checkout area.
The newest Caper Cart builds on existing deployments at other stores and is slimmer, lighter and holds 65% more than the previous version – and also offers stacked charging, meaning retailers don’t have to charge carts individually or swap out batteries. Caper Cart offers increased personalization, once activated this will allow customers to link their ShopRite loyalty account directly to the screen to apply digital coupons to the Caper Cart technology and make it even easier to save money while shopping.
Customers’ shopping preferences are rapidly evolving, demanding greater convenience and personalization in physical stores. To meet these changing expectations, we’re committed to developing innovative solutions that connect the best of online shopping with in-store technologies, creating a truly unified shopping experience.
We’re thrilled to extend our partnership with Wakefern Food Corp. by bringing our newest Caper Carts to the ShopRite of Spotswood and Fairway Market in New York City. This expansion will elevate the in-store shopping experience, providing customers with a personalized and seamless experience.
David McIntosh, VP and GM of Connected Stores at Instacart, said
ShopRite began piloting Caper Cart technology in 2022, and ShopRite and Fairway Market are also available retailers through Instacart’s e-commerce platform. As part of Connected Stores, Caper Cart is another Instacart Platform technology helping grocers bridge the online and in-store shopping experience. To learn more about Caper Cart and other Connected Stores technologies, visit instacart.com/company/connected-stores.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 10:26
The laziness of Americans never ceases to amaze. Instead of coming to the store with a written shopping list with a budget, laziness and covetous Americans need an AI smart cart to keep track of their grocery list for them; and then the customer cannot even be bothered to wait in line anymore, and instead just pays for the items by swiping a barcode and have the funds drained from their back account; a form of contactless and frictionless payment systems we keep seeing spring up around the world.
InstaCart was one the rise for years, but in 2020 their company went to the moon as so many consumers stayed home and paid for grocery deliveries. Now their contactless payment systems are really taking off.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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more job loss and even more less people
talking to eachother all due to more technologies.
seriously brother it’s going to be exactly like the wall-E movie soon.
this is ridiculous more job loss. people everywhere need to boycott before they all end up homeless and lose everything.
so sad to read this.
Yes, magnolia. I’ve only seen parts of Wall-E and it was a warning like 1984.
The Antichrist system is going to be a dystopia that will make 1984 look like a romance novel.
Soon, Americans will be too lazy to feed themselves they’ll have the iSilverware a small table robot that cuts your food and feeds you bites as you desire.
Don’t give them any ideas, Andrew!