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Opinion: An Unvarnished Review of the Smart Cart Shopping Experience

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Smart shopping carts are [an easy way for] retailers to dip their toes into [autonomous checkout]. There’s a lower barrier to entry compared to a whole-store autonomous implementation, but smart carts have similar technologies — they still use computer vision and AI and many have weight scales to weigh loose produce.

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Associated Wholesale Grocers Streamlines Member Access to Instacart Delivery and Smart Carts

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We’ve witnessed the tremendous value Instacart brings to many of our local independent grocers, making innovation, growth and deeper customer engagement possible,” said Shelly Moore, Chief Information Officer of AWG in a statement. An Instacart shopper will then pick and deliver the order.

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Investment in BigCommerce, Our Customers and Our Partners

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The implications for our customers, partners, and industry will be profound, and our entire team is thrilled to partner with Goldman Sachs, a world-class firm and global financial services leader. Our dozens of Fortune 1000 customers use the same technology and platform as our SMBs. Investing in Our Customers’ Success.

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Upgraded Amazon Smart Carts are Rolling into Whole Foods

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon has unveiled a new and improved version of its smart shopping cart — called the Dash Cart — and plans to roll out the carts at select Whole Foods Market stores for the first time. which will be the first Whole Foods in the country to have access to the high-tech carts.

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NBCU Exclusive: What One of the World’s Biggest Media Companies Sees Ahead for Retail

Retail TouchPoints

“If you think about the quality of retailers’ first-party data and their ability to understand not only a consumer’s online behavior, but how that consumer also acts in-store, and then close the loop in terms of the actual end point and what the sale looked like — next-level personalization like that wasn’t possible three to five years ago.”

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How a Reactive Omnichannel Strategy can Help you Capitalize on Reactive Buying Trends

Retail TouchPoints

From strawberries and cream sales soaring during Wimbledon to the switch from the hottest June on record to a rainy July encouraging shoppers to quickly swap from sunglasses to umbrellas, there’s no denying that a range of external influences are driving unforeseen peaks of interest in different goods.

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Why Two Cannabis Retailers are High on In-Store Tech and Innovative Design

Retail TouchPoints

While online platforms and communities like Instagram are the “cornerstone” of the brands’ digital footprints, Del Fante explained that each physical location presents a unique opportunity to “express our brand in a way for us to retain customers. This technology is useful in cities and states that don’t allow customers to see the product.”

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