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

Retail TouchPoints

Instacart and AWG are working closely together to help independent retailers set up online shopping and delivery services, as well as equipping stores with technology solutions like Caper Carts smart shopping carts, which use computer vision and AI to automatically identify items as they are placed in the cart.

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Upgraded Amazon Smart Carts are Rolling into Whole Foods

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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.

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Computer Vision and AI: the new weapon against shoplifters

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At EuroCIS, GK Software will also exhibit an AI-based solution: GK AIR Fraud Detection was developed with the aim of integrating a machine-learning shopping cart check at the Point of Sale. This software establishes the probability of a correct scan process for each shopping cart using a scoring algorithm.

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

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(Image courtesy NBCU) Retailers already are working to offer more personalized in-store shopping experiences, with audio and screen-based content as well as smart shopping carts , interactive displays and digital shelves. “As

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

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Research from BigCommerce conducted in partnership with Klarna revealed that 17% of consumers admitted to abandoning items already in their online shopping cart once a week, and 21% did so even more frequently.

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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

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Stores have gotten wise to this and are attempting to capture the sale and address any issues immediately on the floor before consumers take it to Amazon. Retail associates are looking to find that lost sale, that ‘retail shopping cart abandonment,’ and triage at the register.

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Digital Wallets: What’s Good for the Payments Industry is Good for Retailers…Right?

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These technical complexities can be time-consuming and costly to overcome; however, shopping cart providers like Volusion and Shopify do offer an easier route for adding digital wallet options to checkout pages.