Retail startup Caper is reinventing the grocery store experience with a shopping cart that automatically checks out the items shoppers place inside them. And grocers are vying to attract shoppers, as a sizable portion of spending from U.S. households is dedicated to food or similar...
The shopping cart has been a part of the grocery store checkout experience for nearly 152 years. It’s first use is attributed to a Midwest grocer, Humpty Dumpty. Its owner wanted a solution that allowed shoppers to move more groceries around the store easily, so...
Pinterest has snagged a round of headline fascination, as various segments of the tech press have been touting the apparently surprising revelation that Pinterest is no longer thinking of itself as a social media platform. With some structural changes underway, Pinterest has thrown down the gauntlet...
What’s in your shopping cart? How about intelligence? For the March Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with Wendy Roberts, CEO of robotics firm Five Elements Robotics, about how those plastic and metal shopping carts are ushering in a “robotic revolution” that increases sales...
January 22, 2019
The shopping cart has been a part of the grocery store checkout experience for nearly 152 years. It’s first use is attributed to a Midwest grocer, Humpty Dumpty. Its owner wanted a solution that allowed shoppers to move more groceries around the store easily, so he invented it. Mass production and design tweaks followed. Today, […]
April 26, 2017
Pinterest has snagged a round of headline fascination, as various segments of the tech press have been touting the apparently surprising revelation that Pinterest is no longer thinking of itself as...
April 02, 2019
Walmart announced Tuesday (April 2) Walmart Voice Order, a new voice ordering capability that enables people to use voice commands to shop for groceries. In a blog post, Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations at Walmart, said the retailer is building platforms with partners including Google to help customers shop via voice. Starting […]
October 01, 2016
Groundbreaking, innovative, trailblazing — these aren’t the type of adjectives you would think of to describe the typical shopping cart that gets pushed around physical stores. In fact, most of...
October 29, 2014
Adobe has upgraded its shopping cart abandonment package to deliver realtime data and the ability to immediately reach out to that shopper. The earlier version had a 24-hour lag, according...
