Future of retail: AI-powered shopping cart

Instacart's AI-powered smart cart is rolling out at select grocery stores.

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[Ramp]

A new reason to raise food prices it looks like...

[Coffee]

Homeless people gonna to love those 😂😂

[cloudplays]

Based on this city this is in... that screen will be either stolen or broken within a matter of hours.

[hellobot]

1. You can't fit a child or infant with a carrier in there.
2. We can remaster shopping 🛒 carts but not fix the homeless issue.
3. What if the battery dies.
4. Easier way to collect and sell data(yes I know that's BEEN happening.
5. We already have TOO MANY screens. School, work, bedroom, kitchen, gym, and now this?

[TheChillt]

It's actually pretty cool, it's definitely gone come with higher prices...but if I can pay for all my items on the cart instead of the line...I'm all for it.

[MB-wedx]

This is more to stop theft and reduce staffing. One day the whole store will be ran by one or two people along with AI.

[C_U_R_I_E_L]

You fools! Its for "personalized shopping" so if you already hate the idea of financial "equity" than you will hate having to pay $2 more for every single item than your poorer neighbor; or the poorer neighbor will be extorted for necessities due to financially burdened limitations (transportation, etc). Caoitalism is not designed with YOUR best interest in mind.

[freezingcathedral]

how is this ai?
it's just a website based tablet.

[dodgeguy]

This is nothing more than a new take on an idea created back in the late 80s. A product called VideoCart. Was mainly in the Chicagoland and St. Louis area. Can't recall how many other areas it was in, but not many. I used to work for the company until it started to head for bankruptcy in the 90s. Too expensive to maintain, theft, vandalism, support, maintenance. Was about 20 years ahead of its time. Didn't have the cart scanning and weight, but to me, that is a problem waiting to happen. Where someone with too much time on their hands will figure out a way to game the scan/weight validation and steal more than the cart recognizes was put in. (I have a couple of ideas on how that may work.)

[newassistance]

I came here to complain about this looks like I am not the only one...what a joke letting it ring up your 20.00 snicker bar

[dodgeguy]

Interesting idea, but AI has become a buzzword for companies now. There looks to be a lot more to this product than an interface to a website. I an sure there are some algorithms and interfaces to backend systems to make this look like AI, but really traditional conditional algorithm-based. More like a "SmartCart" of some kind, which there have been a number of iterations like this. I am thinking that their "AI" interpretation would be the scanning portion. It may use some object-recognition logic to validate the barcode scan number to the actual item packaging. To me, a true AI system would be able to do a lot more and things that the store can't "program" for, like all this is right now. Things like price comparisons over time, if there have ever been any recalls for a product, and so on.