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Fortune
Sasha Rogelberg

Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts, which offer real-time recommendations and 'gamified' shopping, are coming to more U.S. grocery stores

A woman pushes a shopping cart with a screen built into it. (Credit: Tayfun Coskun—Anadolu/Getty Images)

Rickety shopping carts are getting a huge upgrade with the help of artificial intelligence.

Instacart expanded its Caper Cart technology, which calculates the total cost of items placed in the cart and lets shoppers skip check-out lines, trialing the tool in Price Chopper and McKeever’s Market & Eatery grocery stores this week. Since Instacart first acquired Caper Cart for $350 million in 2021, 1,500 retail partners including Kroger and ShopRite have implemented the time-saving tech. Instacart plans to distribute thousands of Caper Carts by the end of the year.

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