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More ShopRites adding Instacart’s Caper Carts
The AI-powered smart carts are now available at stores in the Philadelphia area
Supermarket News Staff
June 27, 2024
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Caper Carts turn shopping into an adventure with an interactive screen and AI features that allow customers to scan items as they shop, manage their budget in real-time and check out seamlessly.Instacart
Retailer-owned cooperative Wakefern Food Corp. has now added even more of Instacart’s Caper Carts at Wakefern supermarket banners.
The co-op is adding Caper Carts at four ShopRite stores in the Philadelphia area. In May, Wakefern first launched the carts at a ShopRite in Hoboken, N.J. To date, 11 ShopRite stores have added the smart shopping carts as another option for customers, and Wakefern expects more of its members to adopt the technology over the next year.
Stores installing the carts in June 2024 include locations in Philadelphia and surrounding areas such as the ShopRites of Morrell Plaza, Bridge & Harbison, Brookhaven, and the ShopRite of Drexeline. The carts are also planned for a new ShopRite store expected to open in Mount Kisco, N.Y. later this year.
ShopRite is also an available retailer via Instacart’s ecommerce platform.
Wakefern Food Corp. comprises nearly 50 members who today independently own and operate 365 supermarkets under the ShopRite, The Fresh Grocer, Price Rite Marketplace, Fairway Market, Gourmet Garage and Dearborn Market banners in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia.
