Waitrose unveils AI smart trolleys in major shakeup to way customers do their weekly food shops
Waitrose brought innovative smart cars supported by artificial intelligence following the products when shoppers select them from the shelves.
It is believed that a small -scale attempt in the luxury chain store in the Berkshire town of Berkshire, a United Kingdom Supermarket for the first time uses ‘smart cars’.
The ‘SHOP-E’ system is strengthened with the handlebar type devices made by Israeli software company Shopic, where customers can buy from a charger at the entrance.
After scanning the Waitrose loyalty card, a shopping person can publish one of the futuristic -looking units and then make a normal tram to start the shop.
Customers then scan the barcodes, similar to how to do by some retailers’ self -scanning – before placing the car on the tram.
When the item is in the car, the back cameras confirm the product-and shoppers can pay on the device instead of waiting in a safe.
The device also shows the cost for each product, and the shoppers give a total of working on the large touch screen as you move in the store.
Loose products should be weighed on an internal scale and then this barcode should be scanned. Furnace goods can be selected on the screen of the device and then added.
Waitrose started experimenting with innovative smart cars supported by artificial intelligence
A shopping can publish one of the units after scanning the Waitrose loyalty card
The trial of the new technology takes place at the Waitrose store in Berkshire, BRACKNELL
The system emerged General store This week, after being identified by his senior partner Toby Pickard for retail futures at the Grocery Distribution Institute.
A Waitrose spokesman said: ‘Works similar to our basket, with a larger screen, a larger screen, with a larger screen, placed in the car or excluded from them, and those who work at real -time products and prices to follow purchases.
‘While we continue traditional cases for customers who value interaction with our partners, we are investigating more friction payment options for our customers’.
Waitrose also said that Bracknell Store has a trial of shelf inventory cameras to provide ‘real -time information about which products are not in stock’ and ‘electronic shelf labels to simplify price and adaptation processes’.
Technology is already tested in Mercato stores in Italy, Intermarché stores in France, Shufersal retailers in Israel and Walmart stores in Chile.
Shopic says that on the website, Shop-E’s supermarkets, ‘any standard shopping basket into a smart car, retail media channel and a data collector, says that you can give real-time information to customer behavior.
Technology developed by Shopic exhibits the cost of each item on the way to the tram
The ‘Shop-E’ AI car system is strengthened by handlebar-type devices made by Shopic.
As shoppers progress in the store, the device gives a total working on the screen.
He adds: ‘From the compatibility of the planogram to storing heat maps, from shelf stocking levels to decisions that make shopping, our cars sees and understands everything that happens on your retail floor.’
Devices can also provide data on how much time they spend in each corridor, ‘shelf interactions’ and how they walk in a store.
According to Shopic, stores can get the chance to make money from targeted ads, because the screens will show ‘contextual relevant ads and offers’.
Mr. Pickard said the grocery store Waitrose uses technology to help digitizes the physical store ‘.
The authority added: ‘retailers who adopt the digitalization of the physical store will gain unique information that will enable them to share more accurate and real -time information and data with the suppliers to make more efficiency and profit.’
Waitrose also hopes that devices can reduce theft – a major problem for all retailers, the police in the UK and Wales climbs another record level last month.
Customers scan the barcodes in goods and then walk around the shop while walking around the shop
Futuristic -looking unit made by Shopic Clips by Israel software company
Waitrose’s trial is believed to use a UK supermarket for the first time using ‘smart cars’.
Approximately 530,643 crimes, until 2025 March 2025, 2023-24’te 20 percent from 444.022 percent and the current police registration applications in 2002-03 since the beginning of the highest total of the highest total.
Retail bosses warned that store theft is out of control and that business owners should see immediate results. In the next spring, the ministers promised thousands of officials for neighborhood policing.
Supermarket chain Iceland, at the beginning of this month, if they steal the customers in action, award £ 1, and the enterprise will face a stroke of 20 million pounds every year from the cost of theft, he said.
