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Revolutionizing Grocery Shopping: The Future of Smart Carts at #Wegmans #GrocerTech #Infosec
Feb 9, 2024
Revolutionizing Grocery Shopping: The Future of Smart Carts at #Wegmans #GrocerTech #Infosec
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of shopping those of you who shop at a
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particular Wegman store in the north
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towns may have noticed some unique
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technology moving through the aisles the
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grocer is testing smart cart devices at
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the Alberta Drive location in Amherst
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and most Buffalo's Michael Woody Wooten
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talked with the CEO of the company
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that's expanding this Tech Michael all
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over the world schmart cartsmart cart
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what I call them okay viewers have
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noticed these things naturally right
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they're white devices that attach to
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your shopping cart and they basically
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allow you to avoid having to go through
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the checkout lines problem is Wegman's
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won't say much just that this is a test
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run and they're not ready to make any
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announcements so we reached out to the
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company which is based in Israel it's
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called shopic and the devices that
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attach to the shopping carts have
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cameras on them they also use artificial
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technology artificial intelligence
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technology basically they're able to
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scan the items and add them to your bill
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just as soon as you put them in your
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cart you don't have to scan anything
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there are no sensors no rfids or
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anything like that just these cameras
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they're apparently very good at making
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sure people don't steal things and at
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the same time they speed up your grocery
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trip helping compete with other options
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like online purchasing and grocery
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delivery retailers understand today that
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they have to match or get as close as
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they can their physical experience to
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their online experience and this is the
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best way to do it today uh without
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disrupting the way the store operates
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but still you know uh allowing Shoppers
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to shop in in the smoother more
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intuitive interactive way so if you look
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right there you can actually see the two
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cameras that are pointed down into the
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shopping cart that's so that they can
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recognize any products that you put in
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also recognize anything that you take
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out so that that's deducted from what
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you owe there is a lot to this story we
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hope you'll join us tonight at 6 when
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we're going to get into exactly how this
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works the pilot program they're doing at
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Wegman's and we also ask an independent
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expert if this is really the future of
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grocery shopping so all that coming up
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tonight at six yeah and a lot of people
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were bummed out when they got rid of the
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app like people loved being able to do
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that so it seems like this is an answer
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of being able to do that but not suffer
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the losses that they were apparently
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suffering we believe that's why they had
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to get rid of it right and all these
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different grocery store companies all
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over the world really are trying
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different types of Technologies and this
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one is so interesting because literally
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you just put the stuff in your shopping
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cart and Bam it does everything else it
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also shows you coupons it has maps of
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the stores I mean there's just so much
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to it so we'll see how it goes wow it's
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really uh moving on 2023 I guess so
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we're ready Michael thank you
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