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The Future of Grocery Shopping: Sobe's Smart Cart Revolution #GrocerTech #Ai
Feb 9, 2024
The Future of Grocery Shopping: Sobe's Smart Cart Revolution #GrocerTech #Ai
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well not A lot's changed in the grocery
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store over the years especially the
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humble old shopping cart but even that
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now is going high-tech we're getting the
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first look at so's smart cart this is
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high-tech it's AI enabled and it allows
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you to scan and pay for all your
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products right here in the aisle think
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of it as a self checkout on Wheels
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allowing you to skip the line The Smart
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Card a first of its kind in Canada has a
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built-in scanner and computer which
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keeps track of everything you put in it
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let's say I need some walnuts by the way
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now let's do some walnuts on so there's
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a barcode right and what do we just scan
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it right here yeah so you'd scan the
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product barcode and you'd place it
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inside the shopping cart and that's it
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up on the screen here it says walnuts
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walnuts and it gives me the price of the
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walut that's right and as I put new
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items in I get a running tally of the
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price right yeah that's exactly right it
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means Shoppers get a real time tally of
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what their current bill is with tax the
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cart also features a built-in scale for
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produce anything that's a produce item
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what you do is you type in the code that
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you'd see on the on the label there so
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here I type in
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465 uh this gives me the the bell
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peppers here on the screen exactly so
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when I select the bell peppers and I
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throw them inside of the cart there's
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actually a scale inside the cart here so
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this actually weighed that product and
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will show me that it's. 21 kg 92 cents
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and I click add the cart here yeah there
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it is there's the weight right there and
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the price the cart is also equipped with
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cameras eventually it will allow to know
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exactly what you're putting in without
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you having to scan anything and soie
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says other features are on the way for
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the smart cart including the ability to
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upload your shopping list the C could
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also direct you to a particular product
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already available on the screen is a
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realtime flyer showing store deals we're
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giving them shopping recommendations or
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basket recommendations based on what you
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put in there shopping recommendations
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yeah like what so if I basically maybe I
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scan spaghetti uh the cart could tell me
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hey there's a particular spaghetti sauce
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on sale down down the way of course it
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all begs one question is this going to
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cost someone their job at soie actually
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what we're seeing so far is this allows
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our employee to be more on the floor to
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be able to engage with our Customer
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because as part of this pilot we're
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going to train all of our employees
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you're not planning to lay someone off
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because of these cars actually freeing
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up some people to be able to engage with
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our customers and then there's the
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question about Sticky Fingers if I say
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forget to scan something Matthew how do
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you control the possible St with this
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the cart would recognize the change in
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the weight in the cart and would just
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tell you hey we think there might be
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something wrong wrong now with the with
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what you just did so right now if you
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want to test out the uh soie smart cart
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with AI technology you have to come here
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to the company's Oakville Ontario store
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they have 10 of the carts right now for
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customers to use depending on how that
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goes you could see the high-tech carts
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rolled out all over the place Richard
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southern city
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