We looked at many applications of the smart shopping cart for work in our innovation centers. The idea seemed to fade then, after 2010, and none of them succeeded in real practice. Now surprisingly, Amazon, which has been doing automatic checkout without the smart cart, has come up with a cart. Perhaps for enticing bigger buys? It often too allowed a means to market to the shopper. See my many posts over years in the 'Smart Cart', tag below, for a history of the space.
Amazon’s new ‘smart’ shopping cart uses sensors to enable cashierless stores By Maria Deutscher in SiliconAngle
Amazon.com Inc. today pulled back the curtains on its latest retail technology project: a “smart shopping cart” called the Dash Cart that enables store goers to buy groceries without waiting in a checkout line.
Amazon, best known for its e-commerce marketplace, also has a $4 billion-plus brick-and-mortar division. The company is experimenting with cashierless stores that enable customers to walk out with their items and be billed automatically. The Dash Cart is a new evolution of the concept that could help speed up Amazon’s retail expansion, as well advance its plans of becoming a store technology supplier to other retailers.
The Dash Cart (pictured) will first launch in Amazon’s Los Angeles grocery store. It uses a scale, cameras, sensors and computer vision to detect when an item is placed in the cart, as well as if it’s removed later on. When a user is done shopping, they pass through a Dash Cart Lane in the store where their purchase is billed to their Amazon account. .... "
And further:
Did Amazon just put its Go technology in a shopping cart?
by George Anderson in Retailwire
Amazon.com is rolling out a new smart shopping cart — Amazon Dash Cart — that will eliminate the need for customers to stop at registers in order to check out of a store.
Similar in some ways to the Just Walk Out technology used in Amazon’s Go convenience format, Dash Cart is designed for small-to-medium sized grocery trips of up to two bags. It uses computer vision algorithms and sensor fusion to identify items placed by shoppers in the cart. When shoppers are ready to check out of the store, they exit through a marked Dash Cart lane where sensors identify the cart and payment is processed using the credit card they use on the Amazon site....'
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