Just another way to eliminate jobs snd make the customers do the work.

I can't wait to pay a quarter and bring this cart home with me

i thought it was going to be a cart that followed you

notice that he never gave a yes or no, as to whether this will cost someone's job.

The carts in my local supermarket doesnt even have any properly functioning wheels...

Didn’t realize that I worked as a cashier when I grocery shopped

Just wait until someone spills their Starbucks on that.

Imagine sitting in the cart and it only worthies you as 2 dollars

Finally, an easier way to sneak candy into my mom’s cart

“Freeing up some people to engage with customers” How nicely said wow

2019: Smart Cart 2029: Smart Mall ( once you get in, they already know what you're looking for)

Does that mean the cost of the food will go down because I have to do their work?

People won’t have any jobs left at this rate

I don’t care what they got. Lowest prices wins my heart

Man, as a cashier at sobeys I hope I don’t lose my job to this.

It could be more useful if the added indoor GPS to guide you to the item you're looking for.

the chinese are laughing at this "innovation"

But if u have a kid that’s a toddler we’re are they going to sit and what about a purse😒

Sounds like a dumb way to let people know they are overspending their budget on useless items. I bet they will lose money operating this way.

Sobeys is so overpriced and considerably understaffed. I detest this grocery store!

In the Netherlands we already have that for a long time, but simplified, you can just grab a self scanner at the entrance of the shop (you can also choose to do it just the old way), that’s not attached to the shopping cart, and you then scan your own products, and at the end, you go to the special cash deck for the “self scanners”, and they scan your QR code or so on your self scanner and then they can scan your products in one scan...

I like the humble, old shopping cart.

I still prefer human being.

“I need an override on cart 9”

Imagine when homeless people get a hold of this

A real smart cart will actually follow the customer in the store.

We are actually in an era where people are losing jobs bcz of AI.

Where do the little babies sit

The real test will be how long will it last in the shopping cart corral

it will still have wobbly wheels i bet. plus, no more leaving your cart to get an item.

In Ontario, most stores still have ancient cash registers, a very old system. How about we start there?

Okay so...for people that take their kids grocery shopping....where do we put them? Where do we put our purse? 🤔

Anything to get rid of a job

Won't this cost someone their job? *Nope. Actually they will all be promoted... to customer!*

Amazon: take an item off the shelf, funds out of your bank account

That card reader is going to get ripped off all the time.

What happens when they are left outside when it rains when you put the food in your car? Lol

I wonder if the cart wants 15 dollars an hour?

In the UK, we have something like this, but it works better than this idea. You carry a scanner with you and you can scan your items as you go, and then all you have to do is put it back and scan your card when you’re done. And the produce weighing machines have barcodes you can also scan. Eliminates the idea of an unsanitary cart or carts having to be cleaned, a lot cheaper, and it doesn’t cost anyone their job because there are actually staff assigned to help you pay when you’re finished. This is basically a more expensive version of it and seems really pointless tbh.

It will cost people their jobs.

They've had these devices in the UK for about 5 years now. Next

Then you get to the front of the store and wait on a long line to bag your own groceries 🤣

In the Netherlands you've already got something like this. Called self-scan. It's just a hand-held machine so you don't have to walk with such a huge shopping card. And when you're finished shopping? You scan some barcode and pay by card.

the same issue with self check out, a store near me removed them because people were putting expensive produce (like in that case organic cherries) in as bananas (which are dirt cheap) 5lb bananasa is only about $2 where as 5lb organic cherries are about $25 The weight thing doesn’t work

Ooh good idea I can’t wait when people will steal the cart itself. Iam a loss prevention guy and I wish this guys knew how bad people behave in the stores

You're doing their job and you still pay just as much if not more! Who is paying for all this?!

Can’t wait for my shopping cart to break down and have to wait for assistance that takes at least 30 mins

$7.99 for walnuts? No wonder they can afford those carts

Assuming they have enough security features on these, and regularly clean them, I could see this concept working out very well.

Bubbles will make some serious cash fixing these up.

So if you cut staff jobs does that mean the cost of food goes down🥴

I’m taking this cart home and you aint stopping me.

I will take time off work and bring back all the carts from 6 blocks away and return them for a handsome fee to the grocery store time again. I would like to see how they hold up to -40 AB weather

"Are you going to lay off some employees", Answer "This is freeing up some people to engage with customers". Way to dodge a question, but yes this will eventually lay off the majority of their cashiers.

Don't know about America but here in England trollys (or carts) get robbed and pushed down the road with kids and their mates in, so your gonna have to make some smart way to keep these from being the new high tech go kart for us down in England.

10 years from now i dont think Cashiers will even exist in these big companies. I always use self-checkout, its so quick and easy. These carts are literally portable checkout stations, that guy was lieing through his teeth if he thinks this wont cause lay-offs.

Theres already a self checkout?.. tf is this

What if you change your mind on an item, and don't want it ?

Meanwhile in Kenya they have a main cashier that is casually sitting down as she scans your items and then she has 3 helpers behind her to bag your stuff and one person to put your stuff in the car .... all for free !!

This is kind of neat! Um for some reason i like this idea more that that other idea when they replaced all the old checkout lines with computers🤔. I just like the fact its actually stuck right on the cart now lol. Ohh, i made myself alittle sad now by mentioning the those old checkout lines😢. When i was little i always thought it was so neat!, the conveyor belt and all those buttons.

No because people needs jobs. 🤦‍♀️

So. Do I get paid for doing someone else's job? I doubt no one is loosing their job or hrs because of this.

I thought of this a few years ago but not quite as advanced and high tech. With prices going up and up almost between every week I’m sure it has more shoppers than myself going for groceries with a budget. I’d be happy with a cart that simply scanned what I put into it to know my exact total with taxes and all included before heading to the till. This way instead of skipping wants on the shelves for needs, I could complete my shopping list and know if I’ve gone over, or if I have that little extra at the end to go back and get that expensive pepperoni I thought I would’t have enough for lol.

If Nothing ELSE. I feel like carts should have aisle trackers for items we are searching for @each particular store( or maybe create an app for this) That way cashiers can keep their jobs, and we consumers don't have to annoyingly search for items...we'd have a tracker for the foods we want like we track uber/instacart etc.....🤔

People getting so lazy you can’t even go though self checkout Jesus are we even gonna use our legs in the future ahahahah

This was my idea years ago. Sobeys stole my idea.

We already have this in the UK. Its called 'scan and shop'. You collect a handheld wireless scanner when you go in (if you want to), then you scan the barcodes and pack the items. You then go and pay at a self checkout.

They have like little handheld versions of those already in the uk. Only in some stores tho

Where my kid gonna sit 🤔

People will loose jobs

It's been more than 4 years since I last used a shopping cart. Two good sized reusable shopping bags and I can carry enough groceries for a week.

The scale has me worried since in Australia the scales in the self-checkouts are constantly going “unexpected item in bagging area”

"Sticky fingers" - Haha, notice the front facing camera?

THE ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER

If you're a cashier you better fight this. That is quite literally your job vanishing.

Cart: Unexpected item in the cart. Please wait for assistance. Me: F**k

When the scale says you’ve added something but you haven’t and then you have to stand and wait for assistance from the minuscule workforce left...

Not very convenient for people with children. Never going to happen.

Smart but also bad for low income areas where this will just get ripped off, ruined, broken, or whatever else.

change is the ultimate way to survive in this world.

wow even the jobs will be gone not just the line up. They train until the AI can be trusted then bye bye employee we only need the tech.

Ok the computer is cool but the actual pay at your cart is not ok that kind takes people’s jobs

Almost 3 years later, only 1 Sobeys at Glen Abby in Oakville has this neat technology.

Are we going to get paid while doing this ? Will this be considered on the clock ?

And there go the cashier jobs!!

Won't ever use this and will not shop at a store that does use these.

Great just what we needed! Now we need the products to walk to the cart!

I don't think this cart would work at my nearby Cox Cash Saver. Not just because they're a budget store. But because people take the carts home with them. Literally we're constantly borrowing them because a lot of folks don't have any cars. It's awesome. Every few days this pretty big pickup comes along & loads them into the back of it. You just leave in a spot they can easily see it like by the dumpsters or on grass. They also have a number they ask you to call if there's one in a really unusual spot. Normally though I just use my easy wheels cart because it's easier on me. But I've used random sitting around carts to take stuff to my storage unit just up the street.

Cool idea but it will take ppls jobs away and that isn't cool

I like it

this is so nice especially bc I have social anxiety and hate talking to ppl 😭

A lot of people have trouble with self check out cause of the scale ......”please remove the unscanned item. Remembered scan your item item before placing it in the bagging area”

This is the future of retail. Nice!

I hate self checkout ! Feel like there making me do there job

How much does the high tech cart cost & how will that impact the real cost of our groceries? New shelf tags apparently cost close to a million dollars. Those are are already showing up in some stores now. Get ready to pay more at the grocery store.

Ok until a computer malfunction and someone steals the credit card info you payed with

even if it does take cashier jobs away think of how many new positions it'll take to build and maintain these. worth it

This is actually good elimating cash and people won’t get robbed so often

and here goes supermarket cashiers

Is this gonna cost someone their job? Zero employees in the background 🤦🏻‍♂️