SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — The head of a company hired to retrieve shopping carts for grocers and retail stores has a message to the San Diego city crews who are destroying them. Please stop. Matthew Dodson ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022. Fayetteville, North Carolina, spent $78,468 collecting carts from May ...

Agentic AI is headed for some smart shopping carts, Instacart said. Instacart is rolling out AI-powered shopping carts at Sprouts over the coming months. Instacart is also adding other AI tools to its ...

Of all the decisions faced during a trip to the grocery store — paper, plastic or reusable bags? self-checkout or human interaction? — one has emerged as the most contentious. Where do you leave your ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose wants to "piggyback" off a partnership with Milpitas and a private company to tackle thousands of abandoned shopping carts. The San Jose City Council voted 10-1, with ...

In 2019, Santa Barbara city workers retrieved 20 shopping carts throughout the city, which increased to 538 in 2020, a reflection of the worsening crisis of homelessness in Santa Barbara County. In ...

Amazon.com Inc. today pulled back the curtains on its latest retail technology project: a “smart shopping cart” called the Dash Cart that enables storegoers to buy groceries without waiting in a ...