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This is the moment a woman is knocked flying into the air after a hapless supermarket worker pushes shopping carts down an escalator. The shopper falls on the floor after being hit by two trolleys as ...

ShopRite is rolling out AI-powered shopping carts at three of its New Jersey locations. The stores are the latest ShopRites to incorporate the cutting-edge Caper Carts that allow easy checkout ...

Researchers found that retrieving and refurbishing abandoned carts creates a surprisingly large carbon footprint — sometimes equivalent to multiple transatlantic flights. Stacey Leasca is an ...

Supermarkets are pushing customers to be more considerate shoppers. An American who moved to the UK has gone viral after sharing their experience with grocery shopping across the pond, which they ...

SAN FRANCISCO and BRADFORD, England, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in North America, and Morrisons, one of the UK's largest ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Shoppers at Checkers supermarkets in South Africa could soon be cruising the aisles with "smart" trolleys that let them know how much money they are spending and include ...

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PHOENIX — Phoenix is taking steps to address the growing problem of abandoned shopping carts throughout the city, with a proposed ordinance that would require ...

From your phone to your sponge, your toothbrush to your trolley handle, invisible armies of bacteria are lurking on the everyday objects you touch the most. Most of these microbes are harmless – some ...

Wegmans is looking to the future. The popular grocery store chain is testing AI-powered smart shopping carts in four of its upstate New York locations in a bid to offer consumers a “smarter, more ...

Fed up with the thousands of abandoned shopping carts dumped on city streets and in its waterways, San Jose is moving ahead with new regulations and a cart retrieval pilot program to solve the ...