Instacarts upgraded smart grocery cart now carries 65 percent more food – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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Instacart’s upgraded smart grocery cart now carries 65 percent more food.

The company’s been experimenting with its “Caper Cart” at limited Kroger and other food market locations — which automatically recognizes and rings up items as you put them in the cart — but now new versions are available at a Spotswood, New Jersey ShopRite, and are coming soon to a Fairway Market in NYC.

Instacart’s VP of connected stores David McIntosh tells The Verge the updated carts have “software upgrades such as advanced computer vision AI,” and also support stacked charging.

grocery cart with a tablet build onto it as a person lowers a bag of produce that will be weighed automatically by the cart
Customers can load their Instacart grocery list into Caper Cart, add items into the basket, and then check out right from the cart.
Image: Instacart
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