Instacart combines AI and people power to check more items off your grocery list

NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images Choosing what you want to eat and prepare for all your daily meals can be challenging enough. What's worse is identifying the ingredients you need and finding those items out of stock. This becomes even more irritating when ordering online and learning the item is sold out. Instacart's latest tech looks to eradicate this issue. Also: Samsung's smart fridges can soon add items to your Instacart order On Thursday, Instacart unveiled its new Store View and Second Store Check advancements. According to the release, these tools help customers gain a more in-depth and accurate understanding of the products on their grocery store shelves by combining Instacart's integration with retail store inventory systems and the millions of weekly orders customers place. Store View The Store View feature uses AI and computer vision to analyze footage -- taken by eligible Instacart Shoppers -- of the store shelves one aisle at a time to identify products that are ... Read full article.