Instacart and Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announced an expanded partnership to offer e-commerce and same-day delivery solutions, including Caper Carts, Instacart's AI-powered smart carts, to member retailers. With more than 800 AWG member retailer locations currently using Instacart, this extended collaboration simplifies access for an additional 2,300 member retailer locations to join Instacart's technology suite. Instacart and AWG are working closely together to help retailers set up an online shopping and delivery service to meet their customers' needs.

Once the grocer is live on the Instacart App, customers can visit the Instacart website or download the mobile app, enter their city, select their store, and start adding items to their Instacart grocery cart. An Instacart shopper will pick and deliver the order within the customer's chosen time frame?whether on the same day or scheduled up to two weeks in advance. In addition to offering same-day delivery, Instacart also equips retailers with in-store technology solutions like Caper Carts, which use computer vision and AI to automatically identify items as they are placed in the cart.

AWG members will deploy these smart carts to transform the traditional checkout experience, allowing customers to bag items as they shop and make payments from anywhere in the store. Customers will also be able to link their loyalty account to the carts, gaining access to personalized promotions and savings as they shop.