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Instacart’s smart cart helps you navigate to the sauce that’s on sale

The cart can tell you to get dips with your chips.

Instacart’s Caper Cart, which has a touchscreen and payment terminal up front where you’d normally seat your toddler or play Jenga with your produce, now has a new store map system that can help navigate you to products you’re looking for, on-sale items, and even send you on fetch quests that can land you savings. And though I would like help finding the pasta sauce that’s on sale, it could be overwhelming to get caught up in generated recommendations and ads on my grocery cart. Still, a cart that can figure out what I put in it, where to find things on my list, give me instant coupons, and let me pay without waiting in the self-checkout line is a future I’m willing to try out.

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