In-Store AI: Smart Carts, Robots, and Shelf Intelligence

Weis Markets Caper Carts capturing 'almost bought' signals; Milam's Markets testing Coupr smart carts (41% larger baskets by item count, 53% by dollar value); Instacart acquires Arpalus for shelf intelligence (95% accuracy); HomeBase USA chainwide Simbe deployment (92% pricing error reduction, 58% OOS cut, total OOS <1%); Everseen acquires Viztel from RadiusAI (11 of top 20 retailers, 150k checkouts). New: Brain Corp crosses 50,000 robots with SelfPath AI (22% coverage increase, 55% autonomy improvement). Everseen interview reports self-checkout losses up 22% and AI nudge effectiveness of 80-97% self-correction. Instacart Q2 earnings: AI assistant driving larger baskets (orders above $115 AOV), FoodStorm expanding to Costco/Big Y/Sprouts, AI Solutions partners (Stew Leonard's, Save Mart). Instacart's 'Reinventing Retail with Physical AI' article provides a technical deep dive on Caper Carts (sensor fusion, edge processing, location tracking) but lacks specific retailer outcomes or metrics.