Who will be the AI winners this holiday season?: last week's most read retail technology articles - Retail Technology Innovation Hub
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Check out our most clicked retail technology articles from last week, including Morrisons, Instacart, DoorDash, Gap Inc., lululemon, Shopify, Just Eat, Revolut, Strawberry, TFG London, and the 2026 RTIH Innovation Awards. Morrisons bins Instacart AI powered Caper Carts trial amid DoorDash acquisition talks In July, we reported that Morrisons had launched Instacart’s Caper Cart smart trolleys at a Preston supermarket, marking North American firm Instacart’s first retail partnership in the UK for its AI powered solution. Three months later, however, the retailer is pulling the trial as DoorDash gets set to acquire Instacart in a deal that values the grocery technology specialist at around $17 billion. Separately, Instacart said in a regulatory filing on Monday that it would wind down its Caper Cart business by the end of the second quarter of 2027, expecting pre-tax charges of $55 million to $80 million related to the move. The plan is to reinvest any savings into strategic growth initiatives, which includes other in-store solutions like smart price tags and computer vision technology to help grocers track in-store inventory. Responding to the news, retail analyst Steve Dresser said on LinkedIn: "Not one to mock innovation, it's vital. But this was always overplayed and seemed to be a chance for people to get their name in lights, rather than a meaningful trial to scale."...
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lululemon has announced the addition of Shopify's Shop Pay solution to its Canada and US e-commerce sites.
