Instacart Instacart on Tuesday announced it's acquiring Caper AI, a five year-old startup that makes smart shopping carts and checkout counters. The online grocery platform paid approximately $350 ...

Caper Carts are Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts. Instacart “This marks the first deployment of Caper Carts at Wegmans,” the press release said.

This a story about one of modern life’s least consequential but most acutely annoying experiences — getting a sufficient number of capers out of those dollhouse-size jars they come in.