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David McIntosh said Caper carts were live in more than one hundred cities.
“we're now, for context, live in more than one hundred cities.”
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David McIntosh
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David McIntosh said retailer A/B studies consistently found significant, in some cases double-digit percentage, increases in consumer spend with Caper carts.
“consistently, what they're finding is there's significant, in some cases, double-digit percentage increases in consumer spend using the Caper carts.”
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David McIntosh said the 'Did you forget?' feature alone produced an incremental 0.9% increase in spend.
“And so that one feature alone drove an incremental 0.9% spend.”
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David McIntosh said the running total is popular because most Americans shop on a budget and do not want to be over budget at the checkout line.
“the vast majority of Americans are shopping on a specific budget. And nobody wants to get to the line, realize they're over budget and have to put something back.”
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David McIntosh said Caper's cameras are focused on recognizing products going into and out of the cart.
“The cameras are focused solely on recognizing products, right? And what's going into the cart, what you're taking out of the cart.”
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David McIntosh said Instacart spent its last decade bringing retailers online with e-commerce, fulfillment and retail media solutions.
“The last decade of Instacart's history, we brought their business online with e commerce solutions, fulfillment solutions, retail media solutions.”
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David McIntosh said in-store product displays often exist because a consumer packaged goods company paid someone to print and set them up.
“those didn't happen by magic. That happened because often a CPG actually had to pay somebody from their extended team to print the item.”
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David McIntosh proposed that an AI agent could communicate with suppliers about low stock without a human in the middle.
“why put a human in the middle of that? Why not have, for example, an agent communicate with the suppliers in the background?”
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Before Instacart, David McIntosh built Tenor, a GIF search engine integrated into messaging apps such as iMessage and WhatsApp.
“Before this, David built Tenor, the Jiff search engine inside iMessage and WhatsApp”
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