Overview
- FairPrice, which announced the expansion Thursday at Google Cloud Next, will equip 48 Xtra and Finest outlets with more than 1,300 AI-enabled trolleys by end-2026.
- The smart carts let shoppers scan items with a built-in scanner, verify with a weight sensor, navigate aisles on a touchscreen, and pay on the cart, cutting average checkout to about 36 seconds in the pilot.
- Digital price cards will reach 48 outlets by the end of the rollout and are projected to save about 15,000 staff hours and S$138,000 a year by replacing printed tags.
- Store teams will get the Grocer Genie app by end-2026 to combine many handheld tools into one system that manages tasks, analyzes sales and inventory, and triggers restock alerts from in-store video analytics.
- FairPrice says nearly 900,000 NTUC Link members have verified through Singpass MyInfo in its app, allowing eligible discounts to be applied automatically at checkout.