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Michigan parents are sueing the Attorney General over a memo directing the FBI to investigate "violent threats."
Fascinating to witness Patriots rising up and fighting back all around the nation. The people are learning how to fight back.

https://news.yahoo.com/michigan-parents-sue-attorney-general-140100982.html
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We ALL should be creating channels and adding our contacts IMO
That would help perhaps
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The real moon out tonight: 7:57 p.m. EST, SEPA
That was yesterday👆👆👆
This is today👇👇👇
Roughly the same time, but it's almost a quarter across the sky to the left(north). The telephone poll is obscured in this image, but it's on the right.
Oh yeah, 20:09pm est 10/20/2021
Due to all of the earthquakes and volcanic activity, along with the stellar shifts, I can only conclude that the earth's crust has and is shifting. For those who choose to disagree: prove me wrong mother effers.
If you're still with me after the last few posts, locate the brightest stars in the sky. Specifically to the right/south.
The triangles I previously wrote about, which may have been to obscure the real moon(and that may still hold true); well, what if they are actually "cloaked" vessels in the sky, doesn't matter if ours or extraterrestrial. These are just thoughts on observations, so please don't hold them against me for sharing.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump announces Trump Media & Technology Group and a social media network, called Truth Social. “I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said.

Sign up URL for invite in the article here:

https://cutt.ly/zRcwdAX
Something draws me to this...👇
I really hate organizations that provide things "for free" yet really don't. Either it's free or it's not, stop screwing with us if you want credibility.
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Instacart Acquires Smart-Tech Startup Caper AI for $350 Million

By Benzinga

October 20, 2021 Updated: October 20, 2021

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Instacart was founded in 2012 with a simple mission—to become the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery. In 2021, the company boasts nearly 10 million active users and over 500,000 “shoppers,” Instacart’s term for its delivery drivers. It finally turned in its first profitable month during the COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020.

The thing is, though, physical grocery stores haven’t disappeared. Instacart is well aware of this, and it’s charting a path into physical retail with the $350 million acquisition of Caper AI, a startup that builds smart cart and cashier-less checkout technology. The acquisition is part of Instacart’s “B2B2C” retail technology strategy that it hopes will allow it to compete with the likes of Amazon, which offers similar innovations.

Instacart, now valued at around $39 billion, is expanding its suite of services for brick-and-mortar locations, building instant checkout technology that can help physical grocery stores provide better service. The move comes not long after Instacart acquired FoodStorm, a catering software company geared toward managing large orders of ready-made food.

“Over the years, Instacart has continued to expand its retailer enablement services, helping brick-and-mortar grocers across North America move their businesses online, grow and meet the evolving needs of their customers. As we look ahead, we’re focused on creating even more ways for retailers to develop unified commerce offerings that help address consumer needs across both online and in-store shopping,” said CEO Fidji Simo.

“That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome the Caper AI team to Instacart,” she continued. “We share the same goal of equipping retailers with new and innovative technologies that help them succeed in an increasingly competitive industry, while also providing customers with the best possible experience. We’re excited to bring Caper’s leading smart carts and smart checkout platform to more retailers around the world, as we all reimagine the future of grocery together.”

Caper AI has developed AI-powered smart checkout counters and shopping carts. The technology deploys an object recognition system, cameras, and a weight sensor at its smart checkout counters that free up shoppers from having to scan or weigh their goods as they wrap up their shopping.

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Caper’s smart carts also create a more personalized shopping experience. The carts are equipped with touch-enabled screens that help customers navigate aisles and suggest products based on what they’ve already picked out. Eventually, Instacart hopes to integrate the technology into the e-commerce sites of its retail partners, as well as its own app. That would enable customers to create digital shopping lists that can be checked off as they shop.

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“The powerful technology we’ve created is intuitive for customers, easy to deploy for retailers of all sizes, and creates a physical retail ecosystem that never existed before,” said Lindon Gao, co-founder and CEO of Caper AI.

Caper has developed deals for its smart carts with Instacart partners Kroger and Wakefern in the United States as well as Sobeys in Canada, and its smart checkout counters have been deployed in a variety of smaller convenience stores.

“We’re thrilled to welcome the Caper AI team to Instacart. We share the same goal of equipping retailers with new and innovative technologies that help them succeed in an increasingly competitive industry, while also providing customers with the best possible experience,” said Simo.
“We’re excited to bring Caper’s leading smart carts and smart checkout platform to more retailers around the world, as we all reimagine the future of grocery together.”

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In the short term, Simo said, Instacart wants to focus on Caper’s smart carts and smart checkout counters before looking at more hardware for physical stores.

​​”For now we want to focus on these [existing] products,” she explained. “It’s important to get the tech absolutely perfect and adopted globally. There is a lot of work to do to get to scale.”

But in the meantime, the two new product additions will allow Instacart to expand its B2B sales, a trend that’s on the rise among large retailers and companies. Amazon, for example, has been selling its cashier-less technology to other retailers since 2020. Meanwhile, Walmart recently began selling its e-commerce technology to small and medium-sized businesses, and Israeli company Trigo brought on supermarket giant Tesco to deploy its technology in Tesco stores.

Instacart has been selling its enterprise technology to grocers like Aldi, Costco, Kroger, Walmart, and Wegmans since 2017. Now, it’s adding more firepower to be able to compete with the industry’s big fish.

Moving forward, Instacart will likely keep its labor situation in the back of its mind. The company hired 300,000 shoppers in April 2020, just after the pandemic had set in, but it has since come under fire for what critics describe as unscrupulous labor practices.

Over the weekend, Instacart shoppers took part in a nationwide strike over their working conditions. And with a big investment into technology that will take physical workers out of grocery stores, the company will need to keep an eye on how grocery workers at its partner stores feel about the move.

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