The abandoned shopping cart is an e-commerce entrepreneurs’ nightmare. More often than not, shoppers browse an online store, load up their carts, then ditch them. Some studies estimate around ...

Amazon.com Inc. today pulled back the curtains on its latest retail technology project: a “smart shopping cart” called the Dash Cart that enables storegoers to buy groceries without waiting in a ...

Like most breakthroughs, says Priceonomics’ Zachary Crockett, the shopping cart was the result of several factors converging. By the 1930s, home refrigeration meant that shoppers could buy more at ...