For example, it has built startup Foodity's shopping cart technology into the back end of its newly relaunched Good Food website.
And the shopping cart technology is already being implemented on commerce sites.
The feature is said to be inspired by the Smart Cart technology developed by Jet.com, the e-commerce startup Walmart acquired for $3 billion last year.
The feature is said to be inspired by the Smart Cart technology developed by Jet.com, the e-commerce startup Walmart acquired for $3 billion last year.
WebSphere Commerce is a integrated software package that handles online storefronts, merchandising, operational reports, shopping cart technology, search, payments, analytics and also provides developer tools.
Its "smart cart" technology would reduce prices if customers bought items that ship from the same location, or if they waived returns, or bought using a lower-fee payment method.
The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, has been heralded as Wal-Mart's strike back at rival Amazon.com and a jolt to the discounter's standing in the digital retail arena, vis-à-vis Jet.com's innovative Smart Cart technology as well as it's potentially lucrative base of younger (read: Millennial) and more affluent shoppers.
And Jet's innovation in exposing the underlying logistics of online shopping through its "Smart Cart" technology – which rewarded shoppers with savings for buying from nearby warehouses, or shipping items together, among other things – has since been translated to Walmart through the new "Pickup Discount" program.
Only nine months after its creation, a refined version of this universal shopping-cart technology, renamed UberWorks and still run by TUers, was sold to Network Commerce for $13 million.
Some chains in Europe, including Metro AG in Germany, have been trying out similar shopping cart scanning technologies.
