Smart Shop - Populate your basket with one click

Speakers: Dennis Doerrich and Laurent Candillier
Event: Python October Meetup: Smart Shop & Biohacking
Date: 20 October 2022
Type: Talk
Language: English
Length: 30 minutes
Source: The announcement of the day on Meetup

About this talk

At Ocado Technology, we are on a journey to change the way the world shops, through our end-to-end Ocado Smart Platform (OSP). Our teams develop many different features that enable millions of global customers to enjoy a frictionless, hyper personalised shopping experience. One such feature is Smart Shop, which populates your basket with just one click. Smart Shop is capable of suggesting the items you may want to buy, based on your shopping history. However, populating the “best” or “ideal” basket of groceries for each customer could be a challenge, because:
The selection of items for a shopping basket is unique for each customer
The basket size is different for each customer
Customer preferences can vary over time In this talk, we are going to show how we solved these challenges with Machine Learning, and how we managed to put it quickly in production, sharing our experience using scikit-learn and TensorFlow at scale, and using Python to orchestrate the ML pipelines.