Media enabled shopping cart system and associated methods

Disclosed is a system for securing a position in a service queue from locations in a store remote from the service queue. The system includes an electronic queue number request signal generator (330) integrated with a media enabled shopping cart and operable by a customer from locations in the store...

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Hauptverfasser: AYLOR BRET, SINGLETON CODY, STAWAR SAUL, LE LIEM, MCQUITTY DAN, BREEN STEVE, FOWLER DOUG, HARTWELL CHRIS, GIBBONS JAMES E. JR, CARPENTER STEVE
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed is a system for securing a position in a service queue from locations in a store remote from the service queue. The system includes an electronic queue number request signal generator (330) integrated with a media enabled shopping cart and operable by a customer from locations in the store remote from the service queue. The electronic queue number request signal generator (330) is configured to generate an electronic queue number request signal employed to obtain a queue number (360). A queuing number processor (313) is included and has an electronic queue number request signal receiver (364) for receiving the electronic queue number request signal. An electronic queue number generator (369) generates the queue numbers (360) in response to the electronic queue number request signals which are generated and assigned on a basis other than in response to sequential requests for queue numbers (360). An electronic queue number provider (361) communicates the queue number generated pursuant to the electronic queue number request signal to components of the system. A display component (75) displays information concerning the queue number (360) to the customer.