System and method for checkout counter product promotion
CA 1281413 C · Owner: Humble, David R. · Inventors: Humble, David R.
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An expanded display unit for communication with a customer in a supermarket checkout facility is furnished with information from a system responsive to UPC signals provided by a scanner. Such system discerns selected products selected for purchase from such UPC signals, such products being those in connection with which a promotional plan has been preestablished either, for such products or other products. The system can discern selected characteristics of customers, particularly deducing from products selected for purchase, other products which may be of interest to the customer. The system provides information implementing the promotional plan to the display unit which may, be …
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- Granted March 12, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 12, 2008.
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