Food product scale and method for providing in-store incentives to customers
CA 2427176 C · Owner: Premark Feg L.L.C. · Inventors: Mills, Nigel G.; Schuller, Robert J.; Weisz, Robert J.
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In addition to standard product labels incentive labels are printed and , provided to customers when an item is identified to and weighed by a scale/label printer , located in a store by accessing an incentive database to determine the existence and , nature of any incentive. One or more display devices may be used in connection with , providing incentives, including enabling a customer to select from among a number of , incentives displayed. An incentive label construction may be provided with desirable , folding features. Certain incentives may be of a graduated/progressive type to invite , larger purchases by customers.
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- Filed April 28, 2003 and granted July 8, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 28, 2023.
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