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A portable data collection device adapted to be mounted to a shopping cart includes a housing having a clamping assembly for releasably clamping the housing to a pushing bar of a shopping cart. The housing defines an interior region supporting device electronics. The device further includes an inter

A portable data collection device adapted to be mounted to a shopping cart includes a housing having a clamping assembly for releasably clamping the housing to a pushing bar of a shopping cart. The housing defines an interior region supporting device electronics. The device further includes an interactive touch sensitive visual display screen and a retractable, tethered dataform reader releasably mounted on the housing. When mounted on the housing, an imaging assembly and an illumination assembly of the reader are continuously actuated to read a dataform presented to the reader. When removed from the housing, the reader is actuated by depressing a trigger on the reader. The device also includes a magnetic stripe reading assembly and communications circuitry including a radio transceiver module.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A portable data collection device comprising:a) a housing defining an interior region for device electrical circuitry, the housing adapted to be affixed to a shopping cart;b) a hand held dataform reader for reading a dataform affixed to an item, the reader releasably disposed on th

[ We claim:] [1.] A portable data collection device comprising:a) a housing defining an interior region for device electrical circuitry, the housing adapted to be affixed to a shopping cart;b) a hand held dataform reader for reading a dataform affixed to an item, the reader releasably disposed on the housing and being continuously actuated when disposed on the housing and selectively actuatable when removed from the housing;c) the electronic circuitry supported within the housing interior region and electrically coupled to the reader, the electronic circuitry being operatively coupled to a printer for printing out at least one of: a coupon a recipe and a receipt, the electronic circuitry including:i) a processor for controlling operations of the electronic circuitry and the dataform reader;ii) decoding circuitry for decoding the dataform read by the dataform reader to generate decoded data related to the item;iii) communications circuitry responsive to the decoding circuitry for transmitting a portion of the decoded dataform data to a remote device and receiving data relating to the item from the remote device;iv) electronic memory for storing at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data received from the remote device;d) a visual display screen supported by the housing for displaying in human recognizable form at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data retrieved from the remote device; ande) input means supported by the housing for interfacing with the processor.