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A quick-stop mass retail system for ordering and purchasing articles from a remote location for pickup at an article pickup area at an automated store, comprising an interactive system for communicating a customer's purchase order for at least one article; a host computer adapted for receiving the c

A quick-stop mass retail system for ordering and purchasing articles from a remote location for pickup at an article pickup area at an automated store, comprising an interactive system for communicating a customer's purchase order for at least one article; a host computer adapted for receiving the customer's purchase order, processing the customer's purchase order, and storing the customer's purchase order in a database; a system for rapidly retrieving the article ordered by the customer from a storage location for the article at the automated store in response to customer purchase order information received from the host computer; and a system for retrieving identification information from the customer and communicating the same to the host computer; whereby the host computer enables the system for retrieving the article to provide the article to the article pickup area upon obtaining the identification information and comparing the identification information with the stored information in the customer's purchase order.

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[ What is claimed is:] [7.] A method for ordering and purchasing articles from a remote location for pickup at an article pickup area at an automated store, comprising:(a) communicating a customer's purchase order for at least one article via an interactive electronic network;(b) receiving the custo

[ What is claimed is:] [7.] A method for ordering and purchasing articles from a remote location for pickup at an article pickup area at an automated store, comprising:(a) communicating a customer's purchase order for at least one article via an interactive electronic network;(b) receiving the customer's purchase order at a host computer in communication with said interactive electronic network;(c) processing the customer's purchase order and storing the purchase order in a database;(d) retrieving identification information from the customer with a means for retrieving information communicating with said host computer; and(e) retrieving said article ordered by the customer from a storage location for said article at the automated store by a means for retrieving articles communicating with said host computer and delivering said article to said article pickup area.