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An electronic personal shopping system, communicating between a store computer and a mobile terminal, for organizing a consumer's movement through a retail facility in accordance with the consumer's current location and the locations of desired items on either a shopping list or a recommended replen

An electronic personal shopping system, communicating between a store computer and a mobile terminal, for organizing a consumer's movement through a retail facility in accordance with the consumer's current location and the locations of desired items on either a shopping list or a recommended replenishment item list. The shopping list and recommended replenishment item list are hosted on a customer IC card and read by a mobile shopping terminal. A price look-up table is maintained in a store database and includes location indicia identified to each merchandise item of the store's inventory. As a product is scanned, that item's location indicia is assumed to represent a customer's current location. A desired destination item is taken from the shopping list or the recommended replenishment item list and a distance and direction metric is calculated based on the customer's current location. The system includes a processor capable of developing a recommended replenishment item list from a series of shopping history data records also hosted on the IC card. Each shopping trip results in preparation of a most recent shopping history data record.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic personal shopping system for use in a retail facility including a store computer configured to transmit and receive data via the RF spectrum, the electronic personal shopping system comprising:a mobile terminal, further including:a microprocessor based contr

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic personal shopping system for use in a retail facility including a store computer configured to transmit and receive data via the RF spectrum, the electronic personal shopping system comprising:a mobile terminal, further including:a microprocessor based control unit;an individually addressable RF communication transceiver, connected to the control unit, the transceiver communicating data between the mobile terminal and the store computer;a portable scanner configured to read item code data, the transceiver transmitting said code data to the store computer on command of the control unit as a customer inputs the code data for items being purchased;a reader/writer unit for interfacing with a personal memory store;a memory storage unit; anda display;wherein, the personal shopping system includes an item database, the database being organized to hold store merchandise item entries, each merchandise item entry comprising at least a store item indicia and an associated item location information, each merchandise item being identified by said item code data, the location information associated to an item being assigned as a customer's current location as the customer inputs the code data of that item, the personal shopping system further including means for calculating a direction and distance to a destination item relative to the customer's current location.