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An electronic shopping system, communicating between a store computer and a customer assistance terminal, for providing item price information for general customers and effecting item transactions for customers carrying a valid customer identification indicia. The shopping assistance terminal operat

An electronic shopping system, communicating between a store computer and a customer assistance terminal, for providing item price information for general customers and effecting item transactions for customers carrying a valid customer identification indicia. The shopping assistance terminal operates as a price check terminal in a default mode and is adaptively reconfigurable to a transaction terminal mode upon receipt of a valid customer identification indicia. A Price Look Up table is maintained in the store data base and, as a product is scanned, the item's price is verified and displayed on an integral display screen. If the terminal is configured in the transaction terminal mode, the item data is further added to a transaction list maintained in a memory storage area of a customer ID card.

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[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic shopping system for use in a retail facility, the electronic shopping system comprising:a store platform computer coupled to transmit and receive data over a bi-directional network;a plurality of individually addressable self-scanning terminals, coupled to b

[ What is claimed is:] [1.] An electronic shopping system for use in a retail facility, the electronic shopping system comprising:a store platform computer coupled to transmit and receive data over a bi-directional network;a plurality of individually addressable self-scanning terminals, coupled to bi-directionally communicate with the store platform computer over the network, each individually addressable self-scanning terminal including a barcode scanner and each terminal further having a multiplicity of adaptively configureable operational modes, the terminals operative in a first mode as price check terminals, the terminals adaptively configureable to operate in at least a second mode as a transaction terminal; andwherein each terminal is configured from the first operational mode to the second operational mode in response to unique customer related information data.