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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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1. A mobile, electronic shopping terminal comprising:a code reader that is operative to read an item identification code; a display that is operative to display information; a storage device that is operative to store an item database that includes item identification codes and associated item locat

1. A mobile, electronic shopping terminal comprising:a code reader that is operative to read an item identification code; a display that is operative to display information; a storage device that is operative to store an item database that includes item identification codes and associated item location information for the respective codes; and a control unit connected to the code reader, display, and storage unit, wherein the control unit is programmed to receive an item identification code from the code reader, retrieve corresponding item location information from the storage unit to determine a current location of the terminal, the control unit being further programmed to determine a destination item based on the current location of the terminal, and to transfer information relating to the destination item to the display.