Providing an Altered Shopping Experience in Retail Environments

摘要

An altered shopping experience can be provided in a retail store. Various devices can be used to provide a stimulus (e.g. a smell or sound) to encourage the customer to purchase a product, to entertain the customer, or to provide information to the customer. Devices can also be provided for creating a forced perspective to give the appearance that an aisle is shorter than it is. Devices can also be provided to automatically identify ingredients in a recipe and identify retail stores that offer the ingredients at the best price, or to accept reservations for particular products in the case of an emergency.

主权项

1. A system for generating a forced perspective that creates the perception that an aisle in a retail store is shorter than the aisle is, the system comprising:
a plurality of displays positioned in or above an aisle, the plurality of displays being arranged along the length of the aisle, wherein the same image is displayed on each display with the size of the image being varied such that the size of the image on a display positioned at the end of the aisle is greater than the size of the image on a display positioned at the center of the aisle.