Electronic commerce system with access to inventory data from multiple stores

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce between a plurality of consumers and a plurality of physical stores at discrete locations. The system includes a server system (20) in electronic communication with a computer network. The computer network is accessible by a plurality of consumer computers (22). The server system executes server instructions to handle requests from the plurality of consumer computers (22) operated by comsumers. The system also includes specific data access instructions running on the server system, which executes the specific data access instructions to process inventory data. The inventory data originates from a plurality of physical store computers (24) in electronic communication with the server system. The store computers (24) each store the store inventory data. The inventory data for each physical store is dynamic and includes items available at that particular physical store.