| 摘要 |
<p>A personal digital assistant (PDA (112)) is used by a consumer for inputting identification of items desired by the consumer for accumulating a shopping list. During a shopping trip, the PDA (112) presents choices, offers, discounts corresponding to items in the shopping list to facilitate selection of a particular product corresponding to an item on the shopping list, preferably during a shopping trip, the shopping list is organized to facilitate shopping such as organizing an order of the location of items in the aisles of the store. Coupons, discounts or other offers may be presented to a consumer on the basis of items appearing on the shopping list, information about consumer purchasing history preferences, demographics and similar information. Payment or checkout procedures can be facilitated using the portable computing device (114, 118) by communicating frequent shopper number or other shopper identification information, credit or debit card information, coupon, discount or other offer information.</p> |
