Patent attributes
A shopping method comprises the steps of displaying a line of merchandise within a retail establishment; training sales assistants to operate portable sales checkout devices and to match the line of merchandise with shoppers' needs; recording purchases and simultaneously producing and delivering a paper sales receipt and a paper pickup voucher to each of the shoppers wherein, the pickup voucher identifies a pickup point access code, pickup point identity and pickup point compartment identity; reserving the pickup point compartment associated with the compartment identity; wrapping and marking the purchases with a pickup point access code, pickup point identity and pickup point compartment identity; delivering the purchases to the pickup compartments and enabling the pickup vouchers of the shoppers to provide access to the respective pickup compartments.
