Abstract: A business method utilizes a dedicated electronic shopping network having a database and wireless receiving and transmitting components. The network is provided at a retail-type architectural facility where space is rented to a plurality of independent retail entities. For each respective one retail entity, data pertaining to goods offered for sale by the respective one entity is loaded the database. Queries from hand-held electronic personal shopping devices pertaining to goods offered for sale by the retail entities are received via the wireless receiving components. The wireless transmitting components transmit, to the hand-held electronic personal shopping devices, data from the database responsive to respective queries.

Abstract: An online shopping management system is a computer system including at least one server computer. The computer system is provided with software for assisting customers in recording and organizing information pertaining to purchases made by the customers over a global computer network from a plurality of different merchants via a plurality of different websites. An electronic shopping method includes automatically monitoring each screen displayed on a user's computer monitor while the user navigates the World Wide Web, automatically collecting particulars of purchase transactions engaged in by the user, storing in a memory the particulars of the transactions and of multiple-online purchases made by the user, and providing to the user a summary display of collected and stored information pertaining to the online purchases made by the user.