Abstract: An electronic system may a remote computer that may parse an electronic message received by a mobile wireless communications device of a given user for a keyword indicative of a desired item for purchase. The remote computer may obtain a user identifier associated with the given user for a retailer loyalty program for a given retailer. The remote computer may also access the retailer loyalty program based upon the user identifier and generate an electronic shopping list for the given retailer based upon the access to the retailer loyalty program and send the electronic shopping list to the mobile wireless communications device. The shopping list may include the desired item for purchase. The remote computer may also generate a digital promotion associated with at least one item on the electronic shopping list and send notification of the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device.

Abstract: A digital promotion processing system may include user devices each associated with a respective user. Each respective user may have a social media account associated therewith. The system may also include a digital promotion server that includes a memory and a processor coupled thereto and configured to determine liked food content on a social media platform for a given user based upon the corresponding social media account. The liked food content may include at least one liked food ingredient. The processor may also be configured to determine a matching recipe including food ingredients and associated preparation instructions. At least one of the food ingredients may include the at least one liked food ingredient. The processor may generate a digital promotion for at least one of the food ingredients of the matching recipe, and communicate the matching recipe and the digital promotion to the corresponding user device of the given user.

Abstract: A content origination server may generate content having a stored content identifier associated therewith, and a content display server may display the content. A deep-link server may obtain the stored content identifier and generate an authorization token based upon the stored content identifier. The content origination server may generate a deep-link to the content. The deep-link may have associated therewith the stored content identifier and the authorization token. The content display server may communicate a request including a content identifier and a link authorization token, to the server. The deep-link server may determine whether the obtained link authorization token is valid based upon the generated authorization token and whether the identifiers match, and when so, cause the content display server to modify a layout of content otherwise, cause the content display server to display the content without modification to the layout of content.

Abstract: A digital promotion processing system may include user devices each associated with a respective different user and a promotion processing server. The promotion processing server may be configured to store historical purchase data for durable good products purchased by the users. The historical purchase data may include a replacement lifespan and a purchase date. The promotion processing server may also be configured to determine an expected product replacement date for a given durable good product from among the durable good products based upon an elapsed time from the purchase date relative to the replacement lifespan, and upon reaching the expected product replacement date, generate and communicate a digital promotion for a replacement durable good product to a corresponding one of the user devices.

Abstract: A system for determining regulatory compliance of a digital promotion may include a user device and a regulatory offers server. The server may obtain, via the user device, a proposed digital promotion associated with a regulated product, a geographic region, and proposed promotional terms. A corresponding legal jurisdiction corresponding to the geographic region may be determined, and if the promotion is compliant based upon the regulations for the corresponding jurisdiction, the proposed promotion, and the proposed promotional terms may be determined. If the promotion is not compliant, the proposed promotional terms may be revised to generate a suggested compliant promotion based upon the regulations for the corresponding jurisdiction. A compliance indication may be communicated to the user device, and when not compliant, the suggested compliant digital promotion may also be communicated.

Abstract: An account validation system may include an account validation server. The server may store an order purchase history for accounts. The order purchase history may include a purchased product. The server may obtain an account identifier from a user device for a given user and communicate the purchased product to the user device for display thereon based upon a corresponding account associated with the account identifier. The server may communicate a fake product that is inconsistent with the order purchase history to the user device and based upon the order purchase history for the corresponding account. The server may also cooperate to prompt the given user to differentiate the purchased product from the fake product, and determine, based upon the user device, whether the given user has differentiated the purchased product from the fake product, and when so, validate the corresponding account.

Abstract: A system may include a chatbot communications server executing a given chatbot conversation associated with a given retailer from among retailers. The system may also include a remote device associated with a given user, and a promotions processing server. The promotions processing server may be configured to store digital promotions for the retailers, and communicate at least one digital promotion corresponding to the given retailer to the chatbot communications server. The chatbot communications server may be configured to insert the at least one digital promotion into the given chatbot conversation to be displayed on the remote device. The chatbot conversation may permit the given user to clip at least one selected digital promotion, and add a product for purchase corresponding to the at least one selected digital promotion to a virtual shopping cart.

Abstract: A food item selection system may include a remote device configured to obtain an image of a food item having an associated ripeness and a selection server configured to store respective ripeness preferences for users. The selection server may also be configured to obtain the image of the food item from the remote device, determine a ripeness of the food item based upon the image, and associate the image with a given user from among the users. The selection server may also be configured to compare the determined ripeness with the respective ripeness preference for the given user and send a selection notification to the remote device based on the comparing.

Abstract: A promotion processing system may include a remote device and a promotion server. The promotion server may be configured to generate a promotion within a social media feed. The promotion may be associated with a given product brand. The promotion server may be configured to operate a chatbot conversation on the remote device corresponding to the promotion. The chatbot may be operated to determine a recommended product within the given product brand, validate a purchase of the recommended product, and permit redemption of the promotion based upon validation of the purchase.

Abstract: A product purchase system may include a product retrieval robot for a physical store and a mobile wireless communications device associated with a given user and configured to obtain product identifying data for a given product for purchase in the physical store. The given product for purchase may be placed by the given user into a physical shopping cart. The system may also include a server configured to identify the given product for purchase based upon the product identifying data, and determine an add-on product associated with the given product for purchase and located in the physical store. The product retrieval robot may be configured to cooperate with the server to retrieve the add-on product from the physical store and deliver the add-on product to the physical shopping cart.

Abstract: A food item system may include a remote device associated with a given shopper and a weight sensor associated with a food product display that includes food items. The food item system may also include a food item processing server configured to add at least one user selected food item from among the food items to a virtual shopping cart associated with the given shopper based upon proximity of the remote device to the food product display and a change in weight from the weight sensor indicative that the at least one user selected food item has been removed from the food product display. The food item processing server may also be configured to communicate the virtual shopping cart of the given shopper for checkout.

Abstract: A system for processing a digital promotion may include a cloud server. The cloud server may be configured to operate a messenger bot associated with a digital advertisement for a given product on a mobile wireless communications device associated with a given user, collect information from the messenger bot, and determine whether a potential redemption location is within a given area associated with the mobile wireless communications device. When the potential redemption location is within the given area, the cloud server may communicate a first digital promotion for the given product through the messenger bot to the mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information. When the potential redemption location is outside the given area, the cloud server may communicate a second digital promotion through the messenger bot to the mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information.

Abstract: A product purchase system may include a product retrieval robot at a physical store and sensors within the physical store and configured to obtain product identifying data for a given product for purchase in the physical store by a given user. The given product for purchase may be placed by the given user into a physical shopping cart. The system may also include a product purchase server configured to identify the given product for purchase based upon the product identifying data, and determine an add-on product associated with the given product for purchase and located in the physical store. The product retrieval robot may be configured to cooperate with the product purchase server to retrieve the add-on product from the physical store and deliver the add-on product to the physical shopping cart.

Abstract: A promotion processing system may include a remote device associated with a given user and that includes a camera. The promotion processing system may also include a promotion processing server configured to store meal recipes and associated ingredients, and obtain a selected meal recipe from the given user. The promotion processing server may also be configured to cooperate with the camera of the remote device to obtain a facial image of the given user during consumption of ingredients of the selected meal recipe, determine a satisfaction level with the selected meal recipe based upon the facial image, and generate a digital promotion toward another meal recipe having at least one common ingredient with the ingredients of the selected meal recipe based upon the satisfaction level. The promotion processing server may also communicate the digital promotion to the remote device.

Abstract: A voice-based digital promotion system may include an intelligent personal assistant. The voice-based digital promotion system may also include a remote sever configured to receive a request for a digital promotion from a given user via the intelligent personal assistant and determine a corresponding retailer loyalty program associated with the given user. The remote server may also be configured to determine at least one digital promotion for the given user based upon the retailer loyalty program, and communicate the at least one digital promotion to the given user via the intelligent personal assistant.

Abstract: A digital promotion processing system may include mobile wireless communications devices, each associated with a respective user and a digital promotion server. The digital promotion server may be configured to operate a messenger bot to prompt each of the users to answer a trivia question from the respective mobile wireless communications device and operate the messenger bot to obtain answers to the trivia question from the mobile wireless communications devices. The digital promotion server may be configured to determine a first respective user to answer the trivia question correctly based upon the obtained answers, and generate a digital promotion for a given product and communicate the digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications device associated with the first user to answer the trivia question correctly.

Abstract: A food item freshness notification system may include a remote device and a gas sensor configured to sense gas adjacent the food item and generate food item freshness data related thereto. The food item freshness notification system may also include a food item freshness server configured to obtain the food item freshness data from the gas sensor and determine a freshness level for the food item based upon the food item freshness data. The food item freshness server may also be configured to communicate a notification to the remote device based upon the freshness level.

Abstract: A system for processing a digital promotion may include a mobile device associated with a user. The system may also include a digital promotion server configured to cooperate with the mobile device to determine a geographic location. The digital promotion server may determine potential redemption locations based upon the geographic location and cooperate with the mobile device to display thereon the potential redemption locations and cooperate with the mobile device to prompt the user to determine a selected redemption location from among the potential redemption locations. Based upon determining the selected redemption location, the digital promotion server may generate a digital promotion for redemption at the selected redemption location and communicate the digital promotion to the mobile device, and generate a user identifier associated with the user and the digital promotion and communicate the user identifier to the selected redemption location for redemption of the digital promotion.

Abstract: A system for processing a digital promotion may include mobile wireless communications devices and a digital promotion server. The digital promotion server may be configured to operate a messenger bot to collect information and communicate a first digital promotion for a first product to at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the collected information. The digital promotion server may also be configured to determine an underperforming redemption location for the first digital promotion for the first product having underperforming sales of the first product relative to other redemption locations and obtain an identification of a second product also included with the first product from transaction receipts. The digital promotion server may also be configured to generate a second digital promotion associated with the second product for redemption at the underperforming redemption location and communicate the second digital promotion to the mobile wireless communications devices.

Abstract: A digital promotion system may include a user device and a digital promotion processing server. The digital promotion processing server is configured to repeatedly obtain low-frequency purchase data associated with a given user for a first category of purchases, and repeatedly obtain high-frequency purchase data associated with the given user for a second category of purchases different than the first category of purchases. The high-frequency purchase data may represent a greater number of purchases made in a given time period relative to the low-frequency purchase data. The digital promotion processing server is also configured to use machine learning to generate a current loyalty indicator based upon the repeatedly-obtained low-frequency purchase data and based upon the repeatedly-obtained high-frequency purchase data, and generate a digital promotion based upon the current loyalty indicator and communicate the digital promotion to the user device.