Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating reminders to shoppers to purchase products. Using a customer's current location, products stocked at that location are identified and compared to the customer's purchase history. Items regularly purchased by the customer found among the products stocked at the location are identified. Upon departing the location without adding the product to an electronic shopping cart an alert may be generated to remind the customer to purchase the product. In some embodiment, an alert is generate for a product found in the purchase history if an elapsed time since purchase of the product exceeds an expiration period or purchase period for that product. The methods disclosed herein may be used in the context of a self-checkout using an electronic shopping cart and navigational aids to facilitate retrieval of items on a shopping list.

Abstract: A method for sending notifications from a notification server to a mobile computing device to a user includes obtaining, at a processing device of the notification server, a request including user request information to notify the user when a product offered for sale by a retailer becomes available in a facility of the retailer when the mobile computing device scans a notification image. The user request information includes an item identifier corresponding to the product, facility information corresponding to the facility, and a user identifier corresponding to the user. When the product becomes available within the facility, the processing device retrieves the user request information from a user request database and generates a notification based on the user request information. The processing device transmits the generated notification to the mobile computing device.

Abstract: A method to provide an active parking system includes receiving, at a portable computerized device, parking preferences of a user for a parking facility of a retail store, determining, within a parking space index server, an availability status of each of a plurality of parking spaces of the parking facility, identifying, within a computerized device, a preferred parking location for the user based upon the parking preferences and the availability statuses, and displaying, at a computerized display, directions for the user to navigate to the preferred parking location.

Abstract: Embodiments for determining a route a consumer takes while traversing a retail store are disclosed. The embodiments include determining a store location of a retail store and a map corresponding to the layout of the retail store, receiving waypoint data including a plurality of positions within the map corresponding timestamps, determining a route in response to the waypoint data, and providing the route and the map for display.

Abstract: A method for sending a cost notification to a display monitor corresponding to a display apparatus, the display apparatus furnished within a facility includes obtaining display apparatus information corresponding the display apparatus. The display apparatus information includes display apparatus preferences being indicative of an item explicitly preferred by the retailer for being stocked at the display apparatus. The display apparatus information further includes location specific information being indicative of a geographical location of the facility at which the display apparatus is furnished within. A cost notification related to the item is generated based on the display apparatus information and the generated cost notification is transmitted to the display monitor.

Abstract: A method for sending a request from a display apparatus server to a computing device corresponding to a retailer includes detecting a quantity of a selected item currently stocked at a display apparatus furnished within a facility of the retailer, the selected item indicating a product being offered for sale by the retailer. When the detected quantity of the selected item is less than a threshold, a request notification is generated to replenish the display apparatus with the selected item. The request notification is transmitted to the computing device corresponding to the retailer.

Abstract: A method for detecting one or more misplaced items currently stocked at a display apparatus furnished within a facility of a retailer includes receiving a display apparatus identifier broadcasted from the display apparatus and retrieving display apparatus information based on the display apparatus identifier. The display apparatus information includes display apparatus preferences being indicative of a selected item explicitly preferred by the retailer for being stocked at the display apparatus and location specific information indicating specific section of the facility at which the display apparatus is located. One or more item identifiers broadcasted from the display apparatus are received and a presence of one or more misplaced items currently stocked at the display apparatus are detected based on the received one or more item identifiers.