Abstract: A system and methods for use in order intake, order fulfillment, inventory management, and the development of personalization services for customers, including a system and data processing elements for generating, acquiring and processing data related to the location and movement of merchandise within a store or other location. By processing such data the inventive system can assist customers or store employees to locate an item for purposes of fulfilling an order, determine if an item should be removed from inventory, generate recommendations to a customer regarding items that might be of interest, provide inputs to sales and marketing functions about what products are examined by customers and converted into sales, and provide other value-added services. As a result, embodiments of the invention can provide store operators, store employees, and customers with improved services and more efficient operations.

Abstract: A system and methods for use in order intake, order fulfillment, inventory management, and the development of personalization services for customers, including a system and data processing elements for generating, acquiring and processing data related to the location and movement of merchandise within a store or other location. By processing such data the inventive system can assist customers or store employees to locate an item for purposes of fulfilling an order, determine if an item should be removed from inventory, generate recommendations to a customer regarding items that might be of interest, provide inputs to sales and marketing functions about what products are examined by customers and converted into sales, and provide other value-added services. As a result, embodiments of the invention can provide store operators, store employees, and customers with improved services and more efficient operations.