Scan-ahead system for processing merchandise at a checkout regis

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1998-09-08

1999-11-16

Pitts, Harold I.

Registers

Systems controlled by data bearing records

Mechanized store

235375, G06K 1500

Patent

active

059841826

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a checkout system providing for the pre-processing of scannable merchandise in a customer's possession. The system employs a portable data scanner which is in communication with a checkout register. The portable data scanner is used to record in a data file an itemized list of articles reflecting merchandise in the customer's possession prior to reaching the checkout register. The customer is provided with a transaction identifier which can be read by the checkout register to retrieve the data file and finish processing of the transaction, thereby increasing the throughput of the checkout register.

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