Authors:
Zachary Darden, Abby Beizer, Gary Harper, Dan Kane
Abstract:
This disclosure proposes using the tracking ability available In Grab n Go stores, Toshiba's smart store concepts, or similar grab/go camera/sensor tracked shopping experiences, to allow warnings about returning perishable items to stock after certain criteria like time are met.
Background:
In Grab n Go stores, Toshiba's smart store concepts, or similar grab/go camera/sensor tracked shopping experiences, the retailer now has new possibilities for goods tracking in the store without necessarily relaying on expensive tags or sensors on every product.
One of these new possibilities is tracking the time that perishable goods (like Dairy/Milk/etc.) have been out of the cooler and in the customer's cart.
With this ability to track, warnings could be issued about the perishable product should the customer attempt to return the item.
Description:
In Grab n Go stores, Toshiba's smart store concepts, or similar grab/go camera/sensor tracked shopping experiences, the retailer now has new possibilities for goods tracking in the store without necessarily relaying on expensive tags or sensors on every product.
One of these new possibilities is tracking the time that perishable goods (like Dairy/Milk/etc.) have been out of the cooler and in the customer's cart.
This disclosure proposes that part of the product in cart tracking includes entry and exit times from the cart such that if a customer were to pick up milk, and then walk around the store with it un-refrigerated for a configured period of time, then when the consumer decided they no longer wanted that item and returned it to the shelf, or during checkout decided they didn't want it, the system would fire an alert indicating that this item should NOT be restocked as it was likely spoiled.
When the customer was replacing the item to the shelf on their own, this could be a notification beep and/or light on the shelf telling them to instead drop it into a 'spoiled' bin in the cooler section.
During payment/checkout this could be an alert on the register when the item was removed from the virtual basket to tell the associate to set the item in the 'do not restock' pile.
TGCS Reference 2359
