Patent ID: 6351735
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G06Q,G07F,G07G

Abstract:
A system for differentiated customer promotion in a retail establishment comprising:a terminal for entering at the point-of-sale the dollar tender amount paid by a customer for a total sales transaction involving a plurality of different products; a memory for storing a database of at least first and second different customer dollar tender amount criteria; the database also storing at least first and second different incentive values, the first incentive value having a relationship to the first customer dollar tender amount criteria, the second incentive value having a relationship to the second customer dollar tender amount criteria, wherein the first incentive value relationship is differentiated from the second incentive value relationship; circuitry for generating a signal when a specific customer's dollar tender amount for a total sales transaction meets one of the customer dollar tender amount criteria; and a device for providing an incentive to the customer, the incentive related to the customer's dollar tender amount for a total sales transaction such that customers whose dollar tender amount for a total sales transaction meets the first dollar tender amount criteria receive an incentive comprising the first incentive value and customers whose dollar tender amount for a total sales transaction meets the second dollar tender amount criteria receive an incentive comprising the second incentive value.