Patent ID: 6529879
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
A method for selecting a recommendation of commodities to a customer by use of an electric cash register which is operated when selling commodities to the customer in order to register sales of ordered commodities being sold to the customer, said method comprising the steps of:periodically storing into the electric cash register a list of selected ones of predetermined commodities to be recommended, said list containing different priority orders which are previously assigned to the predetermined commodities, respectively; when registering sales of the ordered commodities being sold to the customer, making the electronic cash register perform the steps of: (1) comparing the ordered commodities with said list of predetermined commodities to select, as a selected Item, independently of an amount of change due, one of said predetermined commodities which is different from said commodities sold; said predetermined commodities being compared one after another according to the priority orders with the ordered commodities, one of said predetermined commodities which is first found to be different from the ordered commodities being selected as a first selected one; and (2) indicating said selected item, said first selected item being displayed as said selected item, then recommending, as recommendation commodities, said selected items to the customer.