Patent ID: 7908175

Claim:
A method of facilitating personal shopping, comprising: generating a grocery shopping list for a customer via a personal shopping system connected to a communications network, wherein the personal shopping system includes purchasing decision logic defined by the customer that specifies a preferred brand for each grocery product, a purchase schedule for each grocery product, and a maximum amount the customer is willing to pay for each grocery product, wherein the shopping list identifies grocery products the customer wants to purchase based on the decision logic, wherein generating the shopping list is initiated automatically upon the occurrence of any of the following: as grocery products are consumed by the customer, in response to entering grocery product identification information into a device in communication with the communications network, in response to scanning a barcode associated with a grocery product via a scanning device in communication with the communications network, and in response to selecting a grocery product displayed within a display screen of a device in communication with the communications network; transmitting the shopping list from the personal shopping system to one or more grocery product providers via the communications network with a request for information about each grocery product on the shopping list, wherein the information request for each grocery product on the shopping list includes grocery product price information, grocery product availability information, and grocery product location information; receiving grocery product information at the personal shopping system for each item on the shopping list from one or more grocery product providers via the communications network; and transmitting the received grocery product information from the personal shopping system to a remotely located customer client device via the communications network, wherein the information includes grocery product price information, grocery product availability information, and grocery product location information.