Patent ID: 8719098

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying an initial product at a point-of-sale (POS) device located at a merchant facility, the POS device being a checkout counter; determining that an associated product corresponds to the initial product; identifying an employee location, from a plurality of employee locations, that is in proximity to a location of the associated product, the employee location corresponding to an employee; computing an estimated transport time for the employee to get to the associated product and transport the associated product from the location of the associated product to the POS device; providing a prompt at the POS device to a user purchasing the initial product to indicate whether the user also wants to purchase the associated product, wherein the prompt includes the estimated transport time; generating a product request corresponding to the associated product in response to receiving the indication that the user wants to purchase the associated product; and sending an electronic message to a mobile device that corresponds to the employee, wherein the electronic message includes a request to transport the associated product from the location of the associated product to the POS device.