Patent ID: RE45006

Claim:
A method for customer promotion of a store providing an incentive to a customer, the method comprising: sequentially processing each , by a computing device, one or more of a plurality of items in a customer order; after processing each item, accumulating the price prices of each item the items ; in response to the accumulated price exceeding a predetermined threshold, generating a first signal indicating that the accumulated price exceeds a predetermined threshold: ; in response to the first signal , : determining a , by the computing device, one or more marginal discount discounts associated with each item one or more items processed subsequent to the generation of the first signal ; and accumulating all unapplied marginal discounts , the marginal discounts for application to the customer order subsequent to the generation of the first signal ; in response to the accumulated unapplied marginal discounts exceeding a predetermined minimum, generating a second signal indicating that the accumulated discount exceeds a predetermined minimum ; and in response to the second signal, applying a discount to the customer order.