Patent ID: 8560357

Claim:
A method for managing product presentations in a retail environment, the method comprising: responsive to a customer buying a product, identifying, by a computer system in real time, an unsold product present along a route traversed by the customer in the retail environment and an actual behavior of the customer while traversing the route, wherein the unsold product is associated with the product in a relationship in which an associated product is likely purchased when the product is purchased and is identified, as not purchased by the customer, in an associated products file portion of customer data for the customer and with an expected customer behavior identified from the customer data to purchase the unsold product based on an actual purchase of the product by the customer; responsive to a non-purchase of the unsold product identified, storing, by said computer system, information for the non-purchased unsold product identified in a customer profile; and responsive to determining the non-purchase of the unsold product identified is due to a distraction forming, by said computer system, a new product presentation in real time.