Patent ID: 7827058

Claim:
A method for distributing manufacturer coupons in a retail store comprising: receiving on one or more specialty department computers incentive offer information from one or more incentive databases; providing a supply of labels to one or more label printing devices, each label including at least a product information portion for printing information relating to a product being purchased in a specialty department and having a front side and a rear side, the front side of the preprinted manufacturer coupon portion having preprinted incentive offer information received from the one or more incentive databases, the incentive offer information including preprinted product discount amount information relating to a product complementary to but different than the product being purchased in the specialty department and to ease redemption by scanning at a point of sale, the rear side of the preprinted manufacturer coupon portion including preprinted barcode information relating to the preprinted discount amount information, a relationship between the preprinted product discount amount information and the preprinted barcode information being defined prior to the supply of labels being provided to the one or more label printing devices; accepting by the one or more specialty department computers a request for the product being purchased from a consumer at the specialty department location in the retail store; printing by the one or more label printing devices, on the front side of the product information portion of one of the labels, attribute information relating to the product being purchased; affixing the rear side of the product information portion of the label with the coupon portion of the label to the product being purchased; and providing the consumer with the product including the affixed product information portion and the preprinted manufacturer coupon portion after the consumer has requested the product and before the point of sale so that the consumer can purchase the product complementary to but different than the product being purchased and redeem the coupon portion for the product complementary to but different than the product being purchased at the point of sale at the same time as the product being purchased.