Patent ID: 7694876

Claim:
A method for tracking performance by a shopper of a shopping activity comprising a plurality of shopping tasks, the method comprising: initiating the tracking of the shopping activity, the initiation requiring an active initiation action by the shopper; communicating a transponder identifier, from a transponder carried by the shopper, to a first reader in a first location via a radio frequency signal; communicating the transponder identifier from the first reader to a resource engine; associating the transponder identifier with a first time value and a shopper identifier corresponding to the shopper; communicating the transponder identifier, from the transponder, to a second reader in a second location via an radio frequency signal; communicating the transponder identifier from the second reader to the resource engine; associating the transponder identifier with a second time value and the shopper identifier corresponding to the shopper; computing a shopping task time representing a time period that the shopper was in a predefined shopping area, based at least on the first time value and the second time value; associating, in the resource engine, the shopper identifier and the shopping task time with a corresponding shopping task of the shopping activity; and determining, based on the shopping task time, a project task requiring performance by a resource associated with a specific level of skill, wherein both the project task and the level of skill vary based on at least one time threshold associated with the shopping task time.