Patent ID: 8600820

Claim:
A method of identifying and selling concrete or masonry blocks and managing the sale thereof to a customer at a retail establishment, the method comprising: providing a computing processor and computer memory, said computing processor and computer memory connected to a sales terminal; providing unlabeled concrete or masonry blocks with irregular surfaces arranged in bulk layers; preparing a plurality of identical labels on a sheet, each label of said identical labels having a product indicia thereon to associate the label with a product identity of said concrete or masonry blocks; wherein said product indicia is electronically scannable to relate said product identity of said concrete or masonry block to said computing processor and said computer memory; applying the sheet of said labels between the layers of concrete and masonry blocks during the arrangement of said concrete or masonry blocks in the layers so as to protect said sheet of labels and said product indicia; said sheet of labels directly contacting a surface of an individual concrete or masonry block; said irregular surfaces of said concrete or masonry blocks cooperating with said label to secure an individual label to the individual concrete or masonry block; wherein said labels are removable from said sheet and said labels are removable from said concrete or masonry blocks; placing said labeled concrete or masonry blocks for sale at said retail establishment; allowing the customer at the retail establishment to remove one or more labels from said sheet of labels and to remove one or more concrete or masonry blocks from said layers; presenting said removed labels and said removed blocks at the sales terminal for purchase, said product indicia on said label identifying said concrete or masonry blocks for said purchase; initiating a sales transaction with said computing processor and said computer memory; scanning said product indicia on said label to read the product indicia; entering the quantity of said concrete or masonry blocks for said purchase into said sales terminal; transmitting said scanned data and said quantity of blocks for said purchase to said computing processor and said computer memories to provide the cost of the purchase; and completing said sales transaction and issuing the customer a receipt for the purchase of the concrete or masonry blocks.