Patent ID: 7024378

Claim:
A retail system for providing pickup of an order in a vehicle comprising: at least one storage facility for storing goods available to order, a plurality of purchase obtaining facilities remote with respect to the storage facility, said plurality of purchase obtaining facilities further providing pickup stations where a person in a vehicle can pickup said order, said purchase obtaining facilities containing a service area for temporarily storing said order delivered from the storage facility, an order unit capable of inputting said order in advance of arrival at one of said plurality of purchase obtaining facilities, said plurality of purchase obtaining facilities including a control unit configured to: input identification data when the customer in said vehicle arrives at the purchase obtaining facility, correlating the identification data with information identifying the order, automatically assigning the customer one of a plurality of pickup stations, when the customer is assigned one of a plurality of pickup stations automatically requesting delivery of the order from the service area to the customer in said vehicle at the assigned pickup station.