Patent ID: 6965871

Claim:
A method for producing a shopping list consisting of one or more items, wherein at least one item in the shopping list is a perishable item, the method on an e-commerce site comprising the steps of: storing, on a data-base by an e-commerce site, one or more consumer shopping lists of respective shoppers at the e-commerce site; storing, on a data-base by the e-commerce site, a list of items previously purchased by the one or more respective shoppers at the e-commerce site; receiving, at the e-commerce site, a request from a shopper for at least one of the at least one or more consumer shopping lists; and determining, at the e-commerce site, if the request from the shopper is from a shopper that has previously purchased one or more perishable items from the e-commerce site and in response to the request and a determination that the shopper has previously purchased one or more perishable items from the e-commerce site, performing the sub-steps of: reviewing the consumer's list of items previously purchased, at the e-commerce site, to determine if any items previously purchased by the shopper from the e-commerce site are perishable items with an expiration date associated at the e-commerce site; and adding, at the e-commerce site, to the at least one requested consumer shopping list one or more perishable items from the list of items previously purchased that have exceeded, as determined at the e-commerce site, a predefined expiration date range.