Patent ID: 8069088

Claim:
A computer program product for providing a credit to a first merchant for a purchase from a second merchant different than the first merchant, the computer program product comprising: a computer-readable medium comprising: computer-readable program code for receiving product information identifying a product for purchase, the product information obtained via a device from an item at a location associated with the first merchant; computer-readable program code for receiving from the device information identifying a location of the device at the time that the device transmitted the product information; computer-readable program code for determining whether the location of the device at the time that the device transmitted the product information corresponds to a location of the first merchant; computer-readable program code for determining that the product was purchased from the second merchant via the device; computer-readable program code for determining whether the product is currently available for sale at the location of the first merchant; and computer-readable program code for providing a credit to the first merchant based on a determination that the location of the device at the time that the device transmitted the product information corresponds to the location of the first merchant, a determination that the product was purchased from the second merchant via the device, and a determination that the product is currently available for sale at the location of the first merchant.