Patent ID: 8738423

Claim:
A method of analyzing consumer data, the method comprising: identifying location data corresponding to a plurality of consumers, each of the consumers located at one of a plurality of geographic locations; receiving a plurality of discarded tagged packages from each of the plurality of consumers, wherein each of the discarded tagged packages includes a wireless tag that associates each of the discarded tagged packages with a product identifier; reading, at a refuse collection point, each of the wireless tags, wherein the reading retrieves the product identifiers associated with each of the discarded tagged packages; storing the retrieved product identifiers and the location data in a data store; and generating, by one more processors, one or more area consumer consumption maps from the stored product identifiers and the stored location data, wherein the generating further comprises: receiving a geographic area request; and selecting, from the data store, the stored product identifiers with geographic location data corresponding to the requested geographic area, wherein one of the area consumer consumption maps corresponds to the selected stored product identifiers.