Patent ID: 7681790

Claim:
A computer assisted shopping system comprising: a hand-held scanner for customer scanning of information associated with a product in a retailing facility, the handheld scanner including a display for displaying shopping cart information corresponding to customer scanned information including an image of the product, a unit price of the product, and an amount of the product currently available at the retailing facility; and a networked system operable to: store customer delivery preference information; download information from the hand-held scanner scanned by customer to a register; generate a product order at the register from the information downloaded from the scanner and the customer delivery preference information; determine available delivery date and time windows based on inventory availability; provide delivery options for the customer based on available delivery date and time windows; accept a delivery option selection and commitment from the customer to close the order; and calculate a fulfillment strategy to meet the selected delivery option based on available inventory at a plurality of facilities including local inventory at the retailing facility and which maximizes remaining available inventory local to the retailing facility.