Patent Document ID: 8645200
Application ID: 13099424
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by one or more computers, whether a particular customer hoarded products of a particular product category during a past promotion at a retail establishment; based on determining that the particular customer hoarded the products of the particular product category during the past promotion, classifying, by the one or more computers, a behavior of the particular customer with respect to the hoarding of the products during the past promotion, from among a plurality of possible types of hoarding behaviors, based at least on transaction data from before, during and after the past promotion; determining, by the one or more computers, to offer a future promotion to the particular customer based on classifying the behavior of the particular customer with respect to the hoarding of the products during the past promotion from among a plurality of possible types of hoarding behaviors; and in response to the determining to offer the future promotion to the particular customer, offering the future promotion to the particular customer.