Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Yi Xiang

Michael Keith Lemmon

Vinodh Muthiah

Timothy Liaw

Mustafa Majeed

Raj Kumar

Shawn Bigger

Aarti Sundararajan

Caroline Hurd

Steven Zheng

Kevin Kuehler

Kerry Ann McGuire

Described are systems and methods for in-facility purchase of items from a single seller when those items are offered for sale by multiple sellers. For example, a materials handling facility may include two or more sellers (Seller A and Seller B) that offer items for sale within the facility. A user may pick items from Seller A and items from Seller B and complete an in-facility purchase of those picked items from one of the sellers, such as Seller B, by payment of the purchase price and applicable taxes to that seller. At a subsequent time, for example when the user exits the facility, Seller B may pay Seller A at least a portion of the purchase price for the Seller A items sold by Seller B as part of the in-facility purchase.

In-facility item purchase

Described are implementations that facilitate group determination and association at entry into a facility so that activities of group members of the group are associated with the group and/or applied to a single account designated for the group. For example, if four individuals enter the facility together, the disclosed implementations determine whether the four individuals are to be associated as a group. If associated as a group, an account, such as an account of one of the individuals, is also determined and associated with the group. Activities, such as an item pick, performed by one of those individuals is associated with the group and if there is a fee or charge associated with the activity it is applied to the associated account.

Group determination and association

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Yi Xiang