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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2012
Margaret-ann Reed, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John Calvert, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Steve Moylan, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Margaret-Ann Reed, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John Calvert, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Steve Moylan, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Safeway Inc., Pleasanton, CA (US);
Abstract
A nutritional management system. The system comprises a processor, a memory, a first data store comprising a list of products, universal product codes associated with the products, and nutritional information associated with the products, a second data store comprising purchase histories linked to a plurality of loyalty card users, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application reads a purchase history of a loyalty card user over a most recent predefined time period from the second data store, analyzes a most recent predefined time period of the purchase history of the loyalty card user based on objective nutritional guidelines to identify a predefined number of most unhealthy purchased items, searches the first data store to find substitutes for the unhealthy purchased items, transmits the substitutes, receives a selection of one or more of the substitutes, and promotes generating a shopping list comprising selected substitutes.