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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2017
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Bruce W. Wilkinson, Rogers, AR (US);
Matthew A. Jones, Bentonville, AR (US);
Aaron J. Vasgaard, Rogers, AR (US);
Robert J. Taylor, Rogers, AR (US);
Tim W. Webb, Rogers, AR (US);
Todd D. Mattingly, Bentonville, AR (US);
Jason R. Todd, Lowell, AR (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to facilitate expedient shopping in a physical retail facility. In one embodiment, a shopping system directed to pre-filling shopping carts with retail items prior to a customer's arrival at the physical retail shopping facility includes a user database of user profiles having one or more partialities associated with customers, a product database of retail products with identified vectorized characterizations or product vectors, a plurality of physical shopping carts, and a control circuit. By one approach, the control circuit is configured to access the user database and the product database and identify suggested retail items for a particular customer based, in part, on comparisons between the identified partialities and the identified vectorized product characterizations of the retail products.