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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2023
Frito-lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
John S. Phillips, Plano, TX (US);
George Benjamin Mayfield, Plano, TX (US);
Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of prompting impulse purchases includes detecting a position of a customer at an impulse purchase location via an impulse purchase prompt initiator, automatically transmitting, via the impulse purchase prompt initiator, an impulse purchase prompt to the customer, fulfilling, in near-real time, an impulse purchase request transmitted by the customer in response to the impulse purchase prompt via the impulse purchase prompt initiator automatically sending a signal to a communications module of an automated locker, and automatically opening the at least one storage compartment and dispensing a product associated with the impulse purchase. The automated locker includes storage that is temperature controlled so as to lower a temperature of the product, and the impulse purchase prompt is only automatically transmitted in response to the temperature of the product being equal to or less than a predetermined temperature.