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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1995
George W Off, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Michael C Scroggie, Valencia, CA (US);
Thomas L Mindrum, Fairfield, CT (US);
Michael R O'Brien, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Catalina Marketing International, Inc, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Abstract
A system for generating, in a retail store, a printable discount coupon image solely in response to a customer's action concerning the purchase of an item. The system includes at least one customer checkout terminal, a store controller, a file for storing the terms of at least one coupon deal in which a discount coupon image is generated upon the purchase of a triggering product. The system identifies the triggering product in the customer order, associates it with the coupon deal, and automatically generates data defining at least one discount coupon for a product, typically other than the triggering product, based on the details of the coupon deal, which are not communicated to the customer prior to processing the customer order.