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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1999
John C. Addy, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a department store retail system in order to perform a purchase transaction, with the department store retail system has a first self-service checkout terminal positioned in a first department of the department store and a supervisor terminal, includes the step of generating a first item-entered control signal if a customer enters a first item for purchase from the first department in the first self-service checkout terminal. The method also includes the step of determining if the customer has an additional item for purchase from the first department to enter in the first self-service checkout terminal in response to generation of the first item-entered control signal and generating a first no-additional-items control signal if the customer has no additional items from the first department to enter in the first self-service checkout terminal. The method further includes the step of suspending the purchase transaction of the customer at the first self-service checkout terminal in response to generation of the first no-additional-items control signal. A department store retail system is also disclosed.