Predictive shopping

A system that communicates with an e-commerce system to automatically purchase items for a shopper comprising:

• a store system comprising:
• a receipts database having information on items purchased by the shopper in the past, and
• a controller adapted to:
• make automated purchases through the e-commerce system, and
• communicate with other computing devices;
• a home office system coupled to the store system, comprising:
• an item file memory, having stored information about items purchased by the shopper;
• a past actions analysis device coupled to the controller adapted to organize, categorize and analyze information on items purchased by shopper from the receipts database and calculate a period of time between repeated purchases of at least one item;
• a predictive engine coupled to the past actions analysis device, adapted to receive the calculated periods of time between repeated purchases of items, estimate future purchase dates for these items, then adjust the estimates based upon user input;
• a list modification device coupled to the predictive engine and the store system, adapted to:
• receive the time periods for each item previously purchased and create a master list indicating when each item is to be purchased again based upon the time periods received from the predictive engine;
• receive input from shopper adding items to the master list;
• receive a maximum budgeted amount indicating the maximum amount to be spent on a shopping session;
• create a purchase list from the master list having a plurality of items that are desired to be purchased at the next upcoming shopping session each listed on a separate line from top to bottom, with the top item being the most important to the bottom line being the least important;
• display the purchase list through the shopper's computing device to the shopper;
• send the purchase list to an e-commerce system to purchase the items on the purchase list if all the items on the purchase list do not cost more than the maximum budgeted amount;
• if a combined cost of the items on the purchase list exceeds the maximum budgeted amount, then functioning to interact with the shopper's computing device to move items above other items to indicate their relative importance until all are organized by importance;
• and
• delete items starting from the bottom of the purchase list until the items remaining cost does not exceed the maximum budgeted amount;
• a priority/period adjuster coupled to the list modification device adapted to:
• monitor the adjustment made by shopper to the purchase list, and
• adjust the priority rating of at least one item based upon the shopper's adjustments and store the updated priority ratings for later use;
• and
• wherein the shopper's computing device comprises:
• an I/O device adapted to receive input and display output;
• wherein the shopper's computing device is configured to:
• receive input from shopper through the I/O device,
• display output to shopper through the I/O device, and
• communicate with at least one of the store system and the home office system.