Point-of-sale system for charitable donations
OwnerSean Macguireinventor
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Abstract
A point-of-sale packaging and display system for facilitating donations to charities is provided. A product's packaging is made to include an area that is labeled to identify a beneficiary of the donation and a predetermined amount thereof. The label is provided by the entity operating the system to a product manufacturer or seller in exchange for a donation to the stated beneficiary prior to the time the product is sold to a consumer. The product manufacturer or seller, in turn, applies the label to a product for display at the point-of-sale. By this method the consumer, who pays for the product and ultimately the donation, decides directly who to donate money to and how much solely by purchasing a product with a corresponding label identifying the beneficiary and amount of donation.
Claims10
A point-of-sale packaging and display system for charitable donations comprising:
- (a) a means for displaying a plurality of identical products to be sold, each of said products being packaged in its own respective package identifying the product therein;
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- (b) a plurality of labels identifying at least two different beneficiaries for receiving a donation from at least a portion of proceeds from said sales, wherein (1) said labels are attached to said package and (2) a purchaser of one of said identical products decides which of said beneficiaries said proceeds flow to by selecting which of said products the purchaser decides to buy.
A method for packaging and displaying a product at a point-of-sale to facilitate donations to charities comprising the steps of:
- (a) displaying a plurality of identical products to be sold, each of said products being packaged in its own respective package identifying the product therein;
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- (b) attaching to said products labels identifying at least one of two different beneficiaries for receiving a donation from at least a portion of proceeds from said sales, wherein a purchaser of one of said identical products decides which of said beneficiaries said proceeds flow to by selecting which of said products the purchaser decides to buy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.