Bar code bag
OwnerVittoria Carnevaleinventor
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Abstract
In order to identify each single client that regularly buys products in the same shop or group of shops, an innovative, specific, reusable shopping bag is proposed. The characterising feature of this bag resides in the client's identification via a bar code that may be permanently or removably applied on the bag, preferably on the outer side thereof. This bar code may be read by an optical reader in order to sum the number of purchase operations performed by the client during a certain time period, to thereby determine her/his faithfulness. The bag may be produced in various shapes and materials, in particular it could be made of natural, synthetic, or mixed fabrics.
Claims22
A reusable bag, including a handle and a body, characterised in that it is provided with at least one bar code, preferably applied on the outer side of the bag, to allow identification of a single client who buys products in a shop, or in a certain group of shops, the bar code being suited to be read by an optical reader when the client pays at the desk, to thereby increase the value of an electronic counter indicating and storing in an electronic memory the number of passages of the client at anyone of the desks of the shop or supermarket, or the group of shops, said passages occurring in a predetermined time span that can be set at will by the administrator of the commercial activity, shop, or group of shops.
Method of identifying an individual client having a bag provided with at least one bar code, which comprises reading said bar code with an optical reader when said client pays at the desk of a shop, a supermarket, a chemist's shop, or the like, which may belong to the same group of commercial activities, either of the same type or not.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.