Suggesting Expired Product Replenishment Based On Receipt Data

A computer-implemented method for suggesting purchases, the method comprising:

• storing, by a computer system, one or more records correlating expiration data to one or more food products having predictable expiration;
• conducting, by a point-of-sale system forming part of the computer system, a point-of-sale transaction involving a customer possessing a mobile computing device;
• delivering, by the computer system to the mobile computing device, receipt data documenting the point-of-sale transaction;
• determining, by the computer system using the one or more records, that a first product identified within receipt data has passed an expected expiration date;
• and
• informing, by the computer system via the mobile computing device, the customer that the first product has expired.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memory devices operably connected to the one or more processors;
• and
• the one or more memory devices collectively storing
• a receipt module programmed to deliver receipt data documenting one or more point-of-sale transactions to one or more computing devices of corresponding customers,
• a data store storing one or more records correlating expiration data to one or more products having predictable expiration,
• a search module programmed to identify products that form part of the one or more point-of-sale transactions and that, according to the one or more records, have passed an expected expiration date, and
• an output module programmed to inform appropriate customers that one or more products corresponding thereto have passed an expected expiration date.