Personalized automated shopping system and method

A system comprising:

• one or more programmable processors;
• and
• at least one machine-readable medium tangibly encoding instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• generating, for a computer display, a virtual hold tag in a shopping application that provides one or more items for sale to a consumer operating a client computing device, the shopping application being associated with a retailer of the one or more items;
• associating at least one of the one or more items with the virtual hold tag in the shopping application;
• generating a collage of items associated with the virtual hold tag, the collage of items being a single visual representation of each item associated with the virtual hold tag;
• transmitting the collage of items to the consumer via the client computing device;
• and
• providing, for the client computing device, an interface configured to allow the consumer to buy, hold, or decline each item in the collage of items.