System and Method for Multiple Product and Price Discovery

A computer readable medium for optimizing product purchasing to enable a consumer to efficiently locate and purchase multiple products, the medium comprising computer readable instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

• receive, from a consumer device connected to a network, an indication of a plurality of products a consumer wishes to purchase;
• receive a location associated with the consumer;
• identify, for each product, at least one vendor from which the respective product of the plurality of products can be purchased;
• compute, based on each vendor location and the location associated with the consumer, an optimized selection of vendors from the identified vendors for purchasing the plurality of products;
• and
• communicate said optimized selection of vendors to the consumer device.

A computer implemented method for optimizing purchasing of multiple products, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a processor, a request from a consumer for more than one product, said request comprising multiple product descriptions;
• receiving, by the processor, a location associated with the consumer;
• determining, by the processor, qualifying vendors each having an available product that matches a product description within said request;
• compiling, by the processor, a group of said qualifying vendors, locations of said qualifying vendors, each requested product available at each of said qualifying vendors, and a vendor price for each requested product;
• determining, by the processor, distances between each of said qualifying vendor locations and said location associated with the consumer, and between each pair of qualifying vendor locations;
• determining, by the processor, a plurality of possible routes to obtain all of the requested products;
• associating, by the processor, a travel cost with each possible route;
• determining, by the processor, a route that optimizes purchase of all the requested products;
• and
• communicating, by the processor, the route that optimizes the purchase of all the requested products to one or more of the consumer and a delivery service.