Shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods pertaining to movement of a mobile retail product display

Abstract

A motorized transport unit is configured to temporarily attach to a mobile retail product display and a central computer system is configured to task that motorized transport unit to move such a mobile retail product display. This movement can be from a customer-inaccessible area to a customer-accessible area and/or vice versa. The mobile retail product displays can include refrigerated-product displays and heated-product displays. By one approach such tasking is based, at least in part, upon detecting one or more predetermined states such as a predetermined temporal state, a detected customer demographic, local weather conditions, and/or a societal observation.

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