Shopping facility assistance systems, devices and methods
AssigneeWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
InventorsMichael D. Atchley, Donald R. High, David C. Winkle
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AssigneeWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
InventorsMichael D. Atchley, Donald R. High, David C. Winkle
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A plurality of lockers can each serve to contain items that have been ordered by a customer. By one approach these lockers are stored in a locker storage facility. By one approach these lockers are configured such that a motorized transport unit can physically engage the locker in order to move the locker. So configured, a central computer system can be configured to select a particular motorized transport unit to retrieve a particular locker that has been previously associated with a particular entity (such as a particular customer or their designated agent) and to make that locker available to that particular entity such that the latter can retrieve their item or items from that locker.
An apparatus comprising:
A method comprising:
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