Remotely-ordered grocery items
OwnerAlexica T. LAYE, Jade O. LAYEinventors
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for ordering grocery items. When a customer places a grocery request, the system determines whether the grocery items will be available at the customer-selected fulfillment time and, if so, will schedule delivery of the items. Various other methods to assure complete fulfillment of customer orders are provided herein.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method to fulfill grocery items ordered by a customer, the method comprising:
- displaying, by a graphical user interface of a customer computer device, a list of grocery items whereby a customer can select one or more food items the customer indicates are to be fulfilled;
- transmitting the grocery items selected by the customer over a communications network to a processor;
- responsive to a determination, by the processor, that any of the food items are not available, transmitting one or more substitution food items to the customer computer device over the communications network;
- responsive to customer acceptance of the substitution food items, scheduling delivery of the substitution food items;
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- delivering the substitution food items to the customer.
A computer-implemented method to fulfill grocery items ordered by a customer, the method comprising:
- displaying, by a graphical user interface of a customer computer device, a list of grocery items whereby a customer can select one or more food items the customer indicates are to be fulfilled;
- transmitting the grocery items selected by the customer over a communications network to a processor;
- responsive to a determination, by the processor, that any of the food items are not available, transmitting an electronic alert to the customer computer device that any one of the foods items is not available;
- responsive to customer acceptance of any of the food items, scheduling delivery of the available food items;
- and
- delivering the available food items to the customer.
A computer-implemented method to fulfill grocery items ordered by a customer, the method comprising:
- displaying, by a graphical user interface of a customer computer device, a list of grocery items whereby a customer can select one or more food items;
- transmitting the grocery items selected by the customer over a communications network to a processor;
- and
- responsive to a determination, by the processor, that any one of the food items are available, delivering the available food items to the customer via an automobile or drone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.