Contactless and automatic operations of a retail store

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform inventory control operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from a device operated by a prospective purchaser, a specific tag ID of a specific tag associated with a specific product for prospective purchase from an establishment;
• accessing a data structure containing a plurality of tag IDs associated with a plurality of products in the establishment;
• performing a lookup in the data structure of the specific tag ID, to thereby identify the specific product;
• initiating an electronic purchase transaction to debit an account associated with the prospective purchaser for an electronic purchase of the specific product;
• and
• following the electronic purchase of the specific product, disabling an ability to initiate an alarm when a transmission is received from the specific tag in proximity to an electronic article surveillance (EAS) gate associated with the establishment.

A method for performing inventory control operations for a plurality of products equipped with a plurality of wireless transmitting tags, the method comprising:

• receiving, from a device operated by a prospective purchaser, a specific tag ID of a specific tag associated with a specific product for prospective purchase from an establishment;
• accessing a data structure containing a plurality of tag IDs associated with a plurality of products in the establishment;
• performing a lookup in the data structure of the specific tag ID, to thereby identify the specific product;
• initiating an electronic purchase transaction to debit an account associated with the prospective purchaser for an electronic purchase of the specific product;
• and
• following the electronic purchase of the specific product, disabling an ability to initiate an alarm when a transmission is received from the specific tag in proximity to an electronic article surveillance (EAS) gate associated with the establishment.