Station for price scanning verifying and selectively bagging purchase items

To be used with a purchase monitoring device which is utilized to scan a bar code of an item to be purchased and obtain and store pricing and purchase information relative to the item to be purchased, a purchase checkout station comprising:

• a monitor cradle structured and disposed to receive and hold the purchase monitoring device,
• said monitor cradle including a data input connection disposed in information receiving and transmitting communication with data transmission connector of the purchase monitoring device,
• said data input connection structured and disposed to receive the pricing and purchase information relative to the items to be purchased from the purchase monitoring device,
• data processing means structured and disposed to store and total the pricing and purchase information of all of the items to be purchased,
• display means structured and disposed to display the pricing and purchase information regarding the items to be purchased and the pricing totals regarding all of the items to be purchased to a user,
• a verification platform structured and disposed to receive each of the items to be purchased individually thereon,
• verification means structured and disposed to verify that the item to be purchased placed on said verification platform has been scanned with the purchase monitoring device so as to store the purchase and pricing information relative to the item to be purchased in the purchase monitoring device, and that the pricing and purchase information relative to the item has been transmitted from the purchase monitoring device to the data processing means,
• bagging means structured and disposed to position an empty bag in an open position such that it will receive the item to be purchased, and only that item, therein from said verification platform, upon positive verification of the item to be purchased by said verification means, said bagging means being further structured to enable only a predetermined quantity of said items to be purchased to be disposed in said bag.