Burden free shopping

A shopping method comprising the steps of:

• displaying lines of merchandise within at least one retail establishments;
• placement of sales checkout devices at locations within the retail establishment for use of shoppers;
• entering merchandise information, pickup point identity and estimated pickup time into the checkout device by the shopper;
• entering payment into the checkout device by the shopper;
• automatically printing in the checkout device, and delivering from the checkout device to the shopper, a combination sales receipt and pickup voucher indicating item purchased, amount paid, access code, pickup point location, pickup point compartment reserved and expiration time of the compartment reservation;
• reserving the pickup point compartment associated with the voucher;
• placing the purchased merchandise so as to be identified for pickup and transfer to the pickup point compartment;
• moving the purchases to a wrapping paint by retail store personnel;
• wrapping and marking the purchases with pickup point access code, pickup point identity and pickup point compartment identity;
• delivering and securing the wrapped purchase within the identified pickup compartment;
• enabling the pickup voucher of the shoppers to provide access to the respective pickup compartments;
• removing the corresponding wrapped purchases from the respective pickup compartment by the shopper.

A shopping method comprising the steps of:

• displaying lines of merchandise within a plurality of retail establishments within a shopping community;
• training sales assistants to operate portable sales checkout devices;
• training the sales assistants to match at least one of the lines of merchandise with shoppers' needs in one-on-one sales relationships within at least one of the retail establishments;
• placing the sales assistants with the shoppers within the retail establishments so as to produce purchases by the shoppers from the lines of merchandise;
• using the checkout devices to record the purchases of the shoppers and simultaneously, for each of die purchases, to produce and deliver a paper sales receipt and a paper pickup voucher to each or the shoppers making the purchases, the pickup voucher for each one of the shoppers providing a pickup point access code, pickup point identity and pickup point compartment identity;
• reserving the pickup point compartment associated with the compartment identify;
• dismissing the shoppers immediately after the purchases so that tho shoppers may exit the at least one of the retail establishments;
• storing a copy of the sales receipts and the pickup vouchers in the checkout devices;
• moving the purchases to a wrapping point;
• wrapping and marking the purchases with pickup point access code, pickup point identity and pickup paint compartment identity;
• delivering and securing the wrapped purchases within pickup compartments at a shopper selected one of a plurality of pickup points eternal to the retail establishments;
• enabling the pickup vouches of the shoppers to provide access to the respective pickup compartments;
• removing the corresponding wrapped purchases from the respective pickup compartments by the shoppers.