Methods and apparatus are disclosed regarding an e-commerce system that promotes sales of products based on product comparisons. Some embodiments may present a marketing message that justifies a price difference between presented products based on attribute differences between the presented products.

An electronic system, a method, and a computer program product select and provide published reliable information articles that are contextually appropriate and authoritative to influence selection and timing of purchase of a product identified as of interest to a user. The electronic system includes at least one electronic device that detects, via input device(s), user input(s) by a user indicating a current interest in purchasing a product or service. The electronic system activates an electronic search to identify, in published information source(s), relevant article(s) containing product or service information associated with the product or service. The electronic system presents, via output device(s), a purchase interface section indicating the product or service and at least a portion of or a link to the product or service information from the relevant article(s), to influence timing of a purchase decision for the product or service by the user.

According to one embodiment, an electronic receipt server includes a communication interface, a storage device, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive advertisement setting information from a setter terminal via the communication interface, store the advertisement setting information in the storage device, store electronic receipt information in the storage device, and receive a request for an electronic receipt from a user terminal via the communication interface. The processing circuit identifies a company code associated with the requested electronic receipt, then acquires the advertisement setting information associated with the company code in the storage device and determines whether the advertisement setting information indicates company-specific advertisements are enabled for the company code. The processing circuit then acquires a company-specific advertisement when the advertisement information indicates company-specific advertisements are enabled for the company code and outputs the acquired company-specific advertisement with the electronic receipt to the user terminal.

An online concierge system dynamically determines types of shopping events. The types may be used in various ways to increase efficiency of an item pipeline. The system may monitor interactions of a customer with an ordering interface on a customer client device associated with the customer. The monitoring may be during a shopping event that is categorized by a type, wherein the type describes a purpose of the shopping event. Responsive to a monitored interaction being an interaction from a set of trigger interactions, the system may determine a type of shopping event by applying the monitored interaction and content of a shopping cart of the ordering interface to a type prediction model. The system may assign an updated type to be the determined type, and perform an action based in part on the updated type.

A computer-implemented method for ingesting and presenting a video with associated linked products and metadata as a unified actionable shopping experience may include accessing a video file, receiving information about an object, the information including a link to a merchant portal or web page through which the object may be purchased, combining the video file and information about the object into a social media post, and delivering the social media post to consumers.

An advertisement generation method and a related device, wherein when a correct delivery intention is missing in an advertisement picture-copy, a delivery intention-related element may be embedded in an advertisement picture, and an expression of the delivery intention-related embedded element is reflected in an advertisement copy. In addition, when an incorrect/interfering delivery intention exists in the advertisement picture-copy, an element related to the correct delivery intention may be embedded in the advertisement picture, an element related to the incorrect/interfering delivery intention may be covered or removed, a related expression of the incorrect/interfering delivery intention in the advertisement copy may be further removed, and an expression of the element related to the correct delivery intention may be embedded in the advertisement copy.

A data processing device system may be configured by a program at least to determine particular content associated with a first indication of observable presentation of the visual indicator received from a first device system; store in response to determining that the particular content is associated with the received first indication, a recorded-presentation indication indicating that the particular content or information associated therewith has been device-presented; determine that the particular content is associated with a second indication of a user interaction with the visual indicator received from a second device system; and store in response to determining that the particular content is associated with the received second indication, an indication that the particular content has been interacted with by a user.

A product offered by the advertisement is displayed to the consumer in a multi-retailer cart which allows the consumer to select the product from among a plurality of retailers identified in the multi-retailer cart that offer the same or similar products and the mobile. The plurality of retailers to be displayed in the multi-retailer cart is determined by application of any of several factors that include the current location of the consumer, where those retailers that are most proximate to the consumer are displayed; incentives that are uniquely available based on consumer location; profile information associated with the consumer, such as retail preferences, affinity memberships; retailer factors, such as the availability of discounts, coupons, availability of the product in inventory, etc. The retailers may be ranked in the cart based on any one or more of these factors, and/or based upon payment of a promotion fee.