A motorized cart retriever, which may be a cart pusher or a cart puller, can apply a force to a nest of human-propelled, wheeled carts to facilitate retrieval of the carts. The cart retriever can include a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive cart status information from cart transmitters of the wheeled carts and wirelessly report event data to a control unit. The cart status information may include an identification of the cart transmitter, a location of the cart, a lock or unlock status of a cart wheel, a misuse condition, etc. The event data can include the cart status information, a number of wheeled carts being retrieved, etc. The cart wheel may include a brake. The transceiver may communicate a message to the cart wheel to keep the brake unactuated during retrieval. The control unit may analyze the event data to detect traffic patterns of the carts.

A display cart includes a pedestal, a lifting frame, and a power supply apparatus including a battery arranged within the pedestal and configured to supply power to an electric apparatus, an external power supply configured to supply power to the battery and/or the electric apparatus, and a capacity management system. The capacity management system includes a control device, a power delivery device, and a capacity statistic device. The control device determines output power of the electric apparatus. The capacity statistic device determines a remaining capacity in the battery, calculates a remaining power supply duration according to the output power of the electric apparatus, and sends a statistic result to the control device. The control device further controls the power delivery device to supply power to the electric apparatus according to the statistic result.

The present invention involves using an advanced shopping cart, which enables customers to scan products to be purchased immediately upon selection before placing them in the cart, view the total, view the nutritional value of each product as it is scanned, and complete the transaction by means of self-checkout without standing in line. This advanced shopping cart acts as a client in a wireless network environment, which communicates with the server by means of a computer operating system. It may scan the products selected by the customer, display the cost of these products, and display the total cost of all these products. Products placed in the cart may be displayed on a graphic display. Upon the shopper's completion of product selection, the user may be prompted to proceed to a payment method that may accept debit or credit cards to complete the transaction.

A navigation system uses a dead reckoning method to estimate an object's present position relative to one or more prior positions. In some embodiments, the dead reckoning method determines a change in position from the object's heading and speed during an elapsed time interval. In embodiments suitable for use with wheeled objects, the dead reckoning method determines the change in position by measuring the heading and the amount of wheel rotation. Some or all of the components of the navigation system may be disposed within a wheel, such as a wheel of a shopping cart.

A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, a plurality of wheels, a read component for performing a proximity scan of the shopping cart, a locationing component for determining a location of the shopping cart within a store based on the scan, and a display component for displaying at least one advertisement for a product based on the location of the shopping cart within the store, wherein the locationing component is further operable to determine a location of the product within the store relative to the shopping cart based on the scan, and wherein the display component is further operable to display an indication of the location of the advertised product relative to the location of the shopping cart.

The present invention involves using an advanced shopping cart, which enables customers to scan products to be purchased immediately upon selection before placing them in the cart, view the total, view the nutritional value of each product as it is scanned, and complete the transaction by means of self-checkout without standing in line. This advanced shopping cart acts as a client in a wireless network environment, which communicates with the server by means of a computer operating system. It may scan the products selected by the customer, display the cost of these products, and display the total cost of all these products. Products placed in the cart may be displayed on a graphic display. Upon the shopper's completion of product selection, the user may be prompted to proceed to a payment method that may accept debit or credit cards to complete the transaction.

In one embodiment, a store server has a communication device, a storage device, and a processor. The communication device performs transmission/reception of information with an information terminal and an electronic device. The storage device stores a list of terminal identification data in which first terminal identification data unique to the information terminal and second terminal identification data unique to the electronic device are to be registered, and a shopping file in which information of the commodity to be identified by identification data of the commodity is to be registered in association with at least any one of the first terminal identification data and the second terminal identification data. The processor creates the shopping file in association with at least any one of the first terminal identification data and the second terminal identification data.

According to one embodiment, a moving body includes an electrical component, a base frame that includes caster portions provided to be runnable on a floor surface, and is formed such that a front side is narrower than a rear side along a front-rear direction, the rear side is opened, and thus another moving body is insertable from the rear side, and a battery case that accommodates a battery supplying power to the electrical component and has an opening and closing lid opening rearward. A restricting member is provided inside the base frame and restricts a position of the other moving body inserted from the rear side to a position where the opening and closing lid opens at least to an angle at which the battery in the battery case is replaceable.

A carriage includes a storage, a sensor, and a computer. The storage is configured to receive a commodity to be placed in the storage. The sensor is configured to acquire a waveform of vibration of the placement unit. The computer is configured to detect that the commodity is placed in the placement unit based upon the waveform acquired by the sensor.

The application discloses a shopping cart, an electronic device, and a method. The shopping cart can include a first acquisition apparatus configured to obtain user preference information associated with a user of the shopping cart. The shopping cart can further include a second acquisition apparatus configured to acquire product information of a commercial product and processing circuitry configured to determine whether the product information matches the user preference information. When the product information fails to match the user preference information, the processing circuitry performs a prompting operation corresponding to the commercial product to prompt the user that the product information fails to match the user preference information. The shopping cart can include a mechanical frame that includes a storage area.