Considering Selling Exemplar-Based Goods, Items or Services
One aspect relates to managing deliveries of at least one goods, items, and/or services that could be received by at least one customer, at least partially by recognizing an exemplar as corresponding to the at least one goods, items, and/or services. Another aspect relates to considering selling goods, items, and/or services from an exemplar merchant and/or store at least partially utilizing an exemplar item information as derived from a customer's previous history, wherein at least some of the exemplar item information as derived from the customer's previous history could be stored in certain embodiments of at least a portion of a shopping control mechanism. Yet another aspect relates to receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one goods, items, and/or services.
1 .- 125 . (canceled)
126 . A method, comprising:
receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one goods, items, and/or services; and
sequencing a delivery of the at least one goods, items, and/or services to a shopper at least partially in response to the receiving the exemplar item information.
127 . The method of claim 126 , wherein the receiving an exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one goods, items, and/or services can be performed at least partially using a shopping control mechanism.
128 . The method of claim 126 , wherein the sequencing the delivery can be performed at least partially using a shopping control mechanism.
129 . The method of claim 126 , wherein the sequencing the delivery can be performed at least partially within an exemplar merchant and/or store.
130 . The method of claim 126 , wherein the sequencing the delivery can be performed at least partially outside of an exemplar merchant and/or store.
131 . The method of claim 126 , wherein the sequencing the delivery can be performed at least partially at a customer's home.
132 . The method of claim 126 , further comprising:
offering to sell the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
133 . The method of claim 126 , further comprising:
selling the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
134 . The method of claim 126 , further comprising:
offering for sale one or more goods, items, or services at least in part by a shopping control mechanism, wherein the one or more goods, items, or services could be purchased by customers at least partially based on at least one exemplar item information that can be used to recognize an exemplar as corresponding to the one or more goods, items, or services.
135 . The method of claim 134 , wherein the at least one exemplar item information can be derived at least in part from a customer's previously derived exemplar shopping history.
136 . The method of claim 134 , wherein the offering for sale one or more goods, items, or services at least in part utilizing a shopping control mechanism which at least partially uses the at least one exemplar item information that is derived from a customer's previously derived exemplar shopping history.
137 . The method of claim 134 , further comprising delivering the one or more goods, items, or services that have been purchased by a customer at least partially using the at least one exemplar item information derived from the customer's previously derived exemplar shopping history.
138 . An apparatus, comprising:
a shopping control mechanism configurable to at least partially recognize an exemplar as corresponding to an at least one of one or more goods, items, or services at least partially using exemplar item information.
139 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
the shopping control mechanism configurable to quote a price on the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
140 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
the shopping control mechanism configurable to sell the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
141 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
the shopping control mechanism configurable to consider selling the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
142 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
the shopping control mechanism configurable to offer for sale the at least one goods, items, and/or services.
143 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
the shopping control mechanism being under a control of an at least one exemplar merchant and/or store.
144 . (canceled)
145 . A method comprising:
seamlessly obtaining exemplar item information at a plurality of exemplar merchants and/or stores, wherein the exemplar item information is at least partially derived using a shopper control portion operated by the plurality of exemplar merchants and/or stores; and
delivering one or more goods, items, or services at least partially in response to the seamlessly obtaining exemplar item information at a plurality of exemplar merchants and/or stores.
146 . The method of claim 145 , further comprising sequencing the one or more goods, items, or services to at least one customer.
147 . The method of claim 145 , further comprising:
providing from an exemplar merchant or store the ability to recognize a manufacturer or distributors of one or more goods, items, or services that correspond directly, or closely, to the exemplar as provided by a customer.
148 . The method of claim 147 , further comprising providing a de-obfuscation service to customers.
149 . The apparatus of claim 138 , further comprising:
at least one common checkout location configurable to the at least one of one or more goods, items, or services represented by at least one exemplar, wherein the at least one of one or more goods, items, or services could have been supplied by a plurality of exemplar merchants and/or stores.
150 . The apparatus of claim 149 , wherein the at least one common checkout location being under control of the at least one exemplar merchants and/or stores.
151 . The apparatus of claim 149 , wherein the at least one common checkout location being under control of several of the at least one exemplar merchants and/or stores.
152 . The apparatus of claim 149 , wherein the at least one common checkout location being under control of a third party from any one of the at least one exemplar merchants and/or stores.
153 . The apparatus of claim 138 , wherein the shopping control mechanism is further operable to provide at least a portion of an image that is operable to integrate exemplar item information.
154 . The apparatus of claim 153 , wherein the at least a portion of an image that is operable to integrate exemplar item information comprises:
the at least the portion of the image that is operable to integrate buying information.
155 . The apparatus of claim 153 , wherein the shopping control mechanism is further operable to quote quoting a price on at least one of one or more goods, items, or services.