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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESIDUAL INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WITH MOBILE MODULAR DISPLAYS

  • US 20180189725A1
  • Filed: 12/27/2017
  • Published: 07/05/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for managing a store inventory of a store with mobile displays comprising:

  • a plurality of mobile modular displays each comprising a product sensor and configured to be stocked with a plurality of types of products in a plurality of shelf spaces at a stocking location by an automated stocking system, transport the plurality of types of products to a store location, and display the plurality of types of products at the store location;

    a mobile modular display inventory database; and

    a control circuit coupled to the mobile modular display inventory database and configured to;

    track, with product sensors on mobile modular displays and in the mobile modular display inventory database, inventory levels of the mobile modular displays in the store location;

    detect a modular display replacement condition for at least one mobile modular display based on the inventory levels of the mobile modular displays at the store location stored in the mobile modular display inventory database;

    cause a replacement mobile modular display to be deployed to replace the at least one mobile modular display on at a sales floor of the store location in response to detecting the modular display replacement condition;

    in an event that residual products remain on the at least one mobile modular display being replaced on the sales floor, determine a residual handling instruction selected from a plurality of residual handling methods for the residual products; and

    communicate the residual handling instruction to automated units at the store location to handle the residual products.

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