Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
  • G07G1/00—Cash registers
  • G07G1/0036—Checkout procedures
  • G07G1/0045—Checkout procedures with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
  • G07G1/0054—Checkout procedures with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles

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• the invention relates to a billing method for retail and wholesale, especially in the food industry.
• Thermal papers contain bisphenols, especially bisphenol A (BPA), which is recognized to be harmful to health. It is thus unfavorable to use thermal paper in sensitive food areas such as fresh meat. Meat retailers are therefore encouraged to avoid any possible transfer of bisphenol to the meat.
• BPA bisphenol A
• the serving persons while wearing hygiene gloves when portioning the meat, the cold cuts or the cheese, remove them before attaching the aforementioned thermo paper candy.
• bisphenol is fat-soluble, which increases the risk of transfer of the substance from the thermal paper to the meat, the cold cuts or the cheese.
• the invention is thus based on the idea to no longer achieve the individualization of the empty container by attaching an additional slip or the like, but to give the empty container itself from home a readable identifier.
• the individual identifier of the empty container can be deposited with a number of the characteristic features relating to the goods packed in the empty container, for example a product price to be calculated at the supermarket outlet.
• the deposited feature such as a price, can be taken into account.
• the method according to the invention additionally comprises connecting the billing unit to the empty container after assembling the individual goods.
• this includes the packaging of the billing unit, so for example, the portioned grocery shopping, using the empty container, so that the empty container next to its customization function due to the identifier also has the function to pack the billing unit transportable.
• connection takes place only after the outputting of the at least one characteristic feature, for example at the cash register of a supermarket.
• a billing system has advantages in cases where it is highly sensitive, valuable or to be stolen by shoplifters products.
• the output of the individual goods can be linked to the fact that the customer has actually paid or paid for the goods.
• some fully automated POS systems are conceivable, which make the publication of the product that the deposited as a characteristic feature in the identifier of the empty container purchase price is paid.
• the output comprises outputting to a POS system.
• the characteristic feature is a stored purchase price.
• a product quantity and a product type is output, and the implementation of this information for the purpose of calculating the purchase price is carried out by the POS system.
• the output comprises the outputting to an inventory or inventory system.
• the characteristic features associated with the detection suitably comprise a characterization of the type and quantity of the individual goods which are part of the billing unit.
• the reading of the identifier includes the reading of a one- or two-dimensional barcode.
• the bar codes known from the prior art such as the bar code according to the international standard ISO / IEC 1520
• an almost arbitrarily high number of different identifiers can be generated, so that even with high empty container requirements, the unambiguous identification of each empty container is ensured.
• connecting the billing unit to the empty container comprises connecting the billing unit to a bag, a bag, a bag, a food-safe container, or an evacuated or filled with a protective gas atmosphere container.
• the empty container can and should be adapted in its nature to the food to be packaged.
• determining the at least one characteristic feature includes determining the weight of the item. This is the case in particular at the aforementioned service counters. So it is possible that the determined weight is used to determine a weight-dependent product price. From the state of the art corresponding scales are known, which, for example, after entering a kilo price and after weighing the product by simple multiplication of the individual weight-dependent Determine product price.
• a scale for implementing the method according to the invention expediently comprises an integrated or connected identification reading system, so that the method according to the invention can be carried out with the aid of a single device to the extent that it is to be carried out before the code is read in again.
• the balance described is purposefully networked with the POS system or an intermediary server system to ensure the flow of information between the balance and cash register system with respect to the characteristics associated with the identifier.
• the characteristics to be determined and attributed to the identifier are not limited to any particular ones.
• the invention motivating applications are often assigned as characteristic features a type of product, a product weight, a price per quantity or weight, a unit price, a weight or quantity-dependent product price or more of these the identifier.

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