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Abstract

A computer implemented system for providing customers of retail outlet(s) with a transaction based gaming reward. There is a point of sale at a retail outlet (2) such as a supermarket check-out. There is a POS device (3) which runs POS software which also runs the application for production of a ticket, coupon or receipt with a reward to be offered to the customer making the transaction. To this end, the POS device (3) and its software stores text and image(s) required for production of a required reward via the ticket, coupon or receipt. The application software for the reward may control what is displayed on the pole display. There is a scanner (4) at the point of sale 1 which scans the or each item (5) purchased, which scanner (4) triggers the application to inspect the text being sent to the POS screen (6). The point of sale (1) also includes a printer (7) which is a dedicated printer device which prints out a ticket, coupon or receipt bearing the reward offered to the customer, which reward is determined by the application and which can be triggered to activate the dedicated printer (7) to print out the ticket, coupon or receipt at any time during the POS transaction. The reward can be offered at a first characteristic of a transaction, all characteristics of a transaction, or at any number of characteristics between one and all characteristics.

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