Smart Application to Enhance in-Store Shopping

Most of us have spent what seemed like forever in a retail store, waiting for the person in front of us in the queue to bill a large number of items, when we just needed a single item to be purchased. Long lines at the cashier counters can cause people to wait for a significant amount of time, before they can pay for their products, and leave, regardless of the number of items being purchased. We feel that this can be changed, and our idea is to automate the check-out process, enabling automatic payment, striving towards a new-age digital shopping experience. We propose to do this by using a smart phone application that allows the user to scan the products he or she wishes to purchase, generate the bill for all the products scanned, make the payment and simply walk out of the store. This process will ensure easy customer, inventory management and finance handling, making both management and customer happy. This application will help avoid long queues and provide a hassle free checkout. It will not only reduce the amount of waiting time, but it will also reduce or eliminate the need for a cashier. In addition to this, in accordance to today’s trend of e-transactions, the entire process will be free of any hard cash.