10.46243/jst.2020.v5.i4.pp54-61 registered

Shopping malls are a much more convenient place where people buy products of daily necessity. On holidays, a lot of rush can be seen in shopping malls and it becomes a very tedious task to get the billing done. In cosmopolitan cities, to shop at supermarkets and shopping markets an everyday task. Everyone of us has encountered long queues for the payment of the bill at shopping centers during holidays and weekends, the rush increase seven more at the time of festive seasons because of the discounts and product offers. Customers pick the products they want to buy and put them into their shopping carts. After customers have picked the products, they need to get the billing done. For the payment of the bill, they have to move to billing counter. At the billing counter the cashier, scans the products using a barcode scanner and then produces the bill. This is a manually operated process and hence, time consuming. Therefore, it leads to the long queues at billing counters. This paper proposes a way to develop a brilliant shopping cart system that will monitor the purchased products and help produce the bill in a less time-consuming way. This paper looks forward to solving the problem of rush at billing counter using a barcode scanner and RF transceiver that sends and receives the data.