Abstract:
In Uganda today, the average time wasted by supermarket clients to identify the exact
location of the desired commodity and queue to make payment is definitely plenty. The
customer searches for the required commodities through the different aisles to various
sections and drop all the products they wish to purchase in the trolley/basket, and then they
proceed to the checkout queue for billing. There is also unnecessary time wasted on the
billing counters. Therefore, the system developed enables the customer to easily know the
location of the commodity, price checkout as well as billing of the commodity. The system
consists of the touch screen monitor which displays the location of the desired commodity
in the shopping arena. The customer moves to the section, and he picks the commodity
which has rfid tags attached on it and drops it into the trolley via the reader, the tag is sent
to the central database, the price, name of commodity and cumulative total price are
displayed on to the touch screen monitor as more commodities are added. The information
is stored in system's database and it is also displayed on the computer at the cashier’s desk.
If an unwanted product is removed from trolley, then that commodity is also deleted from
the database.
