Automated Bill Generation on Customer Product Filling in Simulated Basket at Shopping Mart

Abstract

Shopping Mart concerns shopping various items and accessories offline. In shopping mart, basically customers choose the liked items from the shelves and keep it on the basket trolley and after selecting all the required items, the customer reach to the billing counter for billing all the selected items in the basket. The person in the billing counter pick the products one by one, from bill tray and read the bar code of each item with the help of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and generate the bill. In the present scenario, it seems that the number of customers are increasing to purchase their required products from shopping mart, due to the fact that all the items can be availed from one roof. Even though shopping mart has many billing counters, they cannot be managed proportionately to the customers arriving at the billing counter, and customer has to wait in anyone of the billing counter queue. This leads to wastage of time for each customer waiting in the queue, as service for each customer increases or decreases proportionately to number of products selected by each customer and in total, average service time increases. In order to avoid this situation, a thought provoking idea is to automate the basket trolley with auto bill calculation of the selected products and filling it In the basket by the customer so that service time can be reduced.