Abstract

Supermarkets are not completely equipped with systems that reduce congestion, secure customer belongings, prevent card information theft, and reduce error when input-ting product details into the electronic Point of Sales device when demand increases which often leads to loss of sales. The current system used is expensive and requires constant updates, which requires internet access which incurs costs. However, the current systems widely adopted are efficient yet limited. Human error margin is lowered under ideal circumstances, staff activity is monitored, and integrated systems execute jobs faster. But these systems are susceptible to human error when demand increases, often expensive to buy and maintain and continuous use yields same result. In order to yield better results, the Barcode Generating Shopping Cart System(BGSCS), aims at reducing congestion through a collection point; once goods are ordered online, vouchers and cash payments are used to prevent card information theft, barcodes are employed also in order to minimize mistakes made by cashiers and the cost of purchasing more current systems is saved by using BGSCS (which is cheap and requires little maintenance) thus profit is maximized. The waterfall methodology was used, which adopts a linear model, this ensures that execution of design procedures remain simple and straight forward. When the system was made available at a mock-up collection point to some customers, about 95% of the customers gave positive feedbacks about the interactive nature of the system. A projection of record growth in relation to customer (student) population and system requirement was carried out in the study.