The thought of waiting in the long queue at a retail mall makes us all cringe. Many a times it takes more time for billing than for shopping for the family! With malls becoming the favorite weekend retreat for more and more people, the problem is only going to get worse.
Here's a thought...
Two things happen at the billing counter -
1. Computing the total bill
2. Payment
People come with basket or at times baskets full of goods. Obviously it takes a while to scan all of them and compute the bill. How about modeling a shopping cart on the lines of an online shopping cart? Make it intelligent so that it can compute the bill as the goods are added to or removed from it! All that is left to be done at the counter is the payment, which takes relatively lesser time.
It's feasibility and design would require some serious pondering but hey! it's a thought! :)
-Ashish.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
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