Smart Shopping Service (3S) is a shopping assistant useful for many target audiences that need assistance with shopping. For instance people who don't like grocery shopping need to get in and out of the store as fast as possible. That requires an organized shopping list, a well thought through route and quick check-out. Also people with multiple parties in family need good coordination of necessary items that need to be bought.
Smart Shopping Service is a service that enables multiple users to jointly create a shopping list, share and edit it in real time.When at the store the application functions as a GPS assistant that directs users to the right isle and to the product. It is done according to the shopping list and the list is automatically reordered into the most efficient (and fastest) route for the user. In order to provide a full service the 3S application makes one's phone act like a self-service scanner to scan the bar codes and in the end pay for the goods.
The buyers of the system (our customers) are the supermarkets who obtain the system. They are seen as our actual market to sell the product, then again the market research concerning the specifications and design of the product needs to be conducted on the actual shoppers. Shoppers are seen as users of the system and for them the product will usable free of charge.
There are many products on the market that provide some of the same features than the 3S. Then again the 3S has the majority and the most important ones of them combined together to provide the full service the customers need.
