Smart promo a solution to find the best discount for FMCG at supermarket in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Promotions are a vital aspect in supermarket customers day to day. Supermarket promotions can be divided as price discounts, bundle offers, loyalty card offers, and bank card offers. People who visit supermarkets are mostly interested in promotions. But supermarket customers have been facing numerous problems when searching for promotions at supermarkets. Some of the problems supermarket customers face are, time waste, lack of interest, lack of user friendliness in similar applications, finding area wise promotions and finding the best discount. Smart Promo is solution to avoid the issues supermarket customers are currently facing. Also, currently some Sri Lankan supermarkets have clearance sale promotions which are unique for one supermarket outlet but currently supermarkets do not consist a proper method to advertise these promotions using technology. Also, supermarket chains have different discounts for the same product and some supermarket chains offer significant price discounts which are different from another supermarket chain. The aim of this project is to allow supermarket customers to know about the promotions and discounts of fast-moving consumer goods in supermarkets using one mobile application rather than using several web/mobile applications for every supermarket or physically visiting a supermarket. Smart Promo also notifies the user about promotions, once the user is near a supermarket. “Smart Promo” is a mobile application, supermarket customer could use to find the best discount which many more functionalities