ShopLister – A Grocery List Management Application

Abstract

Shopping for grocery is a very essential part of human lives activity performed regularly. However, it can be observed that people spend very little time to plan and manage their grocery lists as this task is often considered to be undervalued. People also tend to find grocery shopping complex and frustrating. The goal of this paper is to analyze the problems faced by people with creating and managing grocery lists and identifying the gap in current techniques used. It can be observed that human interaction with their smartphones is massive in this era, hence a mobile based solution which helps create and manage grocery lists can be very useful. A proposed solution prototype `Shop-Lister' is then discussed along with implementation and design methodologies, which is a mobile based application that enables people to create grocery lists, manage (add/delete/cross items) lists, find nearby supermarkets available, recommend items to added to list along with brand suggestions and also helps locate items within a supermarket through the use of augmented reality. This type of solution will help improve people's lifestyle and reduce the level of complexity faced in grocery list management.