The smart shopping cart using bar code scanner is a very mature product

The retail industry is actually a fastest-changing industry. However, the ordinary shopping cart used for shopping has emerged for nearly a century. When people are still using ordinary shopping carts, they may not realize that ordinary shopping carts have brought them a lot of inconvenience and low efficiency .

However, at present, smart shopping carts using barcode scanners have appeared on the market. It is said that these smart shopping carts can support users to scan the bar code for self-service shopping, and after the user scans the bar code, the tablet computer on the smart shopping cart will automatically display the price, details and other information of the item as the smart shopping cart using bar code scanner also has a automatic billing system . It is worth mentioning that the product recognition rate of smart shopping carts using barcode scanners can reach 100%.

Some customers like to compare smart shopping cart using bar code scanners with another smart shopping cart based on visual recognition on the market. They feel that smart shopping carts that use visual recognition are more advanced . In fact, most smart shopping carts based on visual recognition technology will also be equipped with a bar code scanner  to facilitate customers to scan large items. Moreover, the item’s recognition rate of smart shopping carts based on visual recognition is much lower than that of smart shopping carts using barcode scanner.

The outer packaging of Items sold in supermarkets or retail stores will sometimes be changed. These also cause certain problems for smart shopping carts based on visual recognition. They may can’t recognize items easily .

As we are keeping talking about the advantages of smart shopping cart using bar code scanner, the retailer may wonder what if a customer doesn’t scan items’ bar codes when he uses a smart shopping cart ? In fact, the smart shopping cart developer have already thought of this questions ,they have installed a dual camera on the smart shopping cart and a weight sensor on the bottom of the smart shopping cart, with which the smart shopping cart will knows and will remind the customers to scan items’ bar codes .

At the end of the shopping process , the smart shopping cart using bar code scanner will also support you to check out directly on the cart and leave the supermarket immediately .(Editor : Superhii , Cindy Xin )