An online mobile shopping application for Uchumi supermarket in Uganda

Abstract

Super markets in Uganda simplify life of very many Ugandans by providing easy and quick shopping during day and night and some even operate 24 hours of the day. This has prompted the super markets in Uganda to provide and improve the shopping. The purpose of the study was to design an online mobile shopping application that is used by people to shop using their mobile phones at anytime of their convenience the online mobile application was design focusing on improving the services of shopping to avoid congestion in supermarkets in Uganda. Uchumi supermarket kabalagala branch was taken as a case study where both the user and the clients were interviewed for the purpose of requirement elicitation. The online mobile shopping application system at uchumi supermarket in Uganda has been designed to work with Information technology unit or department(IT ) to manage clients accounts and details, the databases of the super market. Tools used: Application java eclipse IDE. Operating system (xp service pack 2 onwards) DBMS that will manage the database activities. Php and java, to allow program access data in the database.