An Online Mobile Shopping Application for Uchumi Supermarket in Uganda

Abstract

Supermarkets in Uganda simplify the life of many Ugandans by providing easy and quick shopping day and night; some even operate 24 hours a day. This has prompted the supermarkets in Uganda to provide and improve 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 any time of their convenience. The online mobile application was designed to focus on improving shopping services 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 the Information technology unit or department (IT) to manage clients’ accounts and details, and the databases of the supermarket. Operating system (xp service pack 2 onwards) DBMS that will manage the database activities. Php and Java, to allow program access to data in the database. Keywords: Supermarkets, Quick shopping, Mobile phones, Mobile shopping, Information technology.