We all know those barcode scanners that employees use and even customers can use to walk about the store and add items to a gift registry. Well, why not let everybody use them to shop. Customer can choose to use one if they like. If they do choose to utilize this method of shopping they can grab one at the front of the store near the shopping carts and begin shopping. If they find an item that they want to buy they can scan the barcode for the product and the screen on the scanner can show them all of the information on the product such as: product price, specifications, quantity in stock, any discounts that may apply, etc. Then the customer can choose to add the item to their cart both physically and on the scanner. On the scanner customers will be able to see their full shopping cart with a running total cost of items in their cart as well as any possible savings from discounts and sales. Customers can even add any coupons that they wish to use and see them applied to their shopping cart. There can even be a place on the shopping carts to mount the scanner so that customer don't have to hold on to it the whole time that their shopping.
One step further, once these customers reach the checkout, there will be a way for cashiers to check people out using the scanners with all of their items already scanned and totaled. Using the barcode scanners to checkout will make the process faster than ever before.
