Abstract
Smartphone users are becoming reliant on the features that make their lives more convenient. In the past, people never left their house without their wallets; nowadays, people are reluctant to leave their cell phone behind. As the shopping experience has changed, technology should also change to accommodate the needs of customers. This thesis aims to showcase an approach to make shopping less time-consuming by using the feature already embedded in our smartphones, called Near Field Communication (NFC) reader. Exploiting NFC technology, it can help to read Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that store product information. When customers intend to buy an item, they will read the tag using the NFC in our phone(s), the RFID tag identifier will cross-check with an item on the cloud and update the quantity when items checkout the cart. The benefits of this technology are customers will not wait in lines and business operations and equipment costs will be reduced.