Shopping Mall Research Paper

LOOTLEY: An Android application for Shopping Malls

1Swin Almeida, 2Disha Bhatia, 3Sweeny Dias, 4 Pooja Italia

Department of information technology

St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

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Abstract

In the modern world, shopping has become an essential day to day activity for most of the people. Some of the problems that people have to go through when they do shopping includes; having to travel a long distance without knowing the accessibility of the items. Difficulty in discovery of relevant shops inside a shopping mall. Forgetting to buy some items which they intended to buy. Not being aware of the deals and offers going on in a particular

It is a form of recreation for all classes of the society. In this age, families enjoy shopping for different occasions in malls. India, being so diverse has a number of festivals throughout the year. From window shopping, wedding shopping to buying gifts customers throng malls to make use of the offers and get the best deals.

Shopping in malls can be a very time consuming process and the customer might end up paying more for the same products shopped. Often, shoppers come across this where they shop for goods for a certain price and later realize the same product is available for a much more discount on the next day or elsewhere.

In malls, shoppers are not aware of where they will get the best deals and so end up wasting time and money. Also, the product catalogues published in newspapers are scattered everywhere making it a mess and shoppers might miss out on their desired deals. Real time shopping can be made a more pleasant experience for shoppers by using an application that will give customer discounts, product catalogues, offers, information about upcoming shopping festivals and much more on their fingertips. Featuring top malls in Mumbai with 500+ Branded Stores, this app as the name suggests, will make shopping a more prolific experience in shopping malls. The dynamic design will help search and explore malls around and offers within

The information provided on the application will be of immense use for shoppers who want to make shopping in malls a more fruitful experience. It is a must-have smartphone application for every savvy shopper that covers all the malls in Mumbai featuring all brands. This application will help to maximize your shopping experience, whether at home or in the mall. With the above in mind, it will empower shoppers by giving them the ability to connect to stores and plan their purchase saving time and money. Also, in doing so we will empower ourselves by acquiring knowledge on latest cutting edge technologies, end-to-end software development lifecycle and a deep insight on how to setup a scalable and maintainable