Smart grocery

The store in your pocket.

A shopper app and in-store beacon layer we designed for a grocery chain in the UAE. Customers walk a 3D copy of the shop, pick with a tap, get the right offer at the right shelf — and in flagship stores simply walk out, with cameras and smart shelves building the basket.

A project for a UAE-based grocery chain
3DStore walkthrough
1 QRTo walk in and out
0Queues at the till
BLEShelf-level offers
Grocery aisle in the 3D store view
3D store viewAisle 4 · Fresh & packaged
9.50Tap to pick
3D floor map
You are here
Why we built it

Groceries are still a queue-shaped problem.

Shoppers lose time hunting for products and waiting at the till, and the store loses its best chance to talk to them: the moment they are standing in the aisle. The chain wanted the ease of ordering online with the confidence of seeing the real shelf.

01

Find it faster

Walking a store you can see beats scrolling a flat list. Shoppers move through a photographic 3D copy of the shop and land right on the shelf they want.

02

Skip the wait

Pick in the app, or in a flagship store just walk out. Either way the basket is built as they shop, so there is nothing left to do at a till.

03

Talk to shoppers in the aisle

Bluetooth beacons let the store make a relevant offer at the exact moment a customer is standing next to the product.

The shopper journey

Four moments, start to finish.

From the pavement outside to the confirmed order, each step is a single, clear action.

01

Get noticed

A beacon at the entrance sends passers-by an offer worth walking in for.

02

Check in

One scan of a personal QR at the door and the store knows a shopper has arrived.

03

Shop

Pick with a tap in the app, or lift items off the shelf and let the cameras keep count.

04

Walk out

A second QR at the exit gate closes the visit. Payment settles in the app and the receipt lands instantly.

Inside the app

Walk it. Zoom it. Pick it.

The whole store as a set of simple screens, in English and Arabic.

Store
Walking a supermarket aisle in the 3D store view
Walk the aislesGlide through a 3D twin of the real store.
Store
Isometric 3D floor map
Jump with the floor mapTap any section to fly straight there.
Store
Shelf of breakfast cereal with a price pin
Tap to pick9.50
Tap to pickZoom to the shelf and pick with one tap.
Store
Energy drink300 ml · Qty 1
6.00
Energy drink250 ml · Qty 1
3.00
Total9.00
Confirm your order
Basket and confirmClear totals and a one-tap confirmation.
DrinksDrinks
BakeryBakery
ButcheryButchery
Fresh produceFresh produce
Cashier-less mode

Lift it. Leave. It is already paid.

For flagship stores the same app switches on a cashier-less mode. Cameras and smart shelves work out what each shopper picked up, the cart updates on their phone, and a QR gate lets them walk out. The mode is optional and can be switched on store by store.

Cameras tracking items lifted from a shelf
Cameras and smart shelfTracking picks in real time

Smart cart● live

    Total0.00
    Exit gateScan to leave. Payment settles in the app.
    Receipt sent
    01

    Cameras and weight-aware shelves

    Together they know exactly what left the shelf, even when two shoppers reach at once.

    02

    Put-backs handled

    Return an item and it drops out of the cart, so nobody pays for something they did not keep.

    03

    Digital shelf tags

    Shelf prices update instantly and always match what the cart shows.

    04

    QR in, QR out

    The same personal code opens the door, closes the visit and settles the bill.

    Beacon notifications

    Offers that arrive exactly when they matter.

    Small Bluetooth beacons turn the physical store into something the app can talk to, from the pavement to the last aisle.

    Near the store

    A beacon at the entrance senses phones with the app installed and sends an offer as shoppers walk past. Tap the notification and the product opens in the app.

    1. 1A shopper walks past the entrance
    2. 2The phone picks up the beacon signal
    3. 3A tailored offer appears on the lock screen
    4. 4One tap opens the product in the app
    Smart Store · now
    Hi Sara, welcome by!

    Fresh laban and chilled drinks, 50% off today. Grab yours before you leave.

    4.50 · View offer
    Beacon in rangeEntrance zone · 12 m
    Grocery aisle with beacons placed around the store

    Inside the store

    Beacons placed around the shop trigger a message only when a shopper is right there — fresh fruit by the produce stand, a chiller deal by the dairy, a bundle in the aisle.

    Tap a beacon to see the kind of message it sends. Beacon shells can also be finished in your chain's own colours and logo.

    What the store learns

    Every visit teaches the next one.

    Because the app knows where shoppers browse and what they pick, the chain gets a clearer picture than a till ever could.

    Personalised marketing

    Offers tuned to what each shopper actually buys, not to a segment of strangers.

    Shelf and merchandising

    See which shelves move stock and which sit idle, store by store and hour by hour.

    Dynamic pricing

    Digital shelf tags let promotions and price changes go live instantly, with no relabelling.

    Demand forecasting

    Restock from real shelf-level signals, including the peaks around Ramadan, Eid and the school-holiday weeks.

    Loss prevention

    Vision-driven alerts flag swaps, unscanned items and unusual behaviour as it happens.

    Store clustering

    Group stores by how their neighbourhoods really shop, from family suburbs to city-centre, and range each cluster accordingly.

    Catalogue intelligence

    New products are classified automatically as the range changes, in English and Arabic.

    Next best action

    A suggestion engine surfaces the right cross-sell, reminder or discount at the right moment.

    Under the hood

    Built for a real store, not a demo.

    Shopper app

    Native iOS and Android app with a 3D store viewer, live basket and full English and Arabic support.

    Store twin

    A photographic 3D model of each store, with sections and shelves mapped to your catalogue.

    Vision and sensor fusion

    HD cameras and weight-aware shelves work together, so every pick-up, put-back and swap is counted twice over.

    Smart shelves and digital tags

    Shelf sensors and e-ink price tags keep stock and pricing accurate in real time.

    Beacon layer

    Bluetooth Low Energy beacons, finished in your chain's colours, trigger offers by zone.

    Edge compute and cloud

    A compact on-site rack keeps the cameras fast and store data local; cloud APIs connect to your POS and inventory.

    3D store viewerComputer visionSensor fusionSmart shelvesDigital shelf tagsBLE beaconsNative mobile appQR entry and exitEdge GPU computePOS integrationArabic and English
    Bring smart retail to your stores

    Ready to put your store in shoppers' pockets?

    Grocery, convenience, pharmacy or fashion — we can build the app, the 3D store and the beacon layer around your existing catalogue and systems.

    Talk to a Code Inc. Architect