Trapped in rush-hour supermarket queues, how often have you wished for a breezy exit? Making this possible is a mobile app iRetail, through which you just need to scan the bar code of every purchased item and pay cash in a jiffy.
Developed by a Bengaluru-based startup Xlogix, the app does not even need internet.
Here's how simple it can get. You walk into the store and download the shop owner's customised app on your smartphone using the local LAN network.
This means zero Internet data. One touch on the app and it opens the shopping aisle. Select an item for purchase and swipe the bar code. The data is captured at the cash counter. Just do a self checkout and walk away.
Once the payment is completed, an eReceipt is delivered automatically to the phone. This is stored as a bill, eventually getting converted to a reliable shopping list, explained Xlogix founders Deepak Kaushik and Amar S Revadi.
"The next time you go to the store, the app reminds you about the previous shopping pattern. This also opens up huge opportunities for brands to speak to consumers," Revadi said.
The app is not available for online downloads as it is retailer-specific. In Bengaluru, Xlogix has inked a deal with national retailer Health&Glow.
"We have already rolled out the app at six stores in the city. Our target is 140 stores across the country," informed Kaushik.
Xlogix, as its founders said, is also in talks with grocery, cosmetics and wellness stores and other self-service retail outlets. But the app inside a restaurant could be the clincher.
Besides the ease of bill payment, a customer could then use the app to scan the food menu and even watch a video on how exactly a dish is prepared.
The co-founders had resigned their jobs in 2014 to register the startup Xlogix last year.
But the first deployment of the app in a store was in 2013, a consumer-connect move that was bound to be scaled up.
![]( "Co-founder Amar Revadi scans the barcode of a product with the mobile app iRetail.")
Trapped in rush-hour supermarket queues, how often have you wished for a breezy exit? Making this possible is a mobile app iRetail, through which you just need to scan the bar code of every purchased item and pay cash in a jiffy.
Developed by a Bengaluru-based startup Xlogix, the app does not even need internet.
Here’s how simple it can get. You walk into the store and download the shop owner’s customised app on your smartphone using the local LAN network.
This means zero Internet data. One touch on the app and it opens the shopping aisle. Select an item for purchase and swipe the bar code. The data is captured at the cash counter. Just do a self checkout and walk away.
Once the payment is completed, an eReceipt is delivered automatically to the phone. This is stored as a bill, eventually getting converted to a reliable shopping list, explained Xlogix founders Deepak Kaushik and Amar S Revadi.
"The next time you go to the store, the app reminds you about the previous shopping pattern. This also opens up huge opportunities for brands to speak to consumers,” Revadi said.
The app is not available for online downloads as it is retailer-specific. In Bengaluru, Xlogix has inked a deal with national retailer Health&Glow.
"We have already rolled out the app at six stores in the city. Our target is 140 stores across the country,” informed Kaushik.
Xlogix, as its founders said, is also in talks with grocery, cosmetics and wellness stores and other self-service retail outlets. But the app inside a restaurant could be the clincher.
Besides the ease of bill payment, a customer could then use the app to scan the food menu and even watch a video on how exactly a dish is prepared.
The co-founders had resigned their jobs in 2014 to register the startup Xlogix last year.
But the first deployment of the app in a store was in 2013, a consumer-connect move that was bound to be scaled up.
Developed by a Bengaluru-based startup Xlogix, the app does not even need internet.
Here's how simple it can get. You walk into the store and download the shop owner's customised app on your smartphone using the local LAN network.
This means zero Internet data. One touch on the app and it opens the shopping aisle. Select an item for purchase and swipe the bar code. The data is captured at the cash counter. Just do a self checkout and walk away.
Once the payment is completed, an eReceipt is delivered automatically to the phone. This is stored as a bill, eventually getting converted to a reliable shopping list, explained Xlogix founders Deepak Kaushik and Amar S Revadi.
"The next time you go to the store, the app reminds you about the previous shopping pattern. This also opens up huge opportunities for brands to speak to consumers," Revadi said.
The app is not available for online downloads as it is retailer-specific. In Bengaluru, Xlogix has inked a deal with national retailer Health&Glow.
"We have already rolled out the app at six stores in the city. Our target is 140 stores across the country," informed Kaushik.
Xlogix, as its founders said, is also in talks with grocery, cosmetics and wellness stores and other self-service retail outlets. But the app inside a restaurant could be the clincher.
Besides the ease of bill payment, a customer could then use the app to scan the food menu and even watch a video on how exactly a dish is prepared.
The co-founders had resigned their jobs in 2014 to register the startup Xlogix last year.
But the first deployment of the app in a store was in 2013, a consumer-connect move that was bound to be scaled up.
Trapped in rush-hour supermarket queues, how often have you wished for a breezy exit? Making this possible is a mobile app iRetail, through which you just need to scan the bar code of every purchased item and pay cash in a jiffy. Developed by a Bengaluru-based startup Xlogix, the app does not even need internet.
Here’s how simple it can get. You walk into the store and download the shop owner’s customised app on your smartphone using the local LAN network.
This means zero Internet data. One touch on the app and it opens the shopping aisle. Select an item for purchase and swipe the bar code. The data is captured at the cash counter. Just do a self checkout and walk away.
Once the payment is completed, an eReceipt is delivered automatically to the phone. This is stored as a bill, eventually getting converted to a reliable shopping list, explained Xlogix founders Deepak Kaushik and Amar S Revadi.
"The next time you go to the store, the app reminds you about the previous shopping pattern. This also opens up huge opportunities for brands to speak to consumers,” Revadi said.
The app is not available for online downloads as it is retailer-specific. In Bengaluru, Xlogix has inked a deal with national retailer Health&Glow.
"We have already rolled out the app at six stores in the city. Our target is 140 stores across the country,” informed Kaushik.
Xlogix, as its founders said, is also in talks with grocery, cosmetics and wellness stores and other self-service retail outlets. But the app inside a restaurant could be the clincher.
Besides the ease of bill payment, a customer could then use the app to scan the food menu and even watch a video on how exactly a dish is prepared.
The co-founders had resigned their jobs in 2014 to register the startup Xlogix last year.
But the first deployment of the app in a store was in 2013, a consumer-connect move that was bound to be scaled up.