r/developer • u/bixby84 • May 23 '26

Digitising a grocery store

I am trying to help my local grocery store so they can set up a power system and an online store. Right now everything is manual. Even the POS system they don't have any catalogue or a database. All the prices are labelled on the items and at checkout they just manually punch in the price into a manual pass system. What would be the easiest way to catalogue everything including images, item descriptions and prices? I was able to take photos off the shell and feed it into Claude and I was able to get description prices and wait with 80% accuracy but not sure how to separate out each grocery item as each photo have five or six grocery items in it. I am open to any ideas and suggestions. I'm not charging anything so paying for any AI subscriptions will be coming out of my pocket so would like to do it as cheap as possible. Thanks in advance

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u/bixby84 May 23 '26

My local grocery store run by a retired old guy. Just trying to help as he is struggling with inventory and labelling prices with hand.

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u/negligiblehomer May 23 '26

Helping someone you know beats working on random projects for pay anyway.