The problem Hassle-free grocery shopping in COVID-19 solves

In times of COVID-19, social distancing has become of utmost importance. A lot of delivery partners also shut down due to lack of funds, etc. However, daily essentials such as fruits, vegetables, medicines, etc. are of utmost importance and need to be purchased regularly. To enhance grocery shopping experience, we aim to introduce the concept of "Takeaway Shopping", similar to Takeaway food deliveries offered by many food chain partners. Our concept enables the user to select the products they need to shop, wherein they also put up an estimated pickup time. This will be entered by the user during checkout, while also paying for the items purchased. This will help in preventing crowding at billing centres at such shops, which is needed to contain the spread of COVID-19. Vendors have also been adversely affected due to COVID with lockdown being imposed in the entire country, hampering their sales and their daily meals. Some have also suffered to earn bread for their family members. Our webapp provides the option to partner up with the store, wherein they can sell their products at our quoted price. Thus, this will have a 2-way benefit: benefitting the customers to avoid over-crowding and have a smooth hassle-free shopping experience, and benefitting the vendors by providing them employment means in these challenging times.

Challenges we ran into

1. The registration makes use of email verification. Coming up with a suitable and efficient algorithm to achieve this verification was quite challenging.
2. We used SMTP for sending emails, which also took a lot of time to figure out.
3. The 3 interfaces planned make use of different roles, which has been achieved using Spring Security