Gcse Ict: Please Can Someone Mark This For Me, It Wont Take Long ?

Examples of Hardware used in a supermarket
- Graphic workstation (powerful PC) to run the CAD software.
- Plotter to print out design documents
- Barcode readers for stock checking and price checking
- In-store computer to hold the stock database
- Electronic weighing machines
- In-store computer to hold the stock database
- Barcode readers to check what stock is loaded onto and off the delivery lorry
- Air conditioning machines to keep the temperature steady.
- Pressure pads or infra-red beams by automatic doors
- Concept keyboards for entering fruit/vegetables and bakery goods
- Chip and Pin machines to read debit and credit cards
- Printer for customer receipt
- Barcode reader at the till to find prices and update stock system Magnetic stripe readers for loyalty cards
Examples of Software
- CAD software to design the layout
- Route planning software (for customers when shopping)
- 3-D modelling program to design the building
- Computer network to connect the store stock control system to head office
- Stock control software
- Low temperature alarms for fridges and freezers
- Satellite tracking systems to track the delivery lorries
- Route planning software (for lorries)
- Temperature control system with sensors
- Humidity control system
- CCTV to monitor customers entering and leaving
- Software to communicate with bank to authorise payment
- EPOS linking to the stock database, deducing the stock remaining by one.

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