CHAPTER 1
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS
INTRODUCTION
Technology became the fastest rising sector in the society. It is already a course in college because more and more people are becoming aware of its great help to human functions. Systems applications are being developed to minimize effort during transactions for personal use and at most to business purposes. Living in a complicated and rushed time, people go out and work to earn a living, too much work, not realizing that they are already compromising their health. Health is very important which makes it necessary for a person to get medicine the fastest way possible whenever needed. And drug stores should be responsible enough to provide for their customers’ demand especially that they are in the field of saving lives through their medicines. We decided to propose and pursue a Point of Sale System for Gofer Drug Store to alternate their manual system of serving customers. Manual system is currently being used in Gofer Drug Store for we all know that the use of computerized processing is being used by many other establishments nowadays. Point of Sale System for Gofer Drug Store could help lessen the effort and time being consumed during transactions. Because the current system may not be able to work attentively during unexpected instances such as dealing with emergencies. The proposed system will not only lessen exerted time and effort, but it will also be helpful in manipulating the inventory of sales and keeping up old records or document reserved for future use. We believe that this study could offer a great help in improving the business’ approach to changes which the economy demands.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Imagine how long it would take for a manual process to be done particularly when handling unexpected instances. That is why people are trying hard to be familiar and become good in working with helpful software