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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a frighten disease outbreak that has affected more than one hundred and eighty countries worldwide. While vaccines are supplied throughout the world, there is still a need to follow some mandatory rules, including social distance to be maintained during daily activities such as supermarket shopping. In this project, a shopping trolley is proposed as a solution to avoid item scanning at cashiers and long queues at payment counters. This innovation leads, such that the risk of attacked to COVID-19 can be reduced. This is done by integrating a shopping trolley with Raspberry Pi, Web Server using PHP. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is attached on products in supermarket and automatically read by RFID reader whenever they are placed in a shopping trolley. As the customer adds things one by one it is detected by the RFID module and the price according to that will be displayed. At the end of shopping the customer will press the total button, which when pressed adds all the product along with their price and gives the total bill. In this process Social distance is maintained by alerting with buzzer sound using Ultrasonic Sensor.