Abstract: A shopping cart to communicate with a mobile device having a mobile application running thereon, the shopping cart including a main storage portion to receive an object therein, the main storage portion including a base upon which the object may be disposed, and a plurality of walls extending upwards from side portions of the base to form a space wherein the object may be held, a scanning unit disposed along a top portion of at least one of the plurality of walls to scan an identifying member disposed on the object, a processor disposed on the shopping cart to receive data from the scanning unit corresponding to the scanned object and to store the data within a storage unit of the processor, and a communication unit to send the data to the mobile device such that the user may use the mobile device to at least one of view the data corresponding to the scanned object and pay for the object.