Grocery Shopping Helper

One of the concepts that’s come up time and again is a map of the supermarket. Supermarkets are designed to trap you and suck you in because they want you to spend money on the impulse buy. As everyone knows, that’s why the milk and other necessities are placed at the back of the store.

Enter Grocery Shopping Helper, a small application created by Dave Cheong.

Given a list of grocery items and their corresponding aisles at the supermarket, this tool will generate a formatted page of all the grocery items you’re ever interested in, either sorted alphabetically or by aisle.

The idea is that if you know where everything is in the supermarket, and you know what you want to buy, you can then sort the list by aisle and make a single round of the supermarket.

The only part I’m not so keen on is having to enter the aisle information yourself, which requires scoping out the supermarket prior to using the application for the first time. Otherwise, it seems like a handy tool to keep you on task and increase your shopping efficiency.