I woke up last night. and I had an thought on mind. I doesn’t make anymore sense now than it did 6 hours ago though. I was wondering why there isn’t the equivalent of the Dewey decimal system for supermarkets.

A couple things: first, why was I thinking about something like this in the middle of the night? Secondly: will not happen because it’s actually profitable to have clients helplessly wandering through the aisles foraging for a specific item.

It would still be nice if shelves and rows in a supermarket had numbers. I could check my grocery list against the store catalog and get a little map with the required stops in the most efficient order.
There already are those little bar code scanners in most stores so they don’t have to mark the prices on individual items, is it such a big deal to do some sort of a reverse lookup and search for an item by name and have it output the location?

Wouldn’t be too good for customer retention, but I’d love it. And since I can get the necessary stuff done with faster, I could spend more time looking at the bakery stuff or the beer section, to which I never give the attention they deserve. I don’t think I’ll ever buy into the online grocery shopping thing but this would be an interesting in-between.