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One reason I prefer shopping online to shopping in person is because it’s so much easier to find the goddamned product you’re looking for. All you have to do is type in the desired thing and the search engine will pull it right up for you.

At grocery stores, it’s not that easy. They try to categorize their goods which works for the most part, but not for those hard-to-find or hard-to-categorize commodities. Being a man, I never like to ask where something is until I’ve searched the whole store.

Here’s my question: why can’t they add search engines to supermarkets and in turn save the employees from having to memorize the whole store and the customers from the embarrassment of not being able to find their item without help.

The technology we already have, computers are cheaper than people, and the store’s products are already in a database. Why not have a monitor at the end of every other aisle that let’s you search for your product? It could even pull up a map of the store and give you directions alá Google Maps. This isn’t too far-fetched; in fact, it seems like something that should have been done before the superfluous self-check kiosks.