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As grocery stores, Walgreens and Walmarts continue to supersize, finding your way around can be difficult. Different stores within the same chain are set up differently which only adds to the confusion. Just because you know where the the toilet paper is in one Walmart doesn’t mean you can find it in the same place in another. That is where aisle411 is supposed to come in. Just plug in your shopping list for Walgreens and the app should lead you on a simple path to each item.
Aisle411 has been available on the iPhone for a while and is also available in Google Play for Android phones. According to Engadget, aisle411 is now available for Walgreens. All 7,907 drugstores nationwide have been mapped in the app. So far only Walgreens is mapped nationwide. Depending on where you live you might have a larger selection of mapped stores. The application doesn’t have Walmart yet but hopefully its coming.
The application provides more than just a store navigation system. You can create shopping lists within the app and search through recipes. You can create more than one shopping list so that you can hit different stores for different items. For those who do extreme couponing and visit multiple stores to get the best deals, this app could come in handy. It will also show you what coupons are available in different stores. You can save the ones you want to your “grocery savings card” and use it when you check out.
For many of us who don’t live in one of the “select markets” with mapped out stores, the only store we can currently use the app to navigate through is Walgreens. For some people that might be enough of a perk to choose it over say Out of Milk or Grocery IQ.
Some people really like the app and the way that you can use it to navigate through stores. Others find the app to still be a bit primitive when it comes to using GPS to maneuver through stores. Others find that it doesn’t provide necessary options like the ability to rearrange your shopping order or add custom aisles. One big drawback is that it doesn’t seem to be able to distinguish between frozen products and fresh products, for example frozen and fresh pineapple that are almost always on different aisles.
Every app goes through teething issues and hopefully aisle411 is just going through such a phase. The potential to become a killer app is definitely there, it just needs a bit more work.
Now if they could only map out the various Walmarts and Targets, it just might make the top shopping app of all time. Code corrupted. Insert fresh copy.
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