..to want an aisle layout of my local supermarket?

[BruceAndNosh]

This should be so easy for the stores to produce.
They must have the info to hand.

My local Tesco have introduced a one way system which works very well, but it would be brilliant to be able to write your shopping list in a better lane order.
I have a reasonable grasp of my local shop so know that it's veg > meat > dairy > ambient but I never can remember where the butter is.

Google found me this image which is what I would like, but with more detail than just Ambient for 6 aisles.

Next time I go, I am going to take a photo of all the aisle banners and hopefully post it on my local Facebook page

I mostly manage the order but put things I'm not sure of in red.I also now take a pen with me and put an arrow to show where I found the red items in the order.
I'm getting better.I do go shopping when it's quiet though so that going back for the odd item doesn't cause a problem.

My local supermarket (one of the big two here) has an app that you make your shopping list in. It sorts your items into the exact aisle number.

I thought this the other week in fact I thought I saw one for our local Tesco but must have imagined it. I know our Waitrose quite well but they've got household and toiletries in between the ambient aisles and I always have to backtrack (usually involving chutney!). If I want to do a list for DH I'd be buggered.

But even if you know the layout normally, the one way systems now mean it’s even more complicated. So I would need the layout plus arrows!

An alternative would be to use a shopping app that groups your list together for you into different areas eg. Chilled, frozen, bakery etc. I use Shopping UK and it’s brilliant, really easy to use and I just add items throughout the week as I think of them. You can also add your own categories, so could split into different aisle if you wished. I’d really recommend it, makes my shopping trips so quick.

Thinking about it surely this information must exist for each shop for the Online shopping Pickers? It’d be far too inefficient otherwise.

I’m sure it’s as PP said, they don’t want this information available as they want you to browse.

I know shops normally want you do browse and buy more but at the moment they are limiting the number of people in the store at any time.
Surely something that gets me in and out quicker so lets another person in to spend money is a good thing?

I knew my store’s layout, it had not changed in years.

They moved things round last week

I have created a spreadsheet and add my items to the bottom and then add the aisle and quantity. I have allocated each half aisle a number which is the one way sequence so I just sort by that number and send him off with it.

He gets other shoppers admiring it.
However everyone thinks I am a real nerd ...

@QuitMoaning that's exactly what I want to do!
Next time I go (I usually go about 630pm when it's really quiet - no queue at all last time!) I'm going to take a photo of each aisle banner (I think they are different at each end) and do a plan

If you shop there regularly I don't see the need for a plan, but you just remember where stuff you buy regularly is, unless you have additional needs of course. Asda & Tesco move stuff once in a blue moon IME. The signage is mahoosive too, pretty hard to miss.

Part of the problem is I have volunteering to shop for others, so I am likely to be buying unfamiliar items

Shops do indeed have such layout diagrams that they use for merchandising and more detailed ones for different sectors called planograms. They are highly detailed and show exactly how the shelf and fixture layout should look, how much stock of each product, number of facings of each product.

Luckily, I've been frequenting my "big Tescos" most weeks for nearly 10 years, so I know the order of things reasonably well. I've also been writing my shopping lists in the order they come in the shop, so I don't miss anything.

Do you have a local FB group you belong to? You could ask on there and I'm sure someone would be able to write you a list of the order the aisles come in? Or could put your list in order for you?

I did ours for DH so I could write the list in the right order - I wrote out the aisles on slips of paper and arranged them in order moving a couple around until I got it right!

I've avoided going to a big supermarket since this started. I normally do my main shop in Aldi and pop into the 100,000 square foot Tesco Extra for a few extras Aldi don't have. I can draw a map of Aldi from memory and sometimes do exactly that, with numbers for the items on the list. I wouldn't have a hope in hell with Tesco.

Between the one way system and the Alton Towers style queuing system, the idea of going to Tesco's doesn't appeal somehow!

It's bit sad but I can actually say where what is in aisles in our Asda

I walk around the shop in my head while writing a list. I thought everyone did this?

I don’t even take a list

Most supermarkets have aisle numbers and massive signs saying what is in them. It is rare for a supermarket to move everything, but they will move things that are on offer to more prominent places.

They want you wandering up and down the aisles (usually) so that you get distracted by the shiny shiny things

This is possibly true. The baked beans, for example, are in the weirdest place in our store - every day several people ask me where they are, so I imagine many more just quest about for ages...

It is truth. There is a reason bakery - a daily thing- is at the back😉

eggs are in different places in different stores, can never easily find them.

I cope OK when doing my own shopping, I just want to be ultra organised when I'm having to do Mary-down-the-roads groceries too.
I could just do two separate trips but I'd prefer not to.

Looking at the plan in my OP, that branch has the frozen stuff at the far end between booze and household which is rather unusual. Maybe I should schlep all the way to Watford so that I can follow that plan!

I always shop in a one way system. Up one aisle, down the next. Never back track. I can’t stand shopping with DH as he wanders around randomly.

I also don’t write lists! Well I do sometimes, but never bring them with me.