I want to live within a PLANNED ECONOMY
For no reason other than THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE GROCERY STORE LAYOUT ALLOWED
how about: every night, the entire store is rearranged. no item is allowed to stay in the same place two days in a row.
this easily handles the issue of needing more or less items of any particular kind, as it doesn't matter because they will be moved.
ezpz
I already need an entire heist-mastermind worth of planning and a team of 3 or more to do normal grocery shopping without getting Mesmerized and doing who knows what for six hours.
I'm really digging the idea of grocery shopping being literally a heist where you exfiltrate through the checkout.
Someone does recon saturday morning, opening time. Maybe you know someone who works there who can slip you the new layout.
You figure out your list of high-value-to-your-household shopping items and make a list, noting their locations on your 2-d scale model made out of masking tape on the floor. You want to minimize time exposed. In and out, five minutes. Time is ticking and success becomes less and less certain every second after.
You make the maps, you find your team, you practice. at 5pm saturday night, you execute. Splitting off into your roles you pull exactly what you need off the aisles without looking, distribute your haul evenly across each person in terms of item count, and n-split the checkout in parallel. Elapsed time: six minutes.
