I’ll walk it
Follow an accessible route with turns, aisle numbers, and a final shelf-level highlight for every item.
SCAN · COMPARE · WALK THE VR STORE · EXACT SHELF
Aisle
Path
The real store becomes a walkable puzzle on the phone.Shop it yourself, have store staff shop, or combine the two.
THE PROBLEM HIDING IN THE ERRAND
Why grocery shopping becomes a routing problem
A shopper has to reconcile a handwritten intention with a changing catalog, compare sizes and prices, remember dietary constraints, locate dozens of objects in an unfamiliar building, and keep revising the route when an item has moved. Every missing product creates another decision. The burden lands hardest on people shopping with limited time, mobility, vision, attention, or familiarity with the store.
The ordinary bad trip: a caregiver enters an unfamiliar store with a child and a time limit. A needed item is not where expected, the suggested substitute violates a preference, cold food sits in the cart during repeated backtracking, and one unresolved line on the list sends the whole trip across the building again.
With Aisle Path: the same list becomes explicit product choices, bounded fallbacks, and one complete shelf-by-shelf route. The shopper can walk all of it, ask staff to stage the difficult portion, or divide the work without surrendering the decisions that matter.
ONE LIST, FOUR TRANSFORMATIONS
From list entry to shelf coordinate
- 01 · READOCR and speech parsing preserve the original line beside every guess.
- 02 · COMPAREPrice, unit cost, size, diet, availability, and substitutions appear together.
- 03 · CHOOSEThe person selects an exact product or defines a bounded fallback.
- 04 · ROUTEThe list becomes a path ordered by location, temperature, weight, and checkout.
THREE SHOPPING MODES
Three fulfillment modes
Shop with me
Store staff stage selected items; the customer walks the rest and makes subjective choices in person.
Shop for me
Transmit the chosen products and fallback rules into the store’s existing fulfillment workflow.
THE WALKABLE VR / PUZZLE STORE
A navigable model of the actual store
Where a retailer’s logistics systems already produce—or can be extended to produce—usable LiDAR, camera, planogram, and shelf-location data, Aisle Path turns that geometry into a virtual, Google-Maps-type environment of the actual store. It is walkable in VR on the phone and deliberately puzzle-like: the user can explore the aisles, see where to go next, and understand how the entire trip fits together.
With fresh product coordinates, it builds a route to get everything in the store and shows exactly where on the shelf the next item is. The virtual store, physical aisle, bay, shelf height, and product image all refer to the same location. A store without current shelf coordinates can still support list comparison and aisle routing, but it cannot honestly offer exact-shelf mode.
RECIPES + HOW-TO VIDEOS
Recipes as list generators
The app includes recipes and videos showing how to make them using products available in the store. A recipe can build the starting list, scale quantities, preserve the user’s chosen options, and send every ingredient into the same comparison, staff-shopping, routing, and exact-shelf workflow.
25 MIN · ONE PAN
Roasted tomato pasta
- 6 ingredients found
- 2 pantry items excluded
- 1 lower-cost swap available
WHAT HAS TO BE TRUE
Data freshness and failure modes
- Catalog identitySKUs, sizes, images, diet attributes, and substitutions need reliable identifiers.
- Location freshnessPlanogram resets and endcaps must reach the consumer map quickly.
- Inventory humility“Likely available” is more honest than “in stock” when counts lag baskets and shrink.
- Staff integrationHybrid shopping must fit existing pick queues, cold storage, and handoff procedures.
- Accessible routingWheelchair clearances, elevators, sensory preferences, and assistance points belong in the graph.