Instant Locator

You're searching for something at the grocery store, you've gone through every isle numerous times, there isn't a clerk in sight (you saw one early in the search but you were still certain you'd find it on your own), you're sure you must be close, you've narrowed it down, but it isn't there!

In utter frustration you just want to throw up your hands and yell "Where the h*** do you hide the friggen wheatgerm!!"

Well now you can. With the instant locator a voice will answer back, "Isle four, right hand side, about half way down." And the world is at peace again.

It's a voice recognition/intercom system. Microphones are in the ceiling and the answer only comes out the speaker hidden on the shelf nearest to where the question was asked, not like the intercom system that announces "price check on three"

And the microphones are super sensitive so if someone is just sort of talking to themselves and says "hmm, here is the dishwashing detergent, the floor cleaner must be nearby somewhere" . . .

Now that I see it in print it seems kinda Orwellian but it isn't like anyone is going to say anything in a grocery store that they don't want overheard. I think it would be fun, would cut down on grocery store frustration and could even be useful in other kinds of stores.