This is the same idea that I discuss with my girlfriend every time we go grocery shopping: a grocery store app that is integrated with the store’s inventory system and that can guide me to the correct aisle for an item I need to buy:

Use your WiFi to determine my location and use that information to help me find the items on my list. This might be by organizing my list based on the order I will come across items or simply alerting me when I am on an aisle that has something on my list.

Imagine if the app could show you an indoor map of the store, plug into iOS’ Reminders list, learn from your shopping habits, and tell you when a product you usually buy and like is on sale. One can dream, right?

While such an idea may sound futuristic, it’s actually something that has been going around for years, only now we have better technology, more powerful devices, and more advanced software development kits. I wonder if iBeacons and iOS 7 will accelerate the development of smarter indoor location apps – supposedly, Apple is exploring this area as well.