shelfquesting 

The act of wandering a grocery store on an increasingly desperate mission to locate an obscure or rarely-purchased item that could be shelved in any of a dozen unrelated sections. Often ends in frustration, an existential crisis, or the discovery that the item was right behind you the whole time.

I needed maraschino cherries, I spent 20. Minutes shelfquesting and struck out

shelfquesting by Shelfquester April 20, 2025