Woolworths shares time-saving ‘hack’ to help you find everything on your shopping list

How this VERY simple trick will save you time at the supermarket – and you’ll never have to re-visit multiple aisles again

  • Woolworths has shared a handy hack to save time on your next grocery shop
  • Customers can make a shopping list in the Woolies app and sort items by aisle
  • Woolies shared the hack in a video posted to TikTok which has since gone viral 


A Woolworths employee has shared a handy hack to save time on your next shop and avoid you zigzagging through the store to find a specific item. 

In a video posted to TikTok, the employee revealed how to can sort shopping lists by aisles in the store’s app. 

The time-saving ‘hack of the week’ is available to anyone with a smartphone and can have you out of the store ‘in a flash’.

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In a now-viral video posted to TikTok, Woolworths shared a time saving hack to make your next big grocery shop easier

In the Woolworths app, customers can start by adding items to a shopping list then select 'shop in store' on the home page and set their preferred store

Go back to the shopping list and in the drop down menu at the top select sort by 'aisle location' and the items will be organised by where they are in store

In the Woolworths app, customers can make a shopping list, select their store, and sort by ‘aisle location’ to know exactly where everything they need is

In the app, customers can start by adding items to a shopping list then select ‘shop in store’ on the home page and set their preferred store.

Go back to the shopping list and in the drop down menu at the top select sort by ‘aisle location’ and all the items will be organised by where they are in store.   

‘Keeps you on track for grabbing what you need and gets you out of the store in a flash,’ the voiceover in the video said.  

'Keeps you on track for grabbing what you need and gets you out of the store in a flash,' the voiceover in the now-viral video said

‘Keeps you on track for grabbing what you need and gets you out of the store in a flash,’ the voiceover in the now-viral video said

The now-viral clip, captioned ‘so much more time to play Wordle’, received dozens of comments from impressed shoppers praising the ‘genius hack’.   

‘Omg I need this cos I’m so bad at finding things,’ one viewer wrote.  

‘This could’ve saved us a lot of time,’ said a second.  

‘How would I get my exercise by zig zagging through the store?’ a third joked. 

‘I use this because my boyfriend would take hours looking for stuff. Now he just goes to the aisles it says and gets the right brands too,’ commented another.