shop local using GPS product locations

In a previous posting, I said

It is a bit unfortunate, I think, that it is easier to discover and buy stuff from across the entire continent (say in my case, to buy stuff from California and have it shipped to Ottawa) than it is to quickly locate items in stores a block or two away from my house.

There is now a GPS-based service available

Sprint users can take advantage of the new Slifter powered by GPS. You don't even need to know where you are in order to find the stuff you want at local stores. Combining Sprint's powerful nation-wide GPS System with Slifter's database of over 85 Million products...

This is good-ish I guess.  I still don't quite get the idea of the mobile device as the command centre for your life.  If I want to buy something, I go to my computer with the keyboard and the giant screen and the fast Internet connection, I don't dodge in and out of traffic while trying to type something with a phone keyboard in order to pay some outrageous data rate to get a dribble of information back.

Fortunately regular Slifter provides online local product search, unfortunately it is US-only.