About the “wanting” you to roam. I don’t know if it’s practice everywhere, but my old supermarket reshuffled their sections every year or so (not majorly, just a little but) to make you look again for the product you wanted and encourage you to try out new stuff you hadn’t noticed before. While I felt it was a hit manipulative, yes, supermarkets want to you search for items.

If you’re recording where everything is shelved (and that’s a big IF, I doubt it’s worth it),

Last summer my cousin worked the night shift stocking shelves at a local "superstore" and yeah, they have some database that printed out sheets telling them where a given pallet needs to be shelved. Dunno about smaller stores.