MapMap KeyAisle 1: Air Filters, radon testers, water purifiers, Detoxy™ products (Clean Your Oxy … Use Detoxy!�) and other environmental and antipollution products for the home.
Aisle 2: Automotive and bike supplies.
Aisle 3: Soaps, detergents, bug sprays, roach co-ops, rat traps, big rat traps and so on.
Aisle 4: Small hardware, household goods, paints and sprays.
Aisle 5: Personal hygiene soaps, sprays, pads, strips, and spritzes, in regular or industrial strength.
Aisle 6: First aid supplies, along with a big sign reading: “Don’t Wait To Get Hit … Stock Your Medkit!� There are also patent medicines, vitamins and so forth.
Aisle 7: Pet foods and supplies.
Aisle 8: Small appliances, such as Zap-O-Nuke microwaves, Toast-R-ovens, coffee makers and so on.
Aisle 9: On the left is a kiosk of simchips and simdisks, both audio and video, for purchase or rental. A screen built into the kiosk plays the latest ad for “Beauty and Her Beasts� Simsense chip. The rest of the aisle contains snacks to go with the vids - sodas, soynuts, Slurpee-doos, Zap-corn, and a host of individually wrapped treats.
Aisle 10: Use’N’Lose disposable plastic products, such as clothing, tablecloths, containers, utensils and umbrellas.
Aisle 11: Baked goodies, such as cakes, doughnuts, twisters, Sweeteez and Krak-L-Snaps, The NutraSoy Energy Cakesâ„¢ display that Mr. Nick is building is located at the end of this aisle facing Area E.
Aisle 12: Breakfast foods, such as AlmostEgg, BacoSoy and ready-to-eat cereals (including Maxiblast Sugar Bombs in three popular flavors: Red, Green and Purple!)
Aisle 13: Soykafs, teas, and herbal teas, Koko chocolate substitute and beverage mixes.
Aisle 14: On the left, Aztex-mex cuisine, ranging from mild (“Wussy�) to very spicy (“Meltdown�). Most products feature the stepped-pyramid logo of Aztechnology on the label.
On the right, guaranteed organic health foods imported directly from the various Native American Nations and Elven Wines from Tir Tairngire. Prices are very high. Perishables are in Areas K and J.
Aisle 15: On the right, chips, dips, crackers, cookies, twitters, choco-slurps and berry-bombers.
On the left are candies and other mega-carbohydrate-death stuffers like Boostergum, SucroZoom, and Womp-Snappers.
Aisle 16: On the left are soypasta, sauces, ramen noodles, and Cup-O-Soup products.
On the right are soups and stews, both freeze-dried mixes and prepackaged heat-and-serves.
Aisle 17: On the right are plasti-packed fruit dishes and vegetables that are gamma-ray treated to retard spoilage. There are small radiation wrappers on the packaging.
Aisle 18: Flour, raw NutraSoy and flavor additives, krill-filler, textured vegetable protein, dextro- and levo-sugars and sugar substitutes.
Area A: The checkout counter. Besides the elf woman working here, there’s a bar-code scanner, cash register terminal, credstick receptor and various displays.
Area B: Everyone’s favorite, the Simsense arcade games are located here. There are four different games: “Little Mutant Vik Ninja Cyberboy! 3.: “Orbital Ninja Death Commando 5,� “The All-New Ultimate Bike Race Ninja Street Duel,� and “Street Fighting Magical Ninja 8.� Each is 1¥ per minute of play - just slot your credstick and put on the ‘trodes.
Area C: The manager’s office. It includes a second PanicButton™, his shotgun and the recorder for the security cameras.
Area D: This is a locked display of cheap, personal electronics such as personal computers, cheap CD and chip players, data readers and portable Simsense rigs.
Area E: The dispenser bars for liquid and viscous products such as Shmoozies, Snorkels, Shakeups, Soykaf, Fizzygoo, and so on are located here. It also features Ludivenko Lovely Soya-sloppies with the DoubleThick option.
Area F: The Cook-It-Yerself™ microwave, the rotating pizza display machine, the Synthmeat “Hot Dog� dispenser and the Soy Patty Yummy Burger Grill-O-Matic are located here. The table in this section offers plates, cups, napkins, plastic knives and plastic sporks.
Area G: The employee lounge, featuring the time clock, toilets, lockers, a sofa and some chairs. The attached area is the restroom.
Area H: The Stockroom. There is a door in this room that leads outside the back of the store.
Area J: The cold food items are stocked here. The microwaveable foods are closest to Area F; the rest are “homemade sandwiches and meals shipped in overnight,� plus kafsoda, synthjuice, and soymilk.
Area K: Frozen foods of all kinds, with quiescently frozen confections near Aisles 1 and 2.
Area L: This area contains a tiny, dusty and yellowing display of books and magazines in actual dead-tree format. There are also two NewsFax printout terminals and a HoloQuik copy machine.
There is a strikingly beautiful elfin girl with a single spike of orange hair behind the checkout counter. Her nametag identifies her as Wanda.
In Aisle 1 is a male dressed like a Japanese warrior wannabe, red hair tied in a topknot, short Japanese style jacket and a long sack over his shoulder.
An obese woman and obnoxious child in Aisle 5.
There is a couple in Aisle 7, the man dressed head to toe in white leather pants, sleeveless shirt and vest and several kilograms of FauxGoldâ„¢ jewelry hanging around his neck. The woman is in a skintight leather jumpsuit with about 42 working zippers and nearly 8 meters of mesh chain wrapped around her body and appendages. Shadowrunners or wannabes?
In Aisle 8 is a man in fatigues and an armor jacket covered in circuit diagrams. His temples are studded with half a dozen jacks and he seems to be talking to no one … or maybe the toaster oven on display.
According to his nametag, Mr. Nick, is at the end of Aisle 11 across from Area E.
Another employee wearing an apron and nametag designating him as Johnny is stocking soup in Aisle 16.
Sitting on a counter between Area E and F is a young woman wearing a long coat over short shorts and a halter top sipping a drink. The duster has a skull with a bloodstained icicle stuck through its left eye.