Errands

Pick up groceries without a separate trip

The weekly shop rarely needs its own journey — it needs a supermarket that happens to be on the way home and still open when you pull in. Mini Detour finds one on your route and shows the detour before you commit.

Typical stop
20 min
Hours sensitivity
Medium
Ranked by detour
on your route
Mini Detour on iPhone: the trip map with your route and the numbered stops along it

Supermarket: why the timing matters

Supermarkets keep broad hours, but Sunday closures and early-evening cut-offs still catch people out, especially across France and Germany. Mini Detour checks the hours against your arrival and flags a store that would be closed by the time you reach it.

Supermarket: how Mini Detour plans the stop

Add a supermarket to your plan and budget a realistic shopping window; Mini Detour ranks stores by detour and keeps the arrival times downstream honest. A twenty-minute shop is treated as twenty minutes, not zero.

Feature films

Open on arrival

Asking whether a shop is open now is the wrong question: Mini Detour checks the opening hours for the time you arrive and gives every result a clear verdict.

All feature films
Still from the Mini Detour film “Open on arrival”

Questions

Can I set how long I'll spend inside?
Yes. Each errand carries a dwell time you can adjust, and Mini Detour uses it to keep the rest of the plan's arrival estimates accurate.
Will it warn me about Sunday closures?
It checks each store's opening hours against your estimated arrival and flags one that would be closed then, Sundays included.

Run this errand without leaving your route

Mini Detour plans the whole trip around the stops you actually need — open when you arrive, ranked by the smallest detour.

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The stops you need, on the route you're already driving.
Mini Detour is an independent app. Opening hours and places come from Google and OpenStreetMap and can be out of date; always confirm before relying on a stop.