Small Fish, Big Pond

So Google is adding the ability to virtually walk around a store the same way we can virtually drive down a road with street view. Obviously Google is continuing to push their service out further and further in the face of competing services like Microsoft’s Bing.

I can see some uses for this but considering how grainy some street view images are I don’t think I want to shop virtually. I’d much rather they spent their time cleaning up existing photos, adding more streets to non-major cities and improving their interface to have the photosynth style transition like Microsoft. (And I wish Microsoft would hurry up and add more streets to its street view).

If this becomes an actual feature we have to ask the question:
Is Google Shop Views useful or did Google just jump the shark when it comes to mapping?