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    Why the fuck would you want to walk to the grocery store and back?

    Pretending people would rather do that than use a car makes you straight up delusional

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      511 months ago

      I really enjoy walking to my grocer instead of driving. I walk through a quiet neighbourhood with some large trees. Theres a hill with a nice view midway.

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        Hauling 50 pounds of groceries a couple miles is not enjoyable for the vast majority of people.

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          Since I can walk there a few times a week, I tend to buy less grocceries at a time. The weight limit helps me budget for the week by preventing me from buying more than I need.

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            That sounds like a solution, and I’m glad you found it and it works for you, but walking and purchasing multiple times a week instead of once every two weeks is a much larger time commitment. This also really only works if you are buying for yourself and no one else.

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              211 months ago

              You need to rethink how cities are designed for walking to grocery stores to work. It won’t in the US, because everything is designed for cars. But if a city is designed right, you won’t need to go miles before finding a grocery store. You can take a cargo bike to haul more things at a time. You can stop by shops on your way home from work to pick up a couple things and stick them in a backpack.

              Cities designed correctly reduce the burden on those walking or biking between points of interest that are no more than 1 or 2 miles away.

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                A fridge, and the help of a roommate that also doesn’t mind things that aren’t “fresh” by the time we use them.

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              111 months ago

              What sounds like a bigger pain in the ass to me is catastrophic global climate collapse. But any slight inconvenience is impossible to overcome for the most horribly lazy I guess.

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          You need to rethink how cities are designed for walking to grocery stores to work. It won’t in the US, because everything is designed for cars. But if a city is designed right, you won’t need to go miles before finding a grocery store. You can take a cargo bike to haul more things at a time. You can stop by shops on your way home from work to pick up a couple things and stick them in a backpack.

          Cities designed correctly reduce the burden on those walking or biking between points of interest that are no more than 1 or 2 miles away.

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            That’s nice and all, but the vast majority of people would still overwhelmingly choose the ease and comfort of a car when getting groceries over a bike.

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      211 months ago

      My nearest grocery store is 15 minutes away by foot, such is easily doable. How close is yours?

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      Oh come the fuck on. Here’s how easy it is to walk to a store and get groceries in a proper neighborhood: You just do. You get on your goddamn feet and you do it. Fucking idiot.

      Even better you just use a bike. Boom. All the cargo space you need.

      Most importantly: you go a few more times than once a goddamn month like you seem to imply, and you get less shit. Boom. 50 pounds of groceries my ass.

      Hope the next time you slam your head into something, as you clearly have done many times, it makes you smarter rather than even more unbearably dumb.

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        11 months ago

        How fucking stupid do you have to be to think everyone lives within a reasonable walking distance of a grocery store. It’s amazing people can be this oblivious to the world around them.

        All the cargo space you need

        lmao

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          Why do you think everybody lives so far away from their nearest grocery store (in the USA)? Well, people did live close to their nearest store until the car happened, which enabled suburban development, and then enabled big box supermarkets which killed the little shops on the corner.

          No one is expecting you to walk to the shops given how fucked your country is. Either the country repairs itself or the rest of us just forget about it, because the USA does look like a lost cause