> Suppose the grocery store was 10 minutes away. You'd still need to drive there, because how are you going to get the food back to your house? I've carried 30

> Suppose the grocery store was 10 minutes away. You'd still need to drive there, because how are you going to get the food back to your house? I've carried 30+ kg of groceries on my bike panniers, about 15 to 30 min of ride to the store. Regular city bike with off-the-shelf panniers, not a cargo bike (which would easily take 100+ kg). But quite honestly, I'd much rather get the groceries delivered to my home. I sometimes do but the websites to order the food are so bad that it takes more time to fill the order form that it's faster to ride to the store. Bike is my primary means of transport for 8 months of the year because my city is awfully designed traffic-wise (if you need to cross the town east-west). A moderately fast bike ride beats any form of transport (including a car) on my daily commute.