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> ah yes, the considerable inconvenience part of my comment. Maybe in suburbia. In cities without insane rents and healthy work/life balances (IE: not NYC), t

> ah yes, the considerable inconvenience part of my comment. Maybe in suburbia. In cities without insane rents and healthy work/life balances (IE: not NYC), there are often many grocery stores that make regular grocery shopping quite easy. (And rather fresh.) Also regular grocery shopping means that people aren't loading up carts with 40+ items and in turn need 10 minutes to check out. Grocery shopping becomes a non-item and promotes healthier inside cooking.

whimsicalism 4y ago
I have never ever lived in a suburb and what I am saying is still true. It is simple economies of scale in relation to checking out time, if you go every day you are going to be spending more time than I do amortized over two weeks.
sokoloff 4y ago
We shop weekly (taking about an hour from leaving the house to returning, less when we frequently manage to attach it to a trip where we’re already out). Working from home, there’s obviously no grocery store for me to pass by on my commute, so daily shopping would be 30 minutes a day (45 if I walked it) instead of 60 minutes once a week. That’s about the same as adding back my entire pre-COVID commute time. I’ll stick to weekly and spend the extra 2 hours per week doing something else.
alar44 4y ago
This is why I started using instacart. I'd go to the grocery store a couple times a week for a handful of items, but would have to wait in line for 20 minutes while people checked out a mountain of stuff. Haven't been to a grocery store in over 2 years.
- xeromal 4y ago
  It's easy to hate on Amazon these days, but there's an Amazon grocery store near me that has buggies with a bunch of tech on them. I throw all my items in the buggy and I push it out the store and receive an emailed receipt. I don't have to wait in line. I like instacart too, but occasionally I just want to browse so I can muster up some recipes in my head.
  - doktorhladnjak 4y ago
    I live near one of these too. The tech is nice but the grocery quality is terrible. Never have I had so much food go bad before the date printed on the package.
    - xeromal 4y ago
      I cook pretty fast when I buy so I haven't noticed.
pessimizer 4y ago
10 minutes to check out every two weeks compared to 14 separate shopping trips that take 5 minutes each to check out (and 10-30 minutes to travel and from the market each visit in either case) isn't significant. In suburbia it would be the most convenient, because suburbanites drive everywhere anyway. If your market is at the end of your block, it's still going to take you 15 minutes to get there and back in the best case.

whimsicalism 4y ago

I have never ever lived in a suburb and what I am saying is still true. It is simple economies of scale in relation to checking out time, if you go every day you are going to be spending more time than I do amortized over two weeks.

sokoloff 4y ago

We shop weekly (taking about an hour from leaving the house to returning, less when we frequently manage to attach it to a trip where we’re already out). Working from home, there’s obviously no grocery store for me to pass by on my commute, so daily shopping would be 30 minutes a day (45 if I walked it) instead of 60 minutes once a week. That’s about the same as adding back my entire pre-COVID commute time. I’ll stick to weekly and spend the extra 2 hours per week doing something else.

alar44 4y ago

This is why I started using instacart. I'd go to the grocery store a couple times a week for a handful of items, but would have to wait in line for 20 minutes while people checked out a mountain of stuff. Haven't been to a grocery store in over 2 years.

xeromal 4y ago
It's easy to hate on Amazon these days, but there's an Amazon grocery store near me that has buggies with a bunch of tech on them. I throw all my items in the buggy and I push it out the store and receive an emailed receipt. I don't have to wait in line. I like instacart too, but occasionally I just want to browse so I can muster up some recipes in my head.
- doktorhladnjak 4y ago
  I live near one of these too. The tech is nice but the grocery quality is terrible. Never have I had so much food go bad before the date printed on the package.
  - xeromal 4y ago
    I cook pretty fast when I buy so I haven't noticed.

pessimizer 4y ago

10 minutes to check out every two weeks compared to 14 separate shopping trips that take 5 minutes each to check out (and 10-30 minutes to travel and from the market each visit in either case) isn't significant. In suburbia it would be the most convenient, because suburbanites drive everywhere anyway. If your market is at the end of your block, it's still going to take you 15 minutes to get there and back in the best case.