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If you shop several times a week, each shopping trip is short. It'll all add up to maybe an hour a week, not several hours.

whimsicalism 4y ago
if it's a 5 minute walk, it already adds up to an hour before you count the multiplied checkout, shopping, etc. time.
- robonerd 4y ago
  The walk doesn't count because it's two blocks away and I walk anyway around regardless of whether I'm grocery shopping, but sure, throw in 3x5 minutes walking for 3 grocery store trips a week (I average 1 or 2 a week, but whatever.) To that 3x5 minutes of walking to and from the store, add 3x10 minutes for walking around the aisles picking food off the shelf, and another 3x5 minutes for checkout. That adds up to an hour a week. That's far short of "a few" hours.
  - whimsicalism 4y ago
    5 minute walk to the store means 10 round trip, let's say 25 total with your other numbers (although I think your aisles estimate is an overestimate given it should scale by how much stuff you are getting), then multiplying by 14 as the person I was replying to says they go daily and I go biweekly and I save ~5 hours per biweekly large trip I go on.
    - Jensson 4y ago
      A walk is valuable in itself though, if you don't walk to the store you have to walk somewhere else to get that exercise. Hence I tend to say that walking is free while driving costs time, at least until you fill your need to move.
      - whimsicalism 4y ago
        Fair enough.
    - robonerd 4y ago
      Five minutes was for the round trip, but if you want a 10 minute round trip you still fall well short of two hours a week. I think you're overestimating walk times though, a casual stroll for 5 minutes gets you a quarter of a mile. In the city where I live there are three grocery stores within a quarter mile of me. The closest is a tenth of a mile. Upthread you did respond to somebody saying daily, but the comment I responded to was itself a response to somebody saying "Hit up the store a couple of times a week, get what you need." To which you responded that it would take hours. I interpret "a couple of times a week" to mean every other day, or about 3 times a week.

whimsicalism 4y ago

if it's a 5 minute walk, it already adds up to an hour before you count the multiplied checkout, shopping, etc. time.

robonerd 4y ago
The walk doesn't count because it's two blocks away and I walk anyway around regardless of whether I'm grocery shopping, but sure, throw in 3x5 minutes walking for 3 grocery store trips a week (I average 1 or 2 a week, but whatever.) To that 3x5 minutes of walking to and from the store, add 3x10 minutes for walking around the aisles picking food off the shelf, and another 3x5 minutes for checkout. That adds up to an hour a week. That's far short of "a few" hours.
- whimsicalism 4y ago
  5 minute walk to the store means 10 round trip, let's say 25 total with your other numbers (although I think your aisles estimate is an overestimate given it should scale by how much stuff you are getting), then multiplying by 14 as the person I was replying to says they go daily and I go biweekly and I save ~5 hours per biweekly large trip I go on.
  - Jensson 4y ago
    A walk is valuable in itself though, if you don't walk to the store you have to walk somewhere else to get that exercise. Hence I tend to say that walking is free while driving costs time, at least until you fill your need to move.
    - whimsicalism 4y ago
      Fair enough.
  - robonerd 4y ago
    Five minutes was for the round trip, but if you want a 10 minute round trip you still fall well short of two hours a week. I think you're overestimating walk times though, a casual stroll for 5 minutes gets you a quarter of a mile. In the city where I live there are three grocery stores within a quarter mile of me. The closest is a tenth of a mile. Upthread you did respond to somebody saying daily, but the comment I responded to was itself a response to somebody saying "Hit up the store a couple of times a week, get what you need." To which you responded that it would take hours. I interpret "a couple of times a week" to mean every other day, or about 3 times a week.