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> It's also carrying capacity, instead of making multiple inefficient trips to a local market multiple times a week I can get all my family's groceries in one t
by asveikau 4y ago
> It's also carrying capacity, instead of making multiple inefficient trips to a local market multiple times a week I can get all my family's groceries in one trip once a week.
This is pretty weird to me.
Whenever I've had exposure to a household like that, what actually happens is they buy way too much food to keep track of it, and either you eat too much or it mostly goes bad in the fridge. I find this oddly stressful, too, the feeling of wasting food or needing to use it before it goes bad.
Whereas I like to plan a day at a time and be close enough to markets that I could potentially visit every day and it's part of the daily routine.
- eweise 4y agoIts much cheaper to load up the car at costco every couple of weeks, than go down to the corner store every day.
- asveikau 4y agoI feed two kids. If I did my shopping at Costco, I can tell you the food would go bad before I had a chance to use it. I find the idea of Costco pretty stressful. I'm not necessarily talking about just corner stores either. I have several full on supermarkets in walking distance.
- TaupeRanger 4y agoI find your comment weird. Make 1 trip to get all of the stuff you need for an entire family in one trip per week, or make 1 trip a day to get stuff for just that day, waiting in line to checkout 5-7 times, taking up valuable time you could spend doing other things.
- ryukafalz 4y agoI think suburban and car-oriented grocery stores give people a skewed impression of how time-consuming it is to check out at a grocery store. If everyone is loading up their cart, the lines are going to be long because everyone has to unload it at checkout. By contrast, if most people are there for just a few things, you speed through the line if there even is one. Bonus if it has a self-scanner like this one to further speed things up, though unfortunately we don’t have any like that near me: https://youtu.be/kYHTzqHIngk https://youtu.be/kYHTzqHIngk
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoPretty much the only time my wife and I use our car is for groceries. We plan out the week, buy only the perishables that we need for the planned meals and get in and out with ~5 bag of groceries in an hour, hour and a half with a commute.