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Unless you're cooped up in your home every day you'll cycle past a grocery store on your way home from something else, so you can easily pop in an grab what you

Unless you're cooped up in your home every day you'll cycle past a grocery store on your way home from something else, so you can easily pop in an grab what you need. You also don't spend any time thinking and planning what you're going to eat a whole week in advance, only to forget some core ingredient for the 5th meal and then have to drive to the store again (or order takeout and let the rest sit til next week only to have it go off before you get around to cooking it).

gruez 4y ago
>Unless you're cooped up in your home every day That actually seems pretty plausible given that WFH is normalized now. Sure, you might still leave the house to eat out or whatever, but it seems pretty inconvenient to also pick up groceries in those cases.
- ben-schaaf 4y ago
  Wanting to continue working from home rather than commuting is actually strongly correlated with driving (and longer commutes). 91% of bicycle commuters miss some aspects of the commute; ~40% miss it a lot, whereas 55% of car commuters don't miss it at all. Unsurprisingly the main aspect missed was the activity of commuting itself (53%). Cycling to work is like a free gym membership and a free trip to stores rolled into your commute. Reference (N=1014): https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pandemic-working-from-home-and-commuting.html https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pan...
  - wizofaus 4y ago
    I've recently been heading into the office pretty often due to noisy home renovation works and can relate - I love my mostly-bike-path commute. But for embarrassing reasons I chose to take a car during peak hour yesterday and it was truly a horrible experience. I don't mind moving "slowly" (and note that in most cases within 15km of home my average travel speed on a bike is better than in a car) but being stuck behind unmoving traffic for what seems like interminable periods of time is just incredibly stressful and frustrating.
jjav 4y ago
> Unless you're cooped up in your home every day you'll cycle past a grocery store on your way home from something else, so you can easily pop in an grab what you need. It's more expensive to buy in small daily quantities though. It'd be cheaper to buy in bulk and only go once a month or so.
- wizofaus 4y ago
  For non-perishable goods sure. Buy those in bulk (based on your storage capacity) and have them delivered. Buying highly perishable items once a week tends to result in a fair bit of wastage unless you're a whizz at meal planning. For one thing, I've yet to come across bread with genuine flavour and perfect texture that lasts more than 3 days.

gruez 4y ago

>Unless you're cooped up in your home every day That actually seems pretty plausible given that WFH is normalized now. Sure, you might still leave the house to eat out or whatever, but it seems pretty inconvenient to also pick up groceries in those cases.

ben-schaaf 4y ago
Wanting to continue working from home rather than commuting is actually strongly correlated with driving (and longer commutes). 91% of bicycle commuters miss some aspects of the commute; ~40% miss it a lot, whereas 55% of car commuters don't miss it at all. Unsurprisingly the main aspect missed was the activity of commuting itself (53%). Cycling to work is like a free gym membership and a free trip to stores rolled into your commute. Reference (N=1014): https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pandemic-working-from-home-and-commuting.html https://urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pan...
- wizofaus 4y ago
  I've recently been heading into the office pretty often due to noisy home renovation works and can relate - I love my mostly-bike-path commute. But for embarrassing reasons I chose to take a car during peak hour yesterday and it was truly a horrible experience. I don't mind moving "slowly" (and note that in most cases within 15km of home my average travel speed on a bike is better than in a car) but being stuck behind unmoving traffic for what seems like interminable periods of time is just incredibly stressful and frustrating.

jjav 4y ago

> Unless you're cooped up in your home every day you'll cycle past a grocery store on your way home from something else, so you can easily pop in an grab what you need. It's more expensive to buy in small daily quantities though. It'd be cheaper to buy in bulk and only go once a month or so.

wizofaus 4y ago
For non-perishable goods sure. Buy those in bulk (based on your storage capacity) and have them delivered. Buying highly perishable items once a week tends to result in a fair bit of wastage unless you're a whizz at meal planning. For one thing, I've yet to come across bread with genuine flavour and perfect texture that lasts more than 3 days.