The flip side is that it's more convenient and faster to do it. Biking to local grocery stores and getting through them when I lived in Munich was generally mu

The flip side is that it's more convenient and faster to do it. Biking to local grocery stores and getting through them when I lived in Munich was generally much faster than doing the same now that I'm in a typical US suburb using a car. Getting onto and off a bike, parking it, and getting from there into the store is much faster than the equivalent for a car. Finding things and getting through the store is also much faster than in the US because it's smaller. In total, grocery trips for basics tended to go significantly faster there.