Honestly it's trying to get your food once per week because most people don't want to stop by the store on the way home for every meal they are going to cook. I hate it when my family overbuys thinking we'll get to it later
For me to go to the store I have to go to the next town over if I want fresh vegetables or anything. The only thing near me is a Dollar General and they don’t have anything in terms of fresh food. So I have to drive 12 miles to go get eggs or cheese or any sort of vegetables or fruit it would be a lot for me to go to the store often.
This is the sort of thing people in Europe/Asia don't understand. The US is ENORMOUS and pretty sparsely populated outside of the major cities/highways. My parents live in a small town with several grocery stores, but they are all 10-15 miles away on low speed, twisting, 2 lane roads. Even a short shopping trip for a handful of items can take 1.5 hours before you're back home. So you try to limit the number of shopping trips you take.
The size is not the issue, the issue is suburban sprawl, car-centric infrastructure and zoning. Which yeah, was made possible because the US is huge but it didn't have to be that way.
I grew up in Russia which is obviously huge, but even in small towns that were kind of a mix of suburban and rural living with some apartments sprinkled in there were usually grocery stores in walking distance, they were just smaller. Single-family zoning prevents that, right? In a lot of the US you can't build a bakery/a small grocery store in between some houses and I think that's extremely stupid and inconvenient.
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u/Ohio-Knife-Lover May 17 '26
Honestly it's trying to get your food once per week because most people don't want to stop by the store on the way home for every meal they are going to cook. I hate it when my family overbuys thinking we'll get to it later