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• BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why would you need to buy a weeks worth of groceries? Just buy for 1 or 2 days. Make additional grocery trips as needed.

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  • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes because everyone loves to go grocery shopping every other day, and with a bike, who cares if you gotta do another 5 miles out of the way.

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    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Where do you live that you are 5 miles from a grocery store? If I ride my bike 5 miles in any direction I will pass half a dozen grocery stores.

      I had a quick look at Google Maps and there are at least 50 supermarkets within a 5 mile radius of my home. That radius covers the whole of the city I live in, which has 38 supermarkets, plus a sizable portion of the neighboring city, which has 24, plus a few smaller villages which all have at least one.

      I went grocery shopping twice today. Once this morning to pick up some breakfast stuff and another visit in the evening to get some things for dinner. It’s a 3 minute bike ride. A grocery trip takes less than 15 minutes including the time spent in the store. I don’t think it’s possible to live farther than that from a supermarket in this city, I lived 1 minute farther away I would be closer to another supermarket.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        A large portion of people in the USA do not live 5 miles from a grocery store. DGs and family dollars don’t count as a grocery store either, even though a lot of them carry food (these damn things skew distances for a lot of people).

        www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/…/chart-detail?cha…

        On top of that, 5 miles gets you there…5 more miles gets you home. Average cyclist does like 10-12 mph, that’s around 25-30mins to get 5miles. So just going to the store and back is 1h cycling.

        Good workout, not practical.

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