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And even if I could: I'm not lugging around several bags of groceries and other sundries that entire distance back to my residence.

The way shopping for groceries works here in the US is that we buy enough goods to last us a week or two. That simply isn't happening with just two hands and feet, or even a bicycle.

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I see plenty of people using dolly carts at my supermarket.

I'm not saying it's practical for everyone, especially large families. But there are more options than people may consider at first, simply because everything in the US is so car centric by default.

The process is a feedback loop though. People drive because everything is so spread out. The corner stores die because people don't walk past anymore. Rinse and repeat.

Electric cargo bikes are the last bastion of hope here. https://youtu.be/rQhzEnWCgHA

If you go to the store once every 2 weeks, you're not the kind of person I wrote the comment for, I'm talking about the majority of people I see who seem to always have a reason to be driving to the store, pickup ice cream, pickup milk, pickup blah blah.

Where we live, we'd really have to drive to the store, that's it; However, we go once a week maximum to avoid more trips.

You can load a bicycle with cheap pannier bags easily with a lot of stuff. There’s also trailers and on the luxury level cargo bikes if you have more stuff to transport. Buying enough goods for a week or two is not an issue with bicycles.

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