What an odd thing to say. Why should people have to drive and spend their time at the grocery store if the grocery store can do that much more efficiently? Employees pack what looks like dozens of orders at the same time and drive them to the neigborhoods. In a densely populated area I can't imagine that being less efficient than going yourself.
> Employees pack what looks like dozens of orders at the same time and drive them to the neigborhoods.
This isn't the way it was done with the service I describe. There generally would not be enough demand so most orders would be 1-to-1, no more efficient than somebody driving to the store themself.
Want to add, with walkable cities and less car centricism you absolutely don't have to drive.
Not meaning to be insensitive to less healthy people who enter into that condition through no fault of their own, but also, perhaps fewer people would be in a position that they are physically unable to shop for groceries if they didn't "have to drive", and got in the exercise of a daily walk to the grocer.
You're thinking about it kind of wrong. You don't need to fill a huge fucking jeep with groceries for the month. You make it part of your daily routine to get a little at each trip. The store is already close to where you will be.
I think it's fine if one decides to buy groceries for 2 weeks instead of every couple of days, everyone is different and this might be more practical for some than others. That's personal choice.
Why not? On foot might be a bit much, but on a bike, with a trailer, this isn't hard at all.
It may not be the right solution for you, but it's certainly a possible solution.
Because they chose to live somewhere stupid that doesn't have one of life's necessities, food, nearby? Or maybe they haven't figured out how to bundle trips, like going grocery shopping while little Ryder is at soccer practice?
Wow, so judgmental. I live a ~20 minute bike ride from the grocery store but for a family it's not always feasible to get everything to fit on bikes. It's totally reasonable to drive somewhere once every two weeks for that. It's actually funny, you don't know anything about me or where I live. It's actually very close to what I would consider the perfect balance between having grocery stores in walking or biking distance when we quickly need something and a 5 or so minute drive to the grocery store for bigger shops. Yet I don't have to live in an urban hellhole.