[jdnenej]

I have found that shopping by bike is quite easy and much more practical. I have a trailer on my bike that can carry twice the amount I can carry by hand and it moves much faster than walking with no waiting time for the bus. Also cars drive much more carefully around me because they think my trailer is carrying kids.

[salixrosa]

That's actually what I ended up doing most often (albeit w/o a trailer)! I was living somewhere where it wasn't too dangerous to bike to the grocery store. I've also lived places where it would be an extra two miles to get around something like a narrow main road. Still faster than the bus though...