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by frosted-flakes 1214 days ago
I go grocery shopping by bike. Of course it's only for me, but I can easily fit a week's worth of food in a milk crate. I even get heavy stuff like cartons of canned drinks or gallon jugs of milk. I live about two kilometres from two grocery stores in an isolated northern town in Canada, and even though there is zero bike infrastructure here, it's so close that it doesn't really matter if I need to go multiple times per week.

Rain or snow doesn't really matter either; that's what fenders and a jacket are for, and in any case it rarely rains heavily non-stop, but comes in waves, so I can just wait until the rain pauses for a little while.

It's great fun, actually. I hate getting groceries by car now.