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I walk to the grocery store with my foldable cart 🤷♀️
Imagine being so helpless you can't figure out how to get a week of groceries 2km to your home without a car.
To be fair, that's a stupid, pointless hard mode, regardless of having a car or not. If your city is designed correctly, it should be more like taking a day worth of groceries 200m.
Economies of scale and specialization of shops mean that even if you get your noodles and tomatoes from the corner store each afternoon, you're still going to want to go someplace else to stock up on 40lb sacks of basmati and chickpeas. And maybe you want to visit the farmer's market on the weekend, which cannot be on everyone's streetcorner.
I use paniers, and every 2-3 years I get my bike trailer out of the closet. I can carry 90 litres in my panniers and not even notice they're there.
I walk past it on my afternoon walk, get my groceries for the day and that is it. Why would I bother storing that much crap? This way I get fresh food basically every day.
Most trips I don't use the cart, I also just do short walks on a semi daily basis for most things. I was just pointing out it's still possible to do big trips without a car. I mainly cart for the bulky/heavy items. Bags of rice, paper towels, cat litter, etc. Or if I'm doing a bigger trip to a specialty market across town like an Asian grocer.