If You Had To Walk To The Supermarket.....

[CKS]

The nearest real grocery store (Aldi) is about a 15 minute walk, but to get there you have to walk on two high-traffic highways without sidewalks and cross the road at one of the deadliest intersections in the state, with no pedestrian crossing lights or crosswalks. Needless to say, we don't walk to that store.

You can get to a WalMart without walking on major roads or crossing without lights if you walk the long way around and cut through other businesses, which would make it about a 40 minute walk (as compared to 20 if you used the same roads and intersections as used for Aldi).

 

[stfoskey12]

There's a super Walmart about a 20-minute walk from my apartment. But I almost never walk there because I'd rather just drive the three minutes. The only time I've walked is when the roads were covered in snow and I didn't want to deal with driving in it.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Apparently there's an Indian specialty store which is nearest to me at about a 20min walk. I've never been to it. The closest grocery store for general food is an hour. Preferred one is 1.5 hours.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

There is a nice Aldi that I walk to that's five minutes away, but they don't have everything I need. But if I had to throw a meal together, I most certainly could from there...

Fingers crossed they don't go under; they always seem to be doing a lot of business...

 

[Smellincoffee]

About thirty minutes, depending on if the grass along the highway has been cut recently. It would presumably take longer on the way back if I'm carrying stuff. I live in a rural neighborhood that's 2 miles from the outskirts of the commercial sprawl drag, and 3 miles from downtown.

 

[Fippy]

Aldi had the "cheap solution" reputation back then, but now they are all very similar with prices here.
Checking weekly special discounts can actually save a good amount here..they all have them, in theory i would never have to buy a full price frozen pizza etc
Those discounts are pretty big, like 50% less. Good for peoples who like to stock up on stuff.

 

[Birdjaguar]

My wife does our grocery shopping. Her preferred stores:

Natural Grocers 3/4 of a mile north
Whole Foods ~3 miles north
Traders Joes ~2 miles & Target ~2 miles next to each other south and west

The closet "regular" supermarket (Albertsons) is about 1/2 mile away to the east; hardly go there.

Walking to them is possible, but returning with a load of groceries unlikely.

 

[Farm Boy]

I could round trip it in a day. I'd be tired.

 

[tjs282]

I do walk to the supermarket!

The nearest is a small but relatively well-stocked PennyMarkt, about 200 m up the road from our house. We/I do most of our general food shopping there; I usually pedal over on Saturdays to do the weekly shop (2 panniers and a rucksack's worth most weeks), but it's easy to just nip across the road if (when!) we unexpectedly discover that one of the boys ate the last loaf, or drank the last carton of milk without telling anyone.

There's a nice Edeka for more specialty items just this side of the centre of town, about 2.5 km away, but it's downhill past the hospital to get there which means uphill to get home -- so while walking's possible, cycling is quicker/ easier (10 minutes each way). Same goes for the Asian supermarket a little further away, in the town center itself, which is the only place we've found locally which actually sells an unsweetened brand of peanut butter.

 

[danjuno]

40 Minutes, and I have to walk alongside a state highway.

 

[Zardnaar]

My wife does our grocery shopping. Her preferred stores:

Natural Grocers 3/4 of a mile north
Whole Foods ~3 miles north
Traders Joes ~2 miles & Target ~2 miles next to each other south and west

The closet "regular" supermarket (Albertsons) is about 1/2 mile away to the east; hardly go there.

Walking to them is possible, but returning with a load of groceries unlikely.

I do carry them back but only needed top ups not the weekly shop.

 

[Farm Boy]

40 Minutes, and I have to walk alongside a state highway.

For those of you who have not been dumb enough to get lost on a hike and walk on the interstate(which is illegal apparently), all those little road markers actually have a whole damn mile between them.

 

[Smellincoffee]

40 Minutes, and I have to walk alongside a state highway.

The state highway is my case, as well. I used to try bicycling to town, but the speeed and aggression of motor traffic made it too risky.

 

[Plains-Cow]

Honestly, legitly, I'd need a day there and a day to get back at least.

 

[Quintillus]

Three minutes. Would take about six minutes to drive there, because I'd have to go fetch my car that's in the opposite direction first.

There's also a regular market about two minutes in the other direction, which is great for anything fresh - produce, meats, bread - but doesn't have all the dry goods or as long of hours. I buy almost all my food at one or the other of them. Occasionally I go to another grocer that's about a 40-minute walk from home and 10 from the office, but I take the bus or train back from that one.

I've lived within a five-minute walk of a grocery store for nearly all of my adult life, and it's become something I look for when evaluating where to live. What's unique about the ones I go to today is that they are all locally owned.

 

[EvaDK]

One supermarket is 10 mins walking distance; two more 20 mins away. Nearest real bakery probably 25 mins. But I bake most of my bread and buns myself anyway, so it's fine.

For big grocery shopping and special offers, the largest hypermarket in Denmark is about 10 mins away in my car. One does not simply walk into Mordor aka Bilka.

 

[warpus]

The following supermarket and similar food options are within pedestrian striking distance from my house:

5 min - Hasty Market (convenience store)
18 min - Farm Boy (specialty grocery store targeting hipsters)
18 min - Angelo's (Italian & Euro deli & bakery)
18 min - European Delights Delicatessen (Polish deli)
18 min - Food Basics (Generic budget grocery store)
21 min - Costco (They love you)
24 min - Sobey's (Somewhat premium grocery store)
27 min - T&T Supermarket (Chinese grocery store)

It's one reason why I bought my house, even though it's technically in suburbia. There are 2 plazas within walking distance (one north, one south), and a bunch of nearby restaurants and other businesses. It works out well for somebody like me, who walks a lot.

During the lockdown years of the pandemic a thing I did was grab my 74L backpack and walk to Sobey's, then load up a whole crapload of food and walk it back home. It was a great workout!

 

[lymond]

Yall got Costco's over there? That is the only thing I've heard of on that list

 

[Samez]

I have four supermarkets and three drugstores within 15 min walking and a weekly farmer's market within 20 minutes distance.
When buying heavy stuff I make a stop over when coming home from work.

 

[Tee Kay]

30 minutes to three different shopping centres that each has at least one supermarket. Although there are two smaller grocery stores ten minutes walk away, one Indian the other Sri Lankan.