1: How far away is your nearest grocery store?
2: How often do you go grocery shopping?
3: How do you get to the store and back?
4: Could you shop without driving a car?
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be?
My answers:
1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? There is a latin specialty market about half-a-mile away, for a general supermarket about 2 miles as the streets wind around.
2: How often do you go grocery shopping? About once a week, I would like to buy less and go more often.
3: How do you get to the store and back? We drive, though the condo does provide bus service a couple of days a week.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? Limited shopping yes, there are three stores that are options, two of them are near metro stations.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? I know they are expensive, but Whole Foods, if they would build a store in place of the falling down parking garage at the metro station life would be easy.
Please share your answers in the comments.
How far away is your nearest grocery store? About two blocks.
ReplyDeleteHow often do you go grocery shopping? About 3-4 times a week. I tend to buy meats, veggies, and fruit when I plan to eat it.
How do you get to the store and back? Drive or walk, depending what market I'm using.
Could you shop without driving a car? Yes.
If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? I wish the Trader Joe's was within walking distance.
Trader Joes is a great place to buy cheese.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? Just over 1/4 mile for the low end; about 3/4 mile for Target (but I'm boycotting), and there is a great old neighborhood market about a mile away. But I don't use any of these on a regular basis (see #3 & $ below).
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? One big run each week and then filling in with odds and ends or forgotten items once or so as needed.
3: How do you get to the store and back? Typically drive - on my way back from the gym.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? Yes. As noted above there are 3 options within walking distance and two other options that I actually use regularly on a bus line. See #3 above - I leave for the gym at 5:30AM+/- and the bus line by my house doesn't start running until about 6:30AM.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be - My local food COOP or Sprouts.
Will Jay
I have never been in a Sprouts, someday.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store?
ReplyDeleteThere is a baguette machine in the village 2km away, an épicerie (village shop) that sells most things 3km in the opposite direction and an excellent market there selling fruit and veg, cheese, fish and meat on Thursday mornings. The nearest supermarket is 11km away.
2: How often do you go grocery shopping?
It’s completely random, depending on what we need.
3: How do you get to the store and back?
By car or occasionally motorcycle.
4: Could you shop without driving a car?
All the shops are too far away to walk there.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be?
Waitrose.
Am I too old to restart riding motorcycles?
Delete1. 500 metres, so would that be about 1/3 of a mile.
ReplyDelete2. Almost daily.
3. Walk or catch a tram but once a week I take the car to a different area to replenish the cellar and visit Aldi.
4. Yes, quite easily.
5. No anwer. Most of what I want to buy is easy to visit without driving.
Your high rise if much more in the city than ours.
Delete1. A block away. But it is a werid little discount place. I go there for one-off kind of things or if I ran out of something basic.
ReplyDelete2. Maybe 2x week. One big shop. One little for the shit I missed or now need.
3. Car.
4. No. Not really.
5. It would be the main grocery store to which I go. I wouldnt' mind going daily and walking back and forth.
I keep hoping that the redevelopment of the subway station area will happen in my lifetime and include shopping.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? Grocery store is about two miles, CostCo is about 40.
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? Groceries? Once a week. CostCo every five weeks or so.
3: How do you get to the store and back? Drive.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? If I lived closer I would definitely walk.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? We like Harris Teeter but Camden doesn't have one. We are getting an Aldis this month so that's something new to try.
Aldi is a specialty store for me, I go a couple of times a month, there are things I can only find there.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? Two hundred yards.
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? Twice a week
3: How do you get to the store and back? I do not go to the nearest store. I go to either Tesco or Aldi by car having recently split from Lidl because of their loyalty scheme.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? Yes - absolutely.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? "The Penguin & Hamster Porn Shop".
Sometimes you leave me speechless.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? There is a Safeway just at the end of my block. I walk there in the winter months but in summer, it's too hot.
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? 2 or 3 times a week depending on what I might fix.
3: How do you get to the store and back? Mostly I drive to one of four stores around the area.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? In the winter months only.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? I'd love an AJ's Fine Foods a little closer. It's expensive but they have everything in high quality.
There are a couple of markets like that in Alexandria
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? 6-minute walk.
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? Something every few days I suppose.
3: How do you get to the store and back? Walking is quickest.
4: Could you shop without driving a car? Always do.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? Just about everything is already within walking distance. That’s the way I like it.
You are a lucky man in many ways.
Delete1. About three minutes away, down a hill.
ReplyDelete2. Once a week unless we need something specific. For weekly shops we usually order online and have the groceries delivered.
3. Walk, unless we're getting delivery.
4. We don't have a car!
5. Waitrose, which is where we go. Online deliveries come from Ocado, which contracts with M&S for the groceries, and we like them too.
I have never done a total shop by ordering for delivery.
Delete1: How far away is your nearest grocery store? About 3 miles.
ReplyDelete2: How often do you go grocery shopping? About once a week.
3: How do you get to the store and back? Car
4: Could you shop without driving a car? It would be very hard.
5: If you could have one store within easy walking distance, what would it be? Traders Joe.
The nearest is about 1.25 miles away and this is walking distance but often in heavy traffic and in ardent heat; no one does this. I go to the store 2-3x a week getting things as needed.
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