Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me
Tbf there's good reasons to not do mini-shopping each day, but like. If you live close to a shopping mart you *do* just push the trolley filled with your bags? And then bring it back? It's not a lot of effort in exchange for only having to deal with that amount of noise once a week????
You can also just buy your own folding cart. They're pretty cheap!
in a lot of major cities in the United States, you cannot take the shopping cart farther than the perimeter of the parking lot because either the wheels will lock, or store security will harass you. you very very much cannot take the shopping cart home with you.
so, yeah, a lot of people who live in the city and walk/public transpo to and from grocery stores either bring two or three very sturdy bags, their backpacks, or as @transarsonist said, a folding cart!
but this also means that people shop strategically--if there's something big they need, sure, they may drive, or they will plan ahead for that shopping trip and bring multiple people, or get the littler, less cumbersome items at another point in the week.
i can't describe to you how incredibly freeing it is to be able to walk/bike/public transpo to the places you need to go for the things you need. i wish more places were accessible like that in practice, not just theory (and even in USian big cities, there's a lot more theory than practice).
also, if the big supermarket is across town and you're doing a big shop, you normally take the bus. Most supermarkets have a bus stop outside specifically for this purpose. It turns what could be a long walk with a half-dozen big bags into 2 or 3 streets for most people.
If for whatever reason that isn't doable, there's always delivery. This is absolutely a solved problem.
i mean the core point of a "walkable neighborhood" like, a real one, is that you never really have to do that because theres an acceptable store every 6 blocks in every direction, and a corner store with snacks and some basics every couple of blocks, so you can usually get everything you need by making maybe one or two 3 block trips from any given point on the map.
the antithesis of the walkable city is for the supermarket to be in a space zoned "for super markets" where you would have to take the bus there.
That's even pretty low-intense walkable. The thing is that in cities like that, almost all the street-level slots are commercial, so it's shops all around, under the houses where people live. So more like a couple of corner stores per block, plus a mid-sized supermarket every couple.
Pictured: supermarket and grocery stores a few blocks away from my house, in the suburbs of Madrid:
(all this is 5 minutes by walk from my house)
