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How do people who live out in the country do it with grocery shopping.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:54 pm
I’m talking people who live like 45 minutes or greater from the nearest grocery store. How does this work in practice? I would think having to spend hours in the car just to go on a routine shopping trip would be an intolerable way to live life.
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Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:56 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Buy in bulk. Have deep freezers. Have chickens, maybe a milking cow. Have a cellar.
You know groceries are a relatively new invention right?
You know groceries are a relatively new invention right?
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:57 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Do people really live that far out?
Neco's is in the middle of nowhere and still a lot closer than 45 minutes for anyone in its area.
Neco's is in the middle of nowhere and still a lot closer than 45 minutes for anyone in its area.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:57 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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I would think having to spend hours in the car just to go on a routine shopping trip would be an intolerable way to live life.
I would think the same thing about a job.
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Do people really live that far out?
Pretty rare in the South.
Not at all difficult in the plains or the mountains out west, or hell, even the NW coast.
This post was edited on 10/20/19 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:58 pm to fr33manator
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groceries are a relatively new invention
By that logic, so is the wheel.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:58 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
You buy all of the stuff you need in one trip?
It’s not that difficult to imagine.
It’s not that difficult to imagine.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 2:58 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
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people who live like 45 minutes or greater from the nearest grocery store.
Dollar General
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:00 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
You make a list and go once a week. Its not rocket surgery.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:01 pm to Anonymous95
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By that logic, so is the wheel.
No, the modern grocery store like we think it didn’t even exist prior to the early mid 1900s
People had specialized markets. Butchers, bakers, milkmen, roadside vegetable stands.
There were no Walmart’s or rouses or Publix whew you’d got and get everything at once
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:02 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Grow your own
Roll your own
Roll your own
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:02 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
they shop at Dollar general
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:03 pm to fr33manator
This.
My parents retired to a lake front rural place where the nearest store is half an hour away. They garden and and freeze/put up a lot. My dad fishes, my mom bakes bread. They don't have routine shopping trips, they do bulk shopping once a month.
Not my cup of tea but they like it.
My parents retired to a lake front rural place where the nearest store is half an hour away. They garden and and freeze/put up a lot. My dad fishes, my mom bakes bread. They don't have routine shopping trips, they do bulk shopping once a month.
Not my cup of tea but they like it.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:03 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Live in the country, work in town, the wife does a pick up at Walmart once a week for the bulk of the groceries, the rest is mostly amazon prime. In a pinch there’s a little store down the road with the basics.
ETA: We’re 30mins from town, so it’s not horrible
ETA: We’re 30mins from town, so it’s not horrible
This post was edited on 10/20/19 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:06 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I live 45 to an hour from a decent grocery in the Fl panhandle. We go to the grocery once every 2-3 weeks and deliveries from amazon come into play quite often.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:07 pm to fr33manator
You’re right...my point is there aren’t a bunch of people alive today that remember a day without grocery stores.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:09 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I see people with ice chest in their SUVs and trucks. Guess that’s how they keep it cold on the way home. But honestly, how many people are living in an area where they don’t pass a grocery at least once a week?
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:10 pm to ticklechain
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I live 45 to an hour from a decent grocery in the Fl panhandle. We go to the grocery once every 2-3 weeks and deliveries from amazon come into play quite often
What do you do for a living?
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:11 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I think country people just make a weekly trip to Wal-Mart.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:12 pm to Damone
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I think country people just make a weekly trip to Wal-Mart.
We probably have 15 grocery stores within 5 miles of us and we don't go once a week. We usually just go buy 2-3 weeks of food at a time.
Posted on 10/20/19 at 3:12 pm to fallguy_1978
self employed, mostly rehab of older homes and stuff of that nature. Lot of storm damage for the past year in my area
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