accidentally fell into a truly mind-numbing X discussion about what "walkability" means" today

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I’m certainly speaking from ignorance here, but why would a mother of five "go grocery shopping for her family of five and walk home?" without a car even in a walkable area? What about walkability by virtue of market proximity makes this feasible when accounting for the sheer volume and weight of groceries involved?

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When you live in a place with nearby markets, your shopping habits change. I often go out every other day to buy groceries I want to make the day of because I love one block from my super market. But I don’t think you’re locked into one mode or another. I do have a car, and I like to do some bulk shopping at a market that’s too far to walk regularly. So I go with my car once a week when I move it for street cleaning and buy a bunch of things, then augment that with fresher produce from my closer market.

Thanks! Having lived in suburbia most of my life I’m acclimated to the "weekly trips to the supermarket for groceries" paradigm, the alternative of only grabbing a few things felt alien enough to be unthinkable.

Also lots of people use wagons or laundry carts.