Now I won't claim my consumption pattern is typical, but it certainly shows that 0-1 transaction per day is possible. (What are the five shops you visit three times a week?)
If I was still commuting, I’d add at least 5 a week for lunches, might add another 5 a week for train station Brötchen and cookie. If the restaurants were back to normal, might add two more per week for evening meals.
I think I prefer my new normal of the bulk shopping being a once a week collection, so that probably won’t go back to my old habit of whatever/wherever, but even then the local doesn’t have everything I want, so there will be a few additional transactions with grocery stores.
(My commute costs will likely be a once-per-year expense, so a rounding error for transactions per week).
Ah, chemist, supermarket, coffee shop, butcher maybe bakery? Heck, I might run out of sugar and have to go shopping again! Is it really that weird?
I’d particularly like to point out that all-in-one shops are globally atypical, and specifically atypical in smaller communities.
I seriously think you should consider your buying patterns as not representative of... most people, in most places, and specifically not el salvador.
I mean, sure, not everyone is out getting a coffee every morning, but that strikes me as roughly an order of magnitude below reality.
Let’s say, shopping three times a week, with 5 transactions per shopping trip; that’s already an average of 2 transactions a day, but worse, since it’s clustered in small time intervals.
How do possibly get 0-1 transactions per day per person?
That’s.. a society where people don’t use money. It’s not a thing.