How stale is the food you usually eat? As a rule, I couldn't say I'm often thrilled to eat fresh produce I bought seven days earlier.

Every single day might be a bit much, but if I'm bringing home food for 3 people * 3 days, a bike is absolutely fine.

An apple or onion will last weeks, not days. The only stuff that spoils after 3 days is fresh greens.

Meat tastes considerably better within 48 hours. Milk considerably better within 3-4 days. Eggwhites become runny consistency about 10 days after lay, but the ones you get from the shop are already several days old at best.

People living in cities absolutely should.

People living in US cities? They can't because American cities are designed explicitly to be hostile to humans.

It would be pretty expensive in terms of time if I had to go grocery shopping every couple of days rather than every couple of weeks.

Because you see no other way to grocery shop than what you're doing right now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUlgSRn6e0

In my case I didn't go by bike, I walked to the local grocery store 500m or so from home.

You'd just pop in on your way home from work or from whatever you'd be doing in town.

5 minutes in a small grocery store, back home with a bag weighting max 10kg, usually 2-5.

This is close to impossible in many places.

Big business killed small living.

It's not that people can't imagine better ways. I'd love it if there was a grocery store a 5 min walk from where I live. But there isn't. It'd be a 35-minute walk. Some people live further, many miles, from a grocery store.

But that is not an immutable fact of life. It's not "cultural" either. I see the main reason there aren't grocery stores on every other corner to be single family zoning. Not wanting to have "noise" around your house, pushing any kind of business away from your neighborhood, and not wanting "shadows" pushing away denser kind of buildings that can easily support local business. Change the zoning, and the built environment will change, I would argue for the better.

Takes me 5-10 minutes max to get from my kitchen to the supermarket and back home, on foot. The streets are safe due to low car usage so if I needed something else while cooking, I could send my kids on their own from when they were about seven (prior to that I wouldn't worry about their safety but I would worry about them bringing the right thing back and not deciding to stop off in a playground).

Here it would take 35+ minutes.

In dense cities, there are multiple grocery stores withing walking distance. What people do is come back from the office (or anywhere else), get off the subway or bus, and on the 2 block walk home pop into the shop for fresh produce. Yes people absolutely get things like fresh bread on the daily.

I buy fresh food daily. Fruits and veggies from whichever stall in the local street market has the best options, bread from the baker, meat from the butcher. Packaged goods from one of the many supermarkets within easy walking distance.

It takes me a few minutes on the way home from whatever I'm doing. Less work than getting into a car and driving 15 minutes somewhere once a week. Plus everything is fresh, we only buy what we need and basically throw away zero food.

Cities can be organised differently, including in ways that facilitate more responsible life choices.