Fri 25 November 2005 - Shopping on foot
Some have recently suggested that people should be consolidating grocery shopping, doing just one big trip per week, to cut down on petrol usage. I’ve done the opposite — I’ve started doing more trips to the supermarket, on foot. This is helped by the fact that since I’ve moved, the supermarket is only about 5 minutes walk from home. In fact with looking for parking, it would probably take as long to drive as it does to walk. So if I can restrain myself and only buy two (green) bags-worth of stuff each time, I can do it all on foot.
The checkout chicks/blokes don’t know this, of course, so sometimes they pack stuff in such a way that one bag is very light, and the other heavy. A little re-arranging is then necessary to ensure I won’t end up with one arm longer than the other.