What you are missing is that you think of going to the store as a trip in off itself. If you like in a walkable community, going to store is just something you do on the side.
I might bring some of my recycling to the center, go to a friends place to hang out then on my way home I quickly go to the store and pick up a few thing that I am missing.
Or simply on my way home from work.
Or sometimes I just go because its a nice couple minutes walk in the fresh hair and I can get some fresh bread.
> I can do that now, by buying a bunch of food when it's on sale, then loading it all into my car and putting it in my fridge and freezer that have room for all of it. In your world, I couldn't do that.
You realize that you just said that you need a car and a large fridge and freezer to save money right? I have neither of those and pretty sure that saves money.
Often those lower priced things are not huge bulk products that you can buy at lower price in unlimited quantity. What I am talking about is that usually there is a box with lots of stuff that is close to expiry date that you can pick up for cheap.
So first of all, go look at the Netherlands. The idea that you can't buy in bulk without a car is nonsense.
Even when I was child we had a little cart for the bicycle (or just pulling) that you could put a gigantic amount of food into.
Second, unless you live literally right in a city center where I would advocate outright banning cars, nobody is forcing you. And even then, if you need to move, there is likely some special thing you can get to be allow for that to happen.
What I want is for drivers to pay for the actual cost of space, and infrastructure (and pollution and sound and traffic) that they are causing. So if you are rich, then yeah, have a car, do your big box score shopping run and go buy 50kg of rice and store it in your underground bunker or whatever.
However, as a society, building a society where 20% have a car, rather then 80% is clearly a good thing, from virtually angle level you look at it. And even those people that have a car, maybe go from 4 trips a day to 0.5 trips a day.
Then don't, its not forced on anybody.
What you are missing is that you think of going to the store as a trip in off itself. If you like in a walkable community, going to store is just something you do on the side.
I might bring some of my recycling to the center, go to a friends place to hang out then on my way home I quickly go to the store and pick up a few thing that I am missing.
Or simply on my way home from work.
Or sometimes I just go because its a nice couple minutes walk in the fresh hair and I can get some fresh bread.
> I can do that now, by buying a bunch of food when it's on sale, then loading it all into my car and putting it in my fridge and freezer that have room for all of it. In your world, I couldn't do that.
You realize that you just said that you need a car and a large fridge and freezer to save money right? I have neither of those and pretty sure that saves money.
Often those lower priced things are not huge bulk products that you can buy at lower price in unlimited quantity. What I am talking about is that usually there is a box with lots of stuff that is close to expiry date that you can pick up for cheap.