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My local walkable grocery store is a Safeway. They sell a 3lb pack of ground turkey for $18.
Walmart, target, smart and final, and Lucky's are all <$12, but I have to drive. And that's one item. I save hundreds a month in groceries because I have a car and can shop around. I can wait for deals, I can buy in bulk.
The idea of a walkable city is nice, but if you restrict competition, prices skyrocket. And yeah, that Safeway is walkable to an apartment, the only grocery store that is, and they know it. It is infuriating to dismiss practicality for an dream.
Walkable cities and car hate are just another generations NYMBY's. Those rich enough and finantialy secure to afford premiums that push others out. Meanwhile this transitional uncertainty greatly harms many of us struggling to make ends meet.
That doesn't even make sense - you are in a neighborhood that only has one grocery store nearby due to car dependent planning, therefore walkability isn't practical?
I live in a neighborhood that was definitely originally designed for cars and has been gradually getting better and I've already got at least two grocery stores I can easily walk to, plus two convenience stores and a pharmacy that's kind of also a convenience store. Then I've got another three or four that I can easily bike to. And these aren't small grocery stores, they're all like massive supermarkets designed originally around car traffic.
If you spend time in places that have actual walkable neighborhoods, you find lots of much smaller grocery stores and you can easily shop around and compare prices on foot.
I think there's a big difference in how you understand these things depending what angle you come from, logistically your situation makes no sense and only seems to exist, as you said, because of car centric infrastructure. Where I live was very much designed around foot traffic and yes it's great being able to get all the daily things nearby, I love the parks and on rare occasions I actually went to go where the busses take me, plan to be back before they stop and don't have to take more than a bags worth of stuff with me they're great too.
There are very real problems though, local library is useful if you order books and don't mind waiting forever, shops likewise are great for bread, cheese and snacks but unless you want a very boring diet and dont mind paying a premium otherwise you need to go somewhere with a higher volume of trade than the walkable zone around the local shops can support - that's before you consider things beyond food like tools, clothes, and services.
All the small grocery stores their entire customer base can walk to are more expensive than larger stores and they all sell the same basic items - it's just logistics. It's not hard to look at the lives people here lived before cars, they had less and did less and lived much worse lives - well those the couldn't afford a horse drawn carriage of course, personal wheeled transport has been deemed a necessity of good living for centuries.
I'm thankfully not American. There are 3 large grocery stores within walking distance of my home. Also 5 bakeries, 3 greensgrocers, 2 furniture sellers, 7 butchers, 5 banks, 3 stationeries, 4 hairdressers... the list goes on and on. I'm not even very close to the city center, either.
Homer : Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Hank Scorpio : Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third.
Homer : Uh-huh.
Hank Scorpio : There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There.
Homer : Mm-Hmm.
Hank Scorpio : That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Homer : Oh, the hammock district!
Hank Scorpio : That's right.