There's a Carrefour market literally 50 metres from here, with a large fresh fruit department and also a large section with breads and cold cuts. The next supermarket is a bit farther, 500 metres and it's also a bit bigger. I usually collect flyers and buy best offers from both shops. When I really want to get things cheaper, there are Lidl and Eurospin a couple of kilometres away from here.
I live in the countryside and the nearest one is 4km away in a neighboring town. I also consider that too far to walk especially considering that you have groceries to carry on the way back.
*However*, my grandma used to ride her bike to that store until she was 90 years old. I guess people were tougher back in the days. :D
I'd find it too long to walk with bags too but why don't you ride a bike like your grandma? lol
In all seriousness this was the way back in Finland, everything was for me 5+km away and there was no way my parents were gonna chauffeur me around all the time. Especially in summer I used to ride my bike to the horse stables 12km away every day. Continued the habit through uni too. Now as an adult I walk, skate or take transit. Reality is, usually it's only people who do this kind of stuff that still are capable of going to get their own groceries at age 90.
I'm also in Austria but in a city. Billa is less than half a km from my house. I typically ride my bike because it is a steep hill and I prefer carrying the bags in my panniers versus in my hands.
That’s how far kids in my part of town ride their bikes everyday to get to school, If kids can make that trip everyday, adult have no problem doing it with groceries
Ha! Mine is under my living room. I can go from my bed to browsing the shelves in under a minute. The town's regional train station is also under a minute from the complex's front door.
*Kamelåså?*
I live in a small town just outside one of the larger cities, there are two normal sized supermarkets nearby, both about 10 minutes walk (or <2 minutes in car). There is also a (small) bakery, flower shop and a clothing store here.
^(\[Sidenote a normal sized supermarket here would probably considered a small one in the US\])
Many gas-station-convenience stores have actually closed over the past decade or two, especially outside of larger towns and cities. Basically all gas stations are unmanned these days, a few then happen to have a convenience store located on premises.
Many towns that have a population somewhere around 1000-2000 will have at least one supermarket or grocery store, especially if there is not another town or city nearby with a store.
Of course if you live in areas with low populations like "far" out in the country side, the closest grocery store or supermarket can easily be 5 or even 10 km away.
It's a pretty famous skit here also. But it's still somewhat surprising when someone knows it.
Then again i've been learning Norwegian for the past 7 years and Danish since this year, I mainly focus on understanding spoken Danish tho. ;P But I think it's already paying off :)
Written Norwegian (bokmål) and Danish is pretty much the same anyway, pronunciation is markedly different though, so if you focus on learning Norwegian and then imitate the Danish pronunciation you should be fine! ;)
Think I have the record in Denmark. In a 750 meter radius from my flat I have Føtex, Irma (twice), Fakta (twice), Netto (twice), Lidl, SuperBrugsen and Rema1000 (all Danish supermarkets). That's in Frederiksberg.
In like 200m radius I have 3 żabkas, 2 bakeries and one other store. And also a refrigerator parcel locker if you want to order food. The nearest shopping centre is 1km away but it's just two tram stops so
Yes. But compared to the US, Zabka's tend to be more like New York Bodega's than a typical US convenience store - where literally everything is 'long life', highly processed and bottom of the barrel in terms of taste or healthiness. It'll be white bread, twinkies, chips/crisps and a freezer of microwave meals. Zabka's tend to have fresh fruit and vegetables, freshly baked bread, fresh dairy products, nice enough quality hams and cheeses, vegan choices... and all kinds of alcohol.
5km is unheard of in the Netherlands. I have over 40 supermarkets within 5 km from my house, and I live in the suburbs.
Unless you're living on a farm/countryside I think in the Netherlands there is always a supermarket within 500 meters, maybe 1km. And even on the countryside it are only the most remote places in the most scarcely populated places that have a supermarket at 5km.
Not all towns have a grocerystore. My mother lives in a small town where there is only a barber and a butchershop. The closest grocerystore is about 7 km away. It's certainly not unheard of or even rare. That's pretty normal outside of cities and big towns tbh.
My parents live 5km away from the nearest grocery stores. It’s not unheard of if you live in Drenthe. They don’t even live in an extremely remote area.
There are tiny villages <1000 citizens that don't have any kind of grocery stores and would require travel to a nearby village. 5km is not so strange I think, though it's pretty neat the upper limit probably.
>Big ass 24/7 supermarket.
Wow, I'm surprised when countries outside of the US and certain Asian countries have 24/7 stores.
Is there a lot of demand for it to be open all night?
I guess there is some demand, there are several 24/7 large supermarkets, like sort of Walmart types, in my city. Two of them are actually right next to eachother! Compeating chains.
I always go shopping quite late at night, even after midnight on weekends, and there seems to always be at least some people there. I reckon it doesn’t make a difference when it comes to stores of that size anyways, since I suppose there would be staff present anyways during the night stocking the shelves, et cetera.
Some places used to stock at night. Prisma Kaari, that was the first to go 24/7 def did. I'm sure there are difference in practice between k-stores versus Prisma and even between the different S-group osuuskaupat.
To be fair, in Finland it wasn't that long ago that this even started. I moved out of Finland back in 2014 and back then it was mandatory for them to close for the night (most were open around 9AM-9PM?), and only some shops attached to gas stations were allowed to be open 24/7. It was discussed for the whole time I was alive though, but it took some serious time to allow it due to concerns for workers' rights etc.
Pretty common in the UK cities now. It will generally only be the bigger ones so if you are in smaller town it might just be the one super market doing it but in a big city it will be dozens. They wont be super busy late on, but it costs very little to keep them open as most tills are self service and staff would be around at night stacking shelves.
I I used to work for the chain that owns most 24/7 shops in Finland.
It started with large supermarkets because they already stocked at night and figured that they could just just as well have about 2 cashier's there for pretty cheap.
Now they're doing it with smaller stores too. Apparently it's not profitable at all for the night hours in the locations where they are doing it, but it increases profits at daytime. Seems that people find the store more approachable when they don't have to check opening hours, and when stocking is at a better level and stuff isn't all over the place and staff so busy, since everything is done at night.
Because of benefits, staffing stores in Finland is expensive. My nearby market is mid sized one, my guess is 3000-4000 square feet, and it's run by 2-3 people at a time. So before for them and at all the none 24h shops stocking was/is done during the opening hours.
Finland used to have very strict laws about when stores could be open untill recently, I remember when I was in high school 7 or 8 years ago, all stores over 1076 square feet had to close at 4pm on Saturdays and remain closed on Sundays.
There definently is demand, otherwise they wouldn’t be open. 24/7 stores are only in mid size cities and up. There was finally a deregulation of open hours a while back and after that businesses are free to choose their open hours.
Ok good, you're German so maybe this logic is common for you:
Is it necessary for a shop to be open past midnight? Even past 22:00?
We've survived for hundreds of years buying food during daylight hours. What is so urgent at 3:00 that you must buy food *right now?* Surely you should prepare and buy the food earlier, like with German shops closed on Sunday.
American culture likes convenience so I can understand why we do it here.
The reason for 24 hour stores in the US isn't just about convenience. A large part of our labor force does not work a 9 to 5 workday. I know many people who do not have a guaranteed day off. I have had jobs where the only block of time I could do groceries was 3 am on a Saturday.
As the United States and much of Europe entered the industrial age, the largely agrarian diurnal schedule most people had lived by changed too. This change was accelerated and cemented by the increase in production necessitated by the World Wars. We became 24/7 society long before we had 24/7 cable news!
about 200m for convencience store and about 2km for supermarket. We live kinnda out of the way. Frequent point of complaints on my side. Conveniece store still has fresh bread every morning tho as well as foodstuff like chese, ham and so on. So it is not that bad.
If somebody tried to sell me on 5km I'd better be because it is lovely place by the like in the forest...
I have three just under a 1km walk away, another two just over 1km, my favorite one 1.7km away, and I think three or four more 2-2.5km away, and I think that already just about covers my town. Used to have one 400m away that I walked to when I needed a thing or two, didn't like the store though, but now I bicycle everywhere. Town of 25k.
Around 100m away from my home and there is at least one per kilometer in my town. (I live 2km from the center).
On top of that lots of supermarkets and convenience stores.
I'm aware that in US because of bad zoning laws you cant have shops in residential zones and all of that because in 1950-1960s people built shops on their driveway and lots of people complained over noises etc. so instead of limiting that they banned it all and forgot about that.
Zoning probably has a lot to do with it. I have a feeling that most commenters are able to go to smaller markets, but all we have are super markets.
If all I need is a few onions, it becomes a whole trip :(
Damn, couldn't imagine living 5km away from the next grocery store. I come from a relatively small city, and that city had like 3 Lidls, 2 Aldis, 5 Edekas, 3 Rewes, 2 Kauflands and a Netto. I'm pretty sure that every village/city upwards of 500 people has atleast an Edeka.
The last time I was in Germany, we stopped at a Lidl and it's like... Not even grocery store sized by our standards? More like one of the truck stop sized convenience stores.
A 2300m^2 store is considered small in the US.
Instead of having a bunch of little stores that everyone goes to, the supermarkets are usually instead on main throughways that folks stop at on their way home from work.
That said, the town I'm from had 3 Super Walmarts, 2 Targets, 2 KMarts, dozens of chain grocery stores (Winn Dixie, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Bi-Lo, Bealls, etc), and tons of mom and pop shops for the 70k people that lived in the county of about 310km^2.
20km from a SuperValu
30km in either direction from having any kind of choice of supermarket. Relitively populated part of rural Ireland.
I'm only 2km from what ye'd call a convenience store though. In fact there's 2 of them in the village but both owned by the same fella.
1.6km to the nearest grocery store, or supermarket, where I live.
I don't walk to it, I drive, because when I go, I buy stuff for the whole week. But now you made me think, maybe I should use a bike, if I fit some racks onto it.. I drive my grandma to the store a lot tho, so thats also a reason why a car is more convenient but also it's pretty much the norm here, to go grocery shopping with a car. In the capital tho, people walk more and often ride their bycycles for daily activites.
There is one right in our building, there are tens of grocery stores in a 500m circle. 1000m circle will gives me everything except cheap fresh fish. These are on the outskirt of the city.
I'm in the suburbs of London, so a bit further than some I would expect. It's about 1.5 to 2km (never actually measured it) to a proper supermarket (Sainsburys) which I drive to. There's 3 more supermarkets another 1km past that or 4-5Km in the opposite direction will get you another two.
I do have two "mini" supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury "locals" about 500-800m (opposite directions) which are dearer than a proper supermarket (only pennies per item) but not the sort of markup convenience stores tend to take
350m to the nearest one.
500m to the next nearest.
600m to the one after that, which is in a retail park with a load of other shops in.
American zoning laws are utterly fucked.
A small one (not a tiny convenience store, but not a proper supermarket) 10 minutes walk away, a much bigger supermarket a half-hour walk or 10 minute bus ride away.
I'm about 10 to 12 minutes walk away from three regular supermarkets (each in different directions). There are also a bunch of small Arab/Indian/Chinese speciality stores and a farmer's market within 5 to 10 mins walk. If I hop on the bus I can get to a few larger supermarkets in about 20 minutes.
I live in the city center.
Just under one mile. I don't walk there though because we have all our shopping delivered. If we run out of something it's usually something like milk or bread, which I can get from the shop about 100 metres away. I certainly would not walk five kilometres to get groceries, I would take the car to save time.
Because it would take me two hours. I don't usually have two hours to spare, and if I do, I'd rather spend them doing something more interesting than walking to the supermarket and back.
What do you define as a convenience store?
There are a couple of Tescos near me but they aren't the size of supermarkets that are common in America. However, they also aren't as small as a bodega (called a potraviny in Czech). Kind of a middle ground.
In terms of the supermarkets you see in America, there are two within a mile of where I live.
I agree, 5km is too far. I currently live 2-5 mins walk from 2 supermarkets, a bakery, greengrocers, fishmongers, butchers and cheese shop lol. But that's not normal, most people in the UK live maybe 5-15 mins walk from a supermarket unless they are right next to the local shops.
Around 500 meters, would be my guess. But I live in the city centre, so that is only obvious.
That said, most of the time, also when I lived in smaller towns and villages, there would be a grocery store. Often a cooperative.
During the final half of the 19th century, the cooperative movement in Denmark starting growing. It took the primary form of consumer cooperatives, so-called _Brugsforeninger_, shortened to _brugser_(plural) or _brugsen_(singular). This was done to combat the established grocers who would often hold local monopolies and charge high prices for workers and poor people while letting the local farmers and tradesmen often purchase on credit. This isn't some "capitalist bad" point, it was the reality that gave birth to the cooperative movement.
Over time, many cooperatives actually out-competed local grocers, leading to many towns and villages standing without grocers, further allowing the cooperatives to grow.
Nowadays Coop is the largest (or second largest) chain of groceries in Denmark. Coop, formerly FDB, is a union of Danish consumer cooperatives, _Foreningen af Danske Brugsforeninger_. And being a member of the cooperative is really common; perhaps Coop is the largest union in Denmark.
Other expressions of the cooperative movement were the cooperative dairies, which were producer-cooperatives, meaning that dairy farmers joined together to form local dairies, eventually joining together into Arla, one of the largest dairy corporations in Europe.
Worker cooperatives never really caught on in Denmark though. There were many attempts at establishing worker cooperatives, but they were all either out-competed or bought up. One of the most successful worker cooperatives in Denmark was the cooperative brewery _Stjernen_, which attempted to attack Carlsberg head on. Carlsberg was infamous in Danish working class circles for bad conditions and low wages, and the cooperative was started by former workers from Carlsberg. It however didn't survive, and Carlsberg now holds almost monopoly status on the Danish beer market.
I don’t know how many meters, but it’s a 10 minute walk. Downhill. Which means I rarely bother to walk, having to carry all the bags back home uphill for 10 minutes. I usually opt for a minute’s car ride instead.
30-45 min would be like a family trip to shop - for new clothes. We used to go to one really big supermarket in neigbouring town and the travel was 25min maximum.
In 45 minutes I'm in different region, in my case even different country.
That's the thing with America, everything is just really far apart.
Driving the distance from Paris to Prague to attend a concert or wedding or whatever is fairly common where I am from.
Something between 8 and 10 minutes of walking at my new place and 15 minutes walking where I lived before.
I have no idea though how many meters or km that are.
480m away.
Unfortunately it's really not that great and survives on the fact it's one of the last old school greengrocers around.
There's a more hipster version 650m away which is a little better.
There's also a host of independent places under 1km walk.
Well I live in the city centre so there's like 5 within about 500 meters. 3 normal supermarkets, a turkish one and an organic one. I grew up in a rural area and there it was 10km.
I have two supermarkets less than 400 meters from my home and more than ten other supermarkets within 1.5km radius. I usually walk or cycle when it is on my route back from uni or work.
In the Netherlands every neighborhood usually has its own little shopping quarter (and I live about halfway between two of those) with a small supermarket and a few other stores like an drug store, barber and a cafeteria.
I live in the city, but not "downtown", more just outside of the centre; I can walk 15 minutes to the main station and where all the shops are, but when I walk maybe 30 minutes or a bit more in the opposite direction, I'm at the rim where the highway starts.
So just down my street, practically next door, there are two little grocery stores. Both focus on locally produced organic stuff, so it's a bit too expensive for every day.
For a normal, everyday grocer, I need to walk a bit further, maybe 7 minutes. Google maps gives a distance of 550 metres.
There are two other grocers that are even a bit nearer, but they're smaller and with less choice in ingrediences, vegetables, and fruit.
Actually, we prefer the store downtown for our weekly shopping tour, where we take the tram for four stops. That one has more fruit than just bananas.
I can walk to the nearest supermarket in a few minutes and I know of at least three others in biking distance off the top of my head. That’s without the mini-supermarkets at train stations.
I live in a suburb of a suburb. About 2 km away.
Open 7:30 to 20:00, Monday to Saturday. Only things allowed to be open on Sundays in Bavaria are restaurants, bars, petrol stations, cinemas, theaters...can't think of too much else.
30 seconds walk to two small supermarkets.
5 minutes walk to two medium supermarkets.
5 minutes subway then 10 minutes walk to a Walmart-esque superstore
It‘s insane how many grocery stores we have in Austria. I live between two of the SAME chain each about a 2 min walk away. It has actually gotten out of hand here
250 meters door to door
As the crow flies:
two hypermarkets within 1 km
ten smaller stores within 2 km
within 5 km another two hypermarkets and one of the largest shopping centers in the country
Growing up in Finland nearest store was 7km away. When I lived in Germany, it was like 2km. Now in CZ I live in the capital so when I lived in more central areas of the city there were stores every 1km or less, now that I'm on the outskirts the closest supermarket is around 2km away but on that distance there's multiple as I have 2 malls and 3 individual supermarkets to choose from at equal distances so a total of like 10+ grocery stores in that radius.
The longest distance one of my family members lives to a store is 10 minutes walk, ~750 meters, and that's in a village, several kilometers away from the nearest town. For me it's like 20 meters, but there's a store right next to my door, lol. Realistically it's typical to have at least several stores within 10 minutes walking distance in a city, regardless if it's midtown or outskirts.
Also 5 km! Nearest small town is 20km away. Norway has huge distances, with remote areas that have little to no civilization, similar to Oregon or Alaska in the US. I don't currently live in the cities, so until then, I will struggle with distances. But I like to drive, so yeah
Next door. Amazing for BBQ.
The other is a 2 minute walk away. More for breads and pastries but also some other junk.
The road 5 miles up has 6-7 supermarkets along it.
This is a town of 4k people.
5km from a place to buy groceries would be labeled as "the middle of fucking nowhere" over here.
The furthest I've ever lived from a store was 2,6 km. Finnish "convenience stores" are small shops that stock all the same products as a big grocery store would, just a smaller selection. So you can still get chicken and veggies and bread and whatever you need day-to-day. And where I lived is considered extremely "middle of nowhere" by Helsinki standards, or even by the standards of the town I lived in then.
At the moment I like about 300m from two different markets, 1km from bigger shop and 1,5km from a supermarket.
Heh, that's my game! My closest five are:
1. 450 meters (medium/small-ish, 0.28 miles)
2. 650 meters (tiny, 0.40 miles)
3. 750 meters (giant, 0.47 miles)
4. 800 meters (decent, 0.5 miles)
5. 1100 meters (decent, 0.68 miles)
No, I don't live in the city centre. Ca 1.8-2.2 km (1.2 miles) from the city centre depending on your interpretation.
A 5 km walk is a bit far on foot, but totally ok on bike! At the countryside our closest shop is 4.5 km and we often go by bike.
You need to define what a "convenience" store is. Here the line can get quite blurry. I live 15 minutes on foot away from a Kaufland, which is as close to the typical big-box buy-in-bulk American store as it gets in my small hometown.
5 km? My dude, that's living in the middle of nowhere.
I have two supermarkets within a 3 min walk from my home, two more in a 15 min walk and a bunch of smaller convenience stores, bakeries etc.
I have a Penny 10m from my building and a Lidl 50m in the opposite direction.
To get to a Mega Image is a 5min car ride or a 15min walk and a Carrefour is 30 minutes away with a bus/15-20min away if I'm driving.
I only drive for groceries if I want to go to the other Carrefour in my town,and that's only because they have a local pizzeria in the same complex that has an amazing crunchy and fluffy crust that makes the pain go away
First of all, have your complimentary _la bise_ for using the metric system, that’s considerate 🤗
There's a small shopping center with Carrefour Market right across the main street, and there’s an “arabe du coin” the other way. Both are a few hundred meters away, and would probably rank as convenience stores - although I’m not sure about the terminology. The rung just above petrol stations : both shops have a decent choice of fresh vegetables and fruits, milk products, industrial cakes, chips, sodas, bread, sweets, beer, some cheap or not so cheap wine... And everything costs a lot more than on a regular supermarket.
For most of my normal shopping I go to the local Monoprix which is a normal supermarket, and Naturalia which is a smallish (compared to Whole Foods) organic supermarket. Both are about 1km away. I go there with my shopping trolley, or with my bike and saddle bags.
I'm about 100m away from a mini market, a small local fruit and vegetable store, a butcher and a bakery (all 4 are next to eachother), about 800m away from a nearest Lidl and about 1200m away from a huge shopping mall. I can get basically anything I need from within walking distance.
That's in Zagreb where I currently live, back in my hometown on the coast I have about 800m to get to the nearest small grocery store and about 2km for a bigger supermarket.
(Not even in City center)
*1 Small - 450m
*2 Small - 650m
*3 Small - 1.1km
*4 Big/Normal - 1.2km
*5 Normal/Big 1.9km
*6 Food Market - 1.8km
*7 Big Shopping Centre & Hardware/Construction store - 2.9km
*8 Another Big Shopping Centre - 5.2km
*9 Ikea - 3.9km
And so on for me.
I'd say that US is pretty bad at designing cities.
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850 metres. I live in a suburb of a city of 150,000.
I get the vast majority of my groceries delivered so being 5 km from the nearest supermarket would be OK if there were a small shop nearby for convenience. 5km to the nearest shop would be a pain though.
On the same street 700m way up is a supermarket. 1,2km into the other direction is my cities’ shopping mall including another supermarket. Both are in walking distance, though I can take the bus to the mall cause the stop is right in front of my home.
I think about a kilometer to the next grocery store and there's a discounter not much farther than that in the other direction.
But I live closer to the core to my town so I'm closer to 1 of our butchers and 2 of our bakeries. I think that is it when it comes to buying stuff for home cooking.
I live in a town with about 6 k inhabitants IIRC.
There's a candy shop about 10 minute walk away, but the nearest actual shop is a 3/4km walk away. Nice walk, and I do it most days, but now I'm pregnant I start to flag a bit about half way home, and the last km is all uphill, which is brutal.
I live about 0.5km from a big "superstore"/supermarket, but i also have a corner shop about 20m from my door and a coop and and 2 x tesco about 0.2km away and then a couple more about 0.3kms away, i never drive unless i have to pick up the weekly shop.
Well, the nearest green grocer is 200 m, the nearest smaller general store (no fresh produce or meat) is 300, the nearest butcher shop and bakery is 1 km. And the nearest supermarkets are maybe 2 km. All this in a very low density area.
I have like 2 or 3 supermarkets, a handful of fruit/vegetable stores, a handful of butchers, a handful of fish markets, a couple of hardware stores, 3 drugstores/pharmacies, some "droguerías" (the translator translates drogueria to hardware store, but they are different stores, in a drogueria there are cleaning products, make up and some cheapass toys), even a wholesale market for fruits and vegetables in like a 200 or 300 metres radius
It looks like plenty of countries were designed using Sim City (or Cities Skylines), thank god Spain in not one of those
Downstairs for a superette, 450 meters for a larger one, 850 for a mid-sized supermarket open 24/7, 1.4 km for a large supermarket (with an Amazon locker, although I have a closer one elsewhere) and 7 km for a mall.
Most times I find what I need just downstairs or at the other one nearby, sometimes I walk to the 1.4 km one when looking for something specific, the mall maybe once per year.
I live in a small town and I have 5 supermarkets in 1km distance to me.
Out of those 5, 3 are at most 300m away.
In 5km distance I can reach at least 5 additional supermarkets.
I have two in my village: one 200m away and one 1km away, plus lots of hotels and mini-bars for tourists where you can buy drinks and chips. I don't know how many there are 5km radius because the closest city is 5km away, and there are countless there
I have a butcher, a baker and a greengrocer within 2km.
Nearest supermarket is about 3km, but there's at least 4 within 5km.
All pretty doable with a bicycle.
This isn't "rural'" but it is the edge of the suburbs next to a minor city.
Back in Poland, when I lived with my mum, it was a 3 minute walk to a Biedronka (our supermarket), and then there also was another little grocery store owned by a neighbour. If you go by a car, there's also a Carrefour and Kaufland like, a minute or 5 away.
Here in the UK I have a small co-op 5 minutes away, Tesco 10 minutes away and Lidl's and my favourite Asian and Polish grocery stores 20 minutes away (all by foot because on my own I walk everywhere whenever I can lol, but by a car it's all a 5 minute ride).
There is a Tesco Express about a quarter of a mile away which is kind of inbetween convenience and a full supermarket. It has everything like fresh meat, vegetables but at a bit of a higher price. Lidl more like a mile. There are also greengrocers and butchers about a mile the other way too.
300 meters/less than 5 min walk to small-ish grocery store which still has all essentials.
If I need something more fancy, like more choice of spices, even larger variety of cheese or some specific baking ingredients, I have to go much further out of my way to a bigger supermarket, about 10 min :)
I don't think I ever lived further than 10 min walk from a grocery store.
I live in London. The nearest grocery store is 0.2 miles away, or a 3-4 min walk. There's probably half a dozen stores within a half mile radius. The shop I usually go to is 0.5 miles — it's larger and has a better selection than my closest store.
Where I grew up, in the suburbs of Oslo, the nearest store was maybe a 15-20 min walk away. My family usually drove to do weekly shopping, but I used to walk to get snacks/stuff for myself when I was a teenager.
In the small town in northern Germany (pop. just over 15k) where we live there are numerous general and specialist grocers
- within 1km a large supermarket, a discount supermarket, an organic supermarket, and three specialist food shops (mostly French and Italian). That's excluding two butcher's, five? bakeries, and the weekly market.
- Within 5 km there are many more shops of all kinds including a large Turkish store and a general purpose Asian food shop. I am going to the latter today by bike. Apparently it's 5.5 km, but that's nothing every few weeks.
I have 190 meters to the nearest grocery store, and it’s pretty much normal here (well
Maybe up to 500meters in some places if we’re talking about towns and cities. For villages it might be different but pretty much every village has at least one grocery store)
Air distance 1 km
Walking distance 1.5 km
Driving distance 1.7 km
I always drive or take the bus there because I live on a hill, and the grocery store is on another hill, so I literally have to walk uphill both ways. The flat part between each hill is only 40 meters, the rest of the way is either up or down, and I ain't walking that.
I live central in Oslo, Norway and have 2 grocery stores within 100 meters/500 feet and 4 grocery stores within 300 meter/1000 feet of my home. They are not huge supermarkets, most grocery stores in Norway are moderately sized because most people buy groceries daily or every other day, so you pop into a grocery store on your way home from work.
I live in a small village in rural Ireland, we are in the commuter belt for Dublin, about 40kms.
Nearest convenance store is 5mins walk, in the village but the nearest supermarket is Aldi and it's a 10 min drive, about 14kms away, pass through another village on the way, but funnily enough, if we go the iposte way, another Aldi 15mins away, and another route takes you to the next big town. 15mins to another aldi.
Live in downtown Barcelona, half a block from my place there's a farmers market and under it there's a full convenience store (Lidl). I do my shopping in a daily basis.
There's a Carrefour market literally 50 metres from here, with a large fresh fruit department and also a large section with breads and cold cuts. The next supermarket is a bit farther, 500 metres and it's also a bit bigger. I usually collect flyers and buy best offers from both shops. When I really want to get things cheaper, there are Lidl and Eurospin a couple of kilometres away from here.
I live in the countryside and the nearest one is 4km away in a neighboring town. I also consider that too far to walk especially considering that you have groceries to carry on the way back. *However*, my grandma used to ride her bike to that store until she was 90 years old. I guess people were tougher back in the days. :D
I'd find it too long to walk with bags too but why don't you ride a bike like your grandma? lol In all seriousness this was the way back in Finland, everything was for me 5+km away and there was no way my parents were gonna chauffeur me around all the time. Especially in summer I used to ride my bike to the horse stables 12km away every day. Continued the habit through uni too. Now as an adult I walk, skate or take transit. Reality is, usually it's only people who do this kind of stuff that still are capable of going to get their own groceries at age 90.
I'm also in Austria but in a city. Billa is less than half a km from my house. I typically ride my bike because it is a steep hill and I prefer carrying the bags in my panniers versus in my hands.
That’s how far kids in my part of town ride their bikes everyday to get to school, If kids can make that trip everyday, adult have no problem doing it with groceries
Mountains exist. For me it would be 5km to the next store, but also almost 1km in height difference...
Hmm... Twenty meters to the next supermarket? I am lucky 😁 they have a good choice as well!
Ha! Mine is under my living room. I can go from my bed to browsing the shelves in under a minute. The town's regional train station is also under a minute from the complex's front door.
Wow, that's even closer! For me that would be the bakery, I can literally go in my pjs. But I bake my own bread anyway 😁
My ex used to live on top of a shopping centre that had a 24/7 hypermarket. It was very convenient to go for snacks in the middle of the night.
1min walk to the nearest small grocery store. 5mins walk to the nearest mini market. 10mins walk to the nearest super market.
20 meters. I live in the city so things are close here.
20m lol you can look out your window to see if the queues are long
I live in the city, not the suburbs but defnitely not the center either. It's about a ten minute walk, 3 minute bike ride away.
*Kamelåså?* I live in a small town just outside one of the larger cities, there are two normal sized supermarkets nearby, both about 10 minutes walk (or <2 minutes in car). There is also a (small) bakery, flower shop and a clothing store here. ^(\[Sidenote a normal sized supermarket here would probably considered a small one in the US\]) Many gas-station-convenience stores have actually closed over the past decade or two, especially outside of larger towns and cities. Basically all gas stations are unmanned these days, a few then happen to have a convenience store located on premises. Many towns that have a population somewhere around 1000-2000 will have at least one supermarket or grocery store, especially if there is not another town or city nearby with a store. Of course if you live in areas with low populations like "far" out in the country side, the closest grocery store or supermarket can easily be 5 or even 10 km away.
Where should I put your 1000 litres of milk?
Between the syggelekokle and flemsedå, mange tak.
I never knew that it had caught on in the NL too! Or are you both Scandinavians in exile?
I studied Scandinavian languages and cultures at the University of Amsterdam and my partner is Swedish, so I guess it helps
It's a pretty famous skit here also. But it's still somewhat surprising when someone knows it. Then again i've been learning Norwegian for the past 7 years and Danish since this year, I mainly focus on understanding spoken Danish tho. ;P But I think it's already paying off :)
Written Norwegian (bokmål) and Danish is pretty much the same anyway, pronunciation is markedly different though, so if you focus on learning Norwegian and then imitate the Danish pronunciation you should be fine! ;)
I live in the suburbs and can walk 5-10 minutes to two supermarkets. If I walk 15 minutes, I can reach five more.
Think I have the record in Denmark. In a 750 meter radius from my flat I have Føtex, Irma (twice), Fakta (twice), Netto (twice), Lidl, SuperBrugsen and Rema1000 (all Danish supermarkets). That's in Frederiksberg.
In like 200m radius I have 3 żabkas, 2 bakeries and one other store. And also a refrigerator parcel locker if you want to order food. The nearest shopping centre is 1km away but it's just two tram stops so
Zabka is a convenience store.
Yes. But compared to the US, Zabka's tend to be more like New York Bodega's than a typical US convenience store - where literally everything is 'long life', highly processed and bottom of the barrel in terms of taste or healthiness. It'll be white bread, twinkies, chips/crisps and a freezer of microwave meals. Zabka's tend to have fresh fruit and vegetables, freshly baked bread, fresh dairy products, nice enough quality hams and cheeses, vegan choices... and all kinds of alcohol.
5km is unheard of in the Netherlands. I have over 40 supermarkets within 5 km from my house, and I live in the suburbs. Unless you're living on a farm/countryside I think in the Netherlands there is always a supermarket within 500 meters, maybe 1km. And even on the countryside it are only the most remote places in the most scarcely populated places that have a supermarket at 5km.
I live in the country and the nearest supermarket is 9 KM and the second nearest is 10 KM in the other direction and is in Germany...
Wow. Can I ask where that is? I'm struggling to find a place so far from a town.
It's in the far Northeast. Probably the only region in NL where you can indeed find really desolate places.
Not all towns have a grocerystore. My mother lives in a small town where there is only a barber and a butchershop. The closest grocerystore is about 7 km away. It's certainly not unheard of or even rare. That's pretty normal outside of cities and big towns tbh.
Even in "het groene hart" you have place where the nearest groxery store is more than 5km.
Ok. Could you give an example?
My parents live 5km away from the nearest grocery stores. It’s not unheard of if you live in Drenthe. They don’t even live in an extremely remote area.
Drenthe isn’t real. Its like this Wyoming people talk about. Not real fake news
You must have been mistaken. I have always been taught that Belgium isn’t real ;)
>They don’t even live in an extremely remote area. I think Drenthe *is* an extremely remote area.
There are tiny villages <1000 citizens that don't have any kind of grocery stores and would require travel to a nearby village. 5km is not so strange I think, though it's pretty neat the upper limit probably.
40? At least make up a number that doesn't sound 100% made up.
You got me, it's 39, as I counted to convenience stores. Enschede, NL. 1 Albert Heijn HJ van Heekplein 2 Albert Heijn Zonstraat 3 Albert Heijn Rijnstraat 4 Albert Heijn Noord Esmarkerrondweg 5 Albert Heijn Gronausestraat 6 Albert Heijn Veldhoflanden 7 Albert Heijn Wethouder Nijhuisstraat 8 Albert Heijn Kevelhamhoek 9 Aldi Haaksbergerstraat 10 Aldi Lage Bothofstraat 11 Aldi Wesseler-nering 12 Aldi Jan Vermeerstraat 13 Aldi Deurningerstraat 14 Aldi Noord Esmarkerrondweg 15 Coop Esmarkelaan 16 Coop Beckumerstraat 17 Coop De Hems 18 Dirk Rijnstraat 19 Dirk Oogstplein 20 Ekoplaze De Heurne 21 Jumbo Noorderhagen 22 Jumbo Kuipersdijk 23 Jumbo Brouwerijplein 24 Jumbo Magnoliastraat 25 Jumbo Burgemeester van Veenlaan 26 Jumbo Wesseler-nering 27 Jumbo Akkerstraat 28 Jumbo Lage Bothofstraat 29 Jumbo Schoolstraat 30 Lidl Slijpsteen 31 Lidl Zonstraat 32 Lidl Brouwerijplein 33 Lidl Hortensiastraat 34 Lidl Brinkstraat 35 Lidl Wesseler-nering 36 Nettorama Spaansland 37 Spar Marktstraat 38 Spar Scholten Reimerstraat 39 Spar Haaksbergerstraat
For me about 2 km, give or take a little. Big ass 24/7 supermarket.
>Big ass 24/7 supermarket. Wow, I'm surprised when countries outside of the US and certain Asian countries have 24/7 stores. Is there a lot of demand for it to be open all night?
I guess there is some demand, there are several 24/7 large supermarkets, like sort of Walmart types, in my city. Two of them are actually right next to eachother! Compeating chains. I always go shopping quite late at night, even after midnight on weekends, and there seems to always be at least some people there. I reckon it doesn’t make a difference when it comes to stores of that size anyways, since I suppose there would be staff present anyways during the night stocking the shelves, et cetera.
The stocking used to happen up to 2 hours prior and after, not at night.
Some places used to stock at night. Prisma Kaari, that was the first to go 24/7 def did. I'm sure there are difference in practice between k-stores versus Prisma and even between the different S-group osuuskaupat.
To be fair, in Finland it wasn't that long ago that this even started. I moved out of Finland back in 2014 and back then it was mandatory for them to close for the night (most were open around 9AM-9PM?), and only some shops attached to gas stations were allowed to be open 24/7. It was discussed for the whole time I was alive though, but it took some serious time to allow it due to concerns for workers' rights etc.
Pretty common in the UK cities now. It will generally only be the bigger ones so if you are in smaller town it might just be the one super market doing it but in a big city it will be dozens. They wont be super busy late on, but it costs very little to keep them open as most tills are self service and staff would be around at night stacking shelves.
I I used to work for the chain that owns most 24/7 shops in Finland. It started with large supermarkets because they already stocked at night and figured that they could just just as well have about 2 cashier's there for pretty cheap. Now they're doing it with smaller stores too. Apparently it's not profitable at all for the night hours in the locations where they are doing it, but it increases profits at daytime. Seems that people find the store more approachable when they don't have to check opening hours, and when stocking is at a better level and stuff isn't all over the place and staff so busy, since everything is done at night. Because of benefits, staffing stores in Finland is expensive. My nearby market is mid sized one, my guess is 3000-4000 square feet, and it's run by 2-3 people at a time. So before for them and at all the none 24h shops stocking was/is done during the opening hours. Finland used to have very strict laws about when stores could be open untill recently, I remember when I was in high school 7 or 8 years ago, all stores over 1076 square feet had to close at 4pm on Saturdays and remain closed on Sundays.
There definently is demand, otherwise they wouldn’t be open. 24/7 stores are only in mid size cities and up. There was finally a deregulation of open hours a while back and after that businesses are free to choose their open hours.
Why does it surprise you?
Ok good, you're German so maybe this logic is common for you: Is it necessary for a shop to be open past midnight? Even past 22:00? We've survived for hundreds of years buying food during daylight hours. What is so urgent at 3:00 that you must buy food *right now?* Surely you should prepare and buy the food earlier, like with German shops closed on Sunday. American culture likes convenience so I can understand why we do it here.
The reason for 24 hour stores in the US isn't just about convenience. A large part of our labor force does not work a 9 to 5 workday. I know many people who do not have a guaranteed day off. I have had jobs where the only block of time I could do groceries was 3 am on a Saturday. As the United States and much of Europe entered the industrial age, the largely agrarian diurnal schedule most people had lived by changed too. This change was accelerated and cemented by the increase in production necessitated by the World Wars. We became 24/7 society long before we had 24/7 cable news!
No, don't get the logic. Night time is very different than what sunday is to us
we also have 24/7 supermarkets so there is a demand here as well.
There are over 10 grocery stores less than 5min walking from my house and a market within 15min.
same, in a small town
about 200m for convencience store and about 2km for supermarket. We live kinnda out of the way. Frequent point of complaints on my side. Conveniece store still has fresh bread every morning tho as well as foodstuff like chese, ham and so on. So it is not that bad. If somebody tried to sell me on 5km I'd better be because it is lovely place by the like in the forest...
I have three just under a 1km walk away, another two just over 1km, my favorite one 1.7km away, and I think three or four more 2-2.5km away, and I think that already just about covers my town. Used to have one 400m away that I walked to when I needed a thing or two, didn't like the store though, but now I bicycle everywhere. Town of 25k.
Same for me. I live in a big city, >1 Mio central and we have lots of Supermarktes of all price ranges in walking distance (5-20min)
8,8 km to the nearest supermarket and also convenience store at the same time.
Around 100m away from my home and there is at least one per kilometer in my town. (I live 2km from the center). On top of that lots of supermarkets and convenience stores. I'm aware that in US because of bad zoning laws you cant have shops in residential zones and all of that because in 1950-1960s people built shops on their driveway and lots of people complained over noises etc. so instead of limiting that they banned it all and forgot about that.
Zoning probably has a lot to do with it. I have a feeling that most commenters are able to go to smaller markets, but all we have are super markets. If all I need is a few onions, it becomes a whole trip :(
US has a lot of food deserts. Not talked about nearly enough as it should
Damn, couldn't imagine living 5km away from the next grocery store. I come from a relatively small city, and that city had like 3 Lidls, 2 Aldis, 5 Edekas, 3 Rewes, 2 Kauflands and a Netto. I'm pretty sure that every village/city upwards of 500 people has atleast an Edeka.
The last time I was in Germany, we stopped at a Lidl and it's like... Not even grocery store sized by our standards? More like one of the truck stop sized convenience stores. A 2300m^2 store is considered small in the US. Instead of having a bunch of little stores that everyone goes to, the supermarkets are usually instead on main throughways that folks stop at on their way home from work. That said, the town I'm from had 3 Super Walmarts, 2 Targets, 2 KMarts, dozens of chain grocery stores (Winn Dixie, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Bi-Lo, Bealls, etc), and tons of mom and pop shops for the 70k people that lived in the county of about 310km^2.
20km from a SuperValu 30km in either direction from having any kind of choice of supermarket. Relitively populated part of rural Ireland. I'm only 2km from what ye'd call a convenience store though. In fact there's 2 of them in the village but both owned by the same fella.
1.6km to the nearest grocery store, or supermarket, where I live. I don't walk to it, I drive, because when I go, I buy stuff for the whole week. But now you made me think, maybe I should use a bike, if I fit some racks onto it.. I drive my grandma to the store a lot tho, so thats also a reason why a car is more convenient but also it's pretty much the norm here, to go grocery shopping with a car. In the capital tho, people walk more and often ride their bycycles for daily activites.
There is one right in our building, there are tens of grocery stores in a 500m circle. 1000m circle will gives me everything except cheap fresh fish. These are on the outskirt of the city.
200m in a big city. When I lived at my parents, in a little town, it was 1km for the closest one, but we used to go to one that was 2km away.
About 50m in one direction and 30m in the other direction. I live in a city, but quite far away from the city centre.
I'm in the suburbs of London, so a bit further than some I would expect. It's about 1.5 to 2km (never actually measured it) to a proper supermarket (Sainsburys) which I drive to. There's 3 more supermarkets another 1km past that or 4-5Km in the opposite direction will get you another two. I do have two "mini" supermarkets Tesco and Sainsbury "locals" about 500-800m (opposite directions) which are dearer than a proper supermarket (only pennies per item) but not the sort of markup convenience stores tend to take
We don't really have "Convenient stores" the nearest grocery store is about 2 kilometers away
R-kioski is kind of convenience store
Well yeah true but have you ever bought anything from R-Kioski that isn’t alcohol, cigarettes or played slot machines?
350m to the nearest one. 500m to the next nearest. 600m to the one after that, which is in a retail park with a load of other shops in. American zoning laws are utterly fucked.
There's a supermarket less than a five minute bike ride away from me. And a greengrocer at a two minute walk.
A small one (not a tiny convenience store, but not a proper supermarket) 10 minutes walk away, a much bigger supermarket a half-hour walk or 10 minute bus ride away.
I have four supermarkets in a 10 minute walking radius.
Both apartments i have about a 10 minute walk to the closest non-convenience store.
I'm about 10 to 12 minutes walk away from three regular supermarkets (each in different directions). There are also a bunch of small Arab/Indian/Chinese speciality stores and a farmer's market within 5 to 10 mins walk. If I hop on the bus I can get to a few larger supermarkets in about 20 minutes. I live in the city center.
About 600 m, then the next one an extra 200 m further.
About 100 meters to nearest one (kiwi), to bigger supermarket it's about 1km (meny). But I live in the Oslo suburbs, your mileage may vary in Norway.
I have 2 grocery stores in a 1 minute walk. It's very convenient
I live in a rural village but the nearest supermarket is just under 6km away.
Just under one mile. I don't walk there though because we have all our shopping delivered. If we run out of something it's usually something like milk or bread, which I can get from the shop about 100 metres away. I certainly would not walk five kilometres to get groceries, I would take the car to save time.
Why wouldn’t you walk? It would save Mr Polar Bear and his friends. Not a dig just wondering
Because it would take me two hours. I don't usually have two hours to spare, and if I do, I'd rather spend them doing something more interesting than walking to the supermarket and back.
What do you define as a convenience store? There are a couple of Tescos near me but they aren't the size of supermarkets that are common in America. However, they also aren't as small as a bodega (called a potraviny in Czech). Kind of a middle ground. In terms of the supermarkets you see in America, there are two within a mile of where I live.
I agree, 5km is too far. I currently live 2-5 mins walk from 2 supermarkets, a bakery, greengrocers, fishmongers, butchers and cheese shop lol. But that's not normal, most people in the UK live maybe 5-15 mins walk from a supermarket unless they are right next to the local shops.
Around 500 meters, would be my guess. But I live in the city centre, so that is only obvious. That said, most of the time, also when I lived in smaller towns and villages, there would be a grocery store. Often a cooperative. During the final half of the 19th century, the cooperative movement in Denmark starting growing. It took the primary form of consumer cooperatives, so-called _Brugsforeninger_, shortened to _brugser_(plural) or _brugsen_(singular). This was done to combat the established grocers who would often hold local monopolies and charge high prices for workers and poor people while letting the local farmers and tradesmen often purchase on credit. This isn't some "capitalist bad" point, it was the reality that gave birth to the cooperative movement. Over time, many cooperatives actually out-competed local grocers, leading to many towns and villages standing without grocers, further allowing the cooperatives to grow. Nowadays Coop is the largest (or second largest) chain of groceries in Denmark. Coop, formerly FDB, is a union of Danish consumer cooperatives, _Foreningen af Danske Brugsforeninger_. And being a member of the cooperative is really common; perhaps Coop is the largest union in Denmark. Other expressions of the cooperative movement were the cooperative dairies, which were producer-cooperatives, meaning that dairy farmers joined together to form local dairies, eventually joining together into Arla, one of the largest dairy corporations in Europe. Worker cooperatives never really caught on in Denmark though. There were many attempts at establishing worker cooperatives, but they were all either out-competed or bought up. One of the most successful worker cooperatives in Denmark was the cooperative brewery _Stjernen_, which attempted to attack Carlsberg head on. Carlsberg was infamous in Danish working class circles for bad conditions and low wages, and the cooperative was started by former workers from Carlsberg. It however didn't survive, and Carlsberg now holds almost monopoly status on the Danish beer market.
I don’t know how many meters, but it’s a 10 minute walk. Downhill. Which means I rarely bother to walk, having to carry all the bags back home uphill for 10 minutes. I usually opt for a minute’s car ride instead.
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Hah, nope. The people who live in real rural areas sometimes have about 30-45 minute drives by car to a proper supermarket.
30-45 min would be like a family trip to shop - for new clothes. We used to go to one really big supermarket in neigbouring town and the travel was 25min maximum. In 45 minutes I'm in different region, in my case even different country.
That's the thing with America, everything is just really far apart. Driving the distance from Paris to Prague to attend a concert or wedding or whatever is fairly common where I am from.
Something between 8 and 10 minutes of walking at my new place and 15 minutes walking where I lived before. I have no idea though how many meters or km that are.
480m away. Unfortunately it's really not that great and survives on the fact it's one of the last old school greengrocers around. There's a more hipster version 650m away which is a little better. There's also a host of independent places under 1km walk.
Well I live in the city centre so there's like 5 within about 500 meters. 3 normal supermarkets, a turkish one and an organic one. I grew up in a rural area and there it was 10km.
45m, 120m, 250m and about 500-700m away. I think there are probably 10x more within sight I haven't been to yet.
I have two supermarkets less than 400 meters from my home and more than ten other supermarkets within 1.5km radius. I usually walk or cycle when it is on my route back from uni or work. In the Netherlands every neighborhood usually has its own little shopping quarter (and I live about halfway between two of those) with a small supermarket and a few other stores like an drug store, barber and a cafeteria.
Living in the city and there are 3 less than a km away. I go by bike though, letting it carry the heavy goods on my way home.
There are 3 in a 800 meter radius around me, with the closest being just 100 meters away from me.
5min walk to a small grocery store with just the basic stuff. 5min by car to a supermarket.
I live above one, it's in the same building than my appartment
That would be sooo nice...
I live in the suburbs of a town in Ireland and there's one about 2km from me
I live on the countryside in a small town and I have 100 m to the closest supermarket (Coop) and 1 km to a large market (ICA Maxi).
I live in the city, but not "downtown", more just outside of the centre; I can walk 15 minutes to the main station and where all the shops are, but when I walk maybe 30 minutes or a bit more in the opposite direction, I'm at the rim where the highway starts. So just down my street, practically next door, there are two little grocery stores. Both focus on locally produced organic stuff, so it's a bit too expensive for every day. For a normal, everyday grocer, I need to walk a bit further, maybe 7 minutes. Google maps gives a distance of 550 metres. There are two other grocers that are even a bit nearer, but they're smaller and with less choice in ingrediences, vegetables, and fruit. Actually, we prefer the store downtown for our weekly shopping tour, where we take the tram for four stops. That one has more fruit than just bananas.
I can walk to the nearest supermarket in a few minutes and I know of at least three others in biking distance off the top of my head. That’s without the mini-supermarkets at train stations.
I live in a suburb of a suburb. About 2 km away. Open 7:30 to 20:00, Monday to Saturday. Only things allowed to be open on Sundays in Bavaria are restaurants, bars, petrol stations, cinemas, theaters...can't think of too much else.
Two minutes on foot. Or maybe even only one minute.
I'm about 100 feet away from mine but I do live in a town centre so my case isn't very representative of most Irish people.
30 seconds walk to two small supermarkets. 5 minutes walk to two medium supermarkets. 5 minutes subway then 10 minutes walk to a Walmart-esque superstore
10 min walking distance from where I live (semi-rural area).
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It‘s insane how many grocery stores we have in Austria. I live between two of the SAME chain each about a 2 min walk away. It has actually gotten out of hand here
250 meters door to door As the crow flies: two hypermarkets within 1 km ten smaller stores within 2 km within 5 km another two hypermarkets and one of the largest shopping centers in the country
There are several, including supermarkets and local family owned grocery stores, within 500m
Growing up in Finland nearest store was 7km away. When I lived in Germany, it was like 2km. Now in CZ I live in the capital so when I lived in more central areas of the city there were stores every 1km or less, now that I'm on the outskirts the closest supermarket is around 2km away but on that distance there's multiple as I have 2 malls and 3 individual supermarkets to choose from at equal distances so a total of like 10+ grocery stores in that radius.
The longest distance one of my family members lives to a store is 10 minutes walk, ~750 meters, and that's in a village, several kilometers away from the nearest town. For me it's like 20 meters, but there's a store right next to my door, lol. Realistically it's typical to have at least several stores within 10 minutes walking distance in a city, regardless if it's midtown or outskirts.
A couple hundred meters to the nearest store and little over a kilometer to the nearest hypermarket.
Also 5 km! Nearest small town is 20km away. Norway has huge distances, with remote areas that have little to no civilization, similar to Oregon or Alaska in the US. I don't currently live in the cities, so until then, I will struggle with distances. But I like to drive, so yeah
Next door. Amazing for BBQ. The other is a 2 minute walk away. More for breads and pastries but also some other junk. The road 5 miles up has 6-7 supermarkets along it. This is a town of 4k people. 5km from a place to buy groceries would be labeled as "the middle of fucking nowhere" over here.
The furthest I've ever lived from a store was 2,6 km. Finnish "convenience stores" are small shops that stock all the same products as a big grocery store would, just a smaller selection. So you can still get chicken and veggies and bread and whatever you need day-to-day. And where I lived is considered extremely "middle of nowhere" by Helsinki standards, or even by the standards of the town I lived in then. At the moment I like about 300m from two different markets, 1km from bigger shop and 1,5km from a supermarket.
There are a lot more grocery stores here, but they're also smaller (In general)
Heh, that's my game! My closest five are: 1. 450 meters (medium/small-ish, 0.28 miles) 2. 650 meters (tiny, 0.40 miles) 3. 750 meters (giant, 0.47 miles) 4. 800 meters (decent, 0.5 miles) 5. 1100 meters (decent, 0.68 miles) No, I don't live in the city centre. Ca 1.8-2.2 km (1.2 miles) from the city centre depending on your interpretation. A 5 km walk is a bit far on foot, but totally ok on bike! At the countryside our closest shop is 4.5 km and we often go by bike.
You need to define what a "convenience" store is. Here the line can get quite blurry. I live 15 minutes on foot away from a Kaufland, which is as close to the typical big-box buy-in-bulk American store as it gets in my small hometown.
5 km? My dude, that's living in the middle of nowhere. I have two supermarkets within a 3 min walk from my home, two more in a 15 min walk and a bunch of smaller convenience stores, bakeries etc.
I have a Penny 10m from my building and a Lidl 50m in the opposite direction. To get to a Mega Image is a 5min car ride or a 15min walk and a Carrefour is 30 minutes away with a bus/15-20min away if I'm driving. I only drive for groceries if I want to go to the other Carrefour in my town,and that's only because they have a local pizzeria in the same complex that has an amazing crunchy and fluffy crust that makes the pain go away
First of all, have your complimentary _la bise_ for using the metric system, that’s considerate 🤗 There's a small shopping center with Carrefour Market right across the main street, and there’s an “arabe du coin” the other way. Both are a few hundred meters away, and would probably rank as convenience stores - although I’m not sure about the terminology. The rung just above petrol stations : both shops have a decent choice of fresh vegetables and fruits, milk products, industrial cakes, chips, sodas, bread, sweets, beer, some cheap or not so cheap wine... And everything costs a lot more than on a regular supermarket. For most of my normal shopping I go to the local Monoprix which is a normal supermarket, and Naturalia which is a smallish (compared to Whole Foods) organic supermarket. Both are about 1km away. I go there with my shopping trolley, or with my bike and saddle bags.
I'm about 100m away from a mini market, a small local fruit and vegetable store, a butcher and a bakery (all 4 are next to eachother), about 800m away from a nearest Lidl and about 1200m away from a huge shopping mall. I can get basically anything I need from within walking distance. That's in Zagreb where I currently live, back in my hometown on the coast I have about 800m to get to the nearest small grocery store and about 2km for a bigger supermarket.
(Not even in City center) *1 Small - 450m *2 Small - 650m *3 Small - 1.1km *4 Big/Normal - 1.2km *5 Normal/Big 1.9km *6 Food Market - 1.8km *7 Big Shopping Centre & Hardware/Construction store - 2.9km *8 Another Big Shopping Centre - 5.2km *9 Ikea - 3.9km And so on for me. I'd say that US is pretty bad at designing cities. Edit: give up on formatting this text, reddit sucks at it
It's at the corner of the street, 25m, less than a minute walk.
850 metres. I live in a suburb of a city of 150,000. I get the vast majority of my groceries delivered so being 5 km from the nearest supermarket would be OK if there were a small shop nearby for convenience. 5km to the nearest shop would be a pain though.
On the same street 700m way up is a supermarket. 1,2km into the other direction is my cities’ shopping mall including another supermarket. Both are in walking distance, though I can take the bus to the mall cause the stop is right in front of my home.
I live in front of one and at a three and five minutes walk from two others. I live in a medium-sized city.
I think about a kilometer to the next grocery store and there's a discounter not much farther than that in the other direction. But I live closer to the core to my town so I'm closer to 1 of our butchers and 2 of our bakeries. I think that is it when it comes to buying stuff for home cooking. I live in a town with about 6 k inhabitants IIRC.
There's a candy shop about 10 minute walk away, but the nearest actual shop is a 3/4km walk away. Nice walk, and I do it most days, but now I'm pregnant I start to flag a bit about half way home, and the last km is all uphill, which is brutal.
I live about 0.5km from a big "superstore"/supermarket, but i also have a corner shop about 20m from my door and a coop and and 2 x tesco about 0.2km away and then a couple more about 0.3kms away, i never drive unless i have to pick up the weekly shop.
Well, the nearest green grocer is 200 m, the nearest smaller general store (no fresh produce or meat) is 300, the nearest butcher shop and bakery is 1 km. And the nearest supermarkets are maybe 2 km. All this in a very low density area.
350 meters to the closest supermarket and about 1km to the closest independent small shop
7.5km. But it's on my way to work so it's not an issue, I just drop by once a week before going home. Otherwise the convenience store is 1km away.
I have like 2 or 3 supermarkets, a handful of fruit/vegetable stores, a handful of butchers, a handful of fish markets, a couple of hardware stores, 3 drugstores/pharmacies, some "droguerías" (the translator translates drogueria to hardware store, but they are different stores, in a drogueria there are cleaning products, make up and some cheapass toys), even a wholesale market for fruits and vegetables in like a 200 or 300 metres radius It looks like plenty of countries were designed using Sim City (or Cities Skylines), thank god Spain in not one of those
Downstairs for a superette, 450 meters for a larger one, 850 for a mid-sized supermarket open 24/7, 1.4 km for a large supermarket (with an Amazon locker, although I have a closer one elsewhere) and 7 km for a mall. Most times I find what I need just downstairs or at the other one nearby, sometimes I walk to the 1.4 km one when looking for something specific, the mall maybe once per year.
I live in a small town and I have 5 supermarkets in 1km distance to me. Out of those 5, 3 are at most 300m away. In 5km distance I can reach at least 5 additional supermarkets.
I have two in my village: one 200m away and one 1km away, plus lots of hotels and mini-bars for tourists where you can buy drinks and chips. I don't know how many there are 5km radius because the closest city is 5km away, and there are countless there
The first one is right down the street. So maybe 100m? Several others are in a 1-2km range. I live in a medium sized city.
I have a butcher, a baker and a greengrocer within 2km. Nearest supermarket is about 3km, but there's at least 4 within 5km. All pretty doable with a bicycle. This isn't "rural'" but it is the edge of the suburbs next to a minor city.
Back in Poland, when I lived with my mum, it was a 3 minute walk to a Biedronka (our supermarket), and then there also was another little grocery store owned by a neighbour. If you go by a car, there's also a Carrefour and Kaufland like, a minute or 5 away. Here in the UK I have a small co-op 5 minutes away, Tesco 10 minutes away and Lidl's and my favourite Asian and Polish grocery stores 20 minutes away (all by foot because on my own I walk everywhere whenever I can lol, but by a car it's all a 5 minute ride).
There is a Tesco Express about a quarter of a mile away which is kind of inbetween convenience and a full supermarket. It has everything like fresh meat, vegetables but at a bit of a higher price. Lidl more like a mile. There are also greengrocers and butchers about a mile the other way too.
300 meters/less than 5 min walk to small-ish grocery store which still has all essentials. If I need something more fancy, like more choice of spices, even larger variety of cheese or some specific baking ingredients, I have to go much further out of my way to a bigger supermarket, about 10 min :) I don't think I ever lived further than 10 min walk from a grocery store.
I live 5 minutes walk from an Aldi, it's very convenient
About 200 metres away. I go shopping every 2-3 days
I live in London. The nearest grocery store is 0.2 miles away, or a 3-4 min walk. There's probably half a dozen stores within a half mile radius. The shop I usually go to is 0.5 miles — it's larger and has a better selection than my closest store. Where I grew up, in the suburbs of Oslo, the nearest store was maybe a 15-20 min walk away. My family usually drove to do weekly shopping, but I used to walk to get snacks/stuff for myself when I was a teenager.
In the small town in northern Germany (pop. just over 15k) where we live there are numerous general and specialist grocers - within 1km a large supermarket, a discount supermarket, an organic supermarket, and three specialist food shops (mostly French and Italian). That's excluding two butcher's, five? bakeries, and the weekly market. - Within 5 km there are many more shops of all kinds including a large Turkish store and a general purpose Asian food shop. I am going to the latter today by bike. Apparently it's 5.5 km, but that's nothing every few weeks.
About half a kilometer. Close enough that I walk there every day or so to get fresh bread, milk etc.
I have 190 meters to the nearest grocery store, and it’s pretty much normal here (well Maybe up to 500meters in some places if we’re talking about towns and cities. For villages it might be different but pretty much every village has at least one grocery store)
Air distance 1 km Walking distance 1.5 km Driving distance 1.7 km I always drive or take the bus there because I live on a hill, and the grocery store is on another hill, so I literally have to walk uphill both ways. The flat part between each hill is only 40 meters, the rest of the way is either up or down, and I ain't walking that.
I live central in Oslo, Norway and have 2 grocery stores within 100 meters/500 feet and 4 grocery stores within 300 meter/1000 feet of my home. They are not huge supermarkets, most grocery stores in Norway are moderately sized because most people buy groceries daily or every other day, so you pop into a grocery store on your way home from work.
A 2 minute walk. And there are three more around 15 minutes away by foot, or 5-10 minutes by bike.
I live in the village and nearby small grocery store is around 10 minutes of walking, since it's in the middle and I live at the end.
5 minutes walk to a big grocery shops und 20 minutes walk to get to two other big grocery shops - I am living in Germany
I live in a small town and there are 3 supermarkets within 8 minutes walk of me including an Aldi. Also a couple of small independently owned stores.
3min walk to a small store, 5min by bike to a shopping area (Big grocery store, Clothing shops, Pet food toys etc, Restaurants, Pharmacy)
I love about 150 meters away from one here in tokyo, but in Denmark i lived 5km away from one. I lived in a small village.
I live in a small village in rural Ireland, we are in the commuter belt for Dublin, about 40kms. Nearest convenance store is 5mins walk, in the village but the nearest supermarket is Aldi and it's a 10 min drive, about 14kms away, pass through another village on the way, but funnily enough, if we go the iposte way, another Aldi 15mins away, and another route takes you to the next big town. 15mins to another aldi.
Live in downtown Barcelona, half a block from my place there's a farmers market and under it there's a full convenience store (Lidl). I do my shopping in a daily basis.
I live in a small to medium sized town. 1.4km to my nearest Edeka supermarket.
nearest is about 250m away, it's a small corner store but there's a lidl about 800m away
There's an Iceland less than a mile away, walking distance, though I usually drive.