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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You guys buy things every day ?!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

As a family. yes. Especially groceries but often enough other things. Thats not important though. The important part is 50% or more (assuming maga won't participate) of folks that might get something today don't so that the metrics shows a massive drop in activity for one day. Company metrics easily show stuff. I worked at one that did superbowl ads and you could see the effect of the ad on the site. This is the time the ad ran and this is how soon google searches trended up and this is when visits to the site went up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

I dont have a car, so buy groceries and things in a lot of small trips of what I can carry. Maybe not every day, but at least every other day. Also keeps me active and walking since I like to have a destination / objective to motivate me.

If you buy one giant load from Costco a month, then I can see not needing to go out much but that's just not possible for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does seem a bit odd to me. I could fairly easily go for weeks where the only thing I buy is from Aldi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if I was single I could see that but I do like to do more small shopping trips now buying fresh food. I don't like the fridge being packed and I don't like to be deciding if something is to old to eat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hardly need to go to the shops every day for fresh food though. Potatoes and cabbage last a while without any real change. Rice lasts essentially forever. Most fruits are good for several days at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

works out best for us if we shop for that days or next days meals. also when I say fresh food I mean more greens, fruits, and such. I don't really think of grains as fresh food because they last so long. Unfrozen meat to. Again though we want to use it well before bad so we like small amounts for the next few meals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

cabbage and potatoes sorta fall into this middle zone for us. Like with rice and flour we have it on hand because it lasts to long but with potatoes and cabbage they last awhile and there is a lot or reasons to buy a lot (when twice as much potatoes is a dollar more). So we tend to buy them for a meal but then we keep in mind with future meals to use up whats left. Because of that we tend to buy them on a really great sale and then make it a point not to buy once we have used them up. Less so with cabbage where usually any leftovers will just bleed into one or two more meals.

[–] Hiro8811 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not from America and the answer is still no