This is a good point, so I thought about it for a bit. And I realized that we shopped differently 40+ years ago than we do today! Back then, our shopping trips were much smaller, I remember usually buying just enough groceries that would fit into 2 paper bags (sometimes doubled depending on the items in them). Then I would carry them home, one in each hand (when we lived close to a supermarket, pre-suburbs). Sometimes (after moving to the suburbs) we would take the car to the supermarket and then put those bags into the car to bring them home. Today is completely different. We do âbigâ shopping, we go to the supermarket and buy a big bunch of things, probably 6 to 12 plastic bags full of stuff. Then we put it all back into the shopping cart, and roll the WHOLE shopping cart out to the parking lot, and then unload all those plastic bags into the car. Then drive home and unload car slowly into the house.
And today there is also the Costco phenomenon. You shop for a big bunch of stuff, then the cashier loads it back into the big cart, sometimes in cartons that would have been discarded anyway (no bags at all at Costco), then you roll the cart to the car, unload it into the car, and go home and unload the car into the house. At the red light near the house, I text my family members âplease come to driveway in 2-3 minutes to unload costco stuffâ.