How far do you have to go to buy a gallon of milk?

In My Humble Opinion
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This question occurred to me this weekend as we were leaving a family party up in northern WI. My aunt and uncle live in a fairly remote area; the closest “town” has little more than a post office and no visible commerce. It’s about 16 miles to the nearest town that has stores. If I’d thought of this when we were still there, I’d have asked if there are any gas stations or such closer.

I dunno, it just seems to me that this is a decent measure of how far out in the boonies you are.

So what’s your minimum milk-acquisition distance? For me it’s about 5 miles in any of three directions: a tiny Mennonite-owned country store, a gas station, or the grocery store in town.

(Edited title: not everyone has to drive!)

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According to the GPS on my phone, 452 feet.

There’s a Hispanic grocery store across the street from our house.

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4 miles to the hippy dippy health food store in a small mountain town. Or about 12 miles to town in one direction 15 in the other.

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331 feet along the street, probably a total of 370 or so if you count from my door to their door.

ETA - I would never actually shop there, they’ve had a B grade since we moved there.

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For me, it’s a 5 minute walk to the 7-Eleven. But I question the freshness.

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To the small supermarket on the ground floor of my building. One of my neighbours doesn’t even have to walk down there. She has a basket on a rope, and makes the store clerks put her cigarettes &c in it, then pulls it up to her balcony.

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From here at work, the Walgreens is a 30 floor elevator ride down and right next door.
From home, several options just under 1 mile in different directions.

8

Well, there’s a drive-thru dairy outlet a block away, and a liquor store that’s several hundred feet closer. So…not very far.

9

4224 feet to the nearest convenience store with milk. Supermarket opening at the same intersection this autumn will solidify our local milk acquisition capability.

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About 6 miles to the closest gas station/general store. 10 miles to the closest grocery store. From home, that is. From work it’s a mile tot he gas station.

StG

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A block either north (to the teeny convenience store) or south (either to Walgreens, or to the health-food store for organic milk).

12

Half a block to the corner grocery, but it’s usually closed when it’s convenient for me to get there. If all I need is milk, I drive the half-mile to 7-Eleven, and if I need more, I drive the mile to Acme.

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Probably a less than two minute walk to the corner shop at the end of our street.

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Across the street to the local grocery chain (Not Safeway or QFC, thanks :smiley: ). I should drag out the GPS and try figuring how far I’m walking next time I go.

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Man, I am jealous of you people who can just walk to the store. Where I grew up, the grocery store was 5 blocks away. I like where we live now, but I hate it when I have to drive 10 miles round trip to pick up some stupid ingredient that I forgot.

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8 miles. It seems like a long trip, but when we lived in Seattle I thought nothing of driving 20+ miles to the Art’s up in Greenwood.

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5 miles to convenience store. 7 to a regular grocery store.

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According to Mapquest, it’s .55 miles to the co-op.

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A block and a half to a mom-and-pop grocery store, which is pricier than the chain drugstore about two blocks away.

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Two and a half blocks to the Walgreens near my office. (I’m assuming they sell gallons there. I do know that they have quarts.)

From home, it’s either two miles to a 7-11 for overpriced milk, or three miles to the Safeway. A mega-Chevron just opened half a mile down the freeway, so they probably have milk, and would be “only” a mile and a half away from home.