Probably a few thousand miles. I haven’t seen them sell milk in gallon sizes around here. The quart is common, and I think I’ve seen the half gallon (or 1000 and 2000 mL, if you want to be accurate), but no gallons. Maybe in large cities.
If you want to know how far to a grocery store, then about a few hundred meters. Little store on the corner than shows no signs of flagging since the giant superstore came last year.
About .5 miles walking, 1.3 miles driving to Walmart. There’s also a gas station .9 miles driving that sells milk. The walking route is very direct, but only has pedestrian access across the creek.
According to Google Maps, about 170 metres from the door of my apartment building to the Valu-mart across the road. In my continuing quest to become in better shape, I run the route door to door now.
During the day and evening, about 2-3 city blocks to the grocery. Unfortunately, after 10, most everything in my town is closed. At that point, it is a 10 mile drive to an all night gas station, 19 miles to a Walmart in one town, 22 miles to another. Either way, not a short enough trip…
There is a grocery store about 7 blocks west of me, and about 5 blocks away in several different directions there are convenience stores, but if I were buying milk, it would be in litres. And, well, I don’t often buy milk.
I’m astonished so many people have to travel so far for milk. I only need to walk four blocks to a 7-Eleven. I can also buy milk at a corner store a block-and-a-half-away, but they only sell half gallons.
Same here, I don’t think I can get gallons anywhere nearby. It’s pretty much only sold in liters (2-liter occasionally) around here.
For a liter, I might only need to go downstairs. There’s a convenience store in the lobby of my building that sells snacks and emergency goods (diapers, tampons, etc.) and may sell dairy.
Other than that, looking at google maps there are three full convenience stores and two supermarkets within 300m of the front door.
I’m on the corner of an intersection of two main streets. Across the street one way I have a deli, across the street the other way I have an upscale grocery store, a health foods store, and a Walgreens, and diagonally across the street I have a large grocery store & a Rite Aid.
Somewhere close to ten miles. I can get it down to over five if I buy a couple half-gallons at a gas station convenience store, but it’s more expensive.
A gallon comes out to about 3.78 litres, most I’ve seen on sale in the UK is 3 litres at Tesco or Sainsbury’s. If I’m buying that much it’s about a mile to the nearest one from the house.