Brits nip to the shop to buy milk. What do Americans buy?

[Fordian]

As in, we nip down the local Tesco metro to buy milk, bread, wine or beer.

What would an American nip down to buy?

And how far away is if?

Mine's a 2 minute drive.

I popped to the shop yesterday to get milk. Also bought crisps and suck (confectionery) and had two pints in the pub into the bargain. UK

Blue can also be fake raspberry! Cherry is often red.

But purple here is grape not blackcurrant.

And if anyone doubted how sad I am I’ve just remembered one of the high points of my very expensive skiing holiday several years ago was discovering that there was a Dollar Tree store right next to my hotel….

Where were you?

When I was a child, my friend’s mom always took us to the dollar store. They were so delightful back then, totally independent places and they had all kinds of wonderful odds and ends. We vacationed with her family in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the dollar store trip was one of our major activities.

@MrsFezziwig one of my big memories from Vienna in the 90s was going to the market and buying milk that didn’t need refrigeration. I was fascinated. That’s right up there with a dollar tree trip, I’d say.

Awesome memory!!

I had a small independent corner store next to my house until I moved to a new neighborhood recently. Small city in the eastern US. It was fantastic snd they had anything that you’d need to pop out to get. Bread, milk, butter, of course but much more than that. They also sold hair extensions, cat litter, cigarellos and all kinds of random frozen food. Lots of popsicles, chips, candy. Even sliced deli meats.

Run by a Korean couple who moved here decades ago. They are open 7 days except a few holidays and employ no one else. It’s Their kids graduated from the best school in the area, went to great universities and have their own careers now. I always hope that one day soon they will retire and just enjoy themselves. The store building alone is worth a mint, never mind the business.

"Cheap wine boxes"... you mean, "goon"? 😜

And if anyone doubted how sad I am I’ve just remembered one of the high points of my very expensive skiing holiday several years ago was discovering that there was a Dollar Tree store right next to my hotel….

A friend and I cried together when we found that our nearest Dollar Tree was closing. Imagine our joy when another one opened even closer!! No more paying more than $1.25 again for cotton balls, knock off otc medicines, boxes of tissues, wrapping paper, sympathy cards, wine glasses, poster board, Fabuloso/Comet/Awesome Bang cleaning products...

I miss drive thru bottlo's- Aussie bottle shops/off licences/alcohol stores

Try Colorado

I'm 5 mins drive to the local supermarket and another 10 to Walmart. Close to a drive thru liquor store but dry on Sundays in my county (albeit not far to the next county, which isn't). Don't pop out so much anymore as Walmart delivers within 2 hours.

As well as the bottle-o in Australia, we also go to the servo. No alcohol at the servo though, unfortunately. The servo is for petrol, and overpriced bits of food if necessary.

Corner shop to pop to has to be in walking distance. If I drove for 5-10 minutes I might just make it to Selfridges!

I think it must have been Jackson Hole. The B & M/Home Bargains aficionados on here will immediately recognise the attraction!

Love Jackson Hole.

Small hardware stores are also super fun. ACE Hardwares are locally owned and have all kinds of interesting odds and ends. The one in my little downtown also often has yard sale items out front. I think they clean out houses or something.

Me!😁

Not what you asked, I know, but you take the car for a two minute drive?
You don't walk?

I remember my first visit to an American supermarket in the mid 80’s. I was 18. We were so fascinated by the multi coloured cereals and HUGE packets of everything. We were really broke and spent 6moths living on soup and crackers. All the huge multicoloured crap is here too now but then we were amazed, growing up we only had weetabix, cornflakes or shreddies (never allowed the golden nuggets)

I popped to the shops this morning to get bread, milk, butter (left it out in the heat!) and red bull! It's about a five minute walk but I went on the way back from the school run so drove.

Our nearest supermarket is about a five minute drive but it's pretty rubbish. To get to a half decent supermarket it's about a 15-20 minute drive or a mega store about half an hour.

i live in southern England.

Coffee cream (half & half), popsicles, the odd veggie if I need it, fruit.

Utah, USA and 2 minutes to our closest grocery store.

Also in the UK. I don't think I've ever lived more than a 10 minute walk from a shop (we lived half a mile from the nearest one when I was growing up and I used to go with a pound note to buy cigarettes for my dad when I was around 10!). Where I live I've got two grocery shops less than 5 minutes walk away (they are next door but one to each other, sell exactly the same stuff and are owned by the same family!), a Sainsbury's (and McDonald's) less than 10 minutes away. You can even get booze delivered by Deliveroo if you wish 😂

Is target like our Costco?

No. Costco is Costco in the US as well.

Target is more like the Waitrose-level equivalent of ASDA.

AW ...Bodega ... i am a huge SVU fan and that just made me smile ... first time i heard it, had to look it up 😄