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[mbjj]

We didn't walk with groceries in the 1960s, even though it was a small town. Both my parents worked so they didn't have time for that! We also used a car to take things to the dump (only alternative back then), transport lumber, take elderly relatives for a drive in the country, visit relatives in Victoria, etc. We had a big old house built around 1920 which had a three car garage! In Duncan we had Safeway in the early sixties, Shop Easy, and Super Value which became K & R (for Ken and Robb). My dad also drove out to the country to pick up bags of manure for the garden. Of course all our elderly relatives who didn't have a car, my parents were the chauffeurs and packhorses. 

[Tony]

I used to delivery for a green grocer on a heavy one speed bike with a large front basket before I was a teenager.

No need to carry stuff home. Do all your shopping at each local store and walk home. and have it delivered..

[Mike K.]

Dude, are you joking with me? EVERYBODY walked with groceries. Back in the day there were little grocery stores on every other corner in the neighbourhoods.

I’m not talking about little corner stores, for little grocery runs.

I’m talking about a full grocery run, with ten or eleven or twelve full bags of groceries, shared between a mum and her small child.

You may not understand what that was like to a nine year old.