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I never thought about it like that! I did in fact buy the car specifically to go to the grocery store and don't use it for anything else
Can't you just order groceries? Isn't that a thing in the US?
Have you considered renting? Depending on the business model, that could be very cheap if it's just a couple of hours per week.
Renting a car? Oh... You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying when needing to use the service for extended periods of time?
That's only a subscription if you keep the car 24/7, it's a completely different thing if you only rent for a couple of hours per week. Even renting a car for a day (which might be the shortest amount of time you can rent a car in many places) wouldn't be a subscription, though at that point it might not be cheaper than owning anymore.
The car rental place is further away from me than the grocery store.
Where I live, the concept is called "car sharing". There are two small cars just across the street and if I need one, it costs 2,50 € per hour plus maybe 0,30 € per kilometer, fuel included. So if I need to make a weekly grocery run to one of the large stores, it's probably just a little over 10-12 Euros for three hours all told.
Now, I own a car that's older and too cheap to not keep it for longer drives when I am seeing my family (roughly an hour each way) at the weekends, but for my day-to-day needs, I probably shouldn't own one.
Car2go was such an awesome service. I missed it very much when it went......I don't know, where did it go?
Or instacart.