I'm sure the vast majority of Americans buy food at the supermarket, walmart, target & costco (trader joes & whole foods for hippies) like you'd expect everywhere.
We know this because we can see the volume of sales from these stores.
Kroger annual revenue for 2023 was $148.258B, which is 8% market share, so Americans spent ~$1,850 billion in supermarkets on food. That doesn't count lots of other places like Costco.
You are not looking at America. You're looking at a small segment of VERY ONLINE people who are young overpaid idiots using doordash all the time.
Normal people cook their own food with restaurant meals being an occasional treat.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.
It’s an easy habit to get into. Cooking takes time, planning, and effort and normal Americans work hard so they have no energy left and takeaway looks very attractive.
Many on here will disagree, and insist they cook their own food more than they actually do, but that’s really just an intentional opposite response to whatever Reddit is doing.
Actual genuine question here, because I've heard different things about this.
Do "normal" Americans "normally" cook their own food?
I've had some people tell me it's all takeaway all the time, which I find difficult to believe, and some people tell me the opposite.
I'm sure the vast majority of Americans buy food at the supermarket, walmart, target & costco (trader joes & whole foods for hippies) like you'd expect everywhere.
We know this because we can see the volume of sales from these stores.
Kroger annual revenue for 2023 was $148.258B, which is 8% market share, so Americans spent ~$1,850 billion in supermarkets on food. That doesn't count lots of other places like Costco.
You are not looking at America. You're looking at a small segment of VERY ONLINE people who are young overpaid idiots using doordash all the time.
This. I will go out to eat when I cant be bothered to make something, but that is usually once a week max, once every other week more often.
For my normal week, when I go grocery shopping, I will buy meat (usually switch it up between chicken, pork chops, or burgers), cook it on the weekend when I have plenty of free time, and then put it in the refrigerator in a container. Sometimes with extra food like potatoes that I also cooked. Then throughout the week, when I get home from work, I just get some of the meat and other sides like carrots, and that will be dinner.
It’s an easy habit to get into. Cooking takes time, planning, and effort and normal Americans work hard so they have no energy left and takeaway looks very attractive.
Many on here will disagree, and insist they cook their own food more than they actually do, but that’s really just an intentional opposite response to whatever Reddit is doing.