Yeah, there is. Just imagine if all people went to a smaller bakery at 7 A.M. (peak hour) to get bread by car, do you think there would be even parking space to it to happen? American cities have more parking space than normal, parking spaces are transient places, they arent intended to be gigantic, since it is not for long you must be there.
It isnt even a matter of physical space, since my country is as big as US, but we still walk to places, we get fresh groceries direct by the farmer and even out meat and cheese by smaller companies. It is a cultural thing, even as former colonies from european countries, there must be an explanation to why americans are so resistant to walk to get their own food at local level. And this is a mirror to even further cultural shit that makes american be the weird ones. We can ask mexicans, argies, chileans and everyone have similar experiences except you, and mostly for worse. If you think for one second that driving 10 minutes is the same as walking 10 minutes, sorry mate, you are dead inside already.
If you told me that there were people that cut their hair at walmart instead of going to their local barbershop at the US, I would believe. Because if the same happens with food, a really important matter, imagine what they would do with other lesser things.
Do you guys even have community gardens? The idea of sharing a place where you all.work and everyone can get food from there since you all worked there for no price? Or even to garden food at your own hom