Originally Posted by GUWonder

I travel very often internationally, and I am about as much the proverbial cabin-baggage-only traveler as anyone else that travels a lot. It's not rare for me to arrive into airports or train stations in Europe or the Americas with cabin baggage-only, then hitting the grocery stores with my cabin baggage and come out of the store with 4 to 5 bags full of groceries. Why do that? Because I and my travel party members may be heading onward to somewhere where it's not sure when next it will be as convenient to get to the grocery stores of choice.