Cycling & packrat shopping: before snowstorm

[Blueberry]

Shootingstar-

How do you handle your multiple purchases from one store to the next? That's something I've always felt uncomfortable with when running errands by bike - and I wondered if you might have good tips on how to handle it since you do it so often? What I mean is - let's say the grocery store carries some of the stuff you bought at the drug store. Are you carrying it in the grocery store in your pannier as you shop? Leaving it on the bike? Something else?

[shootingstar]

I do bring in a pannier or 2 into the store with purchases from a prior store --after all, I keep my wallet, keys in there. And the bags are like people's tote bags, etc. I do hope the stores I visit have shopping carts or wheelie baskets so that I can throw in my panniers into the shopping cart to relieve myself of weight.

Occasionally I leave a pannier still hooked onto locked bike outside. If I have to leave something in there, it would be food. Nothing else. Not even gloves.

Carrying around 1 pannier in store, is like carrying around a large handbag or tote bag --like many women.

I've never had problems with security/the stores and have been cycling-shopping like this for last 2 decades in all the cities I've lived.