Comment by vkou

> There are bakery sections at grocery stores

There are, and most of them don't have good bread. (Baguettes are about the only good bread that you can reliably expect to find in them. Sometimes they have San Francisco-style sourdough, which in my experience, tastes like someone dumped a shot of lemon vinegar into it. Just because a bread uses sourdough starter doesn't mean it needs to taste sour. I feel much the same way about hops and beer.)

Regularly visiting the bakery is, for reasons I've mentioned, a lot of friction for one purchase.

My closest one carries... Weird specialty hipster breads (because it is more focused on tarts and pastries and sweets - bread is just an afterthought for it).

The one I'd go to, if my closest grocery weren't stocking them is way out of my way. I would not be making that trip twice a week.