Shopping with a Bike-Hod trailer
A Bike-Hod is the ideal trailer for shopping at your local supermarket. It can even be easier than shopping by car - especially if your supermarket has a self-scanning service.
Self-scanning means that you can wheel your Bike-Hod around the supermarket, scanning your shopping as you put it into the spacious bag. You pay at the automatic checkout, and simply hitch up your Bike-Hod and ride home. The next time you touch your shopping is when you unload it in your kitchen!
Compare that to shopping by car, where you can handle your purchases up to five times - no wonder a Bike-Hod is actually less effort!
With a Bike-Hod |
By car (self scan) |
By car (normal checkout) |
Park bike and unhitch Bike-Hod
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Find a parking space and park car |
Find a parking space and park car |
Find a trolley |
Find a trolley |
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Pull Bike-Hod into shop and collect scanner |
Push trolley into shop; collect scanner |
Push trolley into shop |
Do shopping, scanning goods into Bike-Hod |
Do shopping, scanning goods into trolley |
Do shopping, putting goods into trolley |
Go to Quick Pay checkout |
Go to Quick Pay checkout |
Go to checkout |
Unload shopping onto conveyer |
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Pack shopping into bags |
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Put shopping back in trolley and pay |
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Wheel Bike-Hod to bike and hitch up |
Push trolley to car |
Push trolley to car |
Unload shopping into car |
Unload shopping into car |
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Take trolley to trolley park |
Take trolley to trolley park |
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Cycle home |
Drive home |
Drive home |
Unhitch Bike-Hod and wheel it into kitchen |
Park car and unload bags |
Park car and unload bags |
Carry bags into the house |
Carry bags into the house |
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Put shopping directly from Bike-Hod into cupboards |
Put shopping into cupboards |
Put shopping into cupboards |
No. of times you have handled your purchases: |
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Twice |
3 times |
5 times |
Distance you will have carried your purchases: |
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0m |
~10-20m - depends how far from the house you park |
~10-20m - depends how far from the house you park |
Find out if there's a supermarket near you with self scanning
- Waitrose (look for Quick Check/Quick Pay)
Some branches of Waitrose will even lend you a Bike-Hod, so you can try it out for free!
More bikes and trailers
You can find more bicycle trailers for carrying children and dogs and all sorts of stuff, as well as trailer bikes and electric bikes, on our Bikes and Trailers website:
