"...stock something because of their location..."

Yup. Because of our nomadic lifestyle, often volunteering at places that are far from the beaten path, we are sure to keep a goodly supply of vittles on hand. To that end, when we bought our new home on wheels, we picked a model with a "laundry room," a closet sized space designed for a small RV washer/drier. What we put in it is an apartment sized freezer, with a portable ice maker on top of it. That way, we can make a run to something like Costco, pick up a couple hundred dollars worth of high quality meat and freeze most of it. A like amount of lesser quality meats would cost something like $500 in the more local to our location grocery stores. We figure that the first load of Costco meats paid for the freezer, and as an added bonus we don't have to go shopping all that often.

Side note, back in the '90's a freak storm caused a bridge on I-5 in central CA to go down, closing 5 in both directions. It also took out many smaller bridges on local roads which went back into canyons to the west of 5. Most of the people living up there, 45 minutes or more from town, did so in order to be "independent." Three days after all this happened, our helicopter, which was needed to help search for missing persons from the I-5 bridge collapse, had to divert to take some Quarter Pounders with cheese to those independent folks, who were reportedly starving to death. In THREE days!!!