I lived in Paris in the late 60’s. There was NO refrigerator in the apartment. There was there beautiful cement box outside the kitchen window. That’s where perishables were stored... for two or three days max.
Shopping daily was a necessity. There were also guys selling fruits and veggies in their horse drawn carts.
No chance that could happen in the USA nowadays. The feminists would have to stay home.
Oh, our leftist self-appointed elites always seem to manage to find a way to foist their social engineering on us, while escaping the consequences themselves. Just look at the politicians and the faithful spokesmen of the Church Of The Global Warming jetting around on “Earth Day”.