Originally Posted by wphamilton

Sure I could see it as a necessity, if both a) there were no bike stands at the grocery stores and b), my grocery runs were made alone, and c) it was frequent enough. For me, the first never actually happened and the second very infrequently. I was actually considering a center stand about 7 years ago, but realized that the above was true and instead took all of the kickstands off. I've literally never missed them since then.

I'd rather have some kind of block stand that I could simply take with me on those rare occasions.