And we don't pay for pesticides we don't want or the medical costs for the illnesses the pesticides and chemicals we rather not have cause. I feel sorry for Americans.
We did a deal a few years ago with drump allowing American and Australian imports small amounts. Few billion worth. To cover the trillions of trade with EU
We have smaller houses and smaller fridges to store a large amount of food. I think it better to keep buying fresh food than to shop to cover more that a couple of weeks.
Food is not meant to last a long time, fresh is always better. Less chemicals, less time in cold storage which destroys flavour, vitamins and minerals. The French go a step further, buying bread fresh every day, no chemicals which make it last longer. Fresh food tastes better and is far more nutritious.
The largest difference with the USA being cheapest was Chicken, you only have to look at standards for animals to see why chicken is cheaper in the USA with very poor health standards and conditions for animals compared to the UK
@@lindsaymckeown513It all goes back to the way the animals are kept. They need the chlorine wash in America because of the poorer animal husbandry standards, so more chance of the chicken carrying pathogens and bacteria than here in the UK.
The chickens are better treated in us actually. But then they get chlorinated for consumption . The industries treat the public very bad in America but they do have products that are better than ours too. Some of their meat product is actually better
@@mjtigerfangActually the reason they use the chlorine baths is because of the bad conditions they are kept in, instead of spending money fixing that they put a band aid on the issue using chlorine baths to clean the chicken.
@@susandavey2361 Don't know about bleach, but eggs in USA have to be washed and then must be kept in a refrigerator. European eggs keep longer without wash or fridge.
The strawberries are a summer fruit and would be cheaper in the summer months, being more expensive in November. They showed the cooked ham as Tesco's Finest range instead of the standard ham which would be cheaper
Yes, November strawberries would be imported from The Netherlands, Spain even North Africa. That all adds to the cost. Smarter choice is seasonal fruits.
Tesco are a mid range store price wise, if you were to shop at Aldi a low cost store you could knock off an additional 12% on average. The difference in price between the US and UK is probably down to what the food processors are putting into the ham. In most countries there are laws that determine the amount of the processed meat that goes into a product. For example here in the UK the food processors are allowed to substitute some of the chicken in sliced processed chicken with turkey as turkey will go further. While the US prides itself on been a capitalist country and often calls European countries socialist. In reality what happens in the US is that the large supermarkets will buy out other supermarkets and create a monopoly then charge what they can get away with. In Europe there are often multiple supermarket chains who compete against each other and in doing so drive down prices. Typically most people will have four or five different grocery stores within a short distance of them so the stores have real competition.
@@NauiByeolEge I thought the same thing... They could have bought a much cheaper range and saved a lot more! Also with the strawberries and similar foods, they won't have had all the chemicals sprayed on them, so will need to be eaten 'freshly' bought etc.
Same in Ireland. I live in a rural town and for grocery shopping we have Mace, Spar, Londis, Centra, SuperValu, Dunnes, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi [the last 5 being roughly equal size supermarkets] plus Polish, Lithuanian and Asian supermarkets. I live in one of the older estates and within walking distance we have Spar, Mace and Express [tiny basics only corner shop]. The 5 big supermarkets plus Centra [owned by the same group that owns SuperValu] are all much of a muchness for prices as the competition is strong but some items are better in one shop than another, example the selection of grapes is better in Aldi or Lidl as is cheese but cured meats are better in SuperValu or Lithuanica/Polish supermarket, Tesco are better for cordials/squash etc. Lots of options and the competition keeps the prices lower [and of the items I regularly buy the prices here in Ireland were very similar to the ones in Scotland].
Yeah we just get horse meat lasagnes, ten tonnes of sodium and psoiosnous Dutch eggs amd last u heard there was a salmonella problem in one of our superstore products, we can’t brag here like we better. We aren’t really better and the attitude we have to other countries annoys the hell out of me sometimes. We have issues ourselves
@@mjtigerfangWe are better, sometimes there are accidents, the UK and European governments aren't putting lots of bad things in food intentionally, in America it is not an accident that they have bad chemicals in foods, their food standards allow it.
@Ross-df6ge It's a difference in outlook. In the EU & UK, food manufacturers have to prove a food or ingredient is safe before it can be sold to consumers. In the US, it has to be proven to be harmful before it is banned. Therefore, harmful items are allowed in the US foodchain until the proof is available. The protection is for those who make a profit in the US, whereas we, the consumers, are protected here. Over there, capitalism is getting out of control, to the detriment of the American public.
Same in New Zealand. What makes me laugh [I now live in Ireland] is that on construction sites they use a weird combination of both metric and imperial, confuses the heck out of all the workers from other countries but they very quickly adapt.
Just to make things more complicated, in Tesco in the UK we have the Clubcard, Tesco's loyalty card, and we can often get things for cheaper with it. Some items might only save you a little tiny bit, but for some items it might save you around 50%.
It's not cheaper. An example being the £3 meal deal went to £4,but with a clubcard the price dropped to £3.50. it was a disguised price rise where you give Tesco your name, address, shopping habits,etc. they then profit of the sale of those details.
Also been proved by which consumer group proved supermarkets put up prices b4 lowering them and putting on 'members deal'. They showed even at members deal you could buy the SAME item CHEAPER in other stores. Its all a big con you info is priceless to them, thats how they make money
dunno why they picked THE MOST EXPENSIVE finest ham from tesco lol... you can get way way cheaper ones.. that is like their premium most expensive ham lol... also we get streaky bacon here too which is more like american bacon and its actually a LOT cheaperthan the back bacon we get.... there were other products there that they picked from the british side which were premium and a bit odd to make comaparisons for but oh well
I love this couple. Our strawberries are expensive in winter because they are out of season. In July, they are cheaper. Our dairy products are more expensive because the herds are grassfed, which is why our milk and butter taste so much richer.
Free feather for fine fettle You, your attitude of fine mettle, "Go to work on an egg" - was the rhyme Tis seriously good, no yolking* this time! ('yolking rhymes with 'joking', tis true - _This_ rhyme, I wrote just for _you_ 😊)
@@daveofyorkshire301 Where I live, the alcohol section is always at the end, but maybe thats because I live in Scotland because there are times they are not allowed to sell alcohol so being able to block off that area more easily makes sense. But even when I am home in England, the freezer section always seems to be in the middle of the supermarket
UK is 35-50% cheaper for groceries. I was so shocked when I lived in California for 5 yrs. I couldn't get over how expensive it is! Plus we don't have all the nasty chemicals in our food that the US allows, there are over 1000 chemicals that are banned here and almost every other country.. Sadly your cheese is not real cheese in the US and the meat that you enjoy so much is full of hormones. Chicken in the US is pumped full of hormones and doesn't taste the same, they also wash it in chlorine there!They actually used Tesco Finest which is the most expensive one you can get so I think if they had of compared to regular ham the UK would have cheaper. FYI Bread in the US would be classified as cake here because the amount of sugar and doesn't have any flavour. So sadly even though we are so much cheaper the quality in the US is sub par too due to all the chemicals, there are over 1000 chemicals that are used in all your food and drink that is banned here and elsewhere. Thank you for your reaction videos.
Here in Cyprus the only reason we put eggs in the fridge is the heat in the summer (38 to 43 c) Unfortunately cows ,pork chicken & lamb (goat )are only grass feed after winter when there is green grass , Milk is expensive,,if you ever in a village you can get most vegetables fresh ,citrus fruits most people grow themselves Including grapes passion fruits in dragon fruits grow my self,,, Before I forget olives not just for oil , The only time we have fast food is when we go to town shopping ❤❤❤❤
I’ve been watching you for a few years now buddy plus you’re other channels and collaborations. I just want to say that I actually feel proud to hear you shoot off knowledge that you now can just bring up thanks to your new education. Well done friend 🤜🤛👏👏👏
So now the big question, Neal. With our food costs, working rights, & the NHS alone, how long is it going to be before you & the family move over here?
@@andrewmoss3681 dunno if he can take it. I have family in the US and they came here but were constantly moaning and were so, so fussy. If US people can come with NO baggage they will be fine.
In the UK we tend to go shopping more often than people do in the US. You may have missed it near the start, but they said they walked to the store. Within 20 mins walk from where I live there are 2 supermarkets, so I may buy things for a day or 2, then go again. Whereas in the US you have to drive to get to the supermarkets, so you tend to buy things more in bulk that will last longer. With the scanner, you scan the bar code on the packs, or for loose items like fruit you weigh them, and scan the code on the M/C or the ticket it gives you. At the end you scan a QR code at the till, which you then get a bar code you scan on the till, which transfers the data from the scanner, to the till. Then you pay, then your done. It's so much easier to do, and saves time. You don't have to take out your items, then get the teller to scan them, then put them back in to your basket. If you have coupons, you scan them as well at the till.
Prices can vary quite a bit, Tesco, for example, has Tesco Value (cheapest in every sense of the word), Tesco Standard, Tesco Finest (each store has their own name to denote their “luxury” and more expensive store brand) and finally the Named Brand (Walkers(Lays)/ Tropicana/Doritos/Nescafe/Cadbury’s). On occasion, Named Brands can be cheaper than the Store Luxury Brand. With regard to the eggs, quite a few people put them straight into the fridge after they get them home. I did notice that they bought Tesco Finest ham , Walkers/Lays crisps/chips and Arla (which is a Named Brand here) Yoghurt but for the most part they stuck to middle of the road Tesco brand.
Couldn't help but notice that a lot of the Tesco products were price matched with Aldi, which means that they were not their regular prices, so it was a bit misleading.
the result means for every american that buys the exact same goods as some one from the british isles then the person from the british isles pays £350 less than their american counterpart but the funny thing is that tesco are not the cheapest supermarket in britain , i could beat that and be 45% cheaper
The scanner is picked up on entering the store. Then use it to scan each product then at the end you just transfer the data into the machine for payment. No unloading the products pr scanning them as it is done with the scanner. Much easier and quicker.
@@lindsaymckeown513 no it doesn't because staff are moved from the shop floor to checkout when it's busy. Self scan is really helpful because it leaves staff to do the jobs they are employed to do.
@@nicolaprosser8379 Haha, that doesn't happen here!! They used employ more cashiers and now all staff are doing 2 or more roles. Here they used to close the tills at 10pm, then it was 9pm, now it's 8pm.
What's even crazier is a lot of these products get imported to the UK, the US grows most of their own crops of these things. Weirdly, we do grow strawberries here though 😂
But in the US, eveything is sprayed with all types of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides (not to mention the GMO's). Strawberries (and many other 'fresh' fruit and veg), just TASTE so much better in the UK. I have been visiting the America for over 40 + years and avoid buying/eating certain foodstuffs just because of the 'additives'... 🤔🙂
What i find is crazy, i live in Belgium, in an area known for its fruit trees, there are load of places growing apples and pears everywhere, the prices for apples and pears in the shops are more expensive than for pineapples and other fruits that were imported from places like the Caribbean! what the hell....
@@lindsaymckeown513 that's constantly changing, it's a mute point if you don't actually assert which direction or why, it's just an irrelevant statement of ongoing fact.
There is a channel on UA-cam which is a USAmerican living in the UK and he compared wages. By the time he had deducted all the things that in the UK [or Ireland or any European country] are included in your taxes - such as healthcare, multiple sets of extra taxes [state, county AND federal on foods etc] and all the other extras turned out roughly half his wages went in taxes [don't forget for healthcare they have to pay for the insurance, PLUS the deductibles PLUS the co-pays PLUS the actual prescription items - and I know you don't in Scotland but do in England but even so England is MUCH cheaper and the vital items, such as insulin, are free] and when comparing wages so many people just look at the basic income tax without bothering to include all the other items that in most countries are INCLUDED in your income tax payments but are extra in the US.... It is actually frightening how much extra you have to pay out ON TOP of your basic taxes in the US but a quick glance comparing incomes doesn't show that.
@@julialk4536Me too. The only one that did it was Waitrose. I did see one in a new Sainsburys store though. Don't have a hissy fit if the assistants rescan. Nothing personal and people do try and steal at self service checkouts.
I am from the UK, and I shop at tesco. A lot of what is chosen are named products, I can shop cheaper than that on many items such as bread at 45p or shop at lidl or Audi for your groceries they are even cheaper, lidl food is cheaper because it hasn't been processed, but that is better because it's fresher.
Yes bananas can be bad here in uk because fruit doesn’t last long sos some is bad already in store and I usually avoid some fruits that you can see going bad
@@mjtigerfang I have been visiting the US for over 40+ years and LOTS of produce in the US is made to LAST so much longer on the shelf with additives etc. For instance, I AVOID buying 'supermarket' or 'general grocery' store bread in America... When comparing ingredients lists, I'm both shocked and amazed that they get away with putting so many additives and chemicals in their food. But the MOST common additive (used as a sweetner in processed food) and in so many foodstuffs, plus soft drinks in the US is HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup). Firstly, it is highly addictive (most American's are weaned on it from very young!). But foods containing HFCS can also contribute to heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease and dyslipidemia, an abnormal level of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. Fructose becomes a more universal threat to your body by accumulating as visceral fat around your organs. It is one of the main things that cause weight gain and with obesity being a public health problem in the United States, it has been linked directly to excess of sweetener consumption.
I follow this couple they're great. The "Scan As You Shop" is a simple way to shop, scan ur items, put in your bag, scan barcode on til, pay n go. Its been here for years. Food prices in recent months have rocketed here, not surprised that US is 35% more expensive xx
With the cost of living in America being 30% higher than here it works out roughly the same for wages….. but we don’t have huge healthcare bills to cover every month so Americans bills acquaint to around 40% of their wages a month whereas we pay around 28% of ours a month
we have about 5-7 different food stores so prices could still be even cheaper... tesco, asda, sainsburys, aldi, lidl, icelands. then theres the more expensive stores like waitrose, marks and spencers.... so shopping in the uk its best to buy bits from here and there if you can
Keep in mind they weren't including the 'club card' prices which knock the price of some objects down even more. I'm not sure if they included the tax that would be added to the US shop (maybe they mentioned that and I missed it).
Regarding the U.S. prices being shown. Are these after tax or before? Because the prices they show on he UK shelves already have the tax in them. You pay what you see at the checkout. If an item is priced at £1.25p on the shelf, you pay £1.25p.
TBH & TBF: In America, most food (similar to the UK) is zero rated, so unlike many other goods, tax won't be applicable at the check-out ! I HATE shopping in the US, bacuase I'm always comparing prices in my head... America IS (even without any tax issues), VERY MUCH more expensive when it comes to grocery shopping (especially for FRESH produce etc.). That's why so many 'eat out' or rely on 'junk food'. 🤔🤨
The "35% cheaper" seemed a little odd when most items were 2x, 3x and some even more times more expensive. My shopping list would be ludicrous expensive in the US but I eat a lot of meat, dairy, vegetables and fruit.
Yes, I remember as a little kid, the Safeway in my local town, then it became a Tesco, then it became a Kwik Save, now it's a Home Bargains, or 'Home and Bargain' as we still call them up here.
You have to remember that here in the uk we don’t pay taxes on most of the food displayed also been a lot smaller than the USA the food miles may differ
At sainsburys in the uk you just open the scanner app on your phone and scan the items with your phone, you can even pay on the phone too so you can just bag your stuff as you go around and leave without talking to anyone. The handheld scanners have been in every supermarket for like a decade around me too. You scan as you shop. In this video too shes not really getting any deals or brand products which we buy a lot more in the uk because theyre generally great and can be way cheaper than the branded stuff. In general the biggest thing thats cheaper for us is definitely things like shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes etc. I knew a girl that was paying $10 canadian for a tube of toothpaste that is like £1.75 in the uk. or less than £1 for the store brand version.
It's pretty crazy now that we have to work for ourself scanning our items lol but overall it does make it easier and save all those long queues like before
@@MostlyPennyCat Don't know about using phone for scanning, but if you use store scanner and then make contactless payment it gives option for printing receipt. I self scan and load a shopping trolley to talk the shopping home, occasionally system flags up a check by staff, they check some of the items, especially if an item was tagged. Saves taking store trolley around, waiting for cashier, unloading trolley and re-loading trolley after checkout scan.
@@MostlyPennyCatyou just walk out but if you have bought something with a tag you just wave at staff and they'll take it off for you. If clothes in sainsburys the system knows you scanned and paid to cancel the the tag.
I'm not sure if they factored in tax. In the UK, the price you see is what you pay. VAT is already added. And the gun thingy is a lifesaver. You scan and pack as you go. Randomly, you will get a security check, but not very often. And Aldi is considerably cheaper. Love your reaction Neal.
@MostlyPennyCat High fructose corn syrup is banned in the UK as it is incredibly harmful to health and is more addictive than heroin. It seems to be omnipresent in all American foodstuffs, which are sweet by nature and even some which aren't.
Eggs in the U.K. don’t need refrigeration because they are not washed before being sold, in the US you wash them and remove the cuticle which is the coating that prevents bacteria entering the egg through the shell
One thing they didn't explain for the American viewers is often you saw "Aldi price match" labels. this means that Tesco has dropped their price to be the same as another shop that was selling it for less. but it's also difficult to do this sort of price comparison as it also relates to wages and the overall cost of living. you would probably get a much better comparison if you didn't use California.
There's more competition here in the UK, it's not unusual to have Tesco/ASDA/Sainsbury's/Aldi/Morrison's all within 2 or 3 miles of each other, so if they aren't competitive we simply go elsewhere.
In my experience, most these UK items are cheaper in different shops than whats shown in the video. So even more savings. However, im intrigued to know what USA families get in benefits/welfare and or wages as my understanding is, Americans get more each month. If so, you've then got to look at cost of living ie what percentage is spent on food shoping because whilst an individual shop might be "Cheaper" in the UK, it "might" be a bigger percentage of your budget (if that makes sense)!?
You also have to look at what people get paid. Generally, in America, they get paid around 30% more than in the uk. I compared what shop(store) workers in the US and UK get paid. In the staff (workers) get paid around £12 per hour and in America they get paid around $24 (according to google), which is about £19.
Its a good argument to make, however It would be a more fair comparison to compare the lowest wages as that would inherently cover everyone, Im not sure on what the exact numbers are for our Minimum wage in the UK however I know in some service roles in the US, servers are getting paid a few bucks per week with the hope they make it up in tips.
I’ve been to the US a couple of times and there isn’t a huge difference in prices, but one thing that is annoying about shopping there are the way items are priced with tax not added so you’re not quite sure what you’re actually paying until you get to the checkout. I also shop at Tesco and sometimes Sainsbury’s, but there are cheaper alternatives like Aldi and Lidl and I’m assuming the US has similar stores.
The price difference that really surprised me was rice. Rice cannot be grown in the UK, but it is in the US. I checked and found the US is the fifth largest exporter of rice. How can something which has to be imported all the way from Asia or America be cheaper in the UK than it is in the US which grows its own? It makes no sense.
Because rice is one of the most abundant foods and we use it in curries more. Americans don’t really do curries, same as tea and why our tea is cheaper . We just use rice more is probably why
@@mjtigerfang I guess that economies of scale are at play. It still seems odd though. A Jamaican friend of mine used to ship a barrel of rice from the UK to Jamaica every time she went back 'home' for a visit. That was in about 2003 and I remember thinking at the time how odd it was that rice was so much cheaper here than in the Caribbean. I'd be interested to know the price difference between US whole coffee beans (which they use like we do tea) and those in the UK.
I will say this they have accounted for the fact the average american salary is around £51007.61 which is around £18-£19k more a year than the UK so that would also affect the cost of goods as we on average have less money to spend. We also have had quite low increase in the cost of food because as far as I'm aware the supermarkets dictate the prices to the farmers meaning larger profits and slightly lower prices.
I’m from the US, my electric bill varies , in the Summer months ,it usual between $50 to 90.00 a month and it in the winter months , it’s between $110.00 to $150.00 a month, depending on if the weather temperature is below zero, this months bill was $125.00 as we had two weeks of weather below 25F.
They are shopping in one of our more expensive stores, shop in Aldi or Lidl it's a lot cheaper for less. Fresh meats are cheaper in your local butchers
Sliced ham is really cheap the only reason why it was expensive in this one is because they choose finest which is a deluxe brand. Sweet Baby Rays is more expensive in Britain because its an import
I understand that this was probably a comparison for the products that they may usually purchase but in a lot of areas they don't seem to be savvy shoppers! We have so many ranges within certain products, value ranges, own name ranges, finest ranges, different varieties of granola, butter, bread, ham, cheese etc
Me from the UK 🇬🇧 I remember visiting Washington 5 yrs ago, popped into Safeway & bought 4 apples 🍎 and other items of course, didn’t realise how much they were till i checked the receipt back in the hotel. 4 apples 🍎 came to about $8, because they were based on weight. Must be Nuclear ☢️ 😂Don’t get me wrong they weren’t small, but u can get a pack of 6 here in the UK 🇬🇧 for £1.70 in Sainsbury’s. Won’t b making that mistake again 😂
Self scanners are at Stop and Shops here in New England. I used them many years ago but have since dropped using them. I find them more tedious and time-consuming.
Smart shop is the best. Adds up your shopping bill as u shop, putting the goods as u go. Also no check out Q’s. Haven’t seen this in the States when visiting
One difference I'd be guessing at, is that the produce bought in the US is grown in the US, in the UK it's largely imported, so in the US you're paying to keep US farmers in business, and that's without any water subsidies you may also be paying.
We had Safeway in the UK but it seemed to withdraw from here about twenty years ago. A Safeway I know of is now a Waitrose. The couple who made this video were not where large supermarkets are found, that's why they are saying they are small. But if they came to the city where I live we have some supermarkets that are far bigger than any I saw in the USA. By the way " a store" in the UK is a place to store something, a supermarket is either referred to as a shop or a supermarket.
I feel like they should make our friends in the US feel a little better about things by adding a trip to the petrol station after their grocery shopping.... because that would somewhat even out the price!!
I've only used self scan check out once. The supermarket has to do random spot-checks to see that everything is scanned. My bad luck that I was chosen on my first time. It took 3 times longer to get through than a normal checkout. Never again!
They always do a check on your first time and generally the next couple of times. I don't use it as I can't trust my memory to scan every item (I am an older person) so the stress levels using it are through the roof.
Welsh here 🏴 so I have some thoughts; the ham they picked was Tesco finest, which is premium so not a basic brand. The bread in America might be 79% dearer but it has 79% more ingredients. The sliced bread in America is rank. Most American goods have more ingredients than comparable uk goods, most of which are unnecessary and/or harmful. Overall I was shocked because the last time I was in America (WI) 12 years ago, I was giddy with how much cheaper groceries were there than here for a lot of things. Very interesting video.
Most of the foodstuff we buy in the UK has much less additives and chemicals. I can trust the UK food standards to feed my whole family from babies to OAPs.
Is weird tho because our eggs are not refrigerated in the store but most if not all, do put our eggs in the fridge at home. 😂 You’re money most certainly goes further here than it does in the states with that said I’ve only been to Orlando, Miami, NYC, Boston
I would never buy strawberries in November in the UK - they have to be imported at that time of the year and imho are pretty tasteless! We still have some seasonal foods here, and for me, strawberries are best around June ..
You got to remember that we earn about 25% less than Americans do and your petrol is way cheaper ❤ I visited my friend who lives in Cape Cod and I did find that somethings were more expensive but also many things were cheaper to. The worst I thing I didn't like was working out how much to leave as a tip as we only really tip if we have received a really good service ❤
When your hens are living in squalor and shite you have to do horrid things to the eggs to make them safe to eat. And looking inside their chicken meat production factories, um, yeah, no thanks, not eating that garbage.
Also did they take into account that on the US shop you still have to add tax at the checkout, and in the UK the price you see is the price you pay as tax is already included.
Mmm the ham one is questionable did they account for the other store being the finest ham? That was Tescos finest you can get cheaper ham with more slices too.
Went round Sainsbury’s the other day. ( v large store) wanted assistance but not a Sainsbury’s assistant to be had. Fine everything being automated with self scan, self loading tills etc but try finding someone A HUMAN to assist is nye on impossible. Shoplifter could have had a field day. ( maybe they did)
Strawberries are cheaper in the UK in spring and summer months, due to that's when we can grow them. Any other time it's expensive, due to importing from other countries
My last holiday in the USA was back 2018 I noticed the supermarkets food cost alot more than the UK my mate was in miami this year he sed it was super expensive don't think iam in a rush to go back
We in the UK have less chemicals and pesticides in our food, that’s why we have to shop more frequently as it doesn’t last as long as food in the US
And we don’t poison ourselves too, which is cancer causing or ADHT/Autism causing chemicals
And we don't pay for pesticides we don't want or the medical costs for the illnesses the pesticides and chemicals we rather not have cause. I feel sorry for Americans.
We did a deal a few years ago with drump allowing American and Australian imports small amounts. Few billion worth.
To cover the trillions of trade with EU
We have smaller houses and smaller fridges to store a large amount of food. I think it better to keep buying fresh food than to shop to cover more that a couple of weeks.
Food is not meant to last a long time, fresh is always better. Less chemicals, less time in cold storage which destroys flavour, vitamins and minerals. The French go a step further, buying bread fresh every day, no chemicals which make it last longer. Fresh food tastes better and is far more nutritious.
The largest difference with the USA being cheapest was Chicken, you only have to look at standards for animals to see why chicken is cheaper in the USA with very poor health standards and conditions for animals compared to the UK
And...chlorine washed...bleuch!
The eggs in Tesco were free range. It would be good to know if the American eggs were too.
@@FTFLCY haha, of course they weren't
@@lindsaymckeown513It all goes back to the way the animals are kept. They need the chlorine wash in America because of the poorer animal husbandry standards, so more chance of the chicken carrying pathogens and bacteria than here in the UK.
@@barbaraanderson2449 Absolutely! We don't have those awful, massive cow factories either where they never see a blade of grass.
Our chicken is more expensive, but they live in better condition. Plus most of our food is much healthier than America.
The chickens are better treated in us actually. But then they get chlorinated for consumption . The industries treat the public very bad in America but they do have products that are better than ours too. Some of their meat product is actually better
@@mjtigerfangActually the reason they use the chlorine baths is because of the bad conditions they are kept in, instead of spending money fixing that they put a band aid on the issue using chlorine baths to clean the chicken.
That is why American chicken is banned here in the UK and Europe.
@Ross-df6ge
Who bleaches chickens and eggs? Oh yea! 😂
@@susandavey2361 Don't know about bleach, but eggs in USA have to be washed and then must be kept in a refrigerator. European eggs keep longer without wash or fridge.
The strawberries are a summer fruit and would be cheaper in the summer months, being more expensive in November. They showed the cooked ham as Tesco's Finest range instead of the standard ham which would be cheaper
Yes, November strawberries would be imported from The Netherlands, Spain even North Africa. That all adds to the cost. Smarter choice is seasonal fruits.
Yep I said the same thing re the ham!
The quality of strawberries, in particular, is much better in the summer months than any other time of year in the UK.
Tesco are a mid range store price wise, if you were to shop at Aldi a low cost store you could knock off an additional 12% on average. The difference in price between the US and UK is probably down to what the food processors are putting into the ham. In most countries there are laws that determine the amount of the processed meat that goes into a product. For example here in the UK the food processors are allowed to substitute some of the chicken in sliced processed chicken with turkey as turkey will go further.
While the US prides itself on been a capitalist country and often calls European countries socialist. In reality what happens in the US is that the large supermarkets will buy out other supermarkets and create a monopoly then charge what they can get away with. In Europe there are often multiple supermarket chains who compete against each other and in doing so drive down prices. Typically most people will have four or five different grocery stores within a short distance of them so the stores have real competition.
I noticed they priced the Tesco Finest range for ham, which is far more expensive than others available in Tesco itself, let alone Aldi or Lidl
@@NauiByeolEgeI noticed that, you can get ham 3 x cheaper
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I thought the same thing... They could have bought a much cheaper range and saved a lot more! Also with the strawberries and similar foods, they won't have had all the chemicals sprayed on them, so will need to be eaten 'freshly' bought etc.
@@StewedFishProductions Also strawberries are well out of season in November and will have been flown in from hotter climes.
Same in Ireland. I live in a rural town and for grocery shopping we have Mace, Spar, Londis, Centra, SuperValu, Dunnes, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi [the last 5 being roughly equal size supermarkets] plus Polish, Lithuanian and Asian supermarkets. I live in one of the older estates and within walking distance we have Spar, Mace and Express [tiny basics only corner shop]. The 5 big supermarkets plus Centra [owned by the same group that owns SuperValu] are all much of a muchness for prices as the competition is strong but some items are better in one shop than another, example the selection of grapes is better in Aldi or Lidl as is cheese but cured meats are better in SuperValu or Lithuanica/Polish supermarket, Tesco are better for cordials/squash etc. Lots of options and the competition keeps the prices lower [and of the items I regularly buy the prices here in Ireland were very similar to the ones in Scotland].
Don't be sad you get free chemicals, and your bread has up to 5 times more ingredients (90 percent of them you don't want) oh and sugar?.😂😂😂
I loved your comment, couldn't stop chuckling.
Yeah we just get horse meat lasagnes, ten tonnes of sodium and psoiosnous Dutch eggs amd last u heard there was a salmonella problem in one of our superstore products, we can’t brag here like we better. We aren’t really better and the attitude we have to other countries annoys the hell out of me sometimes. We have issues ourselves
@@mjtigerfangWe are better, sometimes there are accidents, the UK and European governments aren't putting lots of bad things in food intentionally, in America it is not an accident that they have bad chemicals in foods, their food standards allow it.
@Ross-df6ge It's a difference in outlook. In the EU & UK, food manufacturers have to prove a food or ingredient is safe before it can be sold to consumers. In the US, it has to be proven to be harmful before it is banned. Therefore, harmful items are allowed in the US foodchain until the proof is available. The protection is for those who make a profit in the US, whereas we, the consumers, are protected here. Over there, capitalism is getting out of control, to the detriment of the American public.
@@mjtigerfangHorse meat was popular in the war. Apparently it tastes like lamb.
In the sixties (in the UK) we were taught metric and imperial and it’s still easy to switch between the two.
I agree as metric came in 1971 we oldies automatically move between the 2 methods with ease
Same in New Zealand. What makes me laugh [I now live in Ireland] is that on construction sites they use a weird combination of both metric and imperial, confuses the heck out of all the workers from other countries but they very quickly adapt.
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European standard Vs British standards.
Just to make things more complicated, in Tesco in the UK we have the Clubcard, Tesco's loyalty card, and we can often get things for cheaper with it. Some items might only save you a little tiny bit, but for some items it might save you around 50%.
I bulk by my favourite coffee beans when there's a clubcard offer...often 50% so BIG savings!
50%? Please tell what aisle that is in as I have never, that I can recall, had a 50% price reduction with my clubcard!
It's not cheaper. An example being the £3 meal deal went to £4,but with a clubcard the price dropped to £3.50. it was a disguised price rise where you give Tesco your name, address, shopping habits,etc. they then profit of the sale of those details.
Also been proved by which consumer group proved supermarkets put up prices b4 lowering them and putting on 'members deal'. They showed even at members deal you could buy the SAME item CHEAPER in other stores. Its all a big con you info is priceless to them, thats how they make money
@@baylessnow It’s mostly on items you don’t need often like towels, Candles etc.
Wait why did he compare the most expensive ham . It literally says finest
I said the exact same thing!
Exactly. Sainsbury’s cooked sliced ham costs £1 for 10 slices. Good spot with the Finest range
dunno why they picked THE MOST EXPENSIVE finest ham from tesco lol... you can get way way cheaper ones.. that is like their premium most expensive ham lol... also we get streaky bacon here too which is more like american bacon and its actually a LOT cheaperthan the back bacon we get.... there were other products there that they picked from the british side which were premium and a bit odd to make comaparisons for but oh well
Exactly. Sure he should have known that’s not the regular ham. An unfair comparison
@@andyt8216I wouldn’t buy the cheap ham or streaky bacon but they should have shown that you can buy both cheaper meats.
Yeah I think they were trying to match the as best as possible but yes definitely much cheaper version
I love this couple.
Our strawberries are expensive in winter because they are out of season. In July, they are cheaper.
Our dairy products are more expensive because the herds are grassfed, which is why our milk and butter taste so much richer.
My box of eggs came with small feathers on them.
Free feather for fine fettle
You, your attitude of fine mettle,
"Go to work on an egg" - was the rhyme
Tis seriously good, no yolking* this time!
('yolking rhymes with 'joking', tis true -
_This_ rhyme, I wrote just for _you_ 😊)
They were flying off the shelves . . .
The frozen foods are usually at the end, so you don't carry them around the store defrosting.
Varies greatly, the frozen are in the middle at Tesco and the heavy stuff at the end, such as bottled pop, alcohol etc.
@Jamie_D it's been some time I've gone into a shop, but they've always put the freezers as the last aisles before the checkout.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Where I live, the alcohol section is always at the end, but maybe thats because I live in Scotland because there are times they are not allowed to sell alcohol so being able to block off that area more easily makes sense. But even when I am home in England, the freezer section always seems to be in the middle of the supermarket
Exactly as you say @Jamie_D, about 6 hours ago in Tesco. 😁
Middle in most I’ve been in including Tesco, and usually arc around the back end of the stirs near the yoghurts
UK is 35-50% cheaper for groceries. I was so shocked when I lived in California for 5 yrs. I couldn't get over how expensive it is! Plus we don't have all the nasty chemicals in our food that the US allows, there are over 1000 chemicals that are banned here and almost every other country.. Sadly your cheese is not real cheese in the US and the meat that you enjoy so much is full of hormones. Chicken in the US is pumped full of hormones and doesn't taste the same, they also wash it in chlorine there!They actually used Tesco Finest which is the most expensive one you can get so I think if they had of compared to regular ham the UK would have cheaper. FYI Bread in the US would be classified as cake here because the amount of sugar and doesn't have any flavour. So sadly even though we are so much cheaper the quality in the US is sub par too due to all the chemicals, there are over 1000 chemicals that are used in all your food and drink that is banned here and elsewhere. Thank you for your reaction videos.
Here in Cyprus the only reason we put eggs in the fridge is the heat in the summer (38 to 43 c)
Unfortunately cows ,pork chicken & lamb (goat )are only grass feed after winter when there is green grass ,
Milk is expensive,,if you ever in a village you can get most vegetables fresh ,citrus fruits most people grow themselves
Including grapes passion fruits in dragon fruits grow my self,,,
Before I forget olives not just for oil ,
The only time we have fast food is when we go to town shopping ❤❤❤❤
I’ve been watching you for a few years now buddy plus you’re other channels and collaborations. I just want to say that I actually feel proud to hear you shoot off knowledge that you now can just bring up thanks to your new education. Well done friend 🤜🤛👏👏👏
So now the big question, Neal. With our food costs, working rights, & the NHS alone, how long is it going to be before you & the family move over here?
@@andrewmoss3681 dunno if he can take it. I have family in the US and they came here but were constantly moaning and were so, so fussy. If US people can come with NO baggage they will be fine.
In the UK we tend to go shopping more often than people do in the US. You may have missed it near the start, but they said they walked to the store. Within 20 mins walk from where I live there are 2 supermarkets, so I may buy things for a day or 2, then go again. Whereas in the US you have to drive to get to the supermarkets, so you tend to buy things more in bulk that will last longer.
With the scanner, you scan the bar code on the packs, or for loose items like fruit you weigh them, and scan the code on the M/C or the ticket it gives you. At the end you scan a QR code at the till, which you then get a bar code you scan on the till, which transfers the data from the scanner, to the till. Then you pay, then your done. It's so much easier to do, and saves time. You don't have to take out your items, then get the teller to scan them, then put them back in to your basket.
If you have coupons, you scan them as well at the till.
Prices can vary quite a bit, Tesco, for example, has Tesco Value (cheapest in every sense of the word), Tesco Standard, Tesco Finest (each store has their own name to denote their “luxury” and more expensive store brand) and finally the Named Brand (Walkers(Lays)/ Tropicana/Doritos/Nescafe/Cadbury’s). On occasion, Named Brands can be cheaper than the Store Luxury Brand. With regard to the eggs, quite a few people put them straight into the fridge after they get them home. I did notice that they bought Tesco Finest ham , Walkers/Lays crisps/chips and Arla (which is a Named Brand here) Yoghurt but for the most part they stuck to middle of the road Tesco brand.
Couldn't help but notice that a lot of the Tesco products were price matched with Aldi, which means that they were not their regular prices, so it was a bit misleading.
Lurpack is imported and the dearest butter they could have picked.
UK butter is now £3. I don’t know what happened.
I buy 2.272L (4 UK pints 20% more than US pints) for TESCO whole milk for £1.45
the result means for every american that buys the exact same goods as some one from the british isles then the person from the british isles pays £350 less than their american counterpart but the funny thing is that tesco are not the cheapest supermarket in britain , i could beat that and be 45% cheaper
Really enjoy your videos and this one in particular was very entertaining thank you❤
The scanner is picked up on entering the store. Then use it to scan each product then at the end you just transfer the data into the machine for payment. No unloading the products pr scanning them as it is done with the scanner. Much easier and quicker.
Puts staff out of jobs though! 'Specially combined with self service tills.
@@lindsaymckeown513 but helps to keep prices down.
@@quincary5791 Prices are artificially high and there's a lot of cons. I would rather pay a wee bit more and have humans to deal with to be honest.
@@lindsaymckeown513 no it doesn't because staff are moved from the shop floor to checkout when it's busy. Self scan is really helpful because it leaves staff to do the jobs they are employed to do.
@@nicolaprosser8379 Haha, that doesn't happen here!! They used employ more cashiers and now all staff are doing 2 or more roles. Here they used to close the tills at 10pm, then it was 9pm, now it's 8pm.
What's even crazier is a lot of these products get imported to the UK, the US grows most of their own crops of these things. Weirdly, we do grow strawberries here though 😂
But in the US, eveything is sprayed with all types of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides (not to mention the GMO's). Strawberries (and many other 'fresh' fruit and veg), just TASTE so much better in the UK. I have been visiting the America for over 40 + years and avoid buying/eating certain foodstuffs just because of the 'additives'... 🤔🙂
Not in November though. Like ours in Ireland they are imported from European mainland.
What i find is crazy, i live in Belgium, in an area known for its fruit trees, there are load of places growing apples and pears everywhere, the prices for apples and pears in the shops are more expensive than for pineapples and other fruits that were imported from places like the Caribbean! what the hell....
This is fun to watch but leaving a UK supermarket you still feel like you have been mugged.
A tenner does disappear in an instant, you can buy three items and it's gone.
Don't forget the other end of the equation, cost without factoring in average income is pretty pointless.
Good point; aren't USA wages often much better?
@lindsaymckeown513 Not better proportionately higher to cover higher costs. It's why there's a 20%+ currency variation.
@@daveofyorkshire301 That might change some now 😉
@@lindsaymckeown513 that's constantly changing, it's a mute point if you don't actually assert which direction or why, it's just an irrelevant statement of ongoing fact.
There is a channel on UA-cam which is a USAmerican living in the UK and he compared wages. By the time he had deducted all the things that in the UK [or Ireland or any European country] are included in your taxes - such as healthcare, multiple sets of extra taxes [state, county AND federal on foods etc] and all the other extras turned out roughly half his wages went in taxes [don't forget for healthcare they have to pay for the insurance, PLUS the deductibles PLUS the co-pays PLUS the actual prescription items - and I know you don't in Scotland but do in England but even so England is MUCH cheaper and the vital items, such as insulin, are free] and when comparing wages so many people just look at the basic income tax without bothering to include all the other items that in most countries are INCLUDED in your income tax payments but are extra in the US.... It is actually frightening how much extra you have to pay out ON TOP of your basic taxes in the US but a quick glance comparing incomes doesn't show that.
I purposely shop in stores where I can scan and go, it saves so much time.
I like that you can keep an eye on how much you are spending as you wander round the supermarket. Useful when your income is limited.
@@julialk4536Me too. The only one that did it was Waitrose. I did see one in a new Sainsburys store though. Don't have a hissy fit if the assistants rescan. Nothing personal and people do try and steal at self service checkouts.
I am from the UK, and I shop at tesco. A lot of what is chosen are named products, I can shop cheaper than that on many items such as bread at 45p or shop at lidl or Audi for your groceries they are even cheaper, lidl food is cheaper because it hasn't been processed, but that is better because it's fresher.
Our prices are lower but then our salaries are a lot lower too. Also we import a lot of our fruit and veggies.
I don't think salaries are a LOT lower in the U.S. Just a small amount.
Correction. I meant to say about salaries being lower in the U.K.
Absolutely correct
Yes bananas can be bad here in uk because fruit doesn’t last long sos some is bad already in store and I usually avoid some fruits that you can see going bad
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I have been visiting the US for over 40+ years and LOTS of produce in the US is made to LAST so much longer on the shelf with additives etc. For instance, I AVOID buying 'supermarket' or 'general grocery' store bread in America... When comparing ingredients lists, I'm both shocked and amazed that they get away with putting so many additives and chemicals in their food. But the MOST common additive (used as a sweetner in processed food) and in so many foodstuffs, plus soft drinks in the US is HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup). Firstly, it is highly addictive (most American's are weaned on it from very young!). But foods containing HFCS can also contribute to heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease and dyslipidemia, an abnormal level of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. Fructose becomes a more universal threat to your body by accumulating as visceral fat around your organs. It is one of the main things that cause weight gain and with obesity being a public health problem in the United States, it has been linked directly to excess of sweetener consumption.
I follow this couple they're great. The "Scan As You Shop" is a simple way to shop, scan ur items, put in your bag, scan barcode on til, pay n go. Its been here for years. Food prices in recent months have rocketed here, not surprised that US is 35% more expensive xx
It is cheaper in the UK but the median wage is less than in the US
Yeah but we get proper time off too lol
Not that much higher.
when you include health ins. at $4-500 a month, I think wages are similar.
But the OUTGOINGS from an American's wages are so MUCH higher though, especially with Health Insurance premiums etc...
With the cost of living in America being 30% higher than here it works out roughly the same for wages….. but we don’t have huge healthcare bills to cover every month so Americans bills acquaint to around 40% of their wages a month whereas we pay around 28% of ours a month
we have about 5-7 different food stores so prices could still be even cheaper... tesco, asda, sainsburys, aldi, lidl, icelands. then theres the more expensive stores like waitrose, marks and spencers.... so shopping in the uk its best to buy bits from here and there if you can
Keep in mind they weren't including the 'club card' prices which knock the price of some objects down even more. I'm not sure if they included the tax that would be added to the US shop (maybe they mentioned that and I missed it).
@@thefridge6558 There's no sales tax added to most grocery items in the US, just like there's no VAT on most grocery items in thr UK.
@@Sine-gl9ly Ah that's good to know. Thank you.
Strawberries are out of season for us in November. So they’re more expensive.
Regarding the U.S. prices being shown. Are these after tax or before? Because the prices they show on he UK shelves already have the tax in them. You pay what you see at the checkout. If an item is priced at £1.25p on the shelf, you pay £1.25p.
TBH & TBF: In America, most food (similar to the UK) is zero rated, so unlike many other goods, tax won't be applicable at the check-out ! I HATE shopping in the US, bacuase I'm always comparing prices in my head... America IS (even without any tax issues), VERY MUCH more expensive when it comes to grocery shopping (especially for FRESH produce etc.). That's why so many 'eat out' or rely on 'junk food'. 🤔🤨
There is not taxes on groceries in the US, unless you get premade meals,only taxes are on paper products,
The "35% cheaper" seemed a little odd when most items were 2x, 3x and some even more times more expensive.
My shopping list would be ludicrous expensive in the US but I eat a lot of meat, dairy, vegetables and fruit.
We had safeway stores at one time in the UK
Yes, I remember as a little kid, the Safeway in my local town, then it became a Tesco, then it became a Kwik Save, now it's a Home Bargains, or 'Home and Bargain' as we still call them up here.
Safeway's stores were bought by Morrisons and rebranded as Morrisons stores.
@@craig3782so Safeway and Morrisons would have been a better comparison
@@mariacurtis5158 Safeway's was my Mums main go to when I was a kid. I was just adding in what happened to Safeway's stores in the UK.
I remember Safeways. Kwik Save and Netto were dirt cheap.
You have to remember that here in the uk we don’t pay taxes on most of the food displayed also been a lot smaller than the USA the food miles may differ
Aldi is in the UK and the US (as well as Germany where the company came from), so you could compare like for like there fairly easily.
At sainsburys in the uk you just open the scanner app on your phone and scan the items with your phone, you can even pay on the phone too so you can just bag your stuff as you go around and leave without talking to anyone. The handheld scanners have been in every supermarket for like a decade around me too. You scan as you shop. In this video too shes not really getting any deals or brand products which we buy a lot more in the uk because theyre generally great and can be way cheaper than the branded stuff. In general the biggest thing thats cheaper for us is definitely things like shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrushes etc. I knew a girl that was paying $10 canadian for a tube of toothpaste that is like £1.75 in the uk. or less than £1 for the store brand version.
It's pretty crazy now that we have to work for ourself scanning our items lol but overall it does make it easier and save all those long queues like before
How do you get out past the receipt scanning anti theft gate if you pay on your phone?
@@MostlyPennyCat Don't know about using phone for scanning, but if you use store scanner and then make contactless payment it gives option for printing receipt.
I self scan and load a shopping trolley to talk the shopping home, occasionally system flags up a check by staff, they check some of the items, especially if an item was tagged. Saves taking store trolley around, waiting for cashier, unloading trolley and re-loading trolley after checkout scan.
@@MostlyPennyCatyou just walk out but if you have bought something with a tag you just wave at staff and they'll take it off for you. If clothes in sainsburys the system knows you scanned and paid to cancel the the tag.
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Yep, that's what I do, that gives you a receipt so you can open the door to get out.
I'm not sure if they factored in tax. In the UK, the price you see is what you pay. VAT is already added. And the gun thingy is a lifesaver. You scan and pack as you go. Randomly, you will get a security check, but not very often. And Aldi is considerably cheaper. Love your reaction Neal.
That BBQ sauce makes sense being cheaper in the U.S. because of shipping and delivery costs to get it here in the UK will naturally push the price up
It's also not a popular brand in UK
Incredibly, it's actually allowed to be imported from the US!
"Ingredients
Cane Sugar, Water, Tomato Paste, Distilled Vinegar, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Natural Smoke Flavouring, Spice, Molasses, Colour: E150d, Preservative: E211, Dried Garlic, Mustard Flour, Garlic Powder"
Oh wait... 😂
*_US Ingredients:_*
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Distilled Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Modified Corn Starch, Contains Less Than 2% Of Salt, Pineapple Juice Concentrate, Natural Smoke Flavor, Spice, Caramel Color, Molasses, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Garlic,* Mustard Flour, Corn Syrup, Sugar, Tamarind, Natural Flavor, Celery Seed. *Dried.
British Sweet Baby Rays is better! 😂😂😂
@MostlyPennyCat High fructose corn syrup is banned in the UK as it is incredibly harmful to health and is more addictive than heroin. It seems to be omnipresent in all American foodstuffs, which are sweet by nature and even some which aren't.
Eggs in the U.K. don’t need refrigeration because they are not washed before being sold, in the US you wash them and remove the cuticle which is the coating that prevents bacteria entering the egg through the shell
Pre cut veg is always dearer.
Carrot and spuds gp for 8-30p a bag through Xmas.
They take a hit knowing you will spend more on something else.
The price you pay in the UK is the price you pay
One thing they didn't explain for the American viewers is often you saw "Aldi price match" labels. this means that Tesco has dropped their price to be the same as another shop that was selling it for less.
but it's also difficult to do this sort of price comparison as it also relates to wages and the overall cost of living. you would probably get a much better comparison if you didn't use California.
There's more competition here in the UK, it's not unusual to have Tesco/ASDA/Sainsbury's/Aldi/Morrison's all within 2 or 3 miles of each other, so if they aren't competitive we simply go elsewhere.
In my experience, most these UK items are cheaper in different shops than whats shown in the video. So even more savings.
However, im intrigued to know what USA families get in benefits/welfare and or wages as my understanding is, Americans get more each month. If so, you've then got to look at cost of living ie what percentage is spent on food shoping because whilst an individual shop might be "Cheaper" in the UK, it "might" be a bigger percentage of your budget (if that makes sense)!?
You also have to look at what people get paid.
Generally, in America, they get paid around 30% more than in the uk.
I compared what shop(store) workers in the US and UK get paid.
In the staff (workers) get paid around £12 per hour and in America they get paid around $24 (according to google), which is about £19.
Its a good argument to make, however It would be a more fair comparison to compare the lowest wages as that would inherently cover everyone,
Im not sure on what the exact numbers are for our Minimum wage in the UK however I know in some service roles in the US, servers are getting paid a few bucks per week with the hope they make it up in tips.
Tea is like 90p for 80 in Tesco they again choose the most expensive one and it's not even good
The cheap tea it’s disgusting though most brands , most people opt for tetleys or typhoo lol
I lurve Twinings! So much depends on your local water though...
I’ve been to the US a couple of times and there isn’t a huge difference in prices, but one thing that is annoying about shopping there are the way items are priced with tax not added so you’re not quite sure what you’re actually paying until you get to the checkout. I also shop at Tesco and sometimes Sainsbury’s, but there are cheaper alternatives like Aldi and Lidl and I’m assuming the US has similar stores.
The price difference that really surprised me was rice. Rice cannot be grown in the UK, but it is in the US. I checked and found the US is the fifth largest exporter of rice. How can something which has to be imported all the way from Asia or America be cheaper in the UK than it is in the US which grows its own? It makes no sense.
Because rice is one of the most abundant foods and we use it in curries more. Americans don’t really do curries, same as tea and why our tea is cheaper . We just use rice more is probably why
@@mjtigerfang I guess that economies of scale are at play. It still seems odd though. A Jamaican friend of mine used to ship a barrel of rice from the UK to Jamaica every time she went back 'home' for a visit. That was in about 2003 and I remember thinking at the time how odd it was that rice was so much cheaper here than in the Caribbean. I'd be interested to know the price difference between US whole coffee beans (which they use like we do tea) and those in the UK.
I think trade deals plays a significant part here.
I was visiting the UK in February (dual nationality) and thought, wow, it's cheaper in the uk for a lot of stuff!
I will say this they have accounted for the fact the average american salary is around £51007.61 which is around £18-£19k more a year than the UK so that would also affect the cost of goods as we on average have less money to spend. We also have had quite low increase in the cost of food because as far as I'm aware the supermarkets dictate the prices to the farmers meaning larger profits and slightly lower prices.
if they are using the UK shelf prices then that includes the TAX and VAT, how did they account for that in the US prices?
But we in the UK do we earn less that people in the US? Also are house prices and utility prices cheaper in the US?
I know electricity is 75% cheaper
I’m from the US, my electric bill varies , in the Summer months ,it usual between $50 to 90.00 a month and it in the winter months , it’s between $110.00 to $150.00 a month, depending on if the weather temperature is below zero, this months bill was $125.00 as we had two weeks of weather below 25F.
So before you do your next big grocery shop, check out the cost of cheap flights to UK.
They are shopping in one of our more expensive stores, shop in Aldi or Lidl it's a lot cheaper for less. Fresh meats are cheaper in your local butchers
The price tag in uk is what you pay 👀 in the USA the tax is added after according to state it’s a little confusing 😅
Sliced ham is really cheap the only reason why it was expensive in this one is because they choose finest which is a deluxe brand.
Sweet Baby Rays is more expensive in Britain because its an import
I understand that this was probably a comparison for the products that they may usually purchase but in a lot of areas they don't seem to be savvy shoppers!
We have so many ranges within certain products, value ranges, own name ranges, finest ranges, different varieties of granola, butter, bread, ham, cheese etc
Me from the UK 🇬🇧 I remember visiting Washington 5 yrs ago, popped into Safeway & bought 4 apples 🍎 and other items of course, didn’t realise how much they were till i checked the receipt back in the hotel. 4 apples 🍎 came to about $8, because they were based on weight. Must be Nuclear ☢️ 😂Don’t get me wrong they weren’t small, but u can get a pack of 6 here in the UK 🇬🇧 for £1.70 in Sainsbury’s. Won’t b making that mistake again 😂
Loved seeing the astonishment on your face as the comparisons were shown. I have to add that I think Tesco is expensive so shop at Aldi . 🤑
Where the heck were they shopping for 3.50ish for 120g of sliced ham??? Its nowhere near that price. Tbh its similar to the us price.
I agree , the ham was definitely the misleading one but then we won in so many things with cheap prices they can have that one
I scanned myself and found a tumour in my zorch.
They took it out right there at the checkout.
On the NHS.
We earn less money in the UK....and we pay huge amounts for petrol and energy
Self scanners are at Stop and Shops here in New England. I used them many years ago but have since dropped using them. I find them more tedious and time-consuming.
All your video reactions crack me up, shock horror expressions 😅
Smart shop is the best. Adds up your shopping bill as u shop, putting the goods as u go. Also no check out Q’s. Haven’t seen this in the States when visiting
I would have been interested in a general inquiry & comment on why the disparity of prices between the two countries?
7:22 strawberries would've probably been cheaper had this video been done in the summer as they're now out of season.
One difference I'd be guessing at, is that the produce bought in the US is grown in the US, in the UK it's largely imported, so in the US you're paying to keep US farmers in business, and that's without any water subsidies you may also be paying.
Europe is way ahead of the US always has been. 👍
Until they bring out things like these annoying tethered plastic bottles we have. Some things are aweful
We had Safeway in the UK but it seemed to withdraw from here about twenty years ago. A Safeway I know of is now a Waitrose. The couple who made this video were not where large supermarkets are found, that's why they are saying they are small. But if they came to the city where I live we have some supermarkets that are far bigger than any I saw in the USA.
By the way " a store" in the UK is a place to store something, a supermarket is either referred to as a shop or a supermarket.
Safeway was bought by Morrisons. Most of them became that.
Good breakfasts for a supermarket diner.
fruit and veg always vary in price. If fruit is in season then it's cheap out of season costs more.
With the chicken sometimes you can use a club card right now it’s £5.50 with the club card. Or you can get a whole chicken that’s cheaper also.
I feel like they should make our friends in the US feel a little better about things by adding a trip to the petrol station after their grocery shopping.... because that would somewhat even out the price!!
The most expensive not British butter
I've only used self scan check out once. The supermarket has to do random spot-checks to see that everything is scanned. My bad luck that I was chosen on my first time. It took 3 times longer to get through than a normal checkout. Never again!
They always do a check on your first time and generally the next couple of times. I don't use it as I can't trust my memory to scan every item (I am an older person) so the stress levels using it are through the roof.
Welsh here 🏴 so I have some thoughts; the ham they picked was Tesco finest, which is premium so not a basic brand. The bread in America might be 79% dearer but it has 79% more ingredients. The sliced bread in America is rank. Most American goods have more ingredients than comparable uk goods, most of which are unnecessary and/or harmful. Overall I was shocked because the last time I was in America (WI) 12 years ago, I was giddy with how much cheaper groceries were there than here for a lot of things. Very interesting video.
Also, important to point out, our “gas” prices are FAR more expensive. I think I worked it out once to be around $9 a gallon.
Depends where you shop in the uk we shop in marks and Spencer and Waitrose
Most of the foodstuff we buy in the UK has much less additives and chemicals. I can trust the UK food standards to feed my whole family from babies to OAPs.
Is weird tho because our eggs are not refrigerated in the store but most if not all, do put our eggs in the fridge at home. 😂
You’re money most certainly goes further here than it does in the states with that said I’ve only been to Orlando, Miami, NYC, Boston
I would never buy strawberries in November in the UK - they have to be imported at that time of the year and imho are pretty tasteless! We still have some seasonal foods here, and for me, strawberries are best around June ..
You got to remember that we earn about 25% less than Americans do and your petrol is way cheaper ❤ I visited my friend who lives in Cape Cod and I did find that somethings were more expensive but also many things were cheaper to. The worst I thing I didn't like was working out how much to leave as a tip as we only really tip if we have received a really good service ❤
Im in Birmingham England and my Tesco shop is cheaper than that.. One comparison sugar in Scotland 2.15 in my local shop its 1.09..
A hens egg is naturally water repellent. It doesn’t need refrigeration. The US cleaning process makes it porous so it needs refrigeration.
When your hens are living in squalor and shite you have to do horrid things to the eggs to make them safe to eat.
And looking inside their chicken meat production factories, um, yeah, no thanks, not eating that garbage.
Also did they take into account that on the US shop you still have to add tax at the checkout, and in the UK the price you see is the price you pay as tax is already included.
Most groceries in most US states are sales-tax free, just as most groceries in the UK are VAT-free.
TBH and TBF: Most foodstuffs in the US are (similar to the UK), zero rated for tax. It's one of the few things that are!?
Mmm the ham one is questionable did they account for the other store being the finest ham?
That was Tescos finest you can get cheaper ham with more slices too.
He should of gone to lidl 👌🏻
I also want to add to the pricing that Tesco is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the uk 😅
Since we left the European Union my grocery bill has doubled here in England.
It’s doubled In rest Europe too funny enough
The percentages are wrong..some examples are more than twice the cost in the UK, the US prices More than 100% higher
Went round Sainsbury’s the other day. ( v large store) wanted assistance but not a Sainsbury’s assistant to be had. Fine everything being automated with self scan, self loading tills etc but try finding someone A HUMAN to assist is nye on impossible.
Shoplifter could have had a field day. ( maybe they did)
Does your Sainsbury's not have the barriers now that needs the receipt to be scanned to open them? Ours does, we in the South East.
Strawberries are cheaper in the UK in spring and summer months, due to that's when we can grow them. Any other time it's expensive, due to importing from other countries
After the major floods in Spain recently our prices for various salad and fruit items will rocket and will there will be shortages😞
Alot of it is/was down to EU deport/import charges not existing.
Some are being added now though and prices are going up because of it.
You think Tesco prices blew your mind? Try an Aldi comparison next.
They might not be near an Aldi in the U.S or one in the U.K either.
My last holiday in the USA was back 2018 I noticed the supermarkets food cost alot more than the UK my mate was in miami this year he sed it was super expensive don't think iam in a rush to go back
I dunno where they got the ham price, seems they looked at the most expensive. I got a pack for £1