Many supermarkets in the UK (and in Europe) issue store cards which act like a substitute for coupons. It's quite common to see two prices in the grocery stores on some items - one the normal retail price, the other a discounted price for store card holders. This is a whole lot simpler than using coupons because all you do is present your card at the check-out. The card is run through a reader, and if you've purchased any discounted items, they will automatically be deducted from your ticket.
I love my Tescos card. The other day i got £86 of shopping and a whooping £27 came off at the till. Admittedly one of the items was a bottle of nice whiskey for my Dad for Christmas which had £10 off on its own but i was well happy wheen i zapped my lazer at the self service checkout.
North America is one of relatively few countries that commercially wash their eggs which strips the shell of its natural protective coating, the Cuticle, and this necessitates the eggs to be refrigerated; the huge number of staff needed nationwide in the US for the washing process adds to the cost in the shops. Europe and most of the world don’t wash the eggs and they still stay fresh at room temperature for weeks !
The reason that the eggs in the UK and other countries do not need washing is because the money is spent beforehand on ensuring that the hens are kept very healthy and in good living conditions . There were campaigns about inhumane overcrowded conditions ,in which the living creatures were kept as disposable egg producing machines ,now illegal.
No lie, in the UK, you can open a box of eggs and find droppings and feathers stuck to the eggs. But the eggs inside will be perfectly fine (most of the time). Nature knows best, yet Americans seem okay with paying for unnecessary chemicals to be put into their food.
To be fair disinfecting eggs is still necessary in the USA because of their outdated farming practices. Battery eggs need to be washed and disinfected because they are literally covered in hen poop to the degree that nobody would buy them if they saw them in their unwashed state.
Lady Anne Glenconner (Princess Margaret’s best friend) purchased a travel insurance policy for her teenage son who was going on a gap year world tour. The travel agent persuaded her to buy a £40 policy. Whilst he was on the trip, he was involved in a road traffic accident and sustained life changing injuries. The policy paid for his medical fees, the repatriation to Britain, round the clock care and years of physiotherapy. She said they would have been ruined if they hadn’t had the policy - the costs would have been millions of pounds.
Insurance also covers for lost luggage, problems with items being stolen or lost such as valuables and then to cover for health and repatriation if you end us in hospital and need to be flown home. Lots of other things included too.
The card readers are pretty much obsolete now. Banking apps are free,money transfers are free and direct (between different banks) the idea of venmo or PayPal 3rd party payment apps is very odd. The US is about 10yrs behind most of Europe.
Correct and always have been. The gap closed a bit due to Apple catching the US up on phone technology and contactless payment as a result When I was in NY I was asked to sign for payments when we were well into chip and pin at the time
Paypal is still quite useful for buying online as you don't have to give a few dozen different companies your credit/debit card details where they can be hacked... But yeah, I'm always taken aback when someone in front of me pays for their coffee using their mobile with Apple or Google Pay etc - why? - their bank cards will do the same thing without all the added admin.
I use my card reader to access my online banking. It's another layer of security and quick and easy. I can get a code by text message too. I don't do what my daughters do and flash my phone. I'm old!
I have American friends living close by. When they arrived here they were surprised at the low price of groceries. They were even more surprised when they got to the checkout and realised they didn't have to pay tax on top for their purchases and that tax was already included in the price marked on the shelves. They were more than surprised, even astounded, that there was no tax at all on fresh produce like vegetables, cheese, butter, fresh meat and baked goods like bread.
40 years ago coupons were big in the UK with most magazines and newspapers having coupons to cut out. They died a death though and were largely replaced by store cards like Tesco Clubcsrd which offers discounts on a large number of products by presenting the card at the till. The discount is marked on the shelves
Re travel insurance. I would never travel to another country without having adequate insurance, covering potential health costs and other things like cancellations and theft. Even when the UK was part of the European Union and I was often in France and Germany, I had my insurance. One of the differences might be that, if you're visiting the UK (and other countries in Europe, at least) and have an accident or a health problem, you will be treated regardless of your insurance status. Charges for treatment will be requested afterwards and there is a department of the NHS which deals with recovering those charges. The other thing to note is that charges for medical treatment are substantially less than they are in the UK. However, it's always good to be covered for potential trouble and, here in the UK, premiums are relatively cheap.
I think a big part of the difference with travel insurancs is the difference in healthcare systems. In the UK, healthcare is state run, basically mostly free from a user perspective and people don't generally have/need health insurance. Going to the doctor or having a ride in an ambulance isn't going to land you with any bill, let alone one that might bankrupt you. Going abroad, that safety net isn't there (the NHS does have 'swap' arrangements with some other countries to treat each other's citizens for free, but nothing like all it's basically a western europe thing), so people get insurance to cover the gap. Once you've done that, having the same policy cover non-medical interruptions and problems makes sense as an add on, that's just the insurrers competing on something other than price.
Have heard of a young woman from the Uk who went to America to go snowboarding, didn't have travel insurance and had a serious accident. Parents were having to remortgage their house to pay the medical bills. It was reported in a local newspaper as a warning to other people.
If you go to the USA without travel insurance and have an accident, be prepared to sell your house to pay for the treatment. Only a fool would risk it.
Yet they have higher wages there. They have no abduls running around being protected and funded by their government either. Stop pretending this country is better. Because it's not at all. Freedom doesn't exist
I understand why many Americans stay in USA for vacation as thd country is so big, but the back draw is that many Americans never experience other cultures.
The garden centre is more of a destination. I meet one of my friends in the garden centre for lunch and then we wander round looking at plants, garden accessories, furniture,clothes and an area for conserves, gifts etc. At Christmas the garden centres go over the top with decorations to buy. I usually get some birds which clip onto the Christmas tree and berries for the wreaths I make
I think most Brits enjoy visiting other countries. My friend's son is going to India in January, this year he went to Egypt. In the past he has toured Africa, Peru, Tialand, Spain and many other places. My visits have been closer to Europe, the Canary Islands, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands & France etc. Garden centres and nurseries are different. Garden centres sell a range of things but nurseries tend to specialise. The nursery I worked in sold plants like Trillium's, rare Snowdrops, Hosta's, Ammocharis, Arisaema & Ranzania etc.
In the UK, a nursery is also where they grow plants that they then supply to the various garden centres, with most nurseries specialising in a particular type of plants. And lots of Americans went to Thailand in the 1960s and early 1970s, as there were several US airbases there during the Vietnam war. Also, we don't need to wash eggs here as all hens must by law being vaccinated against salmonella. Because of that, and other things done here that are not common in the US, there's no need to wash the eggs.
Wild Chickens in the jungle have very limited access to fridges to put their eggs in, plus not having opposable thumbs they have great difficulties opening them. 😂
Travel insurance is very much required when travelling you might be taken ill and need to return home to receive medical treatment. I was taken ill in the US they wanted $3000 it was better to fly home with the insurance company paying for the flight. And getting treatment on the NHS here.
Over here, a plant nursery grows the plants. Sometimes, they are open to the public, but usually, they sell directly to the garden centres. My late parents loved garden centres. They did not have a car, so I would regularly take them on day trips. I used to ask where they would like to go, knowing their answer. In a day, we would fit in 4 or 5 different centres, sometimes more. When we got to the first, we would have a cuppa and a piece of cake. We would eat lunch at another. Finally, at another centre, another cuppa before heading home. 1 day would be spent going to all the centres on one side of my city. A 2nd day would be the centres on the other side. A 3rd day would see us travelling well to the north of the city where there was another cluster of centres. Finally, a 4th day would see us well to the south at yet more centres. Added to this, we would also visit Farm Shops. In just 1 week, we would visit 20 or more garden centres and 5 farm shops. Whenever I did this for them, they were happy, despite spending rather a lot of money. A good centre will sell almost anything. I know one that has a national supermarket inside. Another has its own farm shop. One has an antique market. Another an attached craft centre. Some will even have large gardens to walk around, gathering ideas for your own garden.
Garden Centres hold a special place in the UK as we love our gardens but often the weather is so changeable that it curtails the time we can spend looking after our plants. The garden centre gives us the opportunity of looking around at all the lovely plants and trees and if the weather turns bad we can retreat to the cafe and enjoy tea and a light lunch. If the weather is still playing up we can have a little retail therapy by buying a new pair of gardening gloves, a trowel to match, a new jacket and a pretty wool jumper. We can buy a nice vase for the bay window and a gorgeous set of cushions for the sofa all while the rain pours. It is also a great place to meet with a friend for a catch up and a cup of coffee and a slice of cake.
I live in UK all my life at one time in 60, 70 & 80s we had Green Shield Stamps and Fina Pink Stamps, now some yrs later will have vouchers money off or on websites or cashback deals, and stamps you at the supermarket like paying off your bills.
The big thing in UK supemarkets used to be 'bogofs'. That is 'buy one get one free!' They were very popular of course but over time the downsides appeared. It was easy to over buy, struggle with storage space, and most critically it increased the tendency to waste food. In recent times, the big supermarket groups like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons', Lidl, Aldi, Coop, etc, all have electronic 'club cards' or 'members' cards' that are installed on mobile phones, and used everytime you shop. You can gradually acquire credit poihts, but also use it to get discounted pricesvon lots of items. Today I bought a litre bottle of whisky that is £26, but with my 'Tesco Club' card, it was £19.
Exactly. I have (for over 40+ years) tavelled to the US and certain things become very obvious when shopping: Firstly, items/produce cost a LOT MORE (especially on a grocery shop), in the US. The UK is SO MUCH cheaper - it can be quite a shock! The shelf price shown for non-food items, is NOT the price you pay at the check-out - is so frustrating (and changes from state to state too). Then you have the 'tipping culture' which I detest... And it seems to be getting worse - the amount 'expected' by serving staff has increased even more that a few years ago, along with where you buy i.e. self-serve places or fast-food takeaways now expect a 'tip' (for handing food to you - DUH!?). It has become so expensive to visit the US now, that I go less and less... 🙁
If you check out price comparison videos on YT you will find that food prices in the UK can be up to 30% cheaper than the US. Stores run their own promotions so there is little need for the idea of coupons. We had such things in the 50's and 60's but competition between the supermarkets is so intense that for manufacturers to print and disseminate coupons is very much a waste of their resources. Lets face it, there is no such thing as a 'free' lunch so you know that the consumer will eventually pay for those coupons somewhere down the line! Travel insurance covers you for medical expenses, accidents, loss or theft of property, and cancellation of trips. Re banking, what she had was not a card reader in the sense of those used for purchases, it is a security device when logging in to your bank account on line. When you insert the card, it communicates with your bank and will randomly produce a PIN which you will need to use to verify your on-line account. We also have nurseries where you can but plants (and we call them nurseries) but the garden centres are one step further.
Someone I know went to the US to speak at a conference, and had some issue which resulted in his having to have brain surgery for an un-diagnosed tumour... in the UK that would be covered by the NHS, but in the US, he'd need medical insurance for that... which was covered by his travel insurance.
Hi Xee, my Mam used to visit plant nurseries all the time when I was growing up, getting the plants she wanted to re-vamp our Front/Back gardens. At home, she also took her own cuttings & grew plants herself. I`ve been shopping on the Internet using my credit card for decades now. When they last increased their security checks for card use, I was no longer able to do it the way I had been. So, I gained my own personal credit card reader, to enable me to continue using my card within the new system of checks.
Main thing about travel/Vacation spots is that we have 4-5 weeks of paid vacation. And we are encouraged (and sometimes forced) to use those vacation days. Europe is slightly larger than the US so size isn't the thing. Distance isn't the thing either, since we travel to USA, Australia, Japan etc. I remember when we had those (or similar) card readers, 20(?) years ago, they are completly gone since long, it's like Fax machines. Small roundabouts can sometimes be found in streets with no intersections, just there to slow traffic down, instead of speed bumps.
We used to have coupons decades ago in the UK, nowadays discounts are usually applied automatically, you don’t need a coupon. Additional discounts are often applied if you have a loyalty card for a particular supermarket. Coupons just slow things down at the checkout so they got rid of them.
The small talk with the cashier scanning the coupons would be too much for our British sentiments. Also we are happy to queue but make us wait while you are shuffling through coupons would lead to endless amounts of embarrassment 😂
Hi, I love your reaction videos so I thought I would send you a link to just one of the many videos that show you how obsessed with our gardens and garden centres we are here in the UK. Would love to see your reaction to this. Hope you and your family are all well and doing great.
With the keyboards, I can give a bit more detail.... there are actually 2 main keyboard layouts in the world (the way the keys are positioned, and their shapes), there is the one published by ISO (The international Standards Organisation)... and there is one published by ANSI (The American National Standards Institute)... so, each country adopted a layout, and then map their characters onto those keys... so German keyboards are different from UK keyboards, but only because what's printed on the keys is different... where US keyboards have different physical layout and shapes to the keys. I own a keyboard with nothing printed on any of the keys, and that would be the same in almost all EU countries... while the US keyboard is completely different.
My husband and I have travelled to well over 30 countries and would never go abroad without travel insurance not only for medical cover but also for lost or stolen items.
There are several different English keywords available. Here in Switzerland you get US, UK and International. The international one comes with a Euro symbol.
for 50 or 60 $ you can get insured for 1 million just in case you dont return, your loved ones get a payout.also covers lugage canceled flights medical bills etc.
In my experience, in the Caribbean having chickens at home is commonplace and I don't remember eggs being stored in the 'fridge as a result. Barclays card reader is part of their security system that actually works extremely well, I don't know of any other bank that has it.
From Jamaica to Alaska How do you Manage Alasken Winters .? Because I Turned down a job in Canada when I Found out how Cold it gets in Winter. We were shown a Film of Winter .😮 And I'm 63 I know British Winter .but No chance to Cold for me .
Never see the coupon thing in Germany or the Netherlands either. Other than an occasional single coupon in a newspaper? It should be said, real food is on average around one third cheaper at point of purchase in all of these countries than in the US in our experience.
We do have coupons just not to the same extent, we did more in the past but not so much now! Shops/stores tend to have their own electronic loyalty cards and thats how you get discounts etc, couponing not so much anymore
We Europeans have five or six weeks paid holidays per year and we take them all as they are legally mandated so of course we will travel more. Also unpaid leave is an option, that means you don't get paid a salary but your pension, healthcare and social security is still paid by your employer. I spent 2 three month blocks travelling around the US that way. I have spent time in all the lower 48 back in the 90s.
Regarding the UK keyboard we also have if you hold down the Alt Gr key next to the space bar and then the $ key you get an € the EURO symbol. Carmel Indiana has 142 roundabouts and adding more all the time.
Rubbish. Austrailia and Canada are huge countries. But their people travel round the world. Americans dont travel out States because they get so little vacation time and many jobs so poorly paid.
Using a card reader for online purchases stops a hacker from using your bank account details. The code given changes every few minutes and only appears on the reader. It works because the same code is being generated by your bank and synchronised. So verifying your pin number, the amount in question and the code, it is completely safe.
With Roundabouts being mentioned in the video, you have to check out Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them? It is about a year old from the CNBC channel and has had about 2.1 million views. It's absolutely fascinating and just one slight spoiler. We all assume that USA hae very few roundabouts, well believe it or not the city with the most roundabouts IN THE WORLD is in the US. Hope you get round to watching it at some point, would love to see your face and thoughts during the video...... all the best from the UK Gary xx
Travel insurance is something we use for travelling abroad and within the UK. If you are hospitalised anywhere, travel insurance will get you back home. It also covers pre-existing medical conditions. Depending on the conditions or age of person, the insurance will be more expensive. Someone going through cancer treatment will generally have more expensive insurance. Some pre-existing medical conditions are covered by the insurance. My elderly father got travel insurance when going abroad each year. You can buy per holiday or per year. My father who had medical conditions always got insurance and because of his age. On a more morbid note my father who was almost 80 made sure that repatriation was covered, which is flying your dead body back home if you die abroad or within the rest of UK but would also fly you back if you had an accident. I have a card reader but choose to have a unique code sent to my mobile phone as it's more efficient.
Travel insurance is essential my husband fell ill whilst on holiday in USA the bill was nearly a million dollars we had no worries as the travel insurance paid
I have a US layout keyboard, it's simple to get used to the differences between them. Eggs being "different" IG you might want to look into this, there are a few videos about what the actual reasons are, it might surprise you why.
When you wash eggs you wash away the good bacteria on the shell that protects the egg, our eggs are not washed for safety ,hence we dont have to store them in the fridge. They also last longer. The colour is down to what they are fed. If you travel to the UKor Europe , you would need to have travel insurance.
Travel insurance - normally doesn't cost a lot, but the exception is travel to the USA. It is much more because if you break your leg on a holiday to the USA for example, the medical bills are going to be a lot of money.
yeh, you can change the keyboard layout on the settings. duh.. We have club cards for different supermarkets. I am currently loving the Tesco deals, sooo wonderful. But I have cards for all of the supermarkets I had a great AMEX travel insurance about 20 years ago, so glad I had it, ended up in A&E for a week and had to delay trip home. The restaurant had to pay up for all of it, and I got a $20,000 in damages for my troubles.
This does depend where you are. In dorset , devon and Cornwall, if you become freinds with local farmers, they will sort you out with eggs which have zero pesticides in their crops, they use natural water from rain and do not vaccinate the animals. I remember delivering a parcel to an old chap in the sticks of north dorset and he tipped us with eggs locally. Most of these farmers keep the best stuff for themselves and the local villagers. The mass produced rubbish goes into supermarkets.
UK does have coupons but not to the same degree. Couponing can be a false economy as people often buy items they would normally never buy just to redeem the coupons !
In the US you can often use coupons for things you did not buy as long as the store sells them. In the UK you can only do that, surprisingly, at Waitrose, as far as I know. Please tell me if you csn anywhere else
Do Americans still use a cheque book, they can’t transfer money on banking apps between different named accounts or internationally which uk banking apps can
You should plan to travel to Hong Kong everything is cheap anything all you need is a toothbrush when you come back you can buy all the stuff make-up shoes whatever buy yourself a brand new suitcase you can buy cashmere suit for yourself all women's scarf the food is out of this world a lot better than us😊
It is amazing HOW CHEAP it is to get 'deals' to fly to Europe from the UK (often so much LESS than doing a train journey WITHIN Britain - DUH!?). If you are prepared to fly early morning and from an airport not close by etc., you can get flights for just £30 or £40 to Prague, Malta or Barcelona (for instance). So visiting other countries for a few days is so much easier.
hey girl travel insurance, some bank accounts, come with travel insurance, but moet will get travel insurance when going abroad, its about $30 per trip, that insures you for medical, lost luggage, holiday cancillations. pennies really
If you have good health in the U.K. your Travel Insurance will be cheap, but if you have a disability or had previous treatment, for example cancer treatment your Travel Insurance will probably cost more than your Holiday.
Return flights to Norway from UK main airports and back are some of the most expensive relatively short haul flights, even if you book a couple of weeks ahead. Of course it depends on day of the week and time of day. My son and his Norwegian fiancee fly there and back two or three times a year. My son has flown to Dallas a few times for work for less.
NUMBER 9. You say "GOTTEN" we say "GOT" ! We have BROWN , WHITE and BLUE eggs. It all depends on the breed of hen that laid them. Eggs are usually stocked with the bread, flour, sugar and baking goods instore. Our eggs pop out of the hen and are put into the box. NO CHEMICAL WASHING INVOLVED ! You are taking a big risk if you DON'T have travel insurance .It covers medical treatment abroad, lost luggage, flight cancellations and travel disruption. I get mine included with my banks credit card account which includes insurance for mobile phones and auto recovery as well. It's NOT just a UK thing ! I have NEVER seen a card reader before in the UK ! Maybe it's something that travellers to the UK have !? A plant nursery in the UK is where the plants are grown and sold in bulk to the garden centres.
Depends on your bank I suppose. I ( UK born and bred) have a card reader for my bank and the business I work for has one too. I haven't used mine in years but I still have one and I see my work one now and again.
Steve interpreted the video incorrectly. Carmel has the most in the US, not the most in the world. Many cities in Europe have more. The highest in the UK is Milton Keynes with 130. I believe the biggest cities may have been counted as counted as counties or Districts as I think London has way more
@ I think the originator of the post got it wrong. I was surprised that Milton Keynes wasn’t top of the list, or at least on it. Although not surprised that London wasn’t. It would be very hard to insert roundabouts into aa already very tightly built city.
I wouldn't even think of traveling abroad without insurance '- imagine me as a brit traveling to America without insurance and breaking my arm or leg for instance .... or taken seriously ill say a heart attack have you any idea how much an air ambulance would cost me ??
Spain is very much like the UK in most ways. I think Europe in general has better freedom and mobility. Must be all the annual leave we are entitled to? The USA still has a plantation boss mentality 😂
Same in New Zealand, IG, our eggs are healthy and don't need to be in the refrigerator to remain edible. I would hate to live in the US with your rock bottom food health standards and additives in everything. Re payments systems, you should check-out NZ's EFT-POS (Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point Of Sale) system, where you just swipe your bank card (with a pin number above a certain $ amount) and the money is moved from your account to the vendors. Easy-peasy!
The problem with eggs is that the hen dumps them out hidden in the rump, which means that there are bacteria on the outside of the shell. This means that if you are clumsy and get eggshells in the egg mass, you can get bacteria transferred to the egg mass.
@@helenwood8482 Neither where I live (Denmark). But the reason why the americans wants white industrial eggs and wash them as mad is because they have a problem ..
Many supermarkets in the UK (and in Europe) issue store cards which act like a substitute for coupons. It's quite common to see two prices in the grocery stores on some items - one the normal retail price, the other a discounted price for store card holders. This is a whole lot simpler than using coupons because all you do is present your card at the check-out. The card is run through a reader, and if you've purchased any discounted items, they will automatically be deducted from your ticket.
On my last weekly shop I saved £10 just because I hold a loyalty card. Most of that was on one bottle of gin.
I love my Tescos card. The other day i got £86 of shopping and a whooping £27 came off at the till. Admittedly one of the items was a bottle of nice whiskey for my Dad for Christmas which had £10 off on its own but i was well happy wheen i zapped my lazer at the self service checkout.
The big thing before was the 'bogof' - buy one get one free. It had its day and gradually petered out.
@@missharry5727Today I got £7 off a £26 litre of whisky!
North America is one of relatively few countries that commercially wash their eggs which strips the shell of its natural protective coating, the Cuticle, and this necessitates the eggs to be refrigerated; the huge number of staff needed nationwide in the US for the washing process adds to the cost in the shops.
Europe and most of the world don’t wash the eggs and they still stay fresh at room temperature for weeks !
The reason that the eggs in the UK and other countries do not need washing is because the money is spent beforehand on ensuring that the hens are kept very healthy and in good living conditions .
There were campaigns about inhumane overcrowded conditions ,in which the living creatures were kept as disposable egg producing machines ,now illegal.
No lie, in the UK, you can open a box of eggs and find droppings and feathers stuck to the eggs. But the eggs inside will be perfectly fine (most of the time). Nature knows best, yet Americans seem okay with paying for unnecessary chemicals to be put into their food.
To be fair disinfecting eggs is still necessary in the USA because of their outdated farming practices. Battery eggs need to be washed and disinfected because they are literally covered in hen poop to the degree that nobody would buy them if they saw them in their unwashed state.
Lady Anne Glenconner (Princess Margaret’s best friend) purchased a travel insurance policy for her teenage son who was going on a gap year world tour. The travel agent persuaded her to buy a £40 policy. Whilst he was on the trip, he was involved in a road traffic accident and sustained life changing injuries. The policy paid for his medical fees, the repatriation to Britain, round the clock care and years of physiotherapy. She said they would have been ruined if they hadn’t had the policy - the costs would have been millions of pounds.
Insurance also covers for lost luggage, problems with items being stolen or lost such as valuables and then to cover for health and repatriation if you end us in hospital and need to be flown home. Lots of other things included too.
The card readers are pretty much obsolete now. Banking apps are free,money transfers are free and direct (between different banks) the idea of venmo or PayPal 3rd party payment apps is very odd. The US is about 10yrs behind most of Europe.
Correct and always have been. The gap closed a bit due to Apple catching the US up on phone technology and contactless payment as a result
When I was in NY I was asked to sign for payments when we were well into chip and pin at the time
Paypal is still quite useful for buying online as you don't have to give a few dozen different companies your credit/debit card details where they can be hacked... But yeah, I'm always taken aback when someone in front of me pays for their coffee using their mobile with Apple or Google Pay etc - why? - their bank cards will do the same thing without all the added admin.
I use my card reader to access my online banking. It's another layer of security and quick and easy. I can get a code by text message too. I don't do what my daughters do and flash my phone. I'm old!
I have American friends living close by. When they arrived here they were surprised at the low price of groceries. They were even more surprised when they got to the checkout and realised they didn't have to pay tax on top for their purchases and that tax was already included in the price marked on the shelves.
They were more than surprised, even astounded, that there was no tax at all on fresh produce like vegetables, cheese, butter, fresh meat and baked goods like bread.
40 years ago coupons were big in the UK with most magazines and newspapers having coupons to cut out. They died a death though and were largely replaced by store cards like Tesco Clubcsrd which offers discounts on a large number of products by presenting the card at the till. The discount is marked on the shelves
Re travel insurance. I would never travel to another country without having adequate insurance, covering potential health costs and other things like cancellations and theft. Even when the UK was part of the European Union and I was often in France and Germany, I had my insurance. One of the differences might be that, if you're visiting the UK (and other countries in Europe, at least) and have an accident or a health problem, you will be treated regardless of your insurance status. Charges for treatment will be requested afterwards and there is a department of the NHS which deals with recovering those charges. The other thing to note is that charges for medical treatment are substantially less than they are in the UK. However, it's always good to be covered for potential trouble and, here in the UK, premiums are relatively cheap.
I think a big part of the difference with travel insurancs is the difference in healthcare systems. In the UK, healthcare is state run, basically mostly free from a user perspective and people don't generally have/need health insurance. Going to the doctor or having a ride in an ambulance isn't going to land you with any bill, let alone one that might bankrupt you. Going abroad, that safety net isn't there (the NHS does have 'swap' arrangements with some other countries to treat each other's citizens for free, but nothing like all it's basically a western europe thing), so people get insurance to cover the gap. Once you've done that, having the same policy cover non-medical interruptions and problems makes sense as an add on, that's just the insurrers competing on something other than price.
You should be aware that here in Britain we vaccinate our chickens for salmonella.
Have heard of a young woman from the Uk who went to America to go snowboarding, didn't have travel insurance and had a serious accident. Parents were having to remortgage their house to pay the medical bills. It was reported in a local newspaper as a warning to other people.
It’s absolutely vital to have travel insurance, if you are taken ill or have an accident you will be covered
If you go to the USA without travel insurance and have an accident, be prepared to sell your house to pay for the treatment. Only a fool would risk it.
Yet they have higher wages there. They have no abduls running around being protected and funded by their government either. Stop pretending this country is better. Because it's not at all. Freedom doesn't exist
I understand why many Americans stay in USA for vacation as thd country is so big, but the back draw is that many Americans never experience other cultures.
The garden centre is more of a destination. I meet one of my friends in the garden centre for lunch and then we wander round looking at plants, garden accessories, furniture,clothes and an area for conserves, gifts etc. At Christmas the garden centres go over the top with decorations to buy. I usually get some birds which clip onto the Christmas tree and berries for the wreaths I make
I think most Brits enjoy visiting other countries.
My friend's son is going to India in January, this year he went to Egypt. In the past he has toured Africa, Peru, Tialand, Spain and many other places.
My visits have been closer to Europe, the Canary Islands, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands & France etc.
Garden centres and nurseries are different. Garden centres sell a range of things but nurseries tend to specialise.
The nursery I worked in sold plants like Trillium's, rare Snowdrops, Hosta's, Ammocharis, Arisaema & Ranzania etc.
In the UK, a nursery is also where they grow plants that they then supply to the various garden centres, with most nurseries specialising in a particular type of plants.
And lots of Americans went to Thailand in the 1960s and early 1970s, as there were several US airbases there during the Vietnam war.
Also, we don't need to wash eggs here as all hens must by law being vaccinated against salmonella. Because of that, and other things done here that are not common in the US, there's no need to wash the eggs.
Wild Chickens in the jungle have very limited access to fridges to put their eggs in, plus not having opposable thumbs they have great difficulties opening them.
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Travel insurance is very much required when travelling you might be taken ill and need to return home to receive medical treatment. I was taken ill in the US they wanted $3000 it was better to fly home with the insurance company paying for the flight. And getting treatment on the NHS here.
Over here, a plant nursery grows the plants. Sometimes, they are open to the public, but usually, they sell directly to the garden centres.
My late parents loved garden centres. They did not have a car, so I would regularly take them on day trips. I used to ask where they would like to go, knowing their answer.
In a day, we would fit in 4 or 5 different centres, sometimes more. When we got to the first, we would have a cuppa and a piece of cake. We would eat lunch at another. Finally, at another centre, another cuppa before heading home.
1 day would be spent going to all the centres on one side of my city. A 2nd day would be the centres on the other side. A 3rd day would see us travelling well to the north of the city where there was another cluster of centres. Finally, a 4th day would see us well to the south at yet more centres. Added to this, we would also visit Farm Shops.
In just 1 week, we would visit 20 or more garden centres and 5 farm shops. Whenever I did this for them, they were happy, despite spending rather a lot of money.
A good centre will sell almost anything. I know one that has a national supermarket inside. Another has its own farm shop. One has an antique market. Another an attached craft centre. Some will even have large gardens to walk around, gathering ideas for your own garden.
Garden Centres hold a special place in the UK as we love our gardens but often the weather is so changeable that it curtails the time we can spend looking after our plants. The garden centre gives us the opportunity of looking around at all the lovely plants and trees and if the weather turns bad we can retreat to the cafe and enjoy tea and a light lunch. If the weather is still playing up we can have a little retail therapy by buying a new pair of gardening gloves, a trowel to match, a new jacket and a pretty wool jumper. We can buy a nice vase for the bay window and a gorgeous set of cushions for the sofa all while the rain pours. It is also a great place to meet with a friend for a catch up and a cup of coffee and a slice of cake.
I live in UK all my life at one time in 60, 70 & 80s we had Green Shield Stamps and Fina Pink Stamps, now some yrs later will have vouchers money off or on websites or cashback deals, and stamps you at the supermarket like paying off your bills.
The big thing in UK supemarkets used to be 'bogofs'. That is 'buy one get one free!' They were very popular of course but over time the downsides appeared. It was easy to over buy, struggle with storage space, and most critically it increased the tendency to waste food.
In recent times, the big supermarket groups like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons', Lidl, Aldi, Coop, etc, all have electronic 'club cards' or 'members' cards' that are installed on mobile phones, and used everytime you shop. You can gradually acquire credit poihts, but also use it to get discounted pricesvon lots of items. Today I bought a litre bottle of whisky that is £26, but with my 'Tesco Club' card, it was £19.
We get Store Cards for different Stores which saves you Money I mainly use Tesco and Co- op so I've got a Card for both Stores .
We don’t have coupons because our food prices are lower at the point of sale.
Exactly. I have (for over 40+ years) tavelled to the US and certain things become very obvious when shopping: Firstly, items/produce cost a LOT MORE (especially on a grocery shop), in the US. The UK is SO MUCH cheaper - it can be quite a shock! The shelf price shown for non-food items, is NOT the price you pay at the check-out - is so frustrating (and changes from state to state too). Then you have the 'tipping culture' which I detest... And it seems to be getting worse - the amount 'expected' by serving staff has increased even more that a few years ago, along with where you buy i.e. self-serve places or fast-food takeaways now expect a 'tip' (for handing food to you - DUH!?). It has become so expensive to visit the US now, that I go less and less... 🙁
If you check out price comparison videos on YT you will find that food prices in the UK can be up to 30% cheaper than the US. Stores run their own promotions so there is little need for the idea of coupons. We had such things in the 50's and 60's but competition between the supermarkets is so intense that for manufacturers to print and disseminate coupons is very much a waste of their resources. Lets face it, there is no such thing as a 'free' lunch so you know that the consumer will eventually pay for those coupons somewhere down the line!
Travel insurance covers you for medical expenses, accidents, loss or theft of property, and cancellation of trips.
Re banking, what she had was not a card reader in the sense of those used for purchases, it is a security device when logging in to your bank account on line. When you insert the card, it communicates with your bank and will randomly produce a PIN which you will need to use to verify your on-line account.
We also have nurseries where you can but plants (and we call them nurseries) but the garden centres are one step further.
Someone I know went to the US to speak at a conference, and had some issue which resulted in his having to have brain surgery for an un-diagnosed tumour... in the UK that would be covered by the NHS, but in the US, he'd need medical insurance for that... which was covered by his travel insurance.
Hi Xee, my Mam used to visit plant nurseries all the time when I was growing up, getting the plants she wanted to re-vamp our Front/Back gardens. At home, she also took her own cuttings & grew plants herself. I`ve been shopping on the Internet using my credit card for decades now.
When they last increased their security checks for card use, I was no longer able to do it the way I had been. So, I gained my own personal credit card reader, to enable me to continue using my card within the new system of checks.
Perhaps check out a video on garden centres here in the UK you will surely see a difference.
Main thing about travel/Vacation spots is that we have 4-5 weeks of paid vacation. And we are encouraged (and sometimes forced) to use those vacation days.
Europe is slightly larger than the US so size isn't the thing.
Distance isn't the thing either, since we travel to USA, Australia, Japan etc.
I remember when we had those (or similar) card readers, 20(?) years ago, they are completly gone since long, it's like Fax machines.
Small roundabouts can sometimes be found in streets with no intersections, just there to slow traffic down, instead of speed bumps.
The egg explanation was an eye opener to me 😮
You can say that again.
We used to have coupons decades ago in the UK, nowadays discounts are usually applied automatically, you don’t need a coupon. Additional discounts are often applied if you have a loyalty card for a particular supermarket. Coupons just slow things down at the checkout so they got rid of them.
We do have plant nurseries in the UK. These are the ones who supply garden centres.
The small talk with the cashier scanning the coupons would be too much for our British sentiments. Also we are happy to queue but make us wait while you are shuffling through coupons would lead to endless amounts of embarrassment 😂
Hi, I love your reaction videos so I thought I would send you a link to just one of the many videos that show you how obsessed with our gardens and garden centres we are here in the UK. Would love to see your reaction to this. Hope you and your family are all well and doing great.
Card readers tend to be just online access for business banking accounts. Not common for personal banking in the UK.
Have you had a look at American in England seeing HUGE UK Garden Centre for the First Time! #burford?
The UK computer has a $ because it's used in programming
With the keyboards, I can give a bit more detail.... there are actually 2 main keyboard layouts in the world (the way the keys are positioned, and their shapes), there is the one published by ISO (The international Standards Organisation)... and there is one published by ANSI (The American National Standards Institute)... so, each country adopted a layout, and then map their characters onto those keys... so German keyboards are different from UK keyboards, but only because what's printed on the keys is different... where US keyboards have different physical layout and shapes to the keys. I own a keyboard with nothing printed on any of the keys, and that would be the same in almost all EU countries... while the US keyboard is completely different.
coupons died out in the uk in the early 90's
A nursery is also a place for plants in the UK, my father was a nurseryman...
I’ve just been watching a UA-cam video about roundabouts and, believe it or not, the city with the most roundabouts in the world is Carmel in the USA
My husband and I have travelled to well over 30 countries and would never go abroad without travel insurance not only for medical cover but also for lost or stolen items.
There are several different English keywords available. Here in Switzerland you get US, UK and International. The international one comes with a Euro symbol.
We've Just got back from Spain its a lovely there and cheap.
for 50 or 60 $ you can get insured for 1 million just in case you dont return, your loved ones get a payout.also covers lugage canceled flights medical bills etc.
In my experience, in the Caribbean having chickens at home is commonplace and I don't remember eggs being stored in the 'fridge as a result.
Barclays card reader is part of their security system that actually works extremely well, I don't know of any other bank that has it.
From Jamaica to Alaska How do you Manage Alasken Winters .? Because I Turned down a job in Canada when I Found out how Cold it gets in Winter. We were shown a Film of Winter .😮 And I'm 63 I know British Winter .but No chance to Cold for me .
Never see the coupon thing in Germany or the Netherlands either. Other than an occasional single coupon in a newspaper?
It should be said, real food is on average around one third cheaper at point of purchase in all of these countries than in the US in our experience.
We do get coupons my friend got some in the post for the Honey 🐝 Bee Pub ❤
I will NEVER eat American Chicken
Bleached and tastes absolutely awful. Unless it's taken straight from your little 30 chicken flock, killed and plucked and cooked straight away.
We do have coupons just not to the same extent, we did more in the past but not so much now! Shops/stores tend to have their own electronic loyalty cards and thats how you get discounts etc, couponing not so much anymore
We Europeans have five or six weeks paid holidays per year and we take them all as they are legally mandated so of course we will travel more. Also unpaid leave is an option, that means you don't get paid a salary but your pension, healthcare and social security is still paid by your employer. I spent 2 three month blocks travelling around the US that way. I have spent time in all the lower 48 back in the 90s.
Regarding the UK keyboard we also have if you hold down the Alt Gr key next to the space bar and then the $ key you get an € the EURO symbol.
Carmel Indiana has 142 roundabouts and adding more all the time.
Rubbish. Austrailia and Canada are huge countries. But their people travel round the world.
Americans dont travel out States because they get so little vacation time and many jobs so poorly paid.
Using a card reader for online purchases stops a hacker from using your bank account details. The code given changes every few minutes and only appears on the reader. It works because the same code is being generated by your bank and synchronised. So verifying your pin number, the amount in question and the code, it is completely safe.
You needed to see A Typewriter. If you learnt to be a Typist, that's a British thing!😅😊
With Roundabouts being mentioned in the video, you have to check out
Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them?
It is about a year old from the CNBC channel and has had about 2.1 million views. It's absolutely fascinating and just one slight spoiler. We all assume that USA hae very few roundabouts, well believe it or not the city with the most roundabouts IN THE WORLD is in the US.
Hope you get round to watching it at some point, would love to see your face and thoughts during the video......
all the best from the UK Gary xx
Travel insurance is something we use for travelling abroad and within the UK. If you are hospitalised anywhere, travel insurance will get you back home. It also covers pre-existing medical conditions. Depending on the conditions or age of person, the insurance will be more expensive. Someone going through cancer treatment will generally have more expensive insurance. Some pre-existing medical conditions are covered by the insurance. My elderly father got travel insurance when going abroad each year. You can buy per holiday or per year. My father who had medical conditions always got insurance and because of his age.
On a more morbid note my father who was almost 80 made sure that repatriation was covered, which is flying your dead body back home if you die abroad or within the rest of UK but would also fly you back if you had an accident.
I have a card reader but choose to have a unique code sent to my mobile phone as it's more efficient.
Travel insurance is essential my husband fell ill whilst on holiday in USA the bill was nearly a million dollars we had no worries as the travel insurance paid
I have a US layout keyboard, it's simple to get used to the differences between them. Eggs being "different" IG you might want to look into this, there are a few videos about what the actual reasons are, it might surprise you why.
When you wash eggs you wash away the good bacteria on the shell that protects the egg, our eggs are not washed for safety ,hence we dont have to store them in the fridge. They also last longer. The colour is down to what they are fed.
If you travel to the UKor Europe , you would need to have travel insurance.
Travel insurance - normally doesn't cost a lot, but the exception is travel to the USA. It is much more because if you break your leg on a holiday to the USA for example, the medical bills are going to be a lot of money.
Eggs are next to home baking and bread….makes sense. Breakfast and baking
Simple’s
yeh, you can change the keyboard layout on the settings. duh..
We have club cards for different supermarkets. I am currently loving the Tesco deals, sooo wonderful. But I have cards for all of the supermarkets
I had a great AMEX travel insurance about 20 years ago, so glad I had it, ended up in A&E for a week and had to delay trip home. The restaurant had to pay up for all of it, and I got a $20,000 in damages for my troubles.
This does depend where you are. In dorset , devon and Cornwall, if you become freinds with local farmers, they will sort you out with eggs which have zero pesticides in their crops, they use natural water from rain and do not vaccinate the animals. I remember delivering a parcel to an old chap in the sticks of north dorset and he tipped us with eggs locally. Most of these farmers keep the best stuff for themselves and the local villagers. The mass produced rubbish goes into supermarkets.
UK does have coupons but not to the same degree. Couponing can be a false economy as people often buy items they would normally never buy just to redeem the coupons !
I think most Brits of an older generation had enough of coupons after rationing.
Travel Insurance is a thing because we dont pay for health care .
So if I came to the US and broke my leg .
I would have a huge bill for medical .
In the US you can often use coupons for things you did not buy as long as the store sells them. In the UK you can only do that, surprisingly, at Waitrose, as far as I know. Please tell me if you csn anywhere else
Do Americans still use a cheque book, they can’t transfer money on banking apps between different named accounts or internationally which uk banking apps can
You should plan to travel to Hong Kong everything is cheap anything all you need is a toothbrush when you come back you can buy all the stuff make-up shoes whatever buy yourself a brand new suitcase you can buy cashmere suit for yourself all women's scarf the food is out of this world a lot better than us😊
It is amazing HOW CHEAP it is to get 'deals' to fly to Europe from the UK (often so much LESS than doing a train journey WITHIN Britain - DUH!?). If you are prepared to fly early morning and from an airport not close by etc., you can get flights for just £30 or £40 to Prague, Malta or Barcelona (for instance). So visiting other countries for a few days is so much easier.
Just flew to Rome from London for £2, a 2 hour flight with British Airways. Love it
To be fair to you the first time I seen this video I thought calculator too, I've never seen or heard of that thing.
I wouldn’t go abroad without travel insurance especially for the medical cover. I’m 72 and I have never seen a card reader 🇬🇧
Golden rule - if you can’t afford travel insurance, you can’t afford to travel. Travelling to USA you must get ultra premium insurance.
We do have coupons in the uk, just not to the scale of America though.
hey girl travel insurance, some bank accounts, come with travel insurance, but moet will get travel insurance when going abroad, its about $30 per trip, that insures you for medical, lost luggage, holiday cancillations. pennies really
If you have good health in the U.K. your Travel Insurance will be cheap, but if you have a disability or had previous treatment, for example cancer treatment your Travel Insurance will probably cost more than your Holiday.
When traveling in mainland Europe, most Europeans don't get insurance because healthcare and welfare are covered in any case.
I think most European countries do not refrigerate eggs. Usa treat lots of their foods with chemicals, pesticide, etc.
There is another way you can fly to Norway and then fly to Asian country it'll be far cheaper
Return flights to Norway from UK main airports and back are some of the most expensive relatively short haul flights, even if you book a couple of weeks ahead.
Of course it depends on day of the week and time of day.
My son and his Norwegian fiancee fly there and back two or three times a year.
My son has flown to Dallas a few times for work for less.
NUMBER 9. You say "GOTTEN" we say "GOT" !
We have BROWN , WHITE and BLUE eggs. It all depends on the breed of hen that laid them.
Eggs are usually stocked with the bread, flour, sugar and baking goods instore.
Our eggs pop out of the hen and are put into the box. NO CHEMICAL WASHING INVOLVED !
You are taking a big risk if you DON'T have travel insurance .It covers medical treatment abroad, lost luggage, flight cancellations and travel disruption. I get mine included with my banks credit card account which includes insurance for mobile phones and auto recovery as well. It's NOT just a UK thing !
I have NEVER seen a card reader before in the UK ! Maybe it's something that travellers to the UK have !?
A plant nursery in the UK is where the plants are grown and sold in bulk to the garden centres.
Depends on your bank I suppose. I ( UK born and bred) have a card reader for my bank and the business I work for has one too. I haven't used mine in years but I still have one and I see my work one now and again.
Why refrigerate eggs?
Carmel, Indiana has the most roundabouts than any city in the world 122?
I know what video you watched recently 🤣🤣
In Gothenburg Sweden ther was 130 roundabauts 2010. Sinse then that has i cresent a lotta.
Steve interpreted the video incorrectly. Carmel has the most in the US, not the most in the world. Many cities in Europe have more. The highest in the UK is Milton Keynes with 130. I believe the biggest cities may have been counted as counted as counties or Districts as I think London has way more
@ I think the originator of the post got it wrong. I was surprised that Milton Keynes wasn’t top of the list, or at least on it. Although not surprised that London wasn’t. It would be very hard to insert roundabouts into aa already very tightly built city.
@juliankaye8143 We do have a fair few but they are the little white ones, mostly in the burbs
I wouldn't even think of traveling abroad without insurance '- imagine me as a brit traveling to America without insurance and breaking my arm or leg for instance .... or taken seriously ill say a heart attack have you any idea how much an air ambulance would cost me ??
You actually put eggs in your fridge???? That could turn them BAD!! my eggs last weeks out on the worktop.
That is a No No
I'm in the uk I've never seen one of these card readers
No one in there right mind would travel to the usa without travel insurance
Spain is very much like the UK in most ways. I think Europe in general has better freedom and mobility. Must be all the annual leave we are entitled to? The USA still has a plantation boss mentality 😂
Same in New Zealand, IG, our eggs are healthy and don't need to be in the refrigerator to remain edible. I would hate to live in the US with your rock bottom food health standards and additives in everything. Re payments systems, you should check-out NZ's EFT-POS (Electronic Funds Transfer at the Point Of Sale) system, where you just swipe your bank card (with a pin number above a certain $ amount) and the money is moved from your account to the vendors. Easy-peasy!
I'm not a clever person but, I know the U.S. Is huge but, isn't the rest of the world bigger?
You need too look at carmel IN it is tge city with tge most roundabouts in the world
Can't understand you are from Jamaica there eggs are not stored in refrigerators so why are you surprised
To be honest I don’t remember not seeing eggs in the fridge that all I can remember even when I was back home. .
Interesting fact: chickens with white wattles lay white eggs; chickens with red wattles lay brown eggs.
The problem with eggs is that the hen dumps them out hidden in the rump, which means that there are bacteria on the outside of the shell. This means that if you are clumsy and get eggshells in the egg mass, you can get bacteria transferred to the egg mass.
Only if the farm is unhygienic. Salmonella is not an issue in the UK.
You can wash the shells yourself just before breaking them, but I never have, and never been sick.
@@helenwood8482 Neither where I live (Denmark). But the reason why the americans wants white industrial eggs and wash them as mad is because they have a problem ..
You should be aware that here in Britain we vaccinate our chickens for salmonella.