5 Ways British and American Grocery Stores Are Very Different!!! AMERICAN Reacts
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Eggs in America need to stay refrigerated because you wash them, which destroys the shells protection making bacteria more likely to get in. Thus they need to be refrigerated go help prevent this. In the UK that doesn't happen so they're safe to be kept out of the fridge the whole time
Also they're better out the fridge. Eggs absorb tastes and smells from other things in the fridge, and room temperature is better for cooking as they cook more evenly.
@@MrEsphoenix More likely to cook them wrong when the eggs are cold.
Glad I looked at the comments as I ws about to post the same thing.
Spot on, never refrigerate eggs. If you need to then avoid at all costs.
@@LuE87 You will never find a poultry farm that has a refrigerated egg store. enough said. It's our family business.
We've lost Marathon bars and opal fruits to snickers and stardust and I'm not over it.
Marathon was called Snickers before they changed to Marathon, then reverted to Snickers.
The problem with Opal Fruits was getting the imported Vauxhalls into the crusher. 😉
I am not over it either wasn't it glorious when they brought it back under the marathon name roughly around a year or so ago ?
@@jasonbrown9327 they do that every few years so that their trademark doesn't lapse.
I know “stardust” just a stupid name
They’re called starburst.
You ask why we call our Three Musketeers bars Milky Way... Well the question should really be why did the US call their Milky Way bars Three Musketeers, because Milky Way came out in 1923, but Musketeers came out in 1932. So I'm afraid the UK can't answer that one.
There is UA-cam documentary about the Mars company the dad stayed in America and the son went to Europe to perfect his chocolate. The milky way and Mars bar differences has somthing to do with the ingredients available at the time in the 2 continents.
@@L1am21 ooh I might actually search the history of that. Weird how UA-cam takes you down some rather unexpected rabbit holes! But I do love to learn. Thanks!
Did you know that M&Ms are a direct knock off of British Smarties!
@@163andyc M&Ms were Treets in the UK!
Fuzzlewit
The US "Milky Way" is what we in the UK - and the rest of the world - call a "Mars Bar".
The UK - and the rest of the world - "Milky Way" is what they in the US call a "3 Musketeers".
"the UK answer[ed] that one."
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Ask for a bar of Dove in the U.K. and you will get a bar of soap.
@John Ashtone it probably does!🤣🤣🤣
American chocolate dont compare to british chocolate. British chocolate tastes better and smoother than American versions
@@mbwoods2001 DID taste better :(
@@pauliosantos6379 Nope it's still better. Even if u shat in the uk chocolate It would still taste better than the vomit that passes as American chocolate
apparently it's same in the US ask for Dove, get something that tastes like soap... american chocolate is vile...
@@rudolmeyer Dove in the US is by far one of the nicest tasting American chocolates, hersheys is horrid
Bit out dated, Walmart no longer own Asda, it was sold last year or the year before, not sure when but it now belongs to a couple of Indian brothers who own many petrol stations in the UK. Eggs in the UK are natural, just lightly brushed as opposed to the pressure washed and chlorinated eggs in the US. That's why US eggs need to be in the refrigerator with the milk, ours can be put anywhere in the store often near the flour and sugar and other baking ingredients
Eggs don't need to be washed at all in the UK since its the chickens themselves that are vaccinated against salmonella
They are now owned by Euro Garages. They also own a load of gas stations and gas station shops in the US, under the names Certified Oil, Cumberland Farms, Fastrac, Kwikshop, Loaf n Jug, Minit Mart, Quikstop, Sprint, Tom Thumb, and Turkey Hill.
Think they still own a minority share.
Eggs are next to the flour, sugar and other baking ingredients in the UK. It's because we do not refrigerate eggs because we don't wash the eggs and remove the shell's natural anti-bacterial coating. If you aren't going to refrigerate eggs, you can't put them near the dairy items. Sometime "Lost in the Pond" gets a little lost.
We do keep our eggs in the fridge...well everyone I know does.
@@amandabushell8544 you aren’t meant to lmao
Eggs in Aldi Australia are next to baking goods also and not refrigerated
@@amandabushell8544 If you cook eggs from room temperature, they cook much better and more evenly.
On the subject of variety - the cheese aisles are very different.
In the USA there are dozens of brands of the same few cheeses.
In the UK, there are dozens and dozens of different kinds of cheeses.
Same with pickles - many brands of the same kinds of pickles in the USA - the UK has dozens of different kinds of pickled vegetables and chutnies.
The cheese thing is because if the cheese isn't made in the US directly, it's too expensive for most Americans to afford. There aren't that many kinds of cheese made in the US.
@@jwb52z9 plus the bullshit about pasteurised milk
@@pauliosantos6379 the vile pasteurised milk is not a usa thing its most of the world outside the northen side of europe same with chocolate it taste like shit outside of the northen side of europe its all to do with climate thats y in the uk if there is a heat wave ur and u buy a chocolate bar it will be all melted
And in the UK most of cheeses will be store brand. That appears not to be the case in the US.
@@katbryce What?
Being able to buy alcohol in all the supermarkets from open 6am until close 12pm in the UK and some supermarkets are 24hrs too. This includes spirits too not just beer and wine
At the very least, in Scotland, you can't buy alcohol before 11am in off-licensed premesis.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t I think, its also after 10pm maybe 10:30pm.
Very handy for shift workers or night workers as I used to be. I go up the local Shell garage at midnight after my evening shift. No queues.
In Scotland I know it's a 10pm cutoff for Alcohol in the Supermarkets but I'm not too sure about the morning time, I think it's 10am but I'm not 100%
24/7 alcohol here! Tescos 24 hours, and when it's closed through Sunday, a petrol station or the local 24 hour corner shop.
The reason for Walkers and Lays being called different names is because Lays bought Walkers, which was a much older UK brand, and changing the name would cause harm to market share (eventually they became very similar over the years with packaging etc).
NO, PepsiCo owns boths Lays and Walkers.
@@daveofyorkshire301 yeah, that is correct
@@daveofyorkshire301 What do you mean 'no'. Yes, today they are the same, once upon a time they weren't and because Walkers is the older name in the UK and to change it would harm the brand recognition they built-up as Walkers.
@@PCDelorian Read what was written. The statement was untrue Lays did NOT buy Walkers. So the answer NO is appropriate.
They are not the same company. They are two subsidiaries under a parent company, that company being PepsiCo. Now I'm sure there are economies of scale with shared resources, but as far as I know they aren't the same company.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Yet they are the same crisps as far as I can tell having bought Lays in other countries. The only difference is, each country appears to have different flavours to suit the local market.
In UK, eggs are generally considered to be items used for baking and will be found somewhere near the other baking ingredients. We don't pre-wash eggs so they need no refrigeration and this is actually a Europe-wide thing. Funny thing. When I lived in Barbados our supermarkets had both American and British brands. One chain stocked Walkers and Lays, and I still always went for the Walkers! Same crisps? I'm not that convinced they are in fact the same product even if they belong to the same company. Cadbury chocolate is very different in UK and outside!
Lays and walkers are the same company but you're 100% correct that they're not the same, I have had both lays and walkers and walkers are superior
I'm a home shopping delivery driver for Asda, as some people have mentioned, we're no longer part of Walmart although we still use their employee website.
I think Walmart retains a minority shareholding.
On the Walkers/Lay’s front it was because Walkers existed since the 40’s here in the U.K. but was acquired by PepsiCo in ‘89, who also owns the Lay’s brand.
There were some merging of logos/designs but the flavours and names were kept untouched as both brands had huge recognition and awareness in their markets.
Thought I'd just mention that Asda was bought out by 2 British brothers because it was going down hill when in the hands of Walmart.
Yep no longer owned by Walmart,
Issa Brothers and TDR Capital
Asda is shite regardless
Wasn”t it somthing to do with the way they treated their employees? They thought they could treat them the same as US employees ….big shock they were protected by law. Happy to be corrected if wrong.
@@sarahhoops9696 I'm not too sure to be honest, all I know is that in 2020, Asda was sold to the 2 British brothers because Asda was going down hill when in the hands of Walmart, but I will look into it.
Hi JT
DEBBIE from Wales UK
EGGS
The reason our eggs are kept out of the refrigerator is because we do not wash our eggs, all we do to them is x-ray them to see if they are ok and if not they are then rejected automatically by the machine, then we stamp a lion on them and date each and every egg, so you can see how fresh they are. It is a bad idea to keep eggs refrigerated because the shells are porous they will absorb and strong smells in the fridge from strong smelling foods.
We use eggs in exactly the same way as Americans.
In Europe in general we don't wash our eggs and therefore don't need to refrigerate them, but in Sweden for example you will find eggs in the dairy section just not in the fridge.
ASDA is no longer owned by Walmart it was sold to the Issa brothers a few months back
Eggs are usually always with baking goods which happen to often be near canned goods (hence the mention of beans)
So yeah in the UK if you want eggs, look for flour and sugar too and you will find the eggs.
Err, or just look at the signs above the aisles ... Durr
@@Dionysos640 it's signs...Durr
@@sara-lou9825 in my local supermarket they have shop workers above the aisles singing about what is down that aisle.
@@jazzzzdude in which case it's singers 😉
Fair one ... but give me a typo pass. No? 😃
In the UK, grocery shops (stores) mainly sell food items including beer and spirits . Supermarkets sell many more lines for example, clothes, electrical, household, pharmacy. That's why there is the difference in the name.
In the US, by the UK definition of a supermarket, is what an American calls, a superstore. Supermarket and grocery store are the same thing to us. But overtime, what limited selection of general merchandise that our supermarkets carried in the past, have been pared down, to focus a lot more on food. Most of our grocery stores no longer sell magazines, excess for the tabloids, and soap opera magazines found at checkout (or till).
I disagree. Very few supermarkets overall sell a wide variety of non-food products. Those that do sell a wide range of products are atypically large and are hypermarkets. Supermarkets can be small: their essential feature is that you toddle around with a basket or trolley, and collect the stuff that you pay for together at a single pay point.
Yep the UK has self checkouts and the alarm goes off or an item does not scan, so a member of staff has to be summoned anyway.
A grocery store in the UK is a small corner shop where you pick up your essentials, bread, milk, eggs etc. The supermarket is where you go to get your big shop for the next ten day, more choice and cheaper prices.
To Americans, that would be a convenience store to us. That would be 7-Eleven, Speedway, and some regional stores like Casey's, Quik Trip, Wawa, Sheetz, and many others.
Back in the 90's we had Dove bars. But they were ice cream on a stick covered in Galaxy chocolate. I remember once visiting a theme park in West Wales called Oakwood. They had a few stalls/stands where they'd have the bars without the coating and would dip them into a vat of molten chocolate when you bought one. They were amazing.
I think in the 90s the USA had Dove bars that were frozen too, like the UK's Magnum bars or something between that and a Choc-ice?
Hi, JT, I’m JT too! Self checkouts at lots of stores, but also in the supermarkets you can use a handheld to scanner to scan your shopping yourself as you walk round the shop!
We do have self checkout. But don't need them as we have hand scanners. When you enter the store you can collect a portable barcode scanner. As you shop you scan and bag your items. When you are done you goto a digital screen and scan a qr code. That then automatically rings up all your shopping and you pay and leave. It's amazing and takes seconds to checkout.
Re eggs. It's because American farms wash them, which removes a protective layer, meaning you must refrigerate them to stop bacterial infection. In Europe washing is banned, so we don't need to keep them in the refrigerated section.
Yes we do have self checkouts here in the UK, actually I have been noticing lately that we are having more self checkouts in a shop than actual normal shop checkouts.
We even gone mostly contactless in our shops too where we can just download a app on our phones (the app for the store you went into bye the way), use the app too scan your items, go too checkout (usually the self checkout), scan the code on the checkout (once scanned all the items you scanned will then be transferred too the checkout), and then just start paying (mostly with contactless card and or Apple Pay/your phone equivalent too Apple Pay). Simple as that.
Self checkouts are everywhere these days.
Our Big Tesco binned off half their tills in place of more self checkouts recently and it’s not been a smooth transition at all! The queues for the staffed tills are horrendously long and most of the self service things are fucked already
@@emilyx33x Tesco does seem too have more issues with contactless & self serving issues than most of the other shop brands do, I wonder why since most of the other shops use pretty much similar methods
“The self-checkout is available, sir.” “No, thanks, I don't work here.”
The reference to rectangles is that your state boundaries and fields usually have very straight sides. Same for you grid layout cities. One of Laurence’s favourites!
Eggs are always with the baking ingredients in the supermarkets here. Which I personally think makes sense tbh.
That dude just set my Alexa off.. Alexa did not know the answer. We do have self-checkouts, they are a blessing. We also have stores where you can scan your shopping as you pick up each item and then jsut scan the till at the end to pay, usually accompanied by a staff member checking to make sure you scanned everything you picked up with random spot checks
They are called Walkers instead of Lays because Walkers was already the most popular crisp manufacturer in the UK, so instead of changing what people loved, they kept the branding.
In the UK, we have something called SCAN AND GO.
You go in, enter your phone number into the computer, this releases a scanner, get your shopping, scanning every item, then place them in your bags, go to checkout, scan a barode Shopping loads automatically, pay by card, leave store bags already packed.
SAVES LOADS OF TIME
IT ALSO ENABLES YOU TO CHECK PRICE IF NO PRICE TICKET, AND REMOVE ITEMS.
NO MORE WAITING IN LINE TO PAY
SHIPPING CART ALSO HAS A CUP HOLDER TYPE DEVICE ON HANDLE TO STORE YOUR SCANNER
One thing that happens at most UK supermarkets is impatient drivers, who spend waaaay too long looking for a parking space/spot, as close to the store entrance as possible, so they don't have to walk far.
Trouble is, once they walk the short distance to the door, & pick up their trolley/cart, they then proceed to spend around an hour, walking a few miles round the shop/store, thereby, cancelling out the short walk, from car to door!!
People are stupid!! 🤣
Maybe, but it rarely rains inside the shop.
One difference that not everybody might notice is that if there is an in store bakery in the UK, the air is ducted from the bakery to the store entrance so you get the aroma of fresh bread. In the USA this shouldn't happen as the smell of the fresh baked bread has to be destroyed as it might contain ethanol from the yeast.
Often that fresh baked smell is actually fake, created to wet the appetite and make you buy their bread.
So not true, I worked in a bakery as a teenager, We had the door open to attract customers to the freshly baked bread
As a kid growing up we had Marathon and Opal Fruits, which then were renamed to their American counterparts Snickers and Starburst. I don't know if it was more for product placement recognition as the UK embraced US culture more through syndicated TV, or where it was due to US companies acquiring UK companies.
@@Alex-sl5tp Marathon didn't sell well? wtf I remember people kicking off big time about how stupid the name snickers was (which it is) i was 4 or 5 maybe a little older, people were pissed
@@Alex-sl5tp
Cadbury was bought by by US company Kraft, which split into 2 companies. Cadbury is now owned by US company Mondelez International. They closed the Cadbury factory's in several countries. Including the USA with Hershey's now producing Cadbury chocolate under licence. With different ingredients the same as Hershey's chocolate. They have also changed the UK recipe to exclude palm oil in 2021.
Opal fruits. Made to make your mouth water!
I still call the nougat, caramel, and peanut bar "Marathon" and the fruit-flavoured chewy sweets "Opal Fruits".
I never have and never will call them the ridiculous new names.
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@@grahamsmith9541 Cadbury have always been produced under licence by Hershey as Hershey blocked them (via bribes to politicians) to prevent them from losing market share. This is why US Cadbury chocolate tastes even worse than UK Cadbury, which was also made much worse by the US takeover of Cadbury, where they have changed many recipes.
01:50 I'd have thought that a grocery store was closer to a corner shop, whereas a supermarket would be a superstore stateside.
02:20 I believe our term for such a place as that would be a hypermarket.
Yes. We in the UK tend not to use the term store, usually opting for shop. As a kid, I often went to the grocer's fir my mum's shopping. This would be, as you say, a small local shop and usually independently owned and run.
Good to see you back JT! Another difference betwwen US and UK supermarkets/grocery stores is that in the UK we don't have greeters at the front door or baggers at the checkouts.
Not all grocery stores in the US have greeters. As for Walmart, unless it's a Walmart Neighborhood Market, which is grocery and pharmacy only, then the full line grocery section and full line general merchandise section are not supermarkets in the US, but superstores. Meijer in the Midwest portion of the US are superstores too. The few remaining Walmart stores with general merchandise and a limited selection of groceries are discount department stores.
The reason eggs aren't kept with the other dairy stuff is due to better production methods UK eggs don't need to be refrigerated, so the space the eggs would be taken up can be used for extra items that need to be chilled where as the eggs can go anywhere.
Quick note ASDA is no longer owned by Walmart, it’s owned by TDR capital. Though Walmart still retains an equity investment and a seat on the board.
we have self checkouts, but you almost always have to wait in line to use them!
Forgive me but am i wrong but chickens lay eggs, I have never seen a cow laying eggs!!! So why are they dairy?
Don't they come out with the sausage meat, isn't that how we get scotch eggs and gala pie?😉
Think of the size of omelette you could make from a cow egg.
we dont mess with the eggs so the shell protects it hence not needing a fridge. ive just had a full english and had to get rid of a piece of bird shit and a tiny feather from the shell .. now thats fresh 😎
That in itself doesn't mean it's fresh, just means it wasn't cleaned.
Fresh? More like you bought the dodgiest brand of eggs you could find 😂
@@X22GJP Eggs do not get cleaned in the UK, that`s why they still have a protective coating on them so no need for a fridge.
@@_Professor_Oak depends on what you call the dodgiest brand. Everyone has their own interpretation of that phrase
@@_Professor_Oak the best eggs for me are from a farm shop or small holding complete with feathers and shit, no tampering, and definitely not dodgy.
Eggs in the UK are generally in the home baking section of the supermarket, NOT "with the beans". Also... you can buy hard liquor in UK supermarkets- you can keep your Walmart with your oil changes and we'll keep our vodka thanks :)
British supermarkets tend to fall into two main categories- traditional British versus European imports (Aldi and Lidl). The European imports tend to have a different style- very much throw the stock on the shelves and throw the customers through the checkouts (the staff have timed till speeds they have to meet). This isn't the case in more traditional stores where (as long as you don't get a rude server) the shopping should be scanned and passed to you at your own pace as you pack it- we don't generally have packers in the UK so you have to pack your own groceries. Customer service is also very different here- of course it will depend on exactly which server you get, but it's nowhere near the level of customer service expectation you have in the US.
Yes but you don’t get that oleaginous obsequious drivel that you get from yanks… which is about as genuine as Meghan Snarkle. 🙄🇬🇧
I've found lidl to be pretty decent here in Northern Ireland, they don't rush us through a checkout probably because they don't have any space after scanning to set, but larger conveyor belts to put up before they scan. Shops like Tesco and home bargains are awful, the staff never wait till you've loaded the conveyor belt before they start scanning and they fill up the packing area giving you no time to pack or fill the trolley again before they're pressing you to pay before you finish packing. I refuse to go to either supermarket without another person so one can put it up and the other pack,
Asda is no longer owned by Walmart. Two lads from Bradford purchased it a couple of years ago, to go with their petrol filling station empire.
Walmart no longer owns Asda. They sold it a year or two ago.
Yes , now owned by people who made their money from a chain of filling stations ( petrol/diesel garages).
I believe Snickers was once called Marathon in UK. Dove sounds like a bar of soap in UK.
For Lays vs Walkers - I'm sure Lays was a company in say the US, they bought out the company Walkers that were in the UK. But Walkers had such a strong brand that they decided against changing it to Lays.
So everywhere else in the world you'll see Lays.
We had a European football match on the TV over here a few months (maybe last year, can't fully remember), but anyway the match was in the UK, but they knew it wouldn't just be the UK watching it so on the advertising boards they advertised Lays instead of Walkers which I found amusing.
A grocery store in Scotland generally means a small independent high street shop,
Indeed, a Greengrocer's. 👍🏻
@@normiron736 no, greengrocers sell mainly fruit and vegetables.
Just been watching some of your old videos I take it you won the prank war 😂 love ur videos keep it up
When i lived in the USA I use to mostly go to the self checkout. Only think that embarassed me there was trying to buy wine for Sunday lunch and being told I cant buy it before a certain time. First occassion i went to a till was asked paper or plastic - I had no idea but they meant what type of bag i wanted. Then someone offered to take the shopping to the car and their jaw dropped when i said i walked. Walking to a store just didnt happen!!. PS I love living in NC
I remember an absolute massive Walmart supercenter in Milton Keynes, England.
My local supermarket have the eggs amongst the baking goods, I think like you say people have different uses for eggs. I don’t see eggs in a particular category.
At one point Walmart had the majority of share in Asda, recently Saintsbury supermarket became the majority shareholder as Walmart sold off most of theirs.
The difference is supermarkets sell more than just groceries. If you say you're going to get some groceries, you generally mean fruit and veg, maybe other usual stuff like eggs, milk and bread.
Never got the sales tax at the till thing in the USA, ok each state may have a different tax rate. But if that shop knows its 8% then why cant they just add it to the prices. Never got used to it. When i went to the USA (6 times now) i just make sure i have more money on me than i need to stop being caught out by the tax. Athough paying with a card makes it easier.
We do have this in 'Cash & Carry' stores, which are basically wholesalers to other businesses, a prime example is Macro.
Normally you need a membership card to shop there.
They are often used by B&Bs, cafes etc.
There can be multiple tax rates within a state. In Florida each county sets their own rate.
There is two walmarts near me, they are in different counties,the closest county the tax rate is 12% and there is a town tax added on too, the farthest county , the tax rate is 8% and no town tax, Every county in the US has a different tax rate.
@@JS-ep4rp Same in Vermont, all 14 counties have a different tax rate and some counties have an additional town tax
Eggs - US eggs are treated with something or other which removes the protective coating on the shell. They need to be refrigerated as a result.
UK eggs are processed differently by egg suppliers and are usually on the shelves near the bread in supermarkets.
We eat eggs a lot - omelettes, scrambled egg on toast, boiled eggs with soldiers, fried eggs with chips and beans, egg mayo on sandwiches or in jacket potatoes, poached eggs, in baking, cooked breakfast, kedgeree, scotch eggs, etc etc
Sales Tax - we have VAT added on to the price of most things (but not food unless it is a cooked meal) in the UK. The price you pay at the till is the advertised price and already has the VAT in it. As you said, prices often end in 99 eg £5.99 or £599 to make them seem cheaper, but they still have the VAT included in them.
We have self checkouts. They drive me nuts because the scanners are a pain in the neck and sometimes won't scan....or the belt that you put your shopping on after paying informs you in a snotty automated voice that there is an "unexpected item in the bagging area " and you have to call a bored gum chewing 17 year old check out assistant over to sort it out... I much prefer to use a till staffed by a human being. Responding with grunts and avoiding eye contact seems to discourage superflous chat...
Eggs are usually with baking ingredients, flour, sugar etc. very useful if you bake a lot of cakes.
Dove - shower gel and moisturiser in the UK.
It’s a whole industry giving things names, based on sociology, etc.
Even “Lizzie”has tried a self checkout in Sainsbury’s.
Traditionally in the UK, grocery stores or greengrocers only sell fresh fruit and vegetables - whereas supermarkets are where you can do your whole weekly 'household' shop (food, cleaning products, drinks, etc)
Walmart apparently doesn't own asda anymore. Asda was bought by 2 British billionaire brothers, they wanted to merge asda & Sainsbury's but it fell through
We have self checkouts but it's a fairly recent addition in the last ten years or so
In the UK
A market is a collection of stalls selling stuff, usually knock offs if not food.
A grocery is a food shop
A grocery store is a big grocery
A supermarket is a very big grocery store
A hypermarket is an aircraft carrier sized grocery store.
It used to be common to have a small grocers selling dry goods like flour, sugar etc while the fresh produce was bought at the green grocer, meat from a butcher and fish from a fishmonger with dairy being delivered door to door. Markets were also still a thing in more rural places with local producers putting up a stall to sell their goods. Supermarkets became more popular (and bigger) in the 80's and led to the decline of the small independent shops. They took their name from the market concept of gathering all the different goods all in one place. The US grocery store did something similar as they expanded the grocers into the large barn they are today.
By paying attention to the prices on shelves and adding it up as you go you can make sure that the till price is accurate. Sometimes they update the till software before doing the shelves and they can't charge you more than the price on the shelf.
In the UK a dove bar is soap, it wouldn't make sense to take the brand name of a totally different product.
In my local supermarkets, the eggs are in the baking section, which is also next to/down the bread aisle.
yep i`ve been to the one in orlando just off of i-drive, and you can drive your car in there for a service while you shop, and the gun and knife section was an eye opener lol.
In the UK the eggs are usually in the baking aisle.
Ours don't need to be refrigerated as we don't wash our eggs (thus not removing the protective membrane on the outside).
Egg production in the US is generally mass production battery caged hens in poor conditions and the eggs are washed in a chemical bath to clean them, this thins the shell out, UK ones are not so have thicker shells and don't require to be put in the Fridge.
Yep we have self checkouts. Ones where you scan you stuff at the checkout and also the alternative where you scan your groceries with either a barcode gun or your mobile phone as you walk around the shop/store and then just pay at the checkout which is a lot quicker.
I loved that u just pack ur items straight away as u shop instead of putting them in the trolley then on to the checkout then into bags and back in to the trolley
@@thabaatballali7493 It makes it so much easier and using a special checkout just for this means rarely any checkout queues
@@davidwebley6186 exactly! I love it!
A big reason for sales tax being applied at the cash, is because different states (and in Canada, different provinces) have different sales taxes. So, for suppliers of the goods to be able to avoid marking different prices on their items for each client in different states, they get to mark 1 price, and save on all the different packaging etc they would otherwise have to use.
There is 14 counties in Vermont, they all have different tax rates and some have an additional town/city tax rate.
Glad you are recovering from corona ... I was so looking forward to watching your reaction to the Queen's jubilee celebrations that took place this past weekend. I hope you'll make a video about it.
We're in the fortunate position that, even if you use a cashier checkout you still don't have to talk to anyone (maybe other than to say no if they try to sell you a bag for your single item)
As usual, a lot of what he says is complete nonsense. In Britain, we have a much greater variety of fresh, healthy food than exists in most US chain stores.
Has he even been back in 14 years? What seems to be the biggest difference is that we tend to only have a couple of options of brands, like the market leader and a cheaper one, or a home brand maybe. They seem to have loads of brands for the same thing in the same shop. Seems like too much choice almost. Also, getting a small sized anything is near impossible. If you can't drink a gallon of juice or milk, you might struggle!
@@HighHoeKermit I think that he came back after about two years but not since, he is funny at times but his channel has become pretty much irrelevant now, a lot has changed in 14 or so years, he is more American than he realises, time to move on I think.
@@chrisshelley3027 Well, funny you should say that, as I always feels he explains the US things more, to his largely US audience. Maybe he is unable to explain the British things any further than he is doing, any more.
Some of the UK supermarkets are getting to the same sort of gargantuan size as those of the USA. He's probably not seen that.
Walmart don't own Asda, they sold it, not sure how old that video is but Lost in the Pond is often way out of date when it comes to the UK.
3 years of getting his food delivered..... Tesco started doing it in 1999 I think and I haven't done a main shop in a supermarket since then. (not 100% sure that's when they started doing it but that's when I started using it because I owned a car with no boot/trunk in 1999 so using it for a big food shop was a nightmare).
Walmart aren't grocery stores if they're selling car parts....
There are currently, in London, a lot of Amazon shops which sell fresh food and lunchtime sandwiches etc where you just wave your phone at a detector at the entrance, and then you just grab what you want and simply walk out, no checkouts at all. When I first tried it, it felt a bit like shoplifting!
I wouldn’t know what that was like as I’ve never shoplifted!
You literally are the spitting image of my best friend here in the uk man. It’s like the world ran out of faces honestly the resemblance is hilarious. 😂😂 just started watching your videos g and I can’t get enough. ☺️
the Mars bar milky-way diffence is easy. We in the UK already had the milky-way bar before Mars set up in the UK. The funny thing is that they all slightly different now. The Milky-war bar in the UK is now marketed more at younger kids and is more whipped and milky, The US 3M bar is closer to the milky-way bar I grow up with in UK in the 80s and the US milky-way has thicker caramel than our Mars bar but are chocolate coating across the board is better than the American candle wax version you get in the US; -) Glad to see your getting better JT.
9:40 i could be wrong, but walkers was already a company in the uk which was bought by whoever owns lays, and because they still wanted to be well known or whatever they didn't change the name to lays.
Eggs aren’t near the beans. They just don’t get refrigerated. They’re usually on a back wall near the bakery or on the baking isle
I hate self checkouts, well, only the ones I’m Asda. I still need to call for an assistant because there’s always an issue.
I hate self checkouts as well, they always have an issue and I spend ages waiting for someone to attend to me, there so frustrating.
And don’t get me started on McD’s long winded way of ordering 😕.
In the UK we have a store called Halfords that's where you get tyres & other car & bike parts etc. Yeah all of UK have self serve tills we call them JT.
Eggs in the UK are often to be found in the baking isle, so with flour etc.
Self checkouts are super common, just pay attention to what type you end up using.
There's some that only take card/contactless payments, they're USUALLY labelled but sometimes it's not quite as clear. There's also a big change where a lot of these stations now record people to reduce theft
I always use cash self checkout in Aussie. 💲
However they are trying to get rid of cash transactions in stores now a days.
At least two thirds of machines are now card payment only, which sucks because of the longer cash queue.
My supermarket has the eggs in the baking section
Walmart doesn't own Asda anymore. Two really rich brothers from the UK own it now. But Walmart still has some shares in it. Its why you will see the Walmart logo still on the signs.
The reason for the name differences is due to copyright. copyright is got by country not worldwide, so when a company moves to another countries market they try to get their own name copyright first, if this is not possible then a new name is made for that market.
Sometimes in the UK you can actually get the odd feather stuck to an egg.
I lived in England in the sixties when you still went to individual stores. Fresh vegs at the green grocer, meat at the butcher, breads at the baker, milk delivered to door every morning, you could buy soda pop from corona guy once a week, can goods at corner store, butter and eggs from a farmer on Saturday market day. Once a month we went to Bury St Edmonds market day for everything else…clothes, furniture, dishes, etc. Personal hygiene products were bought at the BX on base so I don’t know where the Brits bought theirs.
In the sixties personal hygiene products were mostly sold in chemist shops (drugstores).
A market is where every seller has just a few different items, like either meats, berries, legumes or eggs (traditional market). A supermarket has all of these things (Kroger). A hypermarket sells food, clothes, toys, tyres ets (Walmart).
I'm so confused with the milky way thing too 🤔 Its nice to see you looking and feeling better JT , much love to you 💕💕💕
Good to see you again JT
Hey Brit here! Love your videos.
The whole supermarket/grocery store thing is the as same the American way; Except we shorten it down to grocers (which is a small shop that only sells vegetables/food) and then you have supermarkets, that are huge warehouse sized buildings that are mainly focused on food, but most of the time sell other things, like household items and clothes. Also they sometimes have other stores within them, such as a post office/shoe repair place or a cafe for example. So it's basically the same bro.
EDIT: We also have these small versions of supermarkets, usually in a town centre or high street, we call them mini-marts or express stores.
In the UK, the prices for foods is still something like £1.99, the VAT is included in the price and the price is adjusted around that to allow for strategic prices. Someone is much more likely to by a product valued at £1.99 rather than £2.
Also the brand differences between Galaxy and Dove are mostly Americans taking the product and changing the name. The UK names tend to be the originals.
Selling goods at £1.99 rather than £2 was not to fool you into buying, but to keep the item at the lower tax level.
Yea we have self check outs 😂 also tap n pay, packing our own bags, coins in the trolleys (carts for Americans)…I could go on 😂
Milky Way is the kids variant of Mars Bar, more fluffy and light, smaller back in the day...ha probably equal in size these days.
Eggs tend to be either near the baking bits or the bakery and bread
Even Better my friend. We have hand scanners so you can scan it and bag it right there in the trolley/cart. Then scan a barcode as the self checkout.
Our supermarket chains have different sizes as well - which range from small corner shops to normal supermarkets to massive, often 2-storey shops - for example Tesco Express, Tesco Metro, Tesco, Tesco Extra..
Glad you're starting to feel better mate I just had it for 10 days felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Take care brother Another youtuber jps is coming over to England soon hope you can make it some time soon
Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments:
Here in the U.S. the sales tax can vary from state to state. Heck, in some states (such as Ohio) the sales tax has not only state tax but also county tax and city tax components. If corporate headquarters wanted to print out the shelf price labels for consistency, it would be a nightmare to keep track of the different tax rates for all of their stores.
In Europe, we have different countries with different tax in exactly the same way you do across states, and we still manage to do it. It’s exactly the same…
I think that most price labels in the UK are printed out in-store, so, if they did the same in the US, I would think the database could handle adding the tax on.
Also, sometimes individual stores might do a local offer that doesn't apply in other branches, so they need to handle that locally.
The main difficulty posed by varying tax rates would be promotional materials that carry a price but you could show the pre-tax price on the poster or flyer and have both prices on the shelf label.
In America, most grocery stores call themselves supermarkets but their customers call them grocery stores.
Even though Walmart sells groceries, they’re not grocery stores, they’re big box stores.
Correct. In the jargon of the retail industry, Walmart in the US and Argos in the UK are Mass Merchandisers.
UK eggs are next to the bread for that egg sandwich, eggs on toast etc.....makes sense.
Eggs in UK are always by the flour and other things for baking plus they don't need to be refrigerated