I live in the Netherlands and years ago had this American coworker at Compaq DCE whose mom would send him a box with Coca-Cola, potato chips and all kinds of candy every month, because she thought the Netherlands were a poor country with bread and soup lines. He never told her, until his parents came over to visit him and went to Albert Heijn, Super de Boer and Jumbo 😆
3:26 I did the self scanning method for the first time ever pretty recently. Messed up the process at the self-serve checkout so I had to go grab a new scanner, but apart from that it's a smooth experience that involves fewer other people to talk to which I appreciate as someone with social anxiety. The one downside is having to wait for an employee to unlock the checkout process (so they have a chance to see if you've scanned everything).
3:43 especially for bigger grocery buys it’s handy to take a scanner, scan when you get something and at the end you need to wait for at most 2 minutes in stead of the long line and the cashier that needs to scan 100 items
I always use the scanners when I go shopping at the Albert Heijn. Love the time it saves me. Never have to wait while paying at the end. Bags are already packed and you have more self-scan cash registers than regular ones. Another benefit is I can see my shopping list on the scanner too, after I added them in the app at home earlier 😄
We saw a change in the last decades, first supermarkets left the city centers because less people lived there, most space above shops, bars, restaurants etc. were empty or storage. But students, singles, young couples, wanted to live in the center because there is a lot to do and enjoy. So many uptairs were converted into apartments and rented out. People came back and small supermarkets came back to city centers. In the suburbs we had big malls with plenty shops, but slowly people liked to buy their daily needs closer to home. Small supermarkets spread over the suburbs, and big malls were losing customers. People buy fresh vegetables, fruit, fresh meat and fish for only one or two days in small quantities. Giant fridges and deepfreezers are out. Most Dutch buy what they need on the way home from work, in a short stop.
I usually use a backpack when I go shopping (using the bicycle). It's just a couple of minutes away, so I can conveniently go there multiple times a week. Only when I plan to buy large items (like a crate of beer) I use the car.
My guy, you are doing the exact same thing. If you call Amsterdam Disneyland, you really are only focussing on the city center. Amsterdam is our biggest city, and the best neighbourhoods aren't even IN the city center. You can call it Disneyland, but you'd be pretty hypocritical.
Where I live, The Hague area, a lot of supermarkets are present within 1 km from home. Currently there are 7 supermarkets within 1 km from home. Those are not the small to-go supermarkets but mid and big size supermarkets. In The Hague we have at least 4 days a week the big market (biggest of at least the Netherlands) and every day (except Sunday) there is a market somewhere in The Hague.
I live in a pretty small town, and we have two grocery stores. Takes me a five minute bike ride to get to one. Go about 3-4 times a week, just getting what I need. Having to go to a massive warehouse to get groceries, by car as you showed is so dystopian :O
In most towns there is a weekly 'farmers' market, the times it is there varies per town. Big cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen and so on have markets almost every day of the week in a different part of the city. How much you buy in one shopping spree also depends on how much storage you have at home. Older homes with a basement for example can store more long lasting groceries then living in an apartment or flat.
Dutchie here: So, most people indeed do dayly, weekly shopping, then also, when i go there, i bring my backpack, i scan automatically and put it in and return home. The female in the video on 2:47 probably puts her bags, or dog in the basket. Im not living in a big city, only an area with 30,000 total, they're in the city centre at saturday . It feels luxerious to me, but most people still hate going to the supermarket.
in the Netherlands there are also big Grocery shops but they are more like wholesale shops they have alot more different products and are called the Sligro. Makro & Hanos.
@@dutchgamer842 Maxis hypermarkt komt gelijk in mij op. Zulke formules werken al vele jaren niet meer in Nederland. Nu is Maxis niets meer dan vreemd geplaatst winkelcentrum
@@rafierafie8834 Maxis werkte wel alleen Bertelsmann(of andere) had het gekocht en er A&P Maxis hypermarkt van gemaakt. Alleen die trokken zich terug uit Nederland, ze hadden A&P Hypermarkt en de Supermarkten in Nederland verkocht aan Schuitema&Ahold(Hoewel Ahold 73% eigenaar was van Schuitema) AH en C1000 deden niet aan Hypermarkten dus dat betekende het einde ervan, A&P Maxis hypermarkt werden Maxis en Trefcenter (de oude namen) als overdekt winkelcentrum met AHXL erin of grote C1000. Aangezien, Jumbo en Hema bijelkaar hoort, zou dit soort winkels wel mogelijk moeten zijn, Jumbo en Hema in een hypermarkt, waarbij ze het failliete Blokker en Game Mania inlijven en dat assortiment in de hypermarkt aanbieden, Jumbo heeft ook Jumbo Sport.
1:54 I grew up in a town so small, it doesn't even have a shop. Since we'd have to go out of town for groceries, we'd only go once a week, and made sure to have enough food and other necessities to last at least a few weeks (it's recommended people have shelve stable food and bottled water for at least three days as emergency rations, in case of disaster. But my mum understands that that's the minimum, and with 4 children, she wasn't gonna take any risks) I now live in a bigger town, with 6 different grocery shops, several green grocers, butchers, cheese shops, etc. Instead of heading into town every day to buy groceries, I just go to the shop once or twice a week after work, since I'm already in the car and will have the space for weekly shopping. Might also be because heading into town means meeting people who want to talk to me, and I'm not a huge fan of that (I'm just good at faking being extravert)
Most other cities have lots of supermarkets too, in the country side people do more once a week grocery shopping by car, but not as much when they live in villages big enough or central enough for one or more supermarkets. I just bring a bag I know to fit on the front rack. If it fits the bag it fits the bike. But you can always take more by hanging a big 2 euro shopping bag from your handlebars. That just doesn't ride as comfortable so that is only for occasions.
It's much safer to use bike bags than to hang anything from your steering rod. That's why I always have my bike bags on my bike, just in case. And when I won a big shopper bag full or groceries at the Jumbo, I was glad I had those bike bags! (still needed my basket and backpack as well, though)
My cycling trip home goes right past my cities main street so I encounter half a dozen supermarkets and a dozen or so smaller food stores. That is during a 10 minute cycling trip. 10 minutes in the other direction from my home is another shopping area with 2 supermarkets. And the only reason there isn't a shopping area. There is also a third shopping area with a large (by Dutch standards) parking lot 5 minutes from home. And the main reason there isn't a forth shopping area 5 minutes form home is likely due to corruption, as an influential member of our local government appears to be a franchise owner of 1 of the supermarkets in the second area. So they need to cycle a whole 15 minutes if they want to go shopping in a different area. Yes, that is a long time to travel for a shipping trip when you live in a city here.
I, work 3.6 km from my house. And on the way back. I pass 2 AH. And 1 minuut past. My house is a Jumbo and a Lidl. I, never go to the Lidl. The 3.6 km by car is 11 minutes and by bike 6 ore 7 minutes. Greetings from Bunschoten-Spakenburg the Netherlands. Amersfoort is the next big city 9 km from Bunschoten-Spakenburg. I was at highschool there. But now I never com there. To big, traffic lights, parking costs. At Bunschoten-Spakenburg parking is free! And 2 traffic lights. That's it 2!
Every big city in netherlands have a lot of many options to shop, very rarely villages have no shops if they dont its a very small village. Amsterdam is mentioned in this video because most forneigers like amsterdam and most dutch people dislike amsterdam. Markets depense on the city. In eindhoven we have 3 a week (that im aware of)
Even in those villages, people are often able to ride their bike to the next town in 15 to 30 minutes, and might visit a shop on their way home from work, so daily shopping isn't impossible or impractical for everyone there either. Coming from a big family, though, weekly shopping was more efficient, as 6 people will eat a lot. So mum would just load us in the car once a week, buy groceries for at least a week, and have us help her loading and unloading, because there'd always be several crates and bags full of food and other necessities. She also made sure there'd always be enough food to last a few weeks, instead of the government recommendation of having enough food and bottled water to last 3 days, in case of disaster (yes, this is an actual recommendation, and as someone living in a town that gets partially flooded from time to time, I think that's a pretty good recommendation)
I live in a town of 20,000 and we have 5 supermarkets, 3 are in the town center, AH, Nettorama and Hoogvliet and in other neighborhoods another AH, Lidl and Aldi. And our neighboring town, forming one buildup area with our town, has a Jumbo. So many supermarket choices. And we have a big week market in the town center on Thursday, but they’re gone at 17:00, just when I arrive home from work. I always shop two or three times a week for groceries, walking or biking.
3:33 nope..as I sayd.. I puit them in red and go to a person.. and oh my goood... rebag my groceries.. the effort... it saves me to go to the gym.. all that work, man... getting groceries out bag to be scanned by someone working for her/his money instead of instavlogging...
2:50 nope.. Dutch, moms are superhumans.. ultra females.. they bike with 4 kids on their bike, and have 4 shoppingbags on each side ot he steering handles, and hold up an umbrella simultaneusly... but Dutch men do the same, but wanted to give Dutch girls a cheer :)
Personally I don't like doing my shopping in a "warehouse" like those MEGA stores in North America. It has no atmosphere compared to the Netherlands, you have to get so much at once because the distances are ridiculous to "just" get a block of cheese etc etc so you are actually obliged to buy a lot.....I like the way we have it here in the Netherlands, most things are around the corner and as NJB already indicated, one day you want this and the next day something else...and fresher since it doesn't have to be in the fridge for weeks like in North America.
me personally have a car but most shopping i do by bike i just take a backpack buy for a day maybe 2. if i need more or for instance cat litter i usually take the car. just because its easier to do. my shopping mall in the area has 3 carparks but paid, but its easy you can download a app on your phone you can park everywhere with the app the camera at the car park scans your number plate and if you have the app it just lets you in when you leave you get the bill on the app and you pay it automatically everymonth. if there is no camera you just activate it yourself in the app for how long etc and your done. my neighbourhood actually has a low number of shops because we have a pritty big mall and 2 neighbourhood centers close so no need for more, atmost its 5 mins away.
I live in the Netherlands and years ago had this American coworker at Compaq DCE whose mom would send him a box with Coca-Cola, potato chips and all kinds of candy every month, because she thought the Netherlands were a poor country with bread and soup lines.
He never told her, until his parents came over to visit him and went to Albert Heijn, Super de Boer and Jumbo 😆
So it was before Jumbo bought Super De Boer or was during the time they already bought it and started changing Super deep Boer into Jumbo
3:26 I did the self scanning method for the first time ever pretty recently. Messed up the process at the self-serve checkout so I had to go grab a new scanner, but apart from that it's a smooth experience that involves fewer other people to talk to which I appreciate as someone with social anxiety. The one downside is having to wait for an employee to unlock the checkout process (so they have a chance to see if you've scanned everything).
3:43 especially for bigger grocery buys it’s handy to take a scanner, scan when you get something and at the end you need to wait for at most 2 minutes in stead of the long line and the cashier that needs to scan 100 items
I always use the scanners when I go shopping at the Albert Heijn. Love the time it saves me. Never have to wait while paying at the end. Bags are already packed and you have more self-scan cash registers than regular ones.
Another benefit is I can see my shopping list on the scanner too, after I added them in the app at home earlier 😄
We saw a change in the last decades, first supermarkets left the city centers because less people lived there, most space above shops, bars, restaurants etc. were empty or storage. But students, singles, young couples, wanted to live in the center because there is a lot to do and enjoy. So many uptairs were converted into apartments and rented out. People came back and small supermarkets came back to city centers.
In the suburbs we had big malls with plenty shops, but slowly people liked to buy their daily needs closer to home. Small supermarkets spread over the suburbs, and big malls were losing customers. People buy fresh vegetables, fruit, fresh meat and fish for only one or two days in small quantities. Giant fridges and deepfreezers are out.
Most Dutch buy what they need on the way home from work, in a short stop.
I usually use a backpack when I go shopping (using the bicycle). It's just a couple of minutes away, so I can conveniently go there multiple times a week. Only when I plan to buy large items (like a crate of beer) I use the car.
as the average Dutch person does 😄
It says " in amsterdam" because foreigners only focus on the disneyland of NL. And i don't mean disneyland in a good way.😅
My guy, you are doing the exact same thing. If you call Amsterdam Disneyland, you really are only focussing on the city center. Amsterdam is our biggest city, and the best neighbourhoods aren't even IN the city center. You can call it Disneyland, but you'd be pretty hypocritical.
Also Jason, (from NotJustBikes) lives in Amsterdam so obviously has a lot of footage from there.
Where I live, The Hague area, a lot of supermarkets are present within 1 km from home. Currently there are 7 supermarkets within 1 km from home. Those are not the small to-go supermarkets but mid and big size supermarkets. In The Hague we have at least 4 days a week the big market (biggest of at least the Netherlands) and every day (except Sunday) there is a market somewhere in The Hague.
I live in a pretty small town, and we have two grocery stores. Takes me a five minute bike ride to get to one. Go about 3-4 times a week, just getting what I need. Having to go to a massive warehouse to get groceries, by car as you showed is so dystopian :O
In most towns there is a weekly 'farmers' market, the times it is there varies per town. Big cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen and so on have markets almost every day of the week in a different part of the city.
How much you buy in one shopping spree also depends on how much storage you have at home. Older homes with a basement for example can store more long lasting groceries then living in an apartment or flat.
It's all over the Netherlands. I go every day.
Than I no what I what to eat.
Greetings from Bunschoten-Spakenburg the Netherlands
Dutchie here: So, most people indeed do dayly, weekly shopping, then also, when i go there, i bring my backpack, i scan automatically and put it in and return home. The female in the video on 2:47 probably puts her bags, or dog in the basket. Im not living in a big city, only an area with 30,000 total, they're in the city centre at saturday . It feels luxerious to me, but most people still hate going to the supermarket.
in the Netherlands there are also big Grocery shops but they are more like wholesale shops they have alot more different products and are called the Sligro. Makro & Hanos.
most of them are exclusive for businesses though.
That's not the same and we actually used to have actual stores for consumers that were that large
@@dutchgamer842 Maxis hypermarkt komt gelijk in mij op. Zulke formules werken al vele jaren niet meer in Nederland. Nu is Maxis niets meer dan vreemd geplaatst winkelcentrum
@@rafierafie8834 Maxis werkte wel alleen Bertelsmann(of andere) had het gekocht en er A&P Maxis hypermarkt van gemaakt. Alleen die trokken zich terug uit Nederland, ze hadden A&P Hypermarkt en de Supermarkten in Nederland verkocht aan Schuitema&Ahold(Hoewel Ahold 73% eigenaar was van Schuitema) AH en C1000 deden niet aan Hypermarkten dus dat betekende het einde ervan, A&P Maxis hypermarkt werden Maxis en Trefcenter (de oude namen) als overdekt winkelcentrum met AHXL erin of grote C1000.
Aangezien, Jumbo en Hema bijelkaar hoort, zou dit soort winkels wel mogelijk moeten zijn, Jumbo en Hema in een hypermarkt, waarbij ze het failliete Blokker en Game Mania inlijven en dat assortiment in de hypermarkt aanbieden, Jumbo heeft ook Jumbo Sport.
1:54
I grew up in a town so small, it doesn't even have a shop.
Since we'd have to go out of town for groceries, we'd only go once a week, and made sure to have enough food and other necessities to last at least a few weeks (it's recommended people have shelve stable food and bottled water for at least three days as emergency rations, in case of disaster. But my mum understands that that's the minimum, and with 4 children, she wasn't gonna take any risks)
I now live in a bigger town, with 6 different grocery shops, several green grocers, butchers, cheese shops, etc.
Instead of heading into town every day to buy groceries, I just go to the shop once or twice a week after work, since I'm already in the car and will have the space for weekly shopping.
Might also be because heading into town means meeting people who want to talk to me, and I'm not a huge fan of that (I'm just good at faking being extravert)
We buy groceries once a week with the car though, and there is a parking place at our supermarket but its also a place with market and other shops.
You'll find the XL grocery stores in the suburbs. They have big parking lots.
Most other cities have lots of supermarkets too, in the country side people do more once a week grocery shopping by car, but not as much when they live in villages big enough or central enough for one or more supermarkets.
I just bring a bag I know to fit on the front rack. If it fits the bag it fits the bike. But you can always take more by hanging a big 2 euro shopping bag from your handlebars. That just doesn't ride as comfortable so that is only for occasions.
It's much safer to use bike bags than to hang anything from your steering rod.
That's why I always have my bike bags on my bike, just in case.
And when I won a big shopper bag full or groceries at the Jumbo, I was glad I had those bike bags! (still needed my basket and backpack as well, though)
@@nonexistingvoid I've biked with more difficult things. Just take it easy and i'll be fine.
@@DenUitvreter My mum would end me if she saw me put anything on my steering rod 😂
My cycling trip home goes right past my cities main street so I encounter half a dozen supermarkets and a dozen or so smaller food stores. That is during a 10 minute cycling trip. 10 minutes in the other direction from my home is another shopping area with 2 supermarkets. And the only reason there isn't a shopping area. There is also a third shopping area with a large (by Dutch standards) parking lot 5 minutes from home. And the main reason there isn't a forth shopping area 5 minutes form home is likely due to corruption, as an influential member of our local government appears to be a franchise owner of 1 of the supermarkets in the second area. So they need to cycle a whole 15 minutes if they want to go shopping in a different area. Yes, that is a long time to travel for a shipping trip when you live in a city here.
I live a one minute walk from 2 supermarkets and next to my job there are two supermarkets so I always walk.
I use the scanners all the time.. i love efficiency😊
I, work 3.6 km from my house. And on the way back. I pass 2 AH. And 1 minuut past. My house is a Jumbo and a Lidl. I, never go to the Lidl.
The 3.6 km by car is 11 minutes and by bike 6 ore 7 minutes.
Greetings from Bunschoten-Spakenburg the Netherlands.
Amersfoort is the next big city 9 km from Bunschoten-Spakenburg. I was at highschool there. But now I never com there. To big, traffic lights, parking costs. At Bunschoten-Spakenburg parking is free! And 2 traffic lights. That's it 2!
6:02 Kane Pixels !!!!
I live in Veldhoven and I got 3 supermarkets in MY STREET alone lmao
I used to seethe seldscan for the first time in scotland found it fantastic. Shame they turned away from it.
Always use the scanners, not because efficient, but because I don't wanna deal with people lmao
Every big city in netherlands have a lot of many options to shop, very rarely villages have no shops if they dont its a very small village. Amsterdam is mentioned in this video because most forneigers like amsterdam and most dutch people dislike amsterdam. Markets depense on the city. In eindhoven we have 3 a week (that im aware of)
Even in those villages, people are often able to ride their bike to the next town in 15 to 30 minutes, and might visit a shop on their way home from work, so daily shopping isn't impossible or impractical for everyone there either.
Coming from a big family, though, weekly shopping was more efficient, as 6 people will eat a lot.
So mum would just load us in the car once a week, buy groceries for at least a week, and have us help her loading and unloading, because there'd always be several crates and bags full of food and other necessities.
She also made sure there'd always be enough food to last a few weeks, instead of the government recommendation of having enough food and bottled water to last 3 days, in case of disaster (yes, this is an actual recommendation, and as someone living in a town that gets partially flooded from time to time, I think that's a pretty good recommendation)
I live in a town of 20,000 and we have 5 supermarkets, 3 are in the town center, AH, Nettorama and Hoogvliet and in other neighborhoods another AH, Lidl and Aldi. And our neighboring town, forming one buildup area with our town, has a Jumbo. So many supermarket choices. And we have a big week market in the town center on Thursday, but they’re gone at 17:00, just when I arrive home from work. I always shop two or three times a week for groceries, walking or biking.
Depends on where they have the best (grass-fed) beef.
3:33 nope..as I sayd.. I puit them in red and go to a person.. and oh my goood... rebag my groceries.. the effort... it saves me to go to the gym.. all that work, man... getting groceries out bag to be scanned by someone working for her/his money instead of instavlogging...
My shopping experience consist of sitting at my desk, browsing, ordering, paying and receiving at home
That takes longer
2:50 nope.. Dutch, moms are superhumans.. ultra females.. they bike with 4 kids on their bike, and have 4 shoppingbags on each side ot he steering handles, and hold up an umbrella simultaneusly... but Dutch men do the same, but wanted to give Dutch girls a cheer :)
Personally I don't like doing my shopping in a "warehouse" like those MEGA stores in North America. It has no atmosphere compared to the Netherlands, you have to get so much at once because the distances are ridiculous to "just" get a block of cheese etc etc so you are actually obliged to buy a lot.....I like the way we have it here in the Netherlands, most things are around the corner and as NJB already indicated, one day you want this and the next day something else...and fresher since it doesn't have to be in the fridge for weeks like in North America.
At AH supermarket I always use my smartphone to scan products
me personally have a car but most shopping i do by bike i just take a backpack buy for a day maybe 2. if i need more or for instance cat litter i usually take the car. just because its easier to do. my shopping mall in the area has 3 carparks but paid, but its easy you can download a app on your phone you can park everywhere with the app the camera at the car park scans your number plate and if you have the app it just lets you in when you leave you get the bill on the app and you pay it automatically everymonth. if there is no camera you just activate it yourself in the app for how long etc and your done. my neighbourhood actually has a low number of shops because we have a pritty big mall and 2 neighbourhood centers close so no need for more, atmost its 5 mins away.
I only order for the last 15 years from AH. Dont even know how a supermarket would look like these days😅
We as dutchies can fit a konths worth of grocerys on bike trust me we fill 4 bags 2 eachside of the handlebar
Now you can use your phone to scan your groceries and pay with it.
Fresh market is not always cheaper unfortunately.
The rest of the Netherlands is better 👍🏻
'Better' except for the ridiculous prices and sales tax.
Bro can you atleast mute your couchs wtf 😭
Pls don't call Amsterdam Dutch pls.. It's not Dutch anymore.
Supermarkets in the Netherlands are all the same, Amsterdam is no exception, maybe they think that there. But that's their problem
Another problem is people thinking the Netherlands is just Amsterdam.