$100 Challenge in America’s Most Expensive Supermarket
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I made it to Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost tip of the USA. And my first order of business was going to the local supermarket to see how expensive everything was!! $20 for a roll of toilet paper? $7 for a Gatorade?
Join me in this $100 challenge to see how many things I could get in America’s Most Expensive Supermarket!
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My friend lives in a very remote part of the world, only accessible via a tiny plane or a 4 day hike through the Himalayan Mountains. (Tiny village in Nepal, very high elevation, very isolated) however despite that the markets have been able to keep their prices at affordable levels for most of the residents. He is definitely very thankful for that, if the prices where like this, he and his family would starve. Made me wonder how prices there are able to stay so low there despite the remoteness.
I love how it says "Everyday Low Price!" at 4:57 and it's 14.99 for 12 cans of Dr. Pepper...wow 💀. And yup, there's a Filipino restaurant there! The northernmost carinderia in the world! This is the same situation with the communities of northern Quebec like Puvirnituq! Air Inuit uses Boeing 737s for Combi purposes, as in they carry both passengers and cargo, and they do this throughout the year because there are no roads connecting these communities to the rest of Quebec. This really puts into perspective just how lucky we are in more developed places like the Lower 48 states compared to remote places like Puvirnituq and Utqiagvik, and we should be thankful regardless for what we have.
In McMurdo Station, Antarctica, they get one ship a YEAR for food shipments to the base to feed the researchers. This means because they're stuck with whatever they got from that one shipment, they end up recycling food and serving it as leftovers. That also includes serving expired food because well, when you're in a remote place like Antarctica...an expiration date is just a suggestion. And the researchers need a huge number of calories to work out in harsh temperatures
Its avery the cuban american
Its gmo so its still green
That’s about what we pay here in Seattle
Do this in an Australian supermarket
You mean cheap or expensive? I found the prices there were not bad.
It isn't as expensive as this around the east coast. Especially if you shop at Aldi. If you head into very isolated, rural communities in Australia, I'd say the prices are similar to Barrow.
I was just in Melbourne for two and a half weeks in May (2023). I stayed in the neighborhood of Caulfield because there's a large Jewish community there. Kosher food is a fortune there. The one Coles location that has kosher meat is Coles Elsternwick on Glenhuntly Road. I was told by the family we stayed with that Coles Elsternwick is one of the busiest Coles locations in the country. Most groceries have to be imported so that's why it's so expensive. Gasoline there is $1.80 a liter (for Americans that's $6.80 a gallon) because they have heavy gasoline taxes.
@@AChannelFrom2006 $2.10 a liter is absolutely insane.
@@kobyschechter8163 $2.55 per litre here in NZ 😭 super market prices are even more insane too. After the recent cyclone avocados shot up to $8-12 each.
I live in NYC, and as expensive it is in certain markets for certain food products, Barrow definitely takes the prize for the most expensive Supermarket.
Barrow, Alaska is also 2,077 km south of the North Pole and just 800 km east of Russia
I'm curious to know the salaries/hourly wages of everyone living there because these prices are insane. At least in NY City they pay "premium" wages to slightly offset the cost of living.
As always a fantastic video; really enjoyed seeing the prices of items in Alaska. Keep up the great work and look forward to what’s next , all the best !
America’s most expensive grocery store is Erewhon😄 You should re-try this challenge there!
Great content, as always a fantastic video, I really enjoyed seeing Alaska. TAKE CARE
The same stuff down in Wichita, KS would cost closer to $35 which is still relatively high compared to a decade ago but it shows the disparities between locations.
Growing up in Nome was quite similar, but it had 2 stores (Alaska Commercial Company and a Safeway).
Nome however gets 2 grocery barges a year (I think Utqiagvik gets 1 a year, if weather permits), so people majorly bulk order, outside of trips where they mail food to themselves.
What's scary, with UK inflation, some of these prices didn't really phase me too much 😂
Paper towels for top brand, for 2 big ones, is easily $6-7
12 cans of coke will be $8-10
Papertowels in America are $40 for the family pack of like 8
@@jaridkeen123They're literally cheaper than that in this video. 🙄
Yeh but UK is sh*t hole 😂 here you actually have quality of life
those are normal prices for soda and paper towels in US on the mainland, as well
Lol pretty insane! Awesome video as always🔥🔥
That's getting close to what I pay in Sask Canada now. In a city. But a year ago it would have been outrageous
Putting Erewhon in shame!!!😀
Im surprised that there's Filipinos there honestly I was like wow!! Besides that these prices Alaska is what I'm expecting to see in grocery stores with these inflation happening now
Filipinos are everywhere lmao
My boy made it all bacc with this video hopefully !!!
I'm so happy I found out you have this channel! I like both of your channels! Thank you for all of your hard work!^_^
About the alcohol in Alaska, if u fall drunk or stay in the car drunk on the streets u might freeze to death. They might want to make sure u get drunk indoors or on a porch.
IN TRINIDAD it would b cheaper but not buy much cause we import a lot but also have alot of things we dont need to import so it varies in price
I guess I shouldn't complain about inflation in America. I went grocery shopping this evening and bought over 4 recyclable bags full of groceries for just under $70 via a lot of sale items and using store coupons. I used to spend around $30 per trip, but at least it's not as bad as Barrow, Alaska. Wow!
This is crazy. I really wonder if the locals are earning more money or are there trade-offs like tax breaks, super cheap homes and property taxes, super low fuel prices, etc.
They subsistence hunt for whales, seal, bear, caribou, and forage for berries etc to make up for the insane grocery prices. Everyone in Alaska uses Amazon prime. Most inhabitants are part of native corporations so they get payouts or gov assistance since there’s not many jobs there.
They get paid to live there 💀
Adam Legg from Legglife went to that supermarket in Barrow recently too. It’s crazy
Alaska is Love, Alaska is Life
3:36 that is literally where I live right across from the grove
Omg 😱. These prices are unbelievable. I feel silly for complaining about the prices in Florida 😂😊
The Utqiagvik/Barrow area has been home to the Iñupiat for more than 1,500 years. Archaeological sites in the area indicate the Iñupiat lived around Utqiagvik as far back as 500 AD. Remains of 16 sod dwelling mounds, from the Birnirk culture of about 800, can be seen on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The city's Iñupiaq name refers to a place for gathering wild roots. It is derived from the Iñupiat word utqiq, a word also used for Beringian springbeauty which is a perennial herb indigenous to Alaska, Siberia, and northwestern Canada. The name was first recorded by European explorers in 1853 as "Ot-ki-a-wing" by Commander Rochfort Maguire of the Royal Navy.
The former name Barrow was derived from Point Barrow (which is 9 miles northeast of the city; and is the actual northernmost point in the US) and was originally a general designation because non-native Alaskan residents found it easier to pronounce than the Iñupiaq name. Point Barrow in turn was named after Sir John Barrow of the British Admiralty by explorer Frederick William Beechey in 1825. It wasn't until 2016 that the city approved changing its name to Utqiagvik.
Drew’s economics background is going off the roof in this supermarket. 😂😂😂
Awesome job releasing your video in winter while its enough to cook your self out side now lol
8:58... in Sweden that shampoo is like $2 ... Crazy prices..
Imagine a Whole Foods in Barrow 😂
My boys from Alaska and they make more per hour than we do plus they get paid every year to just live in Alaska alone. One crazy thing is that backwoods are 16 dollars
Those prices are insane! I wonder what the pay is there...
It's quality not quantity. Those items look fresh and high end.
@@chaulam8557water for $7 a gallon looks “fresh and high end “ 😂😂😂
The thumbnail 😂😂😂😂
It's like a duty shop at the airport 😀
This is comparable to grocery prices in New Zealand. Cucumbers go for $5 a pop.
Those $10.79 cheese itz were just on sale here for $1.77 a box with a 5 box limit.
I guess here in Germany it would cost in total 20-25€ at best
Try this in Erewhon because supposedly it’s even more expensive
Here in Canada were getting close to this nonsense! Lol
Hey Drew, I thought that we were being ripped off here in Ireland! Px
Can you imagine if "Whole Paycheck" had a location up there?!?!
Wow the convenience goods are so expensive there.
I honestly thought this was going to be a video about Erewhon but I think it's worse😢
Is barrow the most expensive because of the goods only? Hows the housing prices
Erewhon: *Finally, a worthy opponent*
I saw that Erewhon stores are pretty pricey and I am not to sure if the one in the Alaska is more expensive or Erewhon is?
This is nice episode
You can do this in a Czech or German supermarket.
No Erewhon in Los Angeles in the most expensive Supermarket here in America.
In Morden, Manitoba, Canada, we would pay around $30 CAD for that.
Oh that's cheaper than Sask!
It looks like the perishable items are vastly more expensive but I’m surprised about freezer food
That is the downside of living in Alaska. Here in Oman I went to a Lulu hypermarket the other night and saw that the kefir I bought in usa for like 3 or 4 dollars was 12 dollars here! Of course I passed on that cant afford it and not worth it. But that produce in Burrow looked so much better than the produce here.
The M&Ms actually weren't too expensive considering its size.
In the uk that is really expensive over here you can get a big share bag of m&ms for £1.20
According to Drew feels like Safeway supermarket. However nothing safe about prices.😂
Those prices are insane! Jobs must pay well over there. It's not worth living there
We have similar prices in Guam 🇬🇺
I thought you were going to go to Erewhon 😂
When you said most expensive, I immediately guessed Alaska.
how does Amazon get the stuff there?
As someone who's Jewish, my family buys a LOT of grape juice. I was in Alaska in July 2022. I went to Fairbanks and Anchorage. A half gallon bottle of grape juice at Fred Meyer in Fairbanks was $14.49. That is absolutely insane. In NY at Stop and Shop I can get it for $3.50 when it's on sale around Jewish holiday times.
What about cost of living other than food and gas. What is the average income there?
I ahve never seen such expensive prices, Belgian supermarket alr expensive enough but barrow ones is the most insane I have ever seen I think if we buy these products they cost under 30 euros. But like inflation or idk what called. Prices are skyrocketing
Hawaii is very expensive as well because everything is shipped or by plane. You should do that challenge there
Especially on the islands with very low population I bet
Guam as well because of the Jones Act
The prices that Drew says is that home is way too low I don't think he understands how bad inflation hit
i initially though Erewhon 😅
The prices is okay for them since where else would you spend your money in a town like this literally in the middle on nowhere
12.99 for Gallon of milk is insane man 😅
I'm curious, how much do you pay for a gallon of milk ?
Without any kind of currency conversion, in Brazil, with a hundred reais, you can only buy almost the same stuff. I didn't find so much expensive.
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This is a glimpse into the future for the rest of the US 😮
On the plus side you can carry all your groceries in one trip.
That would be Frozen Sinigang and Frozen In Time Bulalo.🥶🤪
I'm guessing in most cities that would have been Twenty 52 about forty bucks
Go to Erewhon in LA
I bet light bud is cheaper there 😂
WOW!! I don't know how people of average income could afford to live there? I struggle to survive in Glendale Arizona 😮
Many years into the future with inflation, people will look at this and say “what do you mean? Thats super cheap!”
how much do people earn to be able to afford all that expensive food/supplies?
Prices you see in Canadian groceries
OMG...And I thought 3.50 for a gallon of milk was expensive. Holy c**p. Great vid Drew!!! Youre always inspiring.
spend more and buy organic milk. Yes it costs more, but compare the expiration dates to non-organic and taste the difference. Trust me. I get my organic milk from walmart, some $6 a gallon.
@@Jimmy_Boy_Kalahati yeahhh...NO I don't shop at WalMart.
The cheapest gallon of milk I can get is $2.79 at a BJ’s wholesale club. If I go to my local supermarket like ShopRite, it would cost $4.99.
Is $3.50 the normal price for a gallon of milk in the USA? Just wondering. 😊 Here in The Netherlands it's €1.85
@@Lunayss yeah no thats CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP.........I was just in Amsterdam 2 months ago and the food was WAAYYY less expensive than in America.
All these prices reflect the transport cost. I hope the locals are having their income subsidized to help with these costs.
The pay in Alaska is way more then in the other 49 states thats why its expensive. I use to work at Walmart in the mid west us at the time i was a truck unloader the pay was $10 an hour and that was the least payed job at walmart and at the time i was thinking of transferring to the Walmart in Alaska because the pay was $25 an hour to do the same thing i was already doing and that was still the least payed job there.
We're so lucky here in California that we shop in so many stores.
you mean shoplift, right?
I thought prices here were bad 😭 but after watching this I will gladly take my $4 milk and paper towels that’s are at least half the price
California’s theft law is so lenient that you can get away with shoplifting. Honestly, I’d just shoplift and save my grocery money, lol.
Holy Smokes!!!
NZ prices too
Holy shit. Gatorades are $0.68 where I live
You got nothing to make a meal with unless you wrap burgers in kitchen roll. Personally I woulds skip kitchen rolls and use a rag that can be washed regularly.
That alcohol permit thing should be brought to California! Many people should lose their right, they don't drink peacefully or responsibly. In Barrow it's probably too cold to act up LOL
The alcohol permits are a big deal here. We have such bad predisposition to alcoholism in this state that they had to make the permits. A lot of our villages are considered dry. The cities are in the surrounding towns to the cities. But many of the villages are because of issues I’ve been genetically predisposed to severe alcoholism. You would be amazed the rate of homeless alcoholics. We have an Alaska as well as alcohol-based deaths that were extremely preventable. But it’s become a sad thing because it’s such a hard conversation for people in the state to have. No one wants to talk about this huge issue. We are having here.
this kind of prices don't shock me as a Pole this prices in ratio to avarage salary is pretty much the same as in Poland. Of course if you convert prices to USD Poland will be cheap but if you compare prices to average salary it will be almost the same as alaskan. also many other Eastern European countries have the same problem. For outsiders it's very cheap but for its residents it's very expensive.
You could get 30 rolls of TP 🧻 at Costco for $20
Not me worrying about Drew’s health because he spent all $100 on paper towels, candy, meat + milk but doesn’t have any fruit, veg or toilet paper 😅
My dad/grandma always said that in an emergency always buy toilet paper first because if you run out of food people can’t smell you but if you run out of toilet paper everyone around you will know. 🙃
Ehem water soap
Honesty the prices in Seattle are not that far off unless you’re talking about local in season produce which Alaska obviously doesn’t have. We have a sugar sweetened beverage tax here and to buy a case of cokes it’s around $30
Paper towels are easily 5-7 so is a jar of peanut butter or a tub of ice cream. $19-26 for a steak. Meat is around 13-15 a pound unless you find it on clearance or in bulk. I’ve had to start shopping for groceries and dry goods at big lots instead of Safeway
I went out for burgers at a local takeout place not a fancy sit down place and it cost me $40 for two cheeseburgers a large fries and a chocolate shake
I thought this would be a video about erewon
You should go to Erewhon 💀
Prob about 55 to 60 $ in northern michigan
I’d like to buy a hard copy of top 100 Drew. Let me know how. Think would be a great gift for my mom’s 67th. Thanks bud
It’s -20 outside and they still using freezers
Literally same prices as Singapore
Never complaining about Sobeys and Loblaws pricing ever again 💀
What about "EREWHON". How do the prices compare to that store.