American Reacts to British vs. American Grocery Stores
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2023
- As an American I have absolutely no idea what the average British grocery store or supermarket is like, but today I am going to find out. I can imagine some of the brands being different but I am really curious to see what other kinds of major differences there may be. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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It always makes me chuckle when people talk about eggs needing to be in the dairy section with all the other dairy products as if they are laid by cows.😂
Yep I was going to say the same thing, People associate eggs with dairy for some reason
Imagine the size of a cow’s egg!
i am so not eating a cow egg, 🤢🤮
British is best full stop not period.
@@17Blower They come from a farm perhaps is the reason. If they are refrigerated then it perhaps so the bank of fridges are together.
British eggs are not washed and have a protective layer which keeps them safe. Eggs can be kept safely in the cupboard long past their use by date! Nature knows best! You can have too much choice - that's why I love Aldi!
To add to this, the US enforces that all eggs be washed with chlorine due to the fact farms have less strict regulation. The natural protective layer can keep most things out, but US farms can be so dirty that the natural protection will not stop it. Most other places in the world have more regulation on the farms themselves, meaning they can leave the natural protective layer on, therefore meaning they can stay fresh for longer and don't need to be refrigerated.
Can't stand Aldi, much prefer Lidl personally. Aldi has better looking packaging but Lidl has better quality products, imho.
I prefer Sainsbury's. They deliver to my house.
@@obijon7441 do you think? I've used both and you can tell that a lot of the products are exactly the same but with slightly different packaging. Lidl does do some stuff that Aldi don't do, like some foreign foods, maybe Polish stuff? I'm not sure. But quality wise I think they're pretty much the same
Just come back from mine. Relaxing with a nice cidre de Normandie.
Eggs are usually found in or near the baking section with flour, nuts, dried fruit, treacle etc
Yes, because eggs are not dairy! Why do Americans struggle with this concept?
@@twigletz7384 to 'them' as it comes from the animal, an orifice like milk from a nipple/teat, the egg from a cloaca/ovum duct is considered dairy... hence why an American slang for being sucked off is, forgive me, '..I gave her my milkshake.'
Used to be the case in 5he Australian supermarket I work for, until a few years ago when they started treati g the eggs the American way snd they were moved to the dairy section.
Walkers crisps are owned by PepsiCo but kept the walkers' logo for the UK market as we Brits get a bit tetchy when you mess with our brand names, we are still trying to come to terms with the Snickers bar which in the UK was called Marathon until 1990, which was 33 years ago 😮, it still feels wrong to call it snickers 😢
And you can no longer do the joke:
"I entered a marathon once
Got a peanut stuck under my 4skin"
Cannot get my head around the idea you’d have no idea of your total bill until you go to the till and they add tax. I always keep track of how much I’ve spent as I shop
Me too I'd hate to a nervous wreck at till thinking omg how much more is this gonna be 😢
Hi Tyler In the U.K. eggs have what's called a cuticle which is a protein layer that covers the surface of the egg and fills the pores that allow air inside for the growing chick. The cuticle prevents bacteria from entering the egg and forms its first line of defence against infection. In America this cuticle is destroyed during the washing process and therefore bacteria can enter the egg hence the need for refrigeration. Most American chocolate contains butyric acid
which prevents the milk going off. Butyric acid is banned in the U.K. and E.U. as it is a known health risk, incidentally butyric acid is found in baby vomit!
I’ve tried several brands of American made chocolate and it tastes like sugary hardened vomit.
Our choc is far less sweet but creamier.
Cadbury US and Cadbury UK are very very different.
Thank butyric acid for that
Also because US chocolate is generally made with corn syrup where UK (used to, anyway) use sugar beet. Cadbury products under license in US and Canada are nothing like as good.
I genuinely dont understand why american chocolate smells and tastes exactly like vomit, let alone the weird greasy texture...awful stuff
@alex robertson that's because it contains butyric acid that is also found in vomit.
During their US week Lidl used to stock US made Hershey bars, but a month later and the box would still be on the shelf with, maybe, one or two bars missing. Nobody wanted to buy them [but no such problem for Lidl own chocolate] so they don't even bother to put them out any longer.
We don't have to refrigerate our eggs because they haven't been washed, a process which removes the barrier which prevents bacteria crossing through the shell. Our eggs can happily sit at room temperature until we use them.
One of the big differences I have gathered that he didn't mention is the 'Meal Deal'. All grocery stores have some vrsion of this here, and I understand this isn't common in the US. A 'Meal Deal' is typically 3 items - a pack of sandwiches, some crisps(potato chips) and a small bottle of drink - sold together at a great discount - perhaps the regular cost of 2 items for all three. A lot of people grab these for lunch on the go.
The *crazy science* of not damaging eggs during processing. Also Americans love white eggs, while Brits find brown eggs more 'wholesome' despite neither being different internally.
Plus we vaccinate our chickens against Salmonella - so our eggs are not coated in dangerous bacteria. And we attempt to keep our eggs as clean as possible after they are laid to avoid having to clean them before sale. The natural barrier on egg shells has prevented bacteria from entering eggs and damaging the embryo for millions of years. Leave it intact and it works just as nature intended.
Oh cool. I never knew that.
@@aannddrryyaa The reason US eggs have to be washed is because of the poor animal standards that hens are allowed to be kept under in the USA - their eggs are generally contaminated with chicken poop. Similarly, the chicken meat has to be washed in chlorinated water in the US, because of the poor conditions. Not that this actually kills all the bacteria. In the UK/EU animals have to be kept so they don't require this sort of cleaning.
@@wessexdruid7598 Respect for other life is essential.
You might enjoy these 2 vids by Evan Edinger - 'The average cost of groceries in Britain vs America' and 'Is Aldi that much cheaper? | British vs American groceries 2'
Yes, these videos are excellent. Well worth watching
Yes well worth a look yep.
In South Africa we also do not wash the eggs before purchase. Nature preserves them quite well without refrigeration. Another similarity to the UK is that our VAT is also included in the shelf price and not added on at the checkout, so the price advertised is the price you pay.
Is it just a USA thing? I've been throughout Europe, Turkey, Tunisia and never had to pay tax on top of the shelf price and I can't remember paying above the shelf price in Mexico either.
@@luvstellauk Same in Ireland and New Zealand.
@@luvstellauk Yup, largely an US only thing, because as disunited the individual states are in politics, so they are in state and federal subsidies to farmers, animal rearing, poulty/foul farms etc, along with the proclivities of the US population, particularly those whom think they are Republican, typically hating paying any tax cents where ever possible, the US is this historically & 'traditionally' forced by those anti-common-good nutjobs to have tax not included in prices.
So Rucking Fetarded !
I seem to have heard how, unlike UK and other countries mentioned by respondents, the sales tax on goods sold in US differs from State to State, possibly even from one Local Government area to another within a single State which makes pricing difficult, especially for companies with outlets in multiple areas or States. Please correct me if I’m wrong …
@@kittyjohnstone5915 I have heard the same.
I have never seen eggs "hanging around with the beans" here in the UK. If the eggs are not in the dairy section they are normally with the bakery products.
Yep, never seen eggs in the tins isle, always by the flour, sugar etc
Sometimes near the long life milk
The eggs in my French Aldi are next to the milk. Neither anywhere near a fridge. France doesn't do baked beans unless they are expensive imports. But, I make my own.
im thinking about that too,, near the beans?
Beans are with the tinned vegetables and soups which may be near the bakery isle but it's a bit of a stretch to say the eggs are with the beans
When I visited London, what I noticed is that the cashiers are seated, not standing…much more humane than having to stand up for the entire shift
Also a huge recent change in many UK stores is the checkouts going self-service where you swipe your debit /credit card to pay not a 100% thing as you have to call for assistance if the
Machine detects something like a age restricted product when you scan/swipe it.. Holds up the line if the store is busy.
They also retain 1 or 2 manned checkouts for customers with
loose cash.
@@texbankuk Though some of the self-service tills will take cash too - I got rid of several pounds’ worth of 1p and 2p coins I’d accumulated over several years, in Aldi, when I discovered that!
@@texbankuk in my small Tesco they recently installed self service checkouts which is great so I don’t have to talk to anyone. Also the age restricted items can be controlled by one person at the manned till, so they don’t have to physically check it which makes them somewhat redundant.
@@arwelp My local Coop's self service had a dump tray instead of a coin slot so evey now and then I just dump all the shrapnel I have in it.
I find it amusing that in the US, where stereotypically the people are known for driving instead of walking, that the brand of crisps(chips) sold there are called Lays and are called Walkers in the UK
The carts/trolleys are different too. In the UK all the 4 wheels pivot so you can turn on a dime. This is useful as you navigate as you like, there is no 'lane' system where you cant go anywhere, in any direction, and turn around when you feel like it. American carts steer with front wheels only.
Problem is when one wheel is a bit stiff and the trolley doesn't like to go straight
As a Brit, the American trolleys are better.
Just to note, Asda is no longer owned by Walmart, they sold it a few years ago as they just couldn't understand the British market.
More so the UK trend has been moving towards large convenience sized stores rather than just big central superstores and hyper stores. People in UK are more likely to do smaller mid week shops and to walk to shops.
A lot of that is down to LIDL and Aldi concentrating on local supermarkets instead of large out of town hypermarkets too.
@@B-A-L Can-Not-Fault-Aldi.
A lot to do with that is that America doesn't have shops in housing estates.
eg: I can walk less that 500 steps and i'm at both a Spar and a Premiere
(Spar is a (small) supermarket brand name)
Very often a house along your street has been converted into a "corner"shop / convenience store.
Heck Stateside, District associations don't even allow your bins to be seen ½ hour before collection where my sister lives (south carolina) and I think it's the same for my brother who lives in Dover, NH.
Just to add that as an actual Asda Employee we reverted back to being British last year, with " Walmart " owning a 10 % share still of Asda. Believe me Walmart made massive profits from Asda in the years of ownership while letting the high standards of the original Asda slip badly.
@@0utcastAussie spar and premier are franchises.
I remember visiting the US quite a few years ago, and being amazed that you could buy guns, ammunition and other hunting equipment in a grocery.
And in a chemist/pharmacy too.
Lawrence is really out of touch with the UK. He been away far to long and comes from a very shelter town in the northeast of England.
Take Sainsbury, for instance. You have 3 different stores.
Your small local store for your everyday basics, and these are on every high street, everywhere, then you have the supermarket then you have the Superstore which will have everything from selling you a holiday, to all your DIY needs. They have cafés and some even have pubs located in the store, and these have like 3 huge floors.
For variety, the reason America will have a million different variety of one brand I'd be because the laws are different and most of those varieties would not pass the food standard in the UK.
American Supermarkets may have had the wow factor 10 years ago, but are far behind from innovation and even technology influences in the UK superstores.
You can buy lightbulbs, some smaller furniture, clothing, baby supplies in uk grocery stores too.
yes
Canada taxes are added on when you pay..love the UK for the sticker price is what you pay..
In Britain Dove is a soap/toiletries brand, not chocolate!
Same in germany
And SA
Walkers used to be a British brand, and also regional too. Founded in 1948 in Leicester. When I was a kid growing up in South London, we didn't have Walkers crisps. But one of my uncles owned the village shop in a small village up in Hertfordshire, and he only sold Walkers crisps, that was the first place I'd ever seen them.
But then one day America came along and started buying up all our brands, and suddenly Walkers started to look just like Lay's. 🙄
Pepsi co. Own both walkers and lays
@@cyberash3000 Lays are an international brand based on walkers. As far as I understand the story, Pepsi bought Walkers because of their packaging technology. The technology is to do with foil wrapping the crisps (potato chips). The Lays brand was how they used that technology.
@moobs moomin
Golden Wonder was Corby (& Scunthorpe). Also made in Corby was smiths crisps
Walkers is Leicester.
@moobs moomin Yep, where I grew up in South London, it was mainly Smith's and Golden Wonder, with a handful of smaller brands. We never saw Walkers.
@@moobsmoomin4382 i grew up in the proper place the north, and we had walkers and bensons
Because our "sales tax" (VAT) is set nationally it is easy to add to the retail sticker price. The only time one might see a price without the VAT included is on business websites or trade shops where the purchaser may be registered to claim back the VAT (business purchases for resale later) - so the base price is what they need for accounting purposes.
yep, the US has different tax rates in different areas, so for companies that operate beyond a single local store it's far more convenient & cheaper to have the basic price then add a "plus tax" bit at the end rather than making localised POS displays, labels, ads etc. for all the different versions.
This is an old video. Walmart sold Asda around 2 years ago to 2 british brothers. Walmart now doesn't own any stores in the UK.
The difference between British and American eggs is a whole other video, there's plenty of videos about this you could react to.
Massive stores mean lots of walking time spent shopping for weekly essentials. This is one reason why smaller international grocery stores, like Lidl and Aldi, are becoming more attractive and becoming serious competition for the larger stores.
It's not just that you never pay more at the Till than the price that you saw on the shelf, but in some cases, if you buy two or three of a certain type of item in the UK, when you come to pay you could actually pay less than the price on the shelf, because of "deals" - "3 for 2" - "Meal Deals" - "2 for 1" etc. And your receipt will often show you just how much you have saved on that shop
You really call galaxy chocolate dove?! If I was given that I would think someone was trying to poison me with Shampoo
Dove is soap products isn't it?
@@luvstellauk ye
Me too! I thought SOAP!
Eggs are usually in the home baking section in my experience, which makes sense to me. I hate that they put fruit and veg at the first point you reach. It means reorganising the trolley as you go round necessary in order not to crush the fresh produce under beans, bottles etc. Fruit, veg and bread should be the last to go in. I also only shop at smaller supermarkets. They have enough variety for me, and I dislike having to negotiate toys, patio furniture and electronics when all I want to do is buy my weekly groceries. All the other stuff is a different shopping trip altogether.
Putting the staples like bread, milk and eggs at the back of the store is still common so one has to walk past everything else (tempting one's taste buds). Most supermarkets have a divided trolley so delicate items can be separated from the heavy stuff.
@Tony S my local supermarkets used to have divided trolleys, but they replaced them with new ones which don't have a divider. That is why there is an issue.
idk if it's in every country in the world, but at least in europe, the price on the price tag is the final price. the stores already added the sales tax(v.a.t.) to it, so if you go around shopping and calculating the total of everything you grab and it amounts to €36.63, when you get to the register to pay, that's exactly how much you'll be paying
Yeah, the reason why we have the final price on the label is from when we're in the EU and that's what was mandated there
@@FahadAyaz No, the price on the shelf was the price you paid LONG before we joined the EU, even long before we had VAT, when it was a purchase tax. There was a point at the change to VAT where the supermarkets would show you the price and ALSO how much of it was VAT. Pricing in shops has for many long years been covered by Sale of Goods Acts that specified you had to display the final price on any labelling
@@grabtharshammer Absolutely right. It's been that way for a very long time, certainly during the whole of my late mother's lifetime as I know from a çonversation I had with her after I had had a holiday in the USA. My mother was born in 1905 v
@@FahadAyaz
That's NOT correct. FYI: The UK have always had a 'product price' that you pay... Long before the EU or joining the 'Common Market'. Before VAT (introduced in the 1970's), it was Purchase Tax (in the 1940's).
@@FahadAyazthat’s nonsense. Everywhere in the world apart from USA, Canada and Japan include tax. Why are you just making things up as fact?
Australian grocery stores/ supermarkets also have GST INCLUDED😊 the same way as in the UK. My partner is US and when he comes here he's going to be so surprised that he doesn't have to 'pay extra $$$' at the register, what the shelf or advertised price is of that product is exactly what you pay , I'm already telling him things here will be so different.
Actually, I think USA is the only place that does it. I've lived & travelled around the world and never, anywhere, does the price shown on the item differ from the price paid.
@@cireenasimcox1081 Canada does it too. I think retailers want purchasers to know that they don't get this money. The government does.
@@RatKindler Well that's a big coincidence: I was somewhere on the opposite side of the web not 10 minutes ago when I learned that I'd been mistaken, and that Canada did the same!!
I was thinking I'd have to write an apology & a correction and then...great! You'd addressed it so that false info isn't going round.☺ Thanks, mate.
Dove is a soap brand in Uk 😊
Its both in North America
you and Lawrence are my favorite youtubers, so seeing you "together" is a treat to me!! 🎉🎉
In the UK (and in all of the EU) farmers are required to vaccinate the chickens which is considered to be a hassle in the US so the eggs are washed instead. This removes the protective layer from the egg so if they are not kept refrigerated moisture is able to penetrate the shell and contaminate the egg.
A point about brands. The store may display 30 different types of laundry soap but it is mostly a sham. In the UK, regardless of the name on the box, we tend to see just two manufacturers of laundry products. They are Proctor and Gamble and Lever Brothers. I think it would be worth looking at all of the laundry products in the US and seeing how many of them are made by the same manufacturer. This would mean that there are unlikely to be many differences between the products despite their name or claims.
I have watched a few of your videos and your amazing, just subbed keep up the good work! It's interesting how you as an American are interested to learn British culture.
When I visited the States a few years ago, I could not get to grips with the Sales Tax being added on to my purchases. We have large Supermarkets and they may have an aisle for example with car accessories in them ...but that is things like air freshness and cleaning products not tyres😀 The size of an American Supermarket I once visited blew my mind!! I do put my eggs in the fridge, which is a habit from my Mum, but most people I know do not and put them in egg baskets on the side. And ASDA has now been sold by Walmart.
😂😂😂you've just made my my day wont say anything 🐎🐎🐎🐎
The way to keep eggs for months is whilst still fresh (a couple of days old) coat in melted butter (unsalted or salted). That completely seals the shell and they have a nice buttery taste after a few weeks. Just need to be stored in a cool dark place then. Any dark red spot in the egg is because it is a fertilised one, that is an embryo. Unlikely in a commercially produced egg nowadays.
The larger UK supermarkets/superstores have a much larger food section compared to Walmart and Target.
Ive never considered Walmart or Target supermarkets. They are department stores that have a food section. Dedicated supermarkets are much larger in the food section.
Sweeney's supermarket at Achill Sound, County Mayo, Ireland used to have a bar. What a bloody great idea, have a beer hslf way through your shop!
Your eggs are “washed” in a way that damages the protective layers in the shell, leaving them more vulnerable to going off. This technique is not used in European countries, so the eggs are safe left at room temperature for about two weeks. It’s also partly why ours are brown colour not white.
so true
Brown eggs are nothing to do with whether they are washed lol.. the colour of eggs is down to the variety of chicken... some years ago people got the idea that brown eggs were more healthy than white eggss(not so)... seeing a great marketing advantage... supermarkets insisted on poultry farms only providing brown eggs. In recent years, consumers finally caught on to this con so these days you can buy different coloured eggs.. even blue. Our eggs are not washed so the airtight cuticle is not removed. Airtight unwashed eggs can last many weeks outside of a fridge
We also use sterile farming so when the hens lay eggs they drop down a chute and do not get covered in crap.
The best and original Crisps were "Smiths Crisps" (even back to the days of the separate salt packaged in a twist of blue paper). Then they were followed by the superlative "Golden Wonder Crisps". Sadly displaced by the inferiour quality "Walkers Crisps". With the prices they charge you're well advised to check out the supermarkets own brands at half the price but virtually the same quality and quantity.
Possibly made in the same factories - just packaged differently. I may be surmising, (yes I am surmising!) but it seems a lot of Supermarkets’ “Own Brand” products don’t appear to be very different to “Branded” products. In many cases the cost differential seems to be accounted for by a relatively tiny outlay on promotion of “Own Brand” products.
Tudor crisps were the best pet, they were so good they never made it out of the North East!
I've done a lot of shopping in ASDA UK and Walmart USA and I don't think it's necessarily that there's more variety - both sell 35 different ketchups - but the USA supercentres have a lot of additional things they sell.
Walmart no longer owns ASDA. They were bought out couple of years ago.
Think some of our stores are now huge as well and they also have a second floor where the out the clothes, and household goods like bedding, cutlery, crockery etc .
Walkers was originally a British organisation not American but it was sold in 1989 to Pepsi who rebranded it for the American market as Lays; so it has been American owned for a while now arguably but still British at its roots.
The most important difference is price - or cost. A basket of food shopping in the UK would typically cost half of that paid in the USA for the same type and quantity of food - fresh fruit & veg, meat, and tinned items. Evan Edinger, an American living in the UK has done a great video you should watch - The average cost of groceries in Britain vs America.
You'd hate shopping in Canada. Grocery items are twice as expensive here than the USA
We have superstores to, supermarkets, metro and corner stores. Asda is not owned by Walmart anymore. We also have supermarkets for your budget .... low cost all the way up to premium. I can also buy clothes, tvs , light bulbs, painting supplies in supermarkets.
If you buy in a wholesale store ie Makro/ Costco then you pay sales tax where as retail it's already included.
Walmart no longer own ASDA they withdrew from all of Europe when they were unable to get European countries to allow them to continue their US Labour practices. Despite lobbying European politicians and making threats they were still forced to comply and so they left.
An interesting fact for Americans visiting the UK you should hold onto all the receipts for all products you buy in the UK but don't consume. On the items where VAT is charged you can claim that tax back when you leave the country.
Our eggs do not need to be refrigerated and last long than American eggs. You should look into this. Our eggs are fresher. Also look at the awful things you inject into the cattle/poultry while they are alive and also your chocolate has stomach acid in. A slice of bread in American has 6g sugar where British bread has 1g. These are just few examples. You do have a lot of variety but it’s more on unhealthy food. It’s easier to pay if you know the price which is advertised as it’s not adding tax at the end.
Great reaction
I Australia like in the UK sales tax is included in the price before you get to the check out, & when you get the printed recit the last line on the recit is how much the total sales tax is, Smith's (chips) was bought out about 40 or 50 years ago & has the Lays logo with Smiths on it. ( as far as I know)
It's nothing about British eggs. It's anericans eggs that are the problem, lol. Eggs aren't supposed to be refrigerated. America does stuff to them, which means they go bad if they aren't refrigerated
The eggs are washed to mask bad hygiene practices and poor animal welfare. Same goes for the chicken washed in chlorine.
Washing the eggs removes the natural protective coating, thus requiring them to be refrigerated.
I work at a tesco extra and it's pretty big, 2 floors full of food and drink, clothes, homeware and kitchenware, opticians, cafe, mobile phone shop, pharmacy, foreign currency exchange and basic motoring like engine oil, bulbs, air fresheners, ice scrapers....
Evan Edinger did a good video explaining VAT (our sales tax) if you're interested. It's very helpful for me because I used to have to walk around the food shop with my calculator open so I knew to spend under £20 as otherwise I couldn't afford my rent
Eggs in my local supermarket are in with the flour and baking ingredients.
Having much larger grocery stores in the US has 3 purposes. Yes it allows a much larger variety of products and brands to be stocked, yes it creates economies of scale, but it also ensures that Americans who cannot afford to run a car do not get access to convenient and affordable food.
Sales tax/VAT is included in most countries, kind of like service is included at restaurants
Eggs innumerable aren’t washed so still have their natural protective later so they don’t have to be refrigerated. I know many people who still keep their eggs in the fridge as they do tend to keep a little longer (or certainly in the summer they do) but technically you don’t have to keep them in the fridge here in uk.
Thanks Tyler enjoyed 😊
We usually leave our eggs in the bakery section because we use them in baking obviously
All the big chain supermarkets in the UK sell other stuff besides groceries.
Particularly the Superstores egTesco. In addition to clothing. Soft furnishings. Toiletries, Medicines. Electrical goods. Phones. Computers. Crockery. Tableware. Cookware. Linens. Stationery. etc. etc. Often, they also have Optician sections. Newsagents. Buffet service restaurants.
Many also have Garage Service Stations attached.
We do have the VAT, and is included where it applies. And it still comes out cheeper in UK!
The price of goods on the shelf and at the till is covered by the Trades Description Act in UK
Uk has what is called VAT or value added tax. That means that the tax has already been added so what the label says is what you will pay. So if it says 9.99 you pay just 9.99 and not a penny more.
ASDA was acquired by Walmart in 1999. However, they sold it in 2021.
Lays bought walkers that’s why they have the same logo. However walkers run independently in uk that’s why there are many flavours you can only get in uk like prawn cocktail or types of crisps like French fries.
Re sales tax/VAT.
Most foodstuffs (also children’s clothes, newspapers and books) are zero rated for VAT but ‘non-essential’ food like chocolate, cakes and biscuits are liable. There is also a ‘sugar tax’ on soft drinks now. On your receipt, items with VAT added (booze, toiletries, printer ink and cut flowers for example) are marked with an asterisk and the total VAT that has been charged is given at the bottom. This is so that businesses which are large enough to be registered with HMRC - His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs - can offset it against their own VAT bill.
There are some pretty big tesco extra stores in uk when it comes to grocery stores buy yes overall american grocery stores are bigger. But don’t forget america is bigger. We don’t have the space in uk usually to build giant grocery stores.
they stocks a lot of food with the longer expiration so they need a bigger space lol
Uk eggs are usually near the home baking items, flour etc. in my experience.
Also in the UK, Dove is a brand of soap
In the UK, the majority of regular foodstuffs are zero-rated for VAT. There is no VAT (sales tax) payable on these items.
In the UK we have VAT which stands for Value Added Tax and it's 20% of the total cost and its worked out automatically on the receipt. The tax has already been added to the item's price tag. Here in the UK.
in the USA all your Eggs are washed or there not allowed to be sold but being washed cleans the Mucus barrier off the shell so bactaria can get through the pours of the shell. in the UK they are not washed so have there original Mucus Barrier on the Shell so do not need to be Refrigarated as it stops bactaria from getting into them.
Walmart used to own ASDA but sold it
We don't pay any tax on food in the UK...usually only on hot food. We also have a tax on high sugar content
You can buy clothes and electrical/home goods in supermarkets.
when talking brands, lets say cornflakes, kellogs is the brand name, 2.00 a box, but you can go to another store, cheaper store, and get the same flakes, packed cheaper, but the same flakes, as the buying power, and quantity drives the price down,
because its cheaper if you look on back of pack, its does in small print say its packed by kellogs, same flakes same brand different outlet as you would say
Eggs are with the baking section in supermarkets with the flour and sugar etc if you want to bake a cake ingredients are all in one section. Makes sense to me.
Is the washing process that America applies to their eggs which affects the protective layer of the shell, so they need to be refrigerated.
Regarding the eggs. I've heard it's because American eggs are treated in such a way as to remove a barrier that protects the egg from nasties such as bacteria. I could be wrong. But that's why USA keeps their eggs in the fridge and British eggs can be kept out.
Yes, Americans wash all eggs, which removes the "bloom" which us nature's preservative. I never put eggs in the fridge, the yolks break in frying pan if you do....
@@highlyunlikely3698 Never had that breaking in frying pan thing. That is another "issue".
We do not pay tax on food, only on non-perishables. He did not mention that we still have some high street shops selling only one food item, like butchers, fishmonger, bakery and greengrocer.
All i see is Gregg's and charity shops in every high street!
Things will be promoted at like 5.99 here, but that includes the tax, so you'll just pay what they say it is, no drawing you in at that price and not giving it to you for that exact price
Walmart neglected our local Asda. There was holes in the roof so when it rained which it does a lot we're in Cumbria. They had to put buckets out.
Eggs aren’t in the cold section here in the U.K., our eggs come straight from the hen and into a box, you’ll find the odd feather or a bit of bird poo on the odd egg, eggs have a protective layer so we don’t wash that off so that means our eggs last a lot longer and don’t need keeping in the fridge. I read the bread in America has almost double the amount of sugar in it than our British version.
yeah fresh from the farm...UK bread is healthy
In the UK Mike and Ike, Candy Corn, Reece's Peanut Butter Cups, Swedish Fish, Hershey's, etc are often found in the exotic/speciality foods sections of supermarkets.
Lots of items have different names in other countries. We used to have a chocolate peanut bar called a Marathon. It changed its name to Snickers. These were already known as Snickers in the US and Europe at the time.
We have cat food in the U.K. called Whiskas; in Norway it was called Wisk. A few years ago, we had a brand name called Wisk - it was laundry detergent liquid. (still available in the US, I think).
In the U.K. we have Durex which is a brand of condoms. If you go to Australia and ask for Durex, they will give you sticky tape. Sticky tape here in the U.K. is known as Sellotape.
Likewise, in the U.K. we have footwear known as flip-flops which are lightweight and held on to the foot by a post that’s held between your big toe and the one next to it. You’d wear them at the beach usually. These exact same items are sold in Australia as Thongs, yet a thong in the U.K., is a type of underwear which has very little fabric to it at the back !
1:51 The UK has what’s widely considered (in food and CPG industry) to be the most sophisticated retail market in the world, far more than the US. Every bit of the experience has been intensively tuned over the years, and our more dense logistics system means that certain things (down to how products are grouped and how the shelves are stocked) are possible here that simply aren’t in the US.
The only things they forgot to take into account in their "studies" are the practical side. Like loading your trolley with Fruit & Veg first and then having to pile tins and heavy items on top as you go around. Often I will bypass the fruit & veg, get the rest of my shopping in a sensible order and then return to the fruit & veg section. They must really hate me for not shopping as they intended me to, and spending excess time in the aisles, so messing up their "time and motion" studies on customer throughput :)
The reason fruit and veg are at the beggining of a store is a clever marketing ploy when you start your shop you havnt yet bought your meat/main coyre items. So you stock up on far more veg/salad than you need just in case... if you had already selected your meat/main course first you would then known precisely what veg/salad ingredients you need.
FYI - out of ton supermarkets next to 3 lane motorway double up as aircraft hangers and runways during a war....
Nice video dude
Jave car washes in our supermarkets for some reason, and morrisons in cleveleys has a macdonalds lol
we do have big shope here in the UK but instead of everything in one store we have retail parks with different superstores for like gardening, homeware and others.
our small local food store has like a dozen dif. cocacolas so no there is options, thing is what the locals want, based on that the selections have made, also people can ask the store practicly anything tobsell there, not edged on stone like other countries.
Not from USA nor GB/UK
In the UK we have the same thing with prices ending in '.99', except they figure out how to make the price + VAT (that's Value Added Tax in case you were wondering) add up to a price ending '.99' (or at least adding up to something ending in a 9). Also no tax is added to fresh ingredients like fresh vegetables and fruit, meat, flour, etc, but is applied to more processed or convenience food such as snacks, soft drinks, pre-prepared meals, etc.
The US is one of the few countries that washes eggs. Eggs have a protective antibacterial barrier that is washed away by water and general speaking, nobody eats the shell. To compensate the US requires eggs in fridges to slow down bacteria.
The UK also has its lion quality eggs, these eggs are so safe they are generally recognised as being safe to consume raw.
In some cash and carry outlets (wholesalers) in the UK, sales tax (VAT) is added at the till.
That's because most cash and carry customers are business users and treat their VAT differently for accounting purposes.
@@robsharman3713 they are a remarkably good way of getting the Christmas presents though on a budget.
Any VAT due is already included in the price of something you buy in a shop. No tax is added when you pay. UK.
Since I was very young I learned to not put eggs in the fridge! We kept them in the pantry. Which was cooler than the kitchen!
In the UK, Dove is a brand of soap/body wash
In the UK "Dove" is a beauty brand that is mostly known for its soaps. So, I suppose the name change for that chocolate was for a very good reason! 😅👍
10:58 I'm planning a trip to Japan and they have a similar system to the USA and I'm dreading it a little.
I'm so used to how our prices work in the uk.
It's much easier and much less confusing.
brands, when supermarkets started happening in the UK, there were so many brands with things you never seen before, but now, the supermarkets have imposed their names onto the brands or buying them out and now fill their shelves with their own products that different brand stuff can not get a look-in (Look-In? Wasn't that a kids comic book thing? Haven't seen that in years...).
Yep! Australia too has the tax included on the price tag, no surprises at the register. I’ve been to Europe and it’s the same there, or it was at the time of my visit.
Same in SA. We have a lot in common with both Britain 🇬🇧 as well as Australia 🇦🇺
@@QuinVee911 I assume you mean South Africa and not South Australia. 😜
Asda (aka Associated Dairies) is no longer part of Walmart. Walmart sold their controlling interest in 2021 after the Monopolies Commission prevented their attempted merger with Sainsburys.
Thank you, I never knew what ASDA stood for