I went into this video, seeing the pure shock on your faces and thinking to myself "Our supermarkets arent that special, cmon now. Drop the act" But im glad you gave the insight that you did, my mind was quickly changed. I finished the video feeling very fortunate to live here. Thank you
You find our supermarket cheap?! We think it's expensive, because the prices in the supermarket are 30 - 40% more expensive than two years ago. But seeing this video and your reaction, it made me realize how luxury the supermarkets are in The Netherlands. You don't realize it. When you are used to it, it's just normal. But also here in The Netherlands, with a low income you can't buy everything you would want.
Hey guys, want to add a few things. Food quality all over the EU is good, part of consumer protection. Cheaper then supermarkets are open air markets, estimate 15 to 20% cheaper then supermarkets for similar products and no prepackage. This goes also all over Europe. Germany is cheaper then Netherlands in general and some things like alcoholic drinks and tobacco a lot cheaper. Belgium, France and Italy are more quality and taste oriented less focused on pure price. Keep in mind in Netherlands housing prices can be extreme, this does effect cost of living a lot of course.
Thanks for giving us perspective about how privileged we are here in Europe. Even though prices have been rising here as well since 5 years and people have more difficulty buying the same as before. I wish the best for your country!!
We really aren't priviliged, these people are acting, they are actors. They really arent surprised at all. Meat being sold in a supermarket is normal everywhere, even In Chile and countries similar to it.
The error in the calculation is because the prices shown are in 500 grams and not in kilo's. They pay 12 reais for a kilo tomatoes. We actually pay 20+ reais for a kilo tomatoes. Also, the average income cannot be compared like you guys do. There are many differences in tax systems, social systems, health and so on. And talking about the European averages is just plain ignorant. Serbia, Poland, Montenegro and Albania have a worse score than Brazil when it comes to the cost of living. When you compare al South American countries you will see that Brazil actually is sub par.
@@mumblic lol the average wage in Brazil is MUCH lower than that..More like 400-500 USD a month.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_countries_by_monthly_average_wage
hi dear people...I come from the Netherlands and even though we have a lot of variety in terms of food, I don't know how to pay half of it here...I have to see how I can make ends meet every month and fortunately I am one who also created a vertical garden and grow my own vegetables in it... every little bit helps, right?! suck fore you guys thats the cost are higher over ther greetings from the south of the Netherlands...
It really differs per country, I've visited South Africa last year and on average their stores are better then our Dutch stores. Ofcourse I can't compare prices as the average salary is lower in South Africa.
In my local Albert Hein, there are still cashiers, and a self-scan option. The reason for supermarkets to have self scan options is that it's cheaper for them (they have to hire less personnel). People that choose self scan are randomly selected by the computer for checks to see if you scanned every item in your bag or basket, to prevent theft. It's usually quicker than standing in line for the cashier, but the risk is yours, even if you honestly weren't trying to steal something but accidentally forgot to scan something. (If it's just one small item, they'll usually not immediately assume you were trying to steal, but still, they could do so).
Sure I always go to a cashier, no way self scan. Staying in line means social contact, not only with the cashier, but also with other people waiting in the line. You know social contact is so nice.
- 1kg rice ilfor 6 real is 1,13 EUR. When I look online at Albert Heijn the price of 1kg rice is 2,49 EUR. - When I look online 1kg tomatoes is 3,58 EUR wich makes it 18,97 Real - Dont forget the EUR/Real rate. One real is 0,19 EUR at this moment.
Gaat om de verhouding, als je 1400 real verdiend is 6 real duur voor bv rijst. Daarom geven ze ook een voorbeeld met 1:1 vergelijk. Dus als je 1400 eu zou verdienen zou 6eu voor rijst duur zijn....
It's about how you balance it out, the average net salary in the Netherlands is around 2500 euro net a month maybe even more nowadays and this is literally the most expensive supermarket, there are plenty of cheaper options too
My wife is Greek, and when family or friends come to stay a few weeks, they love the supermarket. Especially the chocolate Sweets, candies, baked sweets, chips, bread, and pies. Mother-in-law enjoys the ready cut and cleaned vegetables.
I am sorry, for beeing soo ignorant! I really thought, living, eating where so much less expensive in Brasil.. I feel ashamed. I did not know you have to pay this much. Thank you for this reaction! An eye opener for all of us...
Kritisch denken wordt hier blijkbaar niet gekweekt. Niet opgevallen dat zij 1 kilo voor 12 reais vergelijken met een halve kilo hier? Wij betalen iets meer dan 20 reais voor een kilo tomaten.
Well, it is not that things are much more expensive in Brazil, most things are definitely more expensive in the Netherlands. But rather that there is much less purchasing power in Brazil when compared to the Netherlands.
I was taking my life in the Netherlands for granted. Seeing this young couple breaks my heart 😢. We complain a lot in The Netherlands, but we are verry blessed. We have affordable, good healthcare and plenty of food. I wish everyone would be so lucky.❤
Assuming as showed that 1kg tomatoes is being priced BRL 12 in Brasil and about EUR 5 in the Netherlands, prices in the Netherlands are about twice as high (1 EUR = 5 BRL or close atm), but wages are 8x in the Netherlands (Brasil 417 / Netherlands 3200 / maybe wrong, but seems accurate), which makes tomatoes 4x more expensive in Brasil... ouch !
You can't compare the 2 countries like this. In Brasil and the Netherlands the average spend on food is both between 10% and 20% of the income. Tomatoes are low btw/vat and a lot of farms grown them.
@@walterberkouwer1038but he didn’t, he just said that Dutch earn a lot more money than Brazilians, though groceries are more expensive in the Netherlands, it’s still cheaper for us. I’ve been to Brazil multiple times and own homes there, groceries are very cheap for me as I earn in euro, I spent like €150 for a months shopping, where I’d spend that a week in Ireland. Brazil is expensive if you earn a Brazilian salary.
@@jimbomacers Idd if you go with your dutch/Irish salary to brasil you get months groceries for weeks groceries in the Netherlands/ireland. But if you compare a how much a dutch/irish person spends on groceries in the Netherlands/Ireland percentage wise to a person in brasil, they are the same. Some foods are very cheap in the Netherland because there a lot suppliers and the goverment is promoting that food and one of those is tomatos.
I think you go waaay to high, in the Netherlands, your likely to earn 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, ect. Different payment scales, truckers are on 2000 and upwards, teachers 2500/3000, filling those supermarket racks, probably 1500 to 2000 euro's. Want to see horror, house prices, especially the hired house prices and that EU law to hire to what you are earning, not what you actually have the money for. (like a sickness that eats money or something like that, that ain't in the insurance packet of your health insurance)
Median income per house hold is €3600 in the Netherlands. Calculating per person is often giving a muddied view because it's less common for both in one household to work fulltime (35h or more a week) only 52% works fulltime. It's not unlikely to have many households where only one person earns money, and if it's minimum wage (€1800) it can be tight. That doesn't change the fact tomatoes are still expensive in Brazil, of course.
As a born and raised Dutch guy I always thought these prices were normal. After having lived in Germany and worked in Luxembourg for 3 years I learned that because the Netherlands is the 2nd largest export country in the world of agricultural products (2nd to the USA.) We are very good at utilizing greenhouses and our soil (being very wet and swampy until we pumped out the water with windmills in polders) is rich in nutrients. A lot of import in the EU comes through the port of Rotterdam. We basically save a lot of import costs that surrounding countries do pay.
Im Dutch and live with my parents and there are still weeks where we don’t have enough food for all of us. The meat and fruits are especially expensive in comparison to the rest for what you actually get. We always look for the discounts just to have enough, I’m not alone since poverty and families just above the poverty line are rising very fast now
Honestly, being poor in the Netherlands pretty much becomes choice, there are plenty of job options that do not require education and pay way above minimum wage. It becomes a matter of preferance and wanting to do a job more than being able to do it.
@@Plat1na and than you get f@cked by the tax authorities or have to pay crazy amounts of money for repairs on your house because of the gas extraction induced earthquakes... there are many other reasons Dutch people can live in poverty. I don't blame you for not understanding, I wish you will not understand it for your entire life 🙂
The Netherlands is switching to visa. But… in this country a credit card is not the norm. We usually do not like to be in debt or pay for paying. A creditcard is usually costlier. We use debitcards and pay directly from our bank accounts. And any debit card that is aligned will be used. Not just ‘dutch’ cards. The lady in the video is wildy misinformed on that front.
She's not, I have a visa debit card, but I also keep a Dutch bank account because although in most supermarkets I can pay just fine with visa, there's still plenty of smaller shops that only take maestro, making the visa card useless.
@@dhgelling that is not what i am saying. Any european bank debit card will work. She is saying that only dutch cards will work. On that area she is not informed.
@@strikeformatik but that's just not the case. Only dutch banks issue debit cards that use maestro, debit cards in other countries all use visa or mastercard. So a debit card from foreign banks do not in fact work in shops that only accept maestro, which still exist in the Netherlands enough to be an issue
So sorry to hear that it's so hard to buy healthy food over there. I hope the Brazilian government manages to turn things around in the near future. You two are beautiful people and deserve all the best!!! Thanks for taking interest in my tiny country. Edit: About the self-checkout thing. There definitely are a bunch of regular cashiers, the self-checkout is just an additional option. You can choose for yourself whether you want self-checkout or a regular cashier. Whenever you opt for self-checkout there is always personnel keeping watch on the self-checkout isle. You get regular randomized checks when you click the 'pay' button, meaning you have to wait for personnel to come over and check your bag to confirm you've actually scanned everything. Stealing does happen a lot and there are actually debates about completely getting rid of the self-scan option because stores are losing astronomical amounts of money on people stealing stuff. It's a sad situation, I wish people would just pay for their stuff because self-scanning is actually really convenient and way faster than waiting in line for a cashier.
Hi, I live in the Netherlands. The minimum salary here is between 1900 euros - 2100 euros. The supermarkt prices are are reasonable and Dirk Supermarkt is the mis cheapest but don't forget about electricity and gas price that are very very high. That is the biggest problem here. 😊
Well to be honest, 12 Reais is EUR2,25 depending on which tomatoes thats about EUR3,50 for a kg. Min wage is about 1900. Rent about half but can be more, Especially around big cities where you would easily pay 1100 for a tiny bedroom only, Then gas and electricity is bout 200 for 2 people. Care is about 200 per person. Internet, TV etc about 70. Salmon about EUR6 Rice 2,25 depending on which rice, per KG. So yeh its not all rainbow and sunshine, but we do have alot of produce, because we are 2nd world exporter for that :D But when I hear you talking, and seeing you so surprised, I'm all the more humble and gratefull I live here. A lot of people tend to go to Germany for food though, because It's cheaper there. Most supermarkets have both a Self checkout AND normal people working behind a cashregister.
I have a new reply strategy in which I search for replies that say exactly what I want to say. Yours is it ! Well put... my only fear now is when they will ever see a Walmart :)
Never really knowm that our grocery stores are "cheap" cuz for us it is seen as expensive. I work at a Albert Heijn myself for the past 6 years seeing the prices go up and up. And I have a standard salary of about 1800 euros a month whilst being only 21 years old having to work 32 hours a week. This video reminds me how blessed we are the situation we are in over here.
Im sorry that the salary is worse in Brazil, than in the Netherlands. The Albert Heijn is the most expensive supermarket, there are cheaper options, like Vomar, Dirk and german store Lidl, with mostly the same variety
In some stores the gates are man-high. Because when they were lower thiefs jumped over the gates and ran away😂 And the Dutch grow a lot of vegetables themselfs. 2nd agricultural exporter in the world. When you see the stickers with 35% on it, it means 35% discount because date of expiration is coming close. So you can buy products like vegetables, meat, fish, bread and dairy with 35% discount.
Here in the supermarkets we have indeed still cashiers besides selfscan. I also have a video suggestion about our beautiful themepark Efteling, where we are very proud of😊
@@MarceldeJong you can grow tomatoes and spicy peppers and herbs even on your balcony. In a (very) small garden it’s even easier to grow beans, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots etc. A friend of mine does that for years already.
You both have valid points. I've grown veggies in my windowsill, but growing enough to not have to buy them anymore, is quite difficult in my experience.
@@Judith_Remkes I grow herbs. I found those to be the most expensive. Packaging with way to much and in such a way it spoils easily. And I do not need much room for all the herbs I daily use. Why buy a whole package of mint when I only need a few leaves a week for example.
thank you for your video and honest reactions. It feels humbling and maybe even a little embarrassing to be reminded that what we in NL take for granted every day, actually isn't. I live in the Netherlands and shop at Albert Hein... I am aware that that is a luxury even in The Netherlands, as not everyone in NL can shop here, or eat that healthy. But on a global scale the difference is even greater. 😔 I think it would be good for us the be more aware and gratefull... your video surely helped. I hope you will have the opportunity one day day to come visit The Netherlands and see it for yourselves. ❤
In general all the basics are there in each chain which includes the salads and meal prep kits just less variety and some more special items are only sold in bigger stores of the same chain. We don't consider our groceries cheap because it has become very expensive over the last few years. You can't get a few basket below the 50/60 euros anymore unfortunately. It's really special to see how surprised you are at things that are very mundane for me in my country! Thank you for giving that perspective!
It’s crazy to see your reaction, it’s so unfair in the world and it is good that it comes out through your videos. I am very lucky I knew already, but I realized again just yet. Thank you!
Great video guys ❤👍 This is the shop I got my groceries. For checking out, there are personal to do random checks at customers but also personal to refill boxes when they become empty and for helping finding products.
1 Euro is around 5,33 Brl, and yes, there are people working there and we have cashiers as wel where they scan your articles, you can pay cash if you want with them, unles it's marked "pin only".
I work at Albert Heijn myself, I find it very important that customers have a lot of options that can help them, I have been working for 12 months and started with an internship. I started working on that a year later and I started around the age of 15 or 16.
The small local supermarket i do my every day shopping has no self scan, only cashiers. But the bigger stores have both. On the self scan there is someone standing supervising several self scan stations. They also do random checks to see if you have scanned everything. Because of the self scan there is a raise in theft, but the savings in full time personel is also a lot. And because the self scan is faster to check out it draws more customers to the store that dont want to wait in line.
There is usually a mix of cashiers and selfservice in most supermarkets. Some favour cashiers still, and some shops will have a mix at one location and more self service at another. It depends on the location.
This brings back childhood memories. When I was a kid, we traveled a lot for my father’s work and lived in developing countries where getting your groceries basically boiled down to buying what was available and stocking up on that because you could never be certain of how long it’d be available. When we’d go on ‘home leave’ that first trip to the supermarket was WILD. Almost 50 years later, I still have some habits left from those days. Please note that food might be relatively low priced in The Netherlands. Other things are bot. The standard of living is very high but poverty does exist. Not everyone buys sushi, freshly squeezed juice and pre-washed, pre-cut vegetables. But yes,the standard of living in The Netherlands is a lot higher for the average Dutch person compared to the average person in Brazil. I’m so sorry things are so difficult in Brazil and wish they were much, much better. Perhaps interesting to know for some, is that one reason why fruit and vegetables are relatively cheap in a lot of European countries and especially in The Netherlands, is because the Dutch are amazing farmers who actually produce enormous amounts of produce in technologically very advanced circumstances in greenhouses. The European Union subsidises a lot of farming, too. Despite that, farmers are protesting because according to them the portion they earn is very low compared to the profits the supermarkets make.
It's amazing how in 15 years things have changed in Brazil, Then things were much cheaper than in the Netherlands so a pal of mine went for several months to Brazil sometimes 2x a year. Here's a thought for you Albert Heijn is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the Netherlands and Belgium
yeah dutch food prices in general are very nice but they going up. I made a menu for the week that cost only 38 euros. It contains pizza for 2 days, Tacos for 2 days with fresh salsa salad and a kilo of cheese, and 2 days of schnitzel with fries with cheese home made gravy and veggies.
We were in Brasil 25 years ago (2nd time) and in those days meat and vegetables were cheap, everything was cheap compared to my country in those days (I mean the Netherlands). Sorry to see it's now the other way around. For us the supermarket shown in the video is not even the cheapest one. By the way, prices are rising here too, but that is nothing compared to Brasil. Hope for you it will get better soon! Saudações da Holanda!
That's true. Everything was cheaper and more accessible. Our salary fail to keep up with price increases. It's great to know that you were in our country, we hope you have good memories. Thanks for watching! Greetings from Brasil!
to be fair, we also think the presliced fruits are expensive. Then again, Albert Heijn is our most expensive supermarket over the board. Vegetables, meat, fruit and nuts are still bought on weekly markets by a lot of people.
You do need to compare it right though. 1reais is like 0,20euro cents. This means 1 euro is 5reais. If you then say 1kg of rice is 6reais, its 1,20 euro which we consider cheap. The hardest thing to compare then are the average incomes in the Netherlands compared too incomes in Brazil.
A diferença nos preços depende na origem dos produtos. Por exemplo, a Holanda produiz muito legume (tem casas de vidro de kilometres de largura). Outros produtos estão importados do Brasil, por exemplo os produtos tropicais. Eu oberservi que os legumes da Europa têm melhor sabor que os memos no Brasil - os tomatoes são bom exemplo disso. Boa viagem.
My dutch mind melts watching their brain melt. I cant wrap my head around their shock about a common European supermarket. And I dont mean that in any negative way what so ever. The things you take for granted as a (western) European..
Their emotions are fake as ...t, don't you see it ? The whole purpose of this video is to get youtube views and comments from Dutch people "explaining them the reality".
In The Netherlands, we produce more meat than we consume, so we export a lot too. If we would eat all of the meat we produce ourselves, we would eat 1 kg of meat each day... Edit: Also, about the cashier: There are cashiers, but there are also options to self-scan your products. The cashiers will sometimes check if you really scanned everything at the self-scan though...
A lot of our supermarkets in ireland and uk have fresh bakeries in them, a butchers and often a pizza counter and a fishmonger and believe it or not in the uk especially the prices are even lower than this. For example i can get a pack of apples for 79p a bag of potatos for £1 a sirloin steak for £4 etc. We even have stores like home bargains, poundland lidle/aldi (which is german) that have even lower prices.
The Netherlands is a huge food producer, partially because of our great river delta soil. Ontop of that, we have the largest port in europe, which lies in the center of the north european trade network. This gives us plenty of acces to food.
I'm from The Netherlands and it kind of makes me a bit sad to see your reaction. Everybody in the world should be able to have this kind of food and being able to afford it... Much love 🙏
I want to note a few things as a dutchie myself. About the high alcohol content, supermarkets are allowed to sell it but they need a separate section that's closed off from the rest of the store and customers have to have a store employee with them and they need to purchase the bottle there not at the regular register. Als on the fresh stuff you may have seen 35% stickers, they are put on items whose date is that of the day. This is mandatory I believe to combat the problem of food spillage in the country.
And please please please don't be afraid to try the housebrands of our supermarkets, they are often comparable in taste to the big company equivalent if not better in taste in some cases
As yhe nethrrlands are the 2nd large producers of vegetables dutch citizens have acces to a great variety at affordable prices in every supermarket in the country
The Netherlands is NOT the 2nd largest producer of vegetables, it's the 2nd largest EXPORTER of agricultural goods. This is because a lot of stuff gets imported into the harbour of Rotterdam and sold to other countries. This counts as export, but is not produced by the Netherlands. Relatively the Netherlands does produce a lot of goods, especially flowers, dairy products, eggs and meat, and about 70% of goods produced are exported as well, but the amounts produced are not comparable to countries like US, China, India and Russia.
We do have supermarket personell but they check if you paid everything with random checkings, it depends on the products you buy with more expensive products its more likely that you will be checked.
Be aware please that we have people in Netherlands who can not pay for this food. But they are helped by the supermarkets with food that is not sold. Greetings from Roelof.
The reason for low priced and high amount of vegetables (not all with good taste) is mostly because of the greenhouses, the most modern greenhouses in the planet are situated over here. I can definitely recommend watching one of the episodes of reizen Waes where he visits one of the most modern greenhouses in Holland in the Netherlands. Greenhouses take C02 from the air which make the vegetables grow faster and larger and almost everything is automated. The most modern greenhouses can even store all their energy and warmth underground for winter so they use almost none to no energy at all which makes them very cost effective. I really hope some day more countries will be able to have benefits like this, fruits and vegetables are very healthy and in my opinion should be accessible to more people, meat should be a luxury item in all countries even here.
The Dutch cities have regular outdoor markets as well where you can buy vegetables and other foods for much cheaper. And Albert Heijn is one of the more "premium" supermarkets
they dont only have salad prepped meals but for olmost every thing like i like to cook styrfry and i have like 6 different options and its all cut and fresh its vey good if you live alone and still want to cook so you dont have food for 7 days but just for 2 days
Dutch food prices have gone up a lot but of course we can't compare to giant inflation in places like Brazil and Venezuela. But also we grow a ton of food here, peppers will be grown in glass houses mere hours away from supermarkets like this and we export a great deal. Glass houses help reduce the need for water and pesticides, often they can employ natural things like bugs that kill pests and because the weather isn't much of an issue yield is very consistant.
Google: The average salary for jobs in Amsterdam, Netherlands is € 55.810 (EUR) per year or an hourly rate of € 27 (EUR). The above data is a sample of data available in ERI's Global Salary Calculator. The Global Salary Calculator provides compensation data for over 45,000 positions in 8,000+ cities in 69 countries. so not 1400 EUR :)
Most people earn around 2500-3000 euro ( netto ), but that is for one person, their wifes are mostly working too, but not 40 houres, mostly around 20 houres. So a husband and wife earns together around 3000 - 4000 euro netto. But we pay alot for our energy bill and for our house ( loan or rent ) Renting a house is around 800 - 1500 euro per month.
12 Brazilian Real = 2,26 Euro (two Euro and 26 cents) ... conversion rate of valentinesday 14-2-2024 1,99 Euro = 10,56 Brazil Real 1 Euro = 5,31 Brazil Real So your tomatoes are not 12 Euro!!! 😅 Oh, and 1kg of white rice is 1,99 Euro. So 10,56 Brazil Real instead of your 6 Brazil Real. That is almost TWICE as expensive as in Brazil! 😅 Frozen Salmon Filet with 2 slices totalling 250gr costs 4,99 Euro or 26,47 Brazil Real. The Albert Heijen does not sell whole salmons like yours for 100 Brazil Real. Also I am very proud of our Dutch farmers. They can grow almost everything here. So well and so much too that our tint and I repeat TINY country with almost 18 million inhabitants is 2nd largest exporter of agricultural produce in the entire world after the USA. As they say..."no farmers, no food". Help your farmer and he will feed you well. Also buy from the farmers directly as wholesale and retail make it more expensive. 😉
1 real is 0,19 euro. So 12 real for 1 kg tomatoes is 2,26 euro. So the difference between dutch and Brazil price are not that much. Your meat is cheaper been to Brazil this Christmas and the cost of living is cheaper in Brazil from a Dutch perspective. But your monthly income is lower, so that's why living in Brazil is more expensive. And there little to no social security in Brazil, in the netherlands there is.
we earn 2000+- as minimum in the country. most people earn between 2100-2800 monthly and this is per person we do have casheers here but you can pick between the normal lanes or scanning the products. sometimes the one is faster then the other. Also there is security in some stores. if you have any questions let me know ill be happy to awnser them! :D cool video guys :) Thumbs up for you two and keep it up!
I think y'all forgot about the conversion with the prices. Like with the meal kits around 4:30, you thought that they were cheap cause they're about 5 bucks, and that it would be like 10 to 12 bucks there. But 5 Euro means 26 Brazilian Real. That's expensive here too.
Like 1 kg of white rice costs 2 euro so about 10.50 BRL, but you guys pay 6 BRL. Purchasing power is definitely better in the Netherlands, just wanted to point out that conversion gives better context :)
I want to add some context to this video. My girlfriend has lived in Brazil for 13 years, and a good portion of her family still does to this day. And while many groceries seem cheap here compared to in Brazil. We also pay way more taxes, and mandatory insurances. Healthcare is 125 euros in the cheaper range, that would be 600 reais, and it is MANDATORY! As someone who has been to Brazil and who's Girlfriend has lived there for a long time. I would say, YES, it is cheaper, but not mind blowingly cheaper to live in the Netherlands.
The stuff is expensive too. Im from germany not netherlands but i figure its about the same. Wild salmon is about 60-80€ per kg. So most people eat the unhealthy farm raised salmon which is about half that. Beef depends on the cut. The most expensive is filet mignon thats around 60€/kg. But other cuts or minced beef is around 12-18€/kg. Pork is about half. You can get the cheapest chicken for less than 5€ but if you want a healthy organic one its about 10-12€ for a whole chicken. These juices they showed are also very expensive but i think completely organic and are around 5€ for a bottle like that. You get a 1l coca cola for around 1€ to compare it. Bread is pretty cheap. A croissant is around 1€. On average people pay around 200-500€ for food a month. You can get by for 150 but then you have to buy the worst cheapest meats where the animals dont have a lot of freedom to roam. 1kg rice is around 4-6€ depends also which kind you want. If you want to eat good its about 300-400 and if you can afford it you can easily eat for 500€ per month and person. .
Haha. The prices are even HIGH in the Netherlands. And normal income is not 1400 euro, it's around 3800 euro (before taxes). Taxes are extremely high, so when you get 3800 euro's per month, you will get around 2750 on your bank account. Renting a house costs somewhere between 1000 and 1500 euro for a (small) apartment. And health insurance is, the cheapest one, around 130 euro each month. Per person. Maybe that's why you see low prices in the supermarkets, but it's for Dutch people very high.
Quando você visitar a Holanda, levarei você às compras em um supermercado e, se o tempo permitir, em um mercado de agricultores. O supermercado mostrado neste vídeo é mais caro, então terei prazer em mostrar vários para vocês. O checkout de autoatendimento funciona utilizando o recibo após o pagamento. Possui um código de barras que abre o portão para você sair da loja. (Se você tiver alguma bebida alcoólica, a máquina garante que algum caixa ou outra pessoa que trabalhe na loja chegue. Isso para evitar que menores de idade comprem bebidas alcoólicas em caixas de autoatendimento.
Temos certeza que isso será incrível, mal podemos esperar para visitar a Holanda. Agradecemos a explicação, isso é tudo muito novo e diferente para nós. Obrigado por assitir!
If you visit The Netherlands, dont stay in Amsterdam as a tourist, dont buy anything there unless you need to :P The place is easily reachable by public transport or a car if you have the means. The prices there are just that much higher than outside of the place. Its not as cheap as it looks :P Glad you liked the diversity in the shelves! We have the option of paying at registeres or self checkout at some places, prone to stealing though, so pretty well monitored, even have a supermarket that uses colored baskets for singles for example, or places that have special opening times for elderly.
Supermercados na Holanda tem caixas com pessoas sim. Neles vc geralmente pode pagar com dinheiro. O que muita gente prefere fazer é pegar uma aparelhinho na entranda, scanear os produtos quando vc coloca no carrinho e no caixa self-service vc somente paga. De vez em quando vc é selecionado e tem que passar por uma vistoria. Com a inflação alta, houve (há) muita gente que sai sem pagar e os supermercados tem cogitado acabar com os caixas self-service. Tb cogitam implantar sistemas de monitoramento com inteligencia artificial. Moral da historia, há roubos por aqui tb.
Sounds strange for you but the prices (however Albert Heijn is one of the more expensive shops in The Netherlands) in retail are very cheap also compared to the rest of Europe. Strange, one of the richest countries in the world has low retail prices (supermarkets). But your videos make me also always humble. We complain about some people who don't scan all products or other too smaal things. We have to be much more happy with our lives here.
Yes, absolutely right. And they are mentioning 1400 euros all the time, well thats the bare minimum in The Netherlands. But our groceries might be cheap, the cost for renting a home is crazy high.
It's not strange if you consider the advantage the Netherlands has geographically. We have the biggest seaport of Europe, meaning most in and export of the continent happens at our front door and we have access to all products that come in at Rotterdam. Most of the Netherlands was former swampland, meaning the ground is very fertile. On top of that, it's mostly flat, making agriculture easy and efficient. Seeing as we also were master shipbuilders in the past and very trade oriented, the Dutch East India Company made our country rich enough to quickly advance. Meaning we also have a technological and educational advantage that makes everything even more efficient. Our infrastructure is top notch, and our country is small enough to make it a lot more manageable to upkeep them. Top it off with a pioneering mindset, and you have a country that can do almost anything. To summarize, I think a big reason we are blessed with low retail prices here is because the Netherlands is located where it is. And in that, we are extremely lucky. I actually felt a little shocked and ashamed watching these people's reactions in this video, as sometimes you don't even realize how good you have it, and how unusual it can be to have this much food available.
Just on a side note, our cards here in Luxembourg do "Maestro" by default. Yea much talking to others here in the channel and maybe a bit to much but the comments helps a channel.
Insanely enough, the Netherlands is the second largest exporter of vegetables in the world but also is one of the smallest countries in the world...!Especially Bell Peppers (paprika) and tomatoes which are grown in greenhouses. I always think the Dutch should export that technology of farming instead of the literal produce. So grow where you need it!
I mean, that particular supermarket IS very big though. It's an overabundance of products, probably because of many visitors. The average supermarket in the country doesn't have that much as shown here, usually half of everything. But I of course understand we're still very lucky. I noticed you mentioned how "everything is ready for consumption", and that is spot on for Dutch people. They love the convenience. Many of us are prepared to pay more if it makes our lives easier. But not too much, of course. In most cases we try to do it ourselves first, then fail, get annoyed and decide to let others do it lol. That's very Dutch. I appreciate your views. I know I am very lucky. But your point about being able to make healthy choices is a big deal. It makes me sad too. Wishing a lot of health to both of you. You two are so nice.
As a Dutchman I'm sorry to hear that life in Brazil is expensive. At the end of this video you see a scan-system. So you can all do it by yourself. But in every supermarket in the Netherlands we have also cashiers.
About the self-scan cash register, there was some research done recently by a dutch news media company (on dutch population) and they confirmed that while people do steal it's hardly of noteworthy impact, it's pretty much comparable to how often people steal with actual cash registers and cashiers involved, and just like how they dealt with that in the past, the supermarkets simply raise the prices of their produce a bit to account for this. It's not like half the customers are stealing entire bags of groceries, maybe 5% of customers may occasionally not scan an item or two, similar to how maybe 5% of customers would occasionally slip one or two things in their pockets in the past, but the supermarkets can just cope with that loss, especially considering these are massive supermarket chains that easily turn over several hundred million euros in profit each year, they're really not all that worried about some small percentage loss, sure they have posters that police will get involved etc but realistically they don't care enough to actually fight it any more than they already do. Finally it needs to be said that all these self-scan cash registers are extremely well built to _actually detect theft,_ through several different approaches (scales, cameras, etc) but most of the time when it goes beep beep it's such a minor weight difference or low rating by the system that the staff just look your direction and press a button for you to continue, they don't even bother checking most of the time since they're not losing any salary over it either. All supermarkets still have traditional cash registers with cashiers too, i feel like it's required by law or something, maybe for people in wheelchairs/mobility scooters or something? but most supermarkets have been changed in the last few years where 80% is now self-scan & the manned cash register is closed 90% of the time.
the Netherlands are the second largest exporters of food in the world. so no surprise the have all this food for those prices. it is a shame that food is so expensive in your country.
You don’t want to know how much of all that ends up in the garbage container outside the supermarket. Aside of what we, the costumers, throw away after buying it. I think 40% gets waisted in total.
Wow ! I really didn't know it was that expensive in Brazil compared to what you earn ! Actually a bit shocking ! Here in Luxembourg, the minimum wage is over 2000€
many people here also cant afford the price of the food bcs we have much more bills that are very high, like insurance, house rent and gas and electra bills
Extremely common in the US to have self-checkout lanes because everyone pays and no one tries to steal. But now it's changing. People have started just taking things and ransacking stores. The good times are coming to an end.
The netherlands is second largest food producer in the world. BUt know in warm climate it is real easy to grow lots of fruit by yourself. Even on rooftop or balcony you can grow lots. Tomato's are so easy to grow.
There are cashiers in the store but they have reduced cashiers in the last few years and replaced them with "self checkout". Its a mixture of both at the moment. And yes people do steal. You can be randomly checked by an employee to see if you have scanned everything properly.
@ 03:00 the netherlands has a minimum wage law, that currently pays 2300eu per 40h of working, after taxes you keep around 1900 (ish). Now the groceries are not the most exepensive here, but we pay between 1000-2000eu per month for rent, so couples most of the time have to work both in order to afford housing, if you're single you get a studio thats like 30m2 for 700-1200eu p/m. so most of our costs go out to rent, public transit, etc.
Hoe long ago did you move there and where. There are still places that are cheap but the last 2 years things went crazy. We moved a year ago and left a studio we payed 560 for. The next person already payed 670.
Fresh food in the Netherlands is so expensive that most people with lower incomes can’t afford it. Sad truth… Dutch vegetables are exported to neighbor countries and are sold there much, much, much cheaper then in the Netherlands. Duct supermarkets put on insane price raises on the products and then blame the maker of the products for it. Example…off duct supermarket stupidity.. An Apple cost like 50 cent. They cut it in 4 pieces…put it in a plastic bag…now they charge 2 euro…300% extra
I went into this video, seeing the pure shock on your faces and thinking to myself "Our supermarkets arent that special, cmon now. Drop the act"
But im glad you gave the insight that you did, my mind was quickly changed.
I finished the video feeling very fortunate to live here. Thank you
I feel the same way!
jij nederlands?
@@stephandagelet5545 ik nederlands
You understand their reactions are fake, right?
@MerelvanHouten the reactions may be absurd, too much.. but definitely not fake
You find our supermarket cheap?! We think it's expensive, because the prices in the supermarket are 30 - 40% more expensive than two years ago. But seeing this video and your reaction, it made me realize how luxury the supermarkets are in The Netherlands. You don't realize it. When you are used to it, it's just normal. But also here in The Netherlands, with a low income you can't buy everything you would want.
Hey guys, want to add a few things. Food quality all over the EU is good, part of consumer protection.
Cheaper then supermarkets are open air markets, estimate 15 to 20% cheaper then supermarkets for similar products and no prepackage. This goes also all over Europe.
Germany is cheaper then Netherlands in general and some things like alcoholic drinks and tobacco a lot cheaper.
Belgium, France and Italy are more quality and taste oriented less focused on pure price.
Keep in mind in Netherlands housing prices can be extreme, this does effect cost of living a lot of course.
Thanks for giving us perspective about how privileged we are here in Europe. Even though prices have been rising here as well since 5 years and people have more difficulty buying the same as before. I wish the best for your country!!
It's got nothing to do with priviledge, alot of 3rd world countries are being controled and used for profit. That's not your privilege.
F off with privileged. The middle class in the Netherlands has problems with paying their bill and food is also expensive for them.
We really aren't priviliged, these people are acting, they are actors. They really arent surprised at all. Meat being sold in a supermarket is normal everywhere, even In Chile and countries similar to it.
were not priviledged at all
go to south africa and find out europe is dead
Be aware that the brasilian reais -Euro conversion is roughly about 5:1, so 1 Euro is about 5 reais, not 1:1 as you seem to expect
But the typical monthly wage also is 5 times higher in Europe, so it cancels when comparing how much you have to spend.
@@HenryLoenwind The average wage in Europe is NOT 5 times more (not even double)
Brasil avg wage: 1600 euro
Nl avg wage: 2800 euro
The error in the calculation is because the prices shown are in 500 grams and not in kilo's. They pay 12 reais for a kilo tomatoes. We actually pay 20+ reais for a kilo tomatoes.
Also, the average income cannot be compared like you guys do. There are many differences in tax systems, social systems, health and so on. And talking about the European averages is just plain ignorant. Serbia, Poland, Montenegro and Albania have a worse score than Brazil when it comes to the cost of living. When you compare al South American countries you will see that Brazil actually is sub par.
@mumblic our salary is 264 euros (1412 reais)
@@mumblic lol the average wage in Brazil is MUCH lower than that..More like 400-500 USD a month.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_countries_by_monthly_average_wage
hi dear people...I come from the Netherlands and even though we have a lot of variety in terms of food, I don't know how to pay half of it here...I have to see how I can make ends meet every month and fortunately I am one who also created a vertical garden and grow my own vegetables in it... every little bit helps, right?! suck fore you guys thats the cost are higher over ther
greetings from the south of the Netherlands...
sorry to hear things are more expensive in Brasil. It should be the other way around. love your video's. greetings from Rotterdam , The Netherlands
Yeeee rdam
Waarom moet alles duurder in Nederland en niet in Brazilië ? Raar ventje ben jij .
It really differs per country, I've visited South Africa last year and on average their stores are better then our Dutch stores. Ofcourse I can't compare prices as the average salary is lower in South Africa.
@maxdehaas6776 sorry max mag ik je iets vragen wat hier helemaal niet op aan sluit??
Thank you for your empathy, we hope that one day the situation will improve. ❤️
In my local Albert Hein, there are still cashiers, and a self-scan option. The reason for supermarkets to have self scan options is that it's cheaper for them (they have to hire less personnel). People that choose self scan are randomly selected by the computer for checks to see if you scanned every item in your bag or basket, to prevent theft. It's usually quicker than standing in line for the cashier, but the risk is yours, even if you honestly weren't trying to steal something but accidentally forgot to scan something. (If it's just one small item, they'll usually not immediately assume you were trying to steal, but still, they could do so).
Sure I always go to a cashier, no way self scan. Staying in line means social contact, not only with the cashier, but also with other people waiting in the line. You know social contact is so nice.
- 1kg rice ilfor 6 real is 1,13 EUR. When I look online at Albert Heijn the price of 1kg rice is 2,49 EUR.
- When I look online 1kg tomatoes is 3,58 EUR wich makes it 18,97 Real
- Dont forget the EUR/Real rate. One real is 0,19 EUR at this moment.
Sure, but they would still have to earn 10.000 real per month for it being the same percentage of their income.
Ha, you noticed too... guess because you are an investor. #MeToo. And prices matter, also knowing why the prices differ matter.
Gaat om de verhouding, als je 1400 real verdiend is 6 real duur voor bv rijst. Daarom geven ze ook een voorbeeld met 1:1 vergelijk. Dus als je 1400 eu zou verdienen zou 6eu voor rijst duur zijn....
It's about how you balance it out, the average net salary in the Netherlands is around 2500 euro net a month maybe even more nowadays and this is literally the most expensive supermarket, there are plenty of cheaper options too
My wife is Greek, and when family or friends come to stay a few weeks, they love the supermarket. Especially the chocolate Sweets, candies, baked sweets, chips, bread, and pies. Mother-in-law enjoys the ready cut and cleaned vegetables.
We can imagine. We haven't even visited the Netherlands yet and we already love the supermarket. Peace and love from Brasil 🥰
I am sorry, for beeing soo ignorant! I really thought, living, eating where so much less expensive in Brasil..
I feel ashamed. I did not know you have to pay this much.
Thank you for this reaction! An eye opener for all of us...
meeste word hier gekweekt he
Kritisch denken wordt hier blijkbaar niet gekweekt. Niet opgevallen dat zij 1 kilo voor 12 reais vergelijken met een halve kilo hier? Wij betalen iets meer dan 20 reais voor een kilo tomaten.
So we(europeans) pay the double. @@madjack7777 Did you take the average, brasilian incomst into your mind?
Sry, i wont be rude or condescending!
Well, it is not that things are much more expensive in Brazil, most things are definitely more expensive in the Netherlands. But rather that there is much less purchasing power in Brazil when compared to the Netherlands.
I was taking my life in the Netherlands for granted. Seeing this young couple breaks my heart 😢. We complain a lot in The Netherlands, but we are verry blessed. We have affordable, good healthcare and plenty of food. I wish everyone would be so lucky.❤
Assuming as showed that 1kg tomatoes is being priced BRL 12 in Brasil and about EUR 5 in the Netherlands, prices in the Netherlands are about twice as high (1 EUR = 5 BRL or close atm), but wages are 8x in the Netherlands (Brasil 417 / Netherlands 3200 / maybe wrong, but seems accurate), which makes tomatoes 4x more expensive in Brasil... ouch !
You can't compare the 2 countries like this. In Brasil and the Netherlands the average spend on food is both between 10% and 20% of the income. Tomatoes are low btw/vat and a lot of farms grown them.
@@walterberkouwer1038but he didn’t, he just said that Dutch earn a lot more money than Brazilians, though groceries are more expensive in the Netherlands, it’s still cheaper for us. I’ve been to Brazil multiple times and own homes there, groceries are very cheap for me as I earn in euro, I spent like €150 for a months shopping, where I’d spend that a week in Ireland. Brazil is expensive if you earn a Brazilian salary.
@@jimbomacers Idd if you go with your dutch/Irish salary to brasil you get months groceries for weeks groceries in the Netherlands/ireland. But if you compare a how much a dutch/irish person spends on groceries in the Netherlands/Ireland percentage wise to a person in brasil, they are the same. Some foods are very cheap in the Netherland because there a lot suppliers and the goverment is promoting that food and one of those is tomatos.
I think you go waaay to high, in the Netherlands, your likely to earn 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, ect.
Different payment scales, truckers are on 2000 and upwards, teachers 2500/3000, filling those supermarket racks, probably 1500 to 2000 euro's.
Want to see horror, house prices, especially the hired house prices and that EU law to hire to what you are earning, not what you actually have the money for. (like a sickness that eats money or something like that, that ain't in the insurance packet of your health insurance)
Median income per house hold is €3600 in the Netherlands. Calculating per person is often giving a muddied view because it's less common for both in one household to work fulltime (35h or more a week) only 52% works fulltime. It's not unlikely to have many households where only one person earns money, and if it's minimum wage (€1800) it can be tight. That doesn't change the fact tomatoes are still expensive in Brazil, of course.
As a born and raised Dutch guy I always thought these prices were normal. After having lived in Germany and worked in Luxembourg for 3 years I learned that because the Netherlands is the 2nd largest export country in the world of agricultural products (2nd to the USA.) We are very good at utilizing greenhouses and our soil (being very wet and swampy until we pumped out the water with windmills in polders) is rich in nutrients. A lot of import in the EU comes through the port of Rotterdam. We basically save a lot of import costs that surrounding countries do pay.
Although we have a very very small country, we are the second largest agricultural food exporter in the world.
Im Dutch and live with my parents and there are still weeks where we don’t have enough food for all of us. The meat and fruits are especially expensive in comparison to the rest for what you actually get. We always look for the discounts just to have enough, I’m not alone since poverty and families just above the poverty line are rising very fast now
Your parents made the wrong life choices, lol.
You could make a " react to" video to about this. Lots of people don't seem to understand those groceries are not affordable for all Dutch people.
@@regntonneWhat a cruel and dumb comment, have some compassion!
Honestly, being poor in the Netherlands pretty much becomes choice, there are plenty of job options that do not require education and pay way above minimum wage. It becomes a matter of preferance and wanting to do a job more than being able to do it.
@@Plat1na and than you get f@cked by the tax authorities or have to pay crazy amounts of money for repairs on your house because of the gas extraction induced earthquakes... there are many other reasons Dutch people can live in poverty. I don't blame you for not understanding, I wish you will not understand it for your entire life 🙂
The Netherlands is switching to visa. But… in this country a credit card is not the norm. We usually do not like to be in debt or pay for paying. A creditcard is usually costlier. We use debitcards and pay directly from our bank accounts. And any debit card that is aligned will be used. Not just ‘dutch’ cards. The lady in the video is wildy misinformed on that front.
She's not, I have a visa debit card, but I also keep a Dutch bank account because although in most supermarkets I can pay just fine with visa, there's still plenty of smaller shops that only take maestro, making the visa card useless.
@@dhgelling that is not what i am saying. Any european bank debit card will work. She is saying that only dutch cards will work. On that area she is not informed.
@@strikeformatik but that's just not the case. Only dutch banks issue debit cards that use maestro, debit cards in other countries all use visa or mastercard. So a debit card from foreign banks do not in fact work in shops that only accept maestro, which still exist in the Netherlands enough to be an issue
@@dhgelling maestro is being phased out for the visa debit system.
@@Thunder1976NL yeah I know, hopefully in a few years this won't be an issue anymore
So sorry to hear that it's so hard to buy healthy food over there. I hope the Brazilian government manages to turn things around in the near future. You two are beautiful people and deserve all the best!!! Thanks for taking interest in my tiny country.
Edit: About the self-checkout thing. There definitely are a bunch of regular cashiers, the self-checkout is just an additional option. You can choose for yourself whether you want self-checkout or a regular cashier. Whenever you opt for self-checkout there is always personnel keeping watch on the self-checkout isle. You get regular randomized checks when you click the 'pay' button, meaning you have to wait for personnel to come over and check your bag to confirm you've actually scanned everything. Stealing does happen a lot and there are actually debates about completely getting rid of the self-scan option because stores are losing astronomical amounts of money on people stealing stuff. It's a sad situation, I wish people would just pay for their stuff because self-scanning is actually really convenient and way faster than waiting in line for a cashier.
Hi, I live in the Netherlands. The minimum salary here is between 1900 euros - 2100 euros. The supermarkt prices are are reasonable and Dirk Supermarkt is the mis cheapest but don't forget about electricity and gas price that are very very high. That is the biggest problem here. 😊
Minimum 1900-2100 ????? Dat is niet waar. Minimum is net aan over de 1000 euro. Geloof me ik heb het minimum.
1000 euro is uitkering
Very informative, i'm sorry to hear it's so hard to provide for yourselves in Brazil, hopefully things will get better ✌🏾
Well to be honest, 12 Reais is EUR2,25 depending on which tomatoes thats about EUR3,50 for a kg. Min wage is about 1900. Rent about half but can be more, Especially around big cities where you would easily pay 1100 for a tiny bedroom only, Then gas and electricity is bout 200 for 2 people. Care is about 200 per person. Internet, TV etc about 70. Salmon about EUR6 Rice 2,25 depending on which rice, per KG. So yeh its not all rainbow and sunshine, but we do have alot of produce, because we are 2nd world exporter for that :D
But when I hear you talking, and seeing you so surprised, I'm all the more humble and gratefull I live here. A lot of people tend to go to Germany for food though, because It's cheaper there.
Most supermarkets have both a Self checkout AND normal people working behind a cashregister.
I have a new reply strategy in which I search for replies that say exactly what I want to say. Yours is it ! Well put... my only fear now is when they will ever see a Walmart :)
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Never really knowm that our grocery stores are "cheap" cuz for us it is seen as expensive. I work at a Albert Heijn myself for the past 6 years seeing the prices go up and up. And I have a standard salary of about 1800 euros a month whilst being only 21 years old having to work 32 hours a week. This video reminds me how blessed we are the situation we are in over here.
Im sorry that the salary is worse in Brazil, than in the Netherlands. The Albert Heijn is the most expensive supermarket, there are cheaper options, like Vomar, Dirk and german store Lidl, with mostly the same variety
The Deen is the most expensive supermarket.
@@Siranoxz No, Deen is gone since 2021. Most stores are now Albert Heyn, Deka and Vomar
In some stores the gates are man-high. Because when they were lower thiefs jumped over the gates and ran away😂
And the Dutch grow a lot of vegetables themselfs. 2nd agricultural exporter in the world.
When you see the stickers with 35% on it, it means 35% discount because date of expiration is coming close. So you can buy products like vegetables, meat, fish, bread and dairy with 35% discount.
Here in the supermarkets we have indeed still cashiers besides selfscan.
I also have a video suggestion about our beautiful themepark Efteling, where we are very proud of😊
Totally agree on The Efteling!
I am so sorry that we can't have equality in this world so every human being could have the same products 😢❤
@@ronnieberck6505 Someday, probably still waaay to far into the future :(
Have you tried growing your own vegetables from seeds?
You can also use the seeds in tomatoes.
You do need time and space and good soil to grow your own veggies.
@@MarceldeJong you can grow tomatoes and spicy peppers and herbs even on your balcony. In a (very) small garden it’s even easier to grow beans, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots etc. A friend of mine does that for years already.
You both have valid points. I've grown veggies in my windowsill, but growing enough to not have to buy them anymore, is quite difficult in my experience.
@@Judith_Remkes still you’re saving money this way.
@@Judith_Remkes I grow herbs. I found those to be the most expensive. Packaging with way to much and in such a way it spoils easily. And I do not need much room for all the herbs I daily use. Why buy a whole package of mint when I only need a few leaves a week for example.
thank you for your video and honest reactions.
It feels humbling and maybe even a little embarrassing to be reminded that what we in NL take for granted every day, actually isn't.
I live in the Netherlands and shop at Albert Hein... I am aware that that is a luxury even in The Netherlands, as not everyone in NL can shop here, or eat that healthy.
But on a global scale the difference is even greater. 😔
I think it would be good for us the be more aware and gratefull... your video surely helped.
I hope you will have the opportunity one day day to come visit The Netherlands and see it for yourselves.
❤
Thank you both, your video was really humbling and I will be thinking of your struggles next time I do my groceries shopping 🤗
In general all the basics are there in each chain which includes the salads and meal prep kits just less variety and some more special items are only sold in bigger stores of the same chain. We don't consider our groceries cheap because it has become very expensive over the last few years. You can't get a few basket below the 50/60 euros anymore unfortunately. It's really special to see how surprised you are at things that are very mundane for me in my country! Thank you for giving that perspective!
It’s crazy to see your reaction, it’s so unfair in the world and it is good that it comes out through your videos. I am very lucky I knew already, but I realized again just yet. Thank you!
Great video guys ❤👍 This is the shop I got my groceries. For checking out, there are personal to do random checks at customers but also personal to refill boxes when they become empty and for helping finding products.
Thank you both 🙏 As a a lowlander myself I tend to forget how “privileged” we truly are…. you both humbled me today… thanks for that!!
1 Euro is around 5,33 Brl, and yes, there are people working there and we have cashiers as wel where they scan your articles, you can pay cash if you want with them, unles it's marked "pin only".
I work at Albert Heijn myself, I find it very important that customers have a lot of options that can help them, I have been working for 12 months and started with an internship. I started working on that a year later and I started around the age of 15 or 16.
Love your reactions, it's good to be reminded how lucky we are over here. Hope you manage to travel abroad some day 😊
Thank you very much for the support. We can't wait for it. Best wishes to you. Peace and love from Brasil 🥰🥰
The small local supermarket i do my every day shopping has no self scan, only cashiers.
But the bigger stores have both. On the self scan there is someone standing supervising several self scan stations.
They also do random checks to see if you have scanned everything.
Because of the self scan there is a raise in theft, but the savings in full time personel is also a lot.
And because the self scan is faster to check out it draws more customers to the store that dont want to wait in line.
There is usually a mix of cashiers and selfservice in most supermarkets. Some favour cashiers still, and some shops will have a mix at one location and more self service at another. It depends on the location.
This brings back childhood memories. When I was a kid, we traveled a lot for my father’s work and lived in developing countries where getting your groceries basically boiled down to buying what was available and stocking up on that because you could never be certain of how long it’d be available. When we’d go on ‘home leave’ that first trip to the supermarket was WILD.
Almost 50 years later, I still have some habits left from those days.
Please note that food might be relatively low priced in The Netherlands. Other things are bot. The standard of living is very high but poverty does exist. Not everyone buys sushi, freshly squeezed juice and pre-washed, pre-cut vegetables. But yes,the standard of living in The Netherlands is a lot higher for the average Dutch person compared to the average person in Brazil. I’m so sorry things are so difficult in Brazil and wish they were much, much better.
Perhaps interesting to know for some, is that one reason why fruit and vegetables are relatively cheap in a lot of European countries and especially in The Netherlands, is because the Dutch are amazing farmers who actually produce enormous amounts of produce in technologically very advanced circumstances in greenhouses. The European Union subsidises a lot of farming, too. Despite that, farmers are protesting because according to them the portion they earn is very low compared to the profits the supermarkets make.
It's amazing how in 15 years things have changed in Brazil, Then things were much cheaper than in the Netherlands so a pal of mine went for several months to Brazil sometimes 2x a year. Here's a thought for you Albert Heijn is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the Netherlands and Belgium
yeah dutch food prices in general are very nice but they going up. I made a menu for the week that cost only 38 euros. It contains pizza for 2 days, Tacos for 2 days with fresh salsa salad and a kilo of cheese, and 2 days of schnitzel with fries with cheese home made gravy and veggies.
We were in Brasil 25 years ago (2nd time) and in those days meat and vegetables were cheap, everything was cheap compared to my country in those days (I mean the Netherlands). Sorry to see it's now the other way around. For us the supermarket shown in the video is not even the cheapest one. By the way, prices are rising here too, but that is nothing compared to Brasil.
Hope for you it will get better soon! Saudações da Holanda!
That's true. Everything was cheaper and more accessible. Our salary fail to keep up with price increases. It's great to know that you were in our country, we hope you have good memories. Thanks for watching! Greetings from Brasil!
you should not look at the prices but at the percentage of your income that you spend on food. In the Netherlands approximately 10%
to be fair, we also think the presliced fruits are expensive. Then again, Albert Heijn is our most expensive supermarket over the board. Vegetables, meat, fruit and nuts are still bought on weekly markets by a lot of people.
You do need to compare it right though. 1reais is like 0,20euro cents. This means 1 euro is 5reais. If you then say 1kg of rice is 6reais, its 1,20 euro which we consider cheap. The hardest thing to compare then are the average incomes in the Netherlands compared too incomes in Brazil.
A diferença nos preços depende na origem dos produtos.
Por exemplo, a Holanda produiz muito legume (tem casas de vidro de kilometres de largura). Outros produtos estão importados do Brasil, por exemplo os produtos tropicais.
Eu oberservi que os legumes da Europa têm melhor sabor que os memos no Brasil - os tomatoes são bom exemplo disso.
Boa viagem.
My dutch mind melts watching their brain melt. I cant wrap my head around their shock about a common European supermarket. And I dont mean that in any negative way what so ever. The things you take for granted as a (western) European..
Their emotions are fake as ...t, don't you see it ? The whole purpose of this video is to get youtube views and comments from Dutch people "explaining them the reality".
In The Netherlands, we produce more meat than we consume, so we export a lot too. If we would eat all of the meat we produce ourselves, we would eat 1 kg of meat each day...
Edit: Also, about the cashier: There are cashiers, but there are also options to self-scan your products. The cashiers will sometimes check if you really scanned everything at the self-scan though...
The meat in Dutch grocery stores, usually isn't Dutch
A lot of our supermarkets in ireland and uk have fresh bakeries in them, a butchers and often a pizza counter and a fishmonger and believe it or not in the uk especially the prices are even lower than this. For example i can get a pack of apples for 79p a bag of potatos for £1 a sirloin steak for £4 etc. We even have stores like home bargains, poundland lidle/aldi (which is german) that have even lower prices.
The Netherlands is a huge food producer, partially because of our great river delta soil. Ontop of that, we have the largest port in europe, which lies in the center of the north european trade network. This gives us plenty of acces to food.
Not for long ... Agenda 2030 . If you not yet noticed.
you are forgetting our innovative glasshouses.
I'm from The Netherlands and it kind of makes me a bit sad to see your reaction. Everybody in the world should be able to have this kind of food and being able to afford it... Much love 🙏
I want to note a few things as a dutchie myself. About the high alcohol content, supermarkets are allowed to sell it but they need a separate section that's closed off from the rest of the store and customers have to have a store employee with them and they need to purchase the bottle there not at the regular register. Als on the fresh stuff you may have seen 35% stickers, they are put on items whose date is that of the day. This is mandatory I believe to combat the problem of food spillage in the country.
And please please please don't be afraid to try the housebrands of our supermarkets, they are often comparable in taste to the big company equivalent if not better in taste in some cases
As yhe nethrrlands are the 2nd large producers of vegetables dutch citizens have acces to a great variety at affordable prices in every supermarket in the country
The Netherlands is NOT the 2nd largest producer of vegetables, it's the 2nd largest EXPORTER of agricultural goods. This is because a lot of stuff gets imported into the harbour of Rotterdam and sold to other countries. This counts as export, but is not produced by the Netherlands. Relatively the Netherlands does produce a lot of goods, especially flowers, dairy products, eggs and meat, and about 70% of goods produced are exported as well, but the amounts produced are not comparable to countries like US, China, India and Russia.
We do have supermarket personell but they check if you paid everything with random checkings, it depends on the products you buy with more expensive products its more likely that you will be checked.
Be aware please that we have people in Netherlands who can not pay for this food. But they are helped by the supermarkets with food that is not sold. Greetings from Roelof.
The reason for low priced and high amount of vegetables (not all with good taste) is mostly because of the greenhouses, the most modern greenhouses in the planet are situated over here. I can definitely recommend watching one of the episodes of reizen Waes where he visits one of the most modern greenhouses in Holland in the Netherlands. Greenhouses take C02 from the air which make the vegetables grow faster and larger and almost everything is automated. The most modern greenhouses can even store all their energy and warmth underground for winter so they use almost none to no energy at all which makes them very cost effective.
I really hope some day more countries will be able to have benefits like this, fruits and vegetables are very healthy and in my opinion should be accessible to more people, meat should be a luxury item in all countries even here.
Food is relatively cheap here but house prices high.
The Dutch cities have regular outdoor markets as well where you can buy vegetables and other foods for much cheaper. And Albert Heijn is one of the more "premium" supermarkets
they dont only have salad prepped meals but for olmost every thing like i like to cook styrfry and i have like 6 different options and its all cut and fresh its vey good if you live alone and still want to cook so you dont have food for 7 days but just for 2 days
The average salary in Holland per month is about € 3000. The average price for a kilo tomatoes is about € 1,50
Dutch food prices have gone up a lot but of course we can't compare to giant inflation in places like Brazil and Venezuela. But also we grow a ton of food here, peppers will be grown in glass houses mere hours away from supermarkets like this and we export a great deal. Glass houses help reduce the need for water and pesticides, often they can employ natural things like bugs that kill pests and because the weather isn't much of an issue yield is very consistant.
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so not 1400 EUR :)
Most people earn around 2500-3000 euro ( netto ), but that is for one person, their wifes are mostly working too, but not 40 houres, mostly around 20 houres. So a husband and wife earns together around 3000 - 4000 euro netto.
But we pay alot for our energy bill and for our house ( loan or rent )
Renting a house is around 800 - 1500 euro per month.
12 Brazilian Real = 2,26 Euro (two Euro and 26 cents) ... conversion rate of valentinesday 14-2-2024
1,99 Euro = 10,56 Brazil Real
1 Euro = 5,31 Brazil Real
So your tomatoes are not 12 Euro!!! 😅
Oh, and 1kg of white rice is 1,99 Euro. So 10,56 Brazil Real instead of your 6 Brazil Real. That is almost TWICE as expensive as in Brazil! 😅
Frozen Salmon Filet with 2 slices totalling 250gr costs 4,99 Euro or 26,47 Brazil Real. The Albert Heijen does not sell whole salmons like yours for 100 Brazil Real.
Also I am very proud of our Dutch farmers. They can grow almost everything here. So well and so much too that our tint and I repeat TINY country with almost 18 million inhabitants is 2nd largest exporter of agricultural produce in the entire world after the USA.
As they say..."no farmers, no food". Help your farmer and he will feed you well. Also buy from the farmers directly as wholesale and retail make it more expensive. 😉
1 real is 0,19 euro. So 12 real for 1 kg tomatoes is 2,26 euro.
So the difference between dutch and Brazil price are not that much.
Your meat is cheaper been to Brazil this Christmas and the cost of living is cheaper in Brazil from a Dutch perspective. But your monthly income is lower, so that's why living in Brazil is more expensive. And there little to no social security in Brazil, in the netherlands there is.
Holy moly, that's some dire circumstances in Brazil... Hope you both are doing alright despite the insane prices for a basic necessity like food.
All supermaarkets still have one or two cashiers, the rest is self scan
we earn 2000+- as minimum in the country.
most people earn between 2100-2800 monthly and this is per person
we do have casheers here but you can pick between the normal lanes or scanning the products. sometimes the one is faster then the other.
Also there is security in some stores.
if you have any questions let me know ill be happy to awnser them! :D
cool video guys :) Thumbs up for you two and keep it up!
I think y'all forgot about the conversion with the prices. Like with the meal kits around 4:30, you thought that they were cheap cause they're about 5 bucks, and that it would be like 10 to 12 bucks there. But 5 Euro means 26 Brazilian Real. That's expensive here too.
Like 1 kg of white rice costs 2 euro so about 10.50 BRL, but you guys pay 6 BRL. Purchasing power is definitely better in the Netherlands, just wanted to point out that conversion gives better context :)
I want to add some context to this video. My girlfriend has lived in Brazil for 13 years, and a good portion of her family still does to this day. And while many groceries seem cheap here compared to in Brazil. We also pay way more taxes, and mandatory insurances. Healthcare is 125 euros in the cheaper range, that would be 600 reais, and it is MANDATORY! As someone who has been to Brazil and who's Girlfriend has lived there for a long time. I would say, YES, it is cheaper, but not mind blowingly cheaper to live in the Netherlands.
To add to it, when you guys were talking about the meat prices, the video was showing meat replacers, Vegetarian meat, if you will. So not true meat.
Usually with self-checkout there is still some staff to supervise. And we do have some problems with people just "forgetting" to pay.
Thanx, because of you 2, i've got a whole new perspective of my life in the Netherlands. We are so used to our "luxury" here.
Income 1400 outcome minus 700 rent minus 150 health insurance minus 250 electricity minus tv internet car, insurances. So whats left for groceries?
With that income you have on your rent and health insurance a discount from the government, and that is a lot. But you don't report this.
We still do have cashiers in our supermarkets. The self scan area is just an option if you don't want to wait in line for the check out🙂
The stuff is expensive too. Im from germany not netherlands but i figure its about the same. Wild salmon is about 60-80€ per kg. So most people eat the unhealthy farm raised salmon which is about half that. Beef depends on the cut. The most expensive is filet mignon thats around 60€/kg. But other cuts or minced beef is around 12-18€/kg. Pork is about half. You can get the cheapest chicken for less than 5€ but if you want a healthy organic one its about 10-12€ for a whole chicken. These juices they showed are also very expensive but i think completely organic and are around 5€ for a bottle like that. You get a 1l coca cola for around 1€ to compare it. Bread is pretty cheap. A croissant is around 1€. On average people pay around 200-500€ for food a month. You can get by for 150 but then you have to buy the worst cheapest meats where the animals dont have a lot of freedom to roam. 1kg rice is around 4-6€ depends also which kind you want. If you want to eat good its about 300-400 and if you can afford it you can easily eat for 500€ per month and person. .
I live in the Netherlands, for us this is normal. The normal salary here is 3000 euro, 17.190 real per month.
meanwhile , north americans visiting europe complain about the small meal sizes and the fruit prices^^
Haha. The prices are even HIGH in the Netherlands. And normal income is not 1400 euro, it's around 3800 euro (before taxes). Taxes are extremely high, so when you get 3800 euro's per month, you will get around 2750 on your bank account. Renting a house costs somewhere between 1000 and 1500 euro for a (small) apartment. And health insurance is, the cheapest one, around 130 euro each month. Per person. Maybe that's why you see low prices in the supermarkets, but it's for Dutch people very high.
Muito obrigado! Comprimendos da Hollanda!
Quando você visitar a Holanda, levarei você às compras em um supermercado e, se o tempo permitir, em um mercado de agricultores. O supermercado mostrado neste vídeo é mais caro, então terei prazer em mostrar vários para vocês.
O checkout de autoatendimento funciona utilizando o recibo após o pagamento. Possui um código de barras que abre o portão para você sair da loja. (Se você tiver alguma bebida alcoólica, a máquina garante que algum caixa ou outra pessoa que trabalhe na loja chegue. Isso para evitar que menores de idade comprem bebidas alcoólicas em caixas de autoatendimento.
Temos certeza que isso será incrível, mal podemos esperar para visitar a Holanda. Agradecemos a explicação, isso é tudo muito novo e diferente para nós. Obrigado por assitir!
If you visit The Netherlands, dont stay in Amsterdam as a tourist, dont buy anything there unless you need to :P The place is easily reachable by public transport or a car if you have the means. The prices there are just that much higher than outside of the place. Its not as cheap as it looks :P Glad you liked the diversity in the shelves! We have the option of paying at registeres or self checkout at some places, prone to stealing though, so pretty well monitored, even have a supermarket that uses colored baskets for singles for example, or places that have special opening times for elderly.
Thank you guys, love your energy👌
Thank you very much for the support. We wish you all the best ❤️❤️
Supermercados na Holanda tem caixas com pessoas sim. Neles vc geralmente pode pagar com dinheiro.
O que muita gente prefere fazer é pegar uma aparelhinho na entranda, scanear os produtos quando vc coloca no carrinho e no caixa self-service vc somente paga.
De vez em quando vc é selecionado e tem que passar por uma vistoria.
Com a inflação alta, houve (há) muita gente que sai sem pagar e os supermercados tem cogitado acabar com os caixas self-service. Tb cogitam implantar sistemas de monitoramento com inteligencia artificial. Moral da historia, há roubos por aqui tb.
Sounds strange for you but the prices (however Albert Heijn is one of the more expensive shops in The Netherlands) in retail are very cheap also compared to the rest of Europe. Strange, one of the richest countries in the world has low retail prices (supermarkets). But your videos make me also always humble. We complain about some people who don't scan all products or other too smaal things. We have to be much more happy with our lives here.
Yes, absolutely right. And they are mentioning 1400 euros all the time, well thats the bare minimum in The Netherlands. But our groceries might be cheap, the cost for renting a home is crazy high.
It's not strange if you consider the advantage the Netherlands has geographically. We have the biggest seaport of Europe, meaning most in and export of the continent happens at our front door and we have access to all products that come in at Rotterdam. Most of the Netherlands was former swampland, meaning the ground is very fertile. On top of that, it's mostly flat, making agriculture easy and efficient. Seeing as we also were master shipbuilders in the past and very trade oriented, the Dutch East India Company made our country rich enough to quickly advance. Meaning we also have a technological and educational advantage that makes everything even more efficient. Our infrastructure is top notch, and our country is small enough to make it a lot more manageable to upkeep them. Top it off with a pioneering mindset, and you have a country that can do almost anything. To summarize, I think a big reason we are blessed with low retail prices here is because the Netherlands is located where it is. And in that, we are extremely lucky. I actually felt a little shocked and ashamed watching these people's reactions in this video, as sometimes you don't even realize how good you have it, and how unusual it can be to have this much food available.
Just on a side note, our cards here in Luxembourg do "Maestro" by default.
Yea much talking to others here in the channel and maybe a bit to much but the comments helps a channel.
Insanely enough, the Netherlands is the second largest exporter of vegetables in the world but also is one of the smallest countries in the world...!Especially Bell Peppers (paprika) and tomatoes which are grown in greenhouses. I always think the Dutch should export that technology of farming instead of the literal produce. So grow where you need it!
I mean, that particular supermarket IS very big though. It's an overabundance of products, probably because of many visitors. The average supermarket in the country doesn't have that much as shown here, usually half of everything. But I of course understand we're still very lucky.
I noticed you mentioned how "everything is ready for consumption", and that is spot on for Dutch people. They love the convenience. Many of us are prepared to pay more if it makes our lives easier. But not too much, of course. In most cases we try to do it ourselves first, then fail, get annoyed and decide to let others do it lol. That's very Dutch.
I appreciate your views. I know I am very lucky. But your point about being able to make healthy choices is a big deal. It makes me sad too. Wishing a lot of health to both of you. You two are so nice.
R$ 12,00 - os doze reais equivalem a € 2,22 (EUR). A taxa de câmbio atual é 0,185. Então 1 quilo de tomate não custa 12€ mas sim 2,22€
As a Dutchman I'm sorry to hear that life in Brazil is expensive. At the end of this video you see a scan-system. So you can all do it by yourself. But in every supermarket in the Netherlands we have also cashiers.
Thank you very much for your empathy, and thank you very much for explaining the very different system in this Dutch supermarket. ❤️
Rice is about 1.5 euro for 1kg. I make about 3500 euro a month in the Netherlands
About the self-scan cash register, there was some research done recently by a dutch news media company (on dutch population) and they confirmed that while people do steal it's hardly of noteworthy impact, it's pretty much comparable to how often people steal with actual cash registers and cashiers involved, and just like how they dealt with that in the past, the supermarkets simply raise the prices of their produce a bit to account for this.
It's not like half the customers are stealing entire bags of groceries, maybe 5% of customers may occasionally not scan an item or two, similar to how maybe 5% of customers would occasionally slip one or two things in their pockets in the past, but the supermarkets can just cope with that loss, especially considering these are massive supermarket chains that easily turn over several hundred million euros in profit each year, they're really not all that worried about some small percentage loss, sure they have posters that police will get involved etc but realistically they don't care enough to actually fight it any more than they already do.
Finally it needs to be said that all these self-scan cash registers are extremely well built to _actually detect theft,_ through several different approaches (scales, cameras, etc) but most of the time when it goes beep beep it's such a minor weight difference or low rating by the system that the staff just look your direction and press a button for you to continue, they don't even bother checking most of the time since they're not losing any salary over it either.
All supermarkets still have traditional cash registers with cashiers too, i feel like it's required by law or something, maybe for people in wheelchairs/mobility scooters or something? but most supermarkets have been changed in the last few years where 80% is now self-scan & the manned cash register is closed 90% of the time.
the Netherlands are the second largest exporters of food in the world.
so no surprise the have all this food for those prices.
it is a shame that food is so expensive in your country.
You don’t want to know how much of all that ends up in the garbage container outside the supermarket. Aside of what we, the costumers, throw away after buying it. I think 40% gets waisted in total.
Wow ! I really didn't know it was that expensive in Brazil compared to what you earn ! Actually a bit shocking !
Here in Luxembourg, the minimum wage is over 2000€
many people here also cant afford the price of the food bcs we have much more bills that are very high, like insurance, house rent and gas and electra bills
Extremely common in the US to have self-checkout lanes because everyone pays and no one tries to steal. But now it's changing. People have started just taking things and ransacking stores. The good times are coming to an end.
The netherlands is second largest food producer in the world. BUt know in warm climate it is real easy to grow lots of fruit by yourself. Even on rooftop or balcony you can grow lots. Tomato's are so easy to grow.
There are cashiers in the store but they have reduced cashiers in the last few years and replaced them with "self checkout". Its a mixture of both at the moment. And yes people do steal. You can be randomly checked by an employee to see if you have scanned everything properly.
In our supermarkets, we also have cashiers and the self checkouts
@ 03:00 the netherlands has a minimum wage law, that currently pays 2300eu per 40h of working, after taxes you keep around 1900 (ish).
Now the groceries are not the most exepensive here, but we pay between 1000-2000eu per month for rent, so couples most of the time have to work both in order to afford housing, if you're single you get a studio thats like 30m2 for 700-1200eu p/m.
so most of our costs go out to rent, public transit, etc.
After a divorce, I live in a 1-family home and I pay 567 euros in rent per month abouth half of my income
Hoe long ago did you move there and where. There are still places that are cheap but the last 2 years things went crazy. We moved a year ago and left a studio we payed 560 for. The next person already payed 670.
@@waltersteyger1215 i did not move i'm born and raised here,i live 28 years in this house now..divorced in 2007
Totally wrong. People have to work 40 hours a week for €1350. People wish it would be €1900
@@mvdh877 Well there is the answer why you pay so little in rent. Try to move today and you will be shocked.
Fresh food in the Netherlands is so expensive that most people with lower incomes can’t afford it.
Sad truth…
Dutch vegetables are exported to neighbor countries and are sold there much, much, much cheaper then in the Netherlands.
Duct supermarkets put on insane price raises on the products and then blame the maker of the products for it.
Example…off duct supermarket stupidity..
An Apple cost like 50 cent.
They cut it in 4 pieces…put it in a plastic bag…now they charge 2 euro…300% extra