Come to Ireland buddy! By the time they finish scanning your groceries you will know everything about them and their families, neighbours, and friends! And,if you are nice,they will even help you with the bagging! You still have to pay for the bag though! That's why we all have a bag full of bags in every house! 😂😂
I love Ireland. Was there a few years ago for 2 days. I was told the suniest days in years and everyone was outside. In front of a Spar, there was a woman sitting on the sidewalk, eating an ice. As I walked towards the entrence, she smiled at me and told me to call her if I have any questions or wanna pay. Great visit. 😋
@@MaddogMaddu that's why I love it so much! There are still lots of good people here! And although there is an influence from USA (cause we all love copying them,I don't know why!) most of the people are nice, funny and well mannered! I am delighted you enjoyed your visit but 2 days is just not enough 🤣🤣
Went late March early April to the emerald isle and fell in love with the people and land. Limerick and squatting in a castle (dude taking advantage of a castle that's been rotting and us finding out from the locals at the pub lol) we're the highlights.
@@hiimboy8564 it's only theft if you take it out the front, but if you bring it through the register it becomes part of your purchase like everything else.
I'd phrase it differently: all those "American in Germany/Russia/England/Japan/the bottom of the Mariana Trench" videos just show how weird America is.
Tbf I was beyond surprised when I first visited a Walmart in Los Angeles with my father and the cashier said “hello, how are you today?”. Afterwards I deadass asked my father how did he know the lady.
Here in Cornwall UK the cashiers are often chatty (except in Lidl). In all our supermarkets now you have to pay for bags. So most people bring their own reusable ones. I have car boot/trunk full of various bags! 😆 We also bag all our shopping, always have.
What's scaring the heck out of me is that - Despite an ever more visibly German identity showing itself in me over time - I still make small-talk with cashiers while I'm being served... 🇬🇧 ...In Lidl. 😳
When i visited New Hampshire a few weeks ago, the person that was packing the groceries looked at me soo confused when I packed them myself for my grandma 😭😭
Some places have someone to bag them for you and if you ask someone politely their plans it's not a big deal. Let's not ask like Canada or the States are a tiny homogeneous country lol
@@reinadelosrizoss ok Karen 🙄, the reason why they charge for bags is simple so ppl stop throwing away plastic bags and stop throwing them on the streets uk has had this law for like a decade. And u bag your own stuff as a cashier I won’t even open the bag for u, unless it someone who needs extra help
This series makes me so nostalgic. I grew up in europe and only moved to the US for university and onwards. I still miss the simple things like not having to talk to the cashier, or the general lack of having to do small talk in general
@@snorky184 I wouldn’t say lazier, but America is the king of convenience. Smarter not harder ya know? It’s not a lot of effort to bag your own stuff and we do have stores that you do this at. Bagging your own stuff doesn’t make you better 🤣
Can tell you as a German I have no desire talking to the cashier. I just wanna put my stuff in a bag, pay and leave. Simple as that and I don't want to change it
We get it, Germans are autistics or have Asperger's. Thankfully we're fine with a bagger since it also means a much faster shopping experience since a guy who does it for a living, is faster and better at it than the average shopper.
Every British household has a random cupboard stuffed with old carrier bags. We then forget to bring said bags with us when we go shopping and have to buy more, but out of stubbornness and pride we never throw old bags away so the bag cupboard grows and starts taking over the house.
😂 not even British but this is my problem too. Only, where I live they make the plastics degradable. So each time I do remember the plastic of plastics, I find a mass of disintegrated material. Then I repeat the process.
So many zoomies think their life is special. Everyone has bags. Like, do you think you're unique that you use soap in the shower? "OMG I ALSO BATHE WHAT A COINCIDENCE" Literally subhuman behavior
@@topogigio7031 Zoomies? I think you have deeper issues to address if you think a light hearted relatable comment about shopping bags is "subhuman behaviour". I hope things improve for you.
We have a great rule here that if the bag has the logo of the store printed on it then they can't charge you for the bags no matter what material it is made of and if there's no logo then they can charge you for that
As someone working as a Cashier in Europe, that sounds impossible for a store to do. It's all smaller budget for the stores to use, whilst being expected to bring in more revenue each year
@@j.rohmann3199 Jumbo supermarket in the Netherlands. Or at least: they announced a few years ago they were introducing 'talky cashiers' for customers who wanted to take it slow and make conversation, but so far I have not really seen these in shops (I like the idea though: please corral all the obnoxious slow old people at their own check-out so everybody else can have a speedy experience)
This is the same in Jamaica. Some supermarkets save the boxes from stock for customers to use too. Our cashiers are slow and don't really care about efficiency. We still have baggers.
As a German, I had to laugh when the cashier said that your own bag was free. I always have my cloth bag with me when I go shopping. That's how it should be. 🤣😁😎
German cashiers scan quicker than you can bag. My strategy is to always use a shopping cart throw everything back into it and go look for a spot in the bagging area or in the parking lot to do it in peace xD
The key is to prepare before you have to pack at the end! you need to plan you re-packing strategy when you put your stuff on the belt by the latest XD
With good planning you can get everything into the bags and be as fast or faster than the cashier. Especially if you've got stuff that tkes long to scan like baking wares which have to be checked and counted individually. You can save time by putting them in the middle
Some places in the US have you bag your own stuff, Winco for example; then you have Costco which doesn't have bags, just spare boxes that used to hold product, and only if you ask and they actually have them.
Bro... theyre so god damn fucking fast. Almost impossible to win. If i see a Young cashier, i avoid the line immediatly, i mean why would i give myself a disadvantage, in this important game.
Having your own bags is just standard - it's way more comfortable too. Getting paper bags is just emergency stuff when you didn't plan to buy anything.
@@robertharris6092Also, why are you bragging about not bringing your own bag? You're needlessly creating a lot of trash, which impacts our environment negatively and for no reason at all 🤦
One of the best things the GDR brought to us are Dederon net bags. I always have one of them in each of my jackets and a minimum of three in my handbag, so at least for smaller shopping stops by foot I‘m always prepared. I‘m "Wessi", by the way. Of course the usual folding bags you can buy at drugstores, etc. do the same job, but I hate to pack them back into their little storing bag every time. The Dederon nets just shrink again and I can tuck them away as they are. In my car, of course, I permanently have two plastic folding boxes. Haven‘t used/bought a plastic or paper bag in many, many years.
it's the same in Italy too, maybe the only difference is that the cashier will probably have a small talk with you, if you are in the mood, like about the weather or things like that, but ofc they won't ask you about your weekend plans, that's actually weird from someone you don't know.
Yeah, as a German (even worse where I live: Switzerland) we HATE smalltalk 😂 we always get so awkward even when it would be appropriate to have smalltalk.
What are they supposed to do while your paying, stand there and stare at you? You bag while they scan, they bag while you pay, and your done as swiftly as possible. I prefer the american system.
@@MrVlogman101 honestly, he’s trashing the American for “not following the culture” but while doing that isn’t nothing to consider the culture of the American where they do bag for you. The original commenter is just dumb
@@MrVlogman101 Nothing, either you pay cash and they need to get the change, or it takes 10s to pay by card, not much time to stare at you 😂 By the time they told me the amount, I'm already finished packing...
Die Kassiere reden schon mit dir. Du musst nur ein Jahr lang mindestens 2mal die Woche dort einkaufen gehen, dann kommst du in den inneren Zirkel und bekommst Antworten. Da kann ja sonst jeder kommen. 😉😅
Aufm Dorf brauchst du nicht mal das, fang einfach mit "Und, läufts heute?" oder "Schönes Wetter haben wir!" an und lächel, dann erinnern sich die Kassierer an dich und bald schon kannst du sie fragen was sie am Wochenende vorhaben und sie erzählen dir über ihren Garten.
Im in America but I shop at Aldi so this is just how it is. They have a bagging counter by the door though since most people aren't used to quickly doing it at checkout
And this i dont get, save nture by bringing your own bags, and pack while they scan one by one, lazy americans and unorganized americans. I would not want anyone touch my groceries especially not my fruits.
@@katsu9582 LOL. I am not sure where you get the impression that us lazy, unorganized Americans don't have reusable shopping bags. We definitely do, but disposables are still available. Some folks even reuse those ones. When it comes down to bagging the groceries, the second they start scanning, a second employee rushes to start bagging. Every store is like this. It is just not the custom here and most do not question it because they haven't seen it done differently yet
@Smushrum don't worry, though, the comments gone, reusable bags don't do much to reduce plastic waste. You need to shop every day for the rest of your life to offset any waste lol
@@TheDarkPacific No not really, you can find all kinds of studies claiming different things and its not like you cant just buy reusable thick plastic fiber shopping bag if you think cotton is not worth it. You should be careful about coming to conclusions based on some random study since it can be the same case as when tobbaco companies funded studies to prove that its not unhealthy.
Had this in NZ for a bit and it's crazy how many people try to get round it by stealing bags, taking baskets or trying to ask for a free box, to the point where they start pointing to random boxes asking if they could use it just for me to repeatively tell them that pretty much every box they see is being used because all empty boxes get put into the crusher
There's a chain of grocery stores in the midwest called Aldi that has you purchase and bag your own groceries. Their bags are quite large and very reusable, btw.
On one hand, Americans are complaining their "personal bubble" and not enough physical distance - on the other hand they investigate personal private information like plans for the weekend from strangers.
So true! I can’t go to any store without having to make small talk in US! I do live in a small town. Everyone is friendly! At least while wearing mask, I don’t have to smile any more! I still think small talk is nice. You lose nothing by being nice to someone. It is better than being rude. And feel Europeans do come out very rude!
@@bkgksan9798 Smiling is OK, this happens. It needs some training to talk without saying anything. For me this is just exhausting, and I wouldn't be sure the other one is enjoying it. Things like "Isn't the weather nice today". And you have to imagine, cashiers have to have this conversation 20 times per hour. I just remembered, the German "Fräulein" which indicates unmarried women, was kind of abandoned from german language. It's too indiscrete to publish the marital status of people to everyone. Or I remember Wal-Mart, when they tried to open branches in Germany, there was a huge (today we would say shit-) storm. They had people just to greet customers, they said hello to everybody, all day long. Customers where horrified about an employer letting people do such an derrogative uneducated job. It's like telling people "You are too stupid for everything, the only thing you can do is saying hello to people". And employees had to do some morning rituals, shouting out loud some phrases in the morning for "team building". Like "we are great, we are the best", etc. People feel emberassed then forced to lie. Well, wal marts shut down after 5 years.
@@ashleighsparkle8810 Partly correct. The baggers are not there all the time. They are also helping to bring the groceries to the customers cars, if the customer needs help. I really like that concept.
Especially at Aldi's the cashiers are so fast. I am seeing this clip for the second time, and only now did I see the bra. Hillarious! LOL. I really like the way the other Zac always poses as a German and it especially cracks me up when he quotes all the rules and laws.
The reduction in use and subsequently of litter since the bag fee in the UK has been genuinely amazing. Even though it's such a small amount it makes people actually think about if they need a bag and care more about throwing it away
The same law which prohibits single-use plastic bags also prohibits plastic straws and mixed McFlurries (because they have to use a wooden spoon, which cannot be inserted into the mixer) and both of these things haunt me every day for the better part of something like 4 years now. Nothing has ever bothered me this much and I stay awake at night, thinking up ways to make the system work against them, so they have to abolish it.
You know whats even more amazing? The reduction in litter from banning plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws that come in plastic containers and add the fun of children chocking on the mulch paper. The city has never been cleaner or quieter
yes always bring your own bag or accept to buy one. I also need to mention occasionally there are events when school kids will pack your items but they will ask for a tip. Since they are collecting money for their school events or other school related activities. In germany services like that cost money.
You can tell he's not a real cashier by how slowly he's scanning the items, and by the fact that he's not hurling them to the end of the row like a football pass
As a cashier in America we hate that too. Especially (but not limited to) things like Labor Day weekends "Enjoy your weekend" Where I HAVE to work full shifts all 3 days, because we are going to be busy as hell, and when I get off I'll down a couple of beers to relax before falling into bed.
And they brought that rule to America with Aldi. Seriously, the look on these people's faces when they realize they have to pay for their own bags is priceless. "Why would I pay for this massive tote bag!?" "So you'll have your own *grocery* bag to bring and use for free, next time."
Why would I want to do that... might as well just buy a cow for milk and grow my own wheat for bread too huh your logic is flawed.... put simply we Americans don't want to do things we don't want to do.. we don't want to bring our own bags... THATS STUPID
I work at a convenience store, and I always say we should charge for bags and say it's to help the environment, but in reality, we just want more money.
At least in the area where I’m from in America (New England), you pay for any bags you use. In some states it was legislated as a way to reduce plastic bag usage, but then it just caught on at a wider level and included paper bags and really any type of bag. Also depending on the store, if you bring your own bag, sometimes they take off a couple cents per bag as a discount of sorts :))
I went on a German exchange after 2 years of learning, the cashier was trying to talk to me but I blanked her as I couldn't understand what she said. But she says something that made my exchange laugh so hard
the bag thing is why i started buying 90% less groceries and just carrying everything by hand it was a good way for government to intervene with my personal shopping choices.
This is why I prefer cashiers in Slovakia. They sometimes start a random conversation and often wish you a good day before you leave. It has never happened to me here in the UK. Cashiers here are polite but grumpy at the same time 😅
I'm from the USA in the midwest and it depends on the store most cashier folks are friendly . I use canvas bags I leave in my car because the plastic bags break and are terrible ! places I frequent know me as "the bag lady" and help me bag or let me bag items if they don't have a person bagging my stuff. I love my canvas bags I've had some for 8 years !
They used to, Safeway for example, you'd have the cashier sending your shopping down, then you'd have a bagboy at the bottom of the ramp/counter. Sole purpose was to literally organise your shopping for you
At Aldi in the US, we usually buy multiple cans/bags of food so we take the shipping boxes the products come in and use then to transport our goods home lol.
I was needed a power adapter for a laptop I just for for 25 dollars and I was wondering which thrift stores to go to. Thanks for reminding me an Aldi just opened up and I was gonna check it out.
I'm in the States and really it depends on the store. I've been to some higher and lower end stores, and it's always a mix on who bags your stuff and who has you bag your own.
We have this in Australia too, paper and plastic cost money but most people take their own if they remember 😂 and if you go to Aldi you have to bag your own groceries too.
@@bigmanmccheez5342 at self serve you bag your own stuff, there are also regular isles where the staff bags your stuff. just depends how you want to pay
I swear everybody in the Midwest including my dad literally makes small talk with everybody, in the elevator, in a restaurant, in a store checkout line
You can talk to the cashier in germany and ask for his or her plans IF you know the person or if the cashier knows you as a regular one. Most of the cashiers in the supermarket around the corner knows us quite good and asks how things are and stuff like that because they know us for more than ten years. And likewise we ask how they are in the minute or two we spend there paying for our food. But we don't do that with every cashier there is. But every cashier likes a polite costumer if you know him or her or not😊
ITS A CULTURAL THING. i was raised in america to be friendly to everyone i meet. ESPECIALLY those in the service industry. it's considered rude to not at least say hello how are you doing. if you dont wish to speak just say "good" or "alright and you?" if they dont wish to talk they just "good". now, im not going down the road chasing people down to say hello and ask them how they are. but if you end up in a situation that forces us to cooperate or interact i will not just ignore you. i WILL be friendly because to not be is seen as rude here.
Jersey started doing that crap this year. Supermarkets and everywhere don’t do plastic bags anymore & they charged you for their paper bags. It’s some BS
Im so happy i live California now so every time I pack my bags myself I get a thank you from the cashier although I’ve been doing this my life being from Germany 😂
Same in Australia. Sometimes the cashier will bag your items although most people do it themselves bc it’s respectful. Also bags cost around 50cents - 1 dollar, unless ofc you bring your own.
Aldi shop assistants will not help pack bags at all. But in my local one to the point of not even helping elderly customers and those with young children, instead just roll their eyes. It is a bit much
@@unoriginalname2050 yeah it’s popular among us with European parents and those who aren’t too stubborn to admit they’re poor and ALDI does everything right 😆
same here in NYC and NJ, no free plastic bag anymore. It’s better this way cuz more eco friendly, but you will just need to remember to bring your reusable bags all the time when grocery shopping
That's not the hard part. In Europe we have this re-useable bag for fruits and vegetables now, and i forget these things all the time. Need to buy these things everytime...
The best feeling is going to a supermarket in the UK when you have that little extra money to splurge and getting one of those fancy reusable bags with the cute patterns
UK viewer here. They _might've_ been originally conceived in the UK (I don't remember seeing them offered in any country before we had them) but they're now available in Germany, France, Spain and many other European countries, too... 😇
All Malaysian households have a bag filled with bags for shopping. We do bag our groceries ourselves as well. Plastic bags are charged, and supermarkets also sell reusable bags as another option.
Bro we have a cloth bag full of other cloth bags, and we have a normal plastic bag full of other normal plastic bags that we use for the trash bin. They somehow never got empty in almost 20 years now lol
“Why doesn’t the cashier bag my groceries?” My colleague and I have a response for this query: “Sollen wir auch noch den Hintern abwischen und deine Steuererklärung machen??”
That's why every smart household has the bag with the bags.
Nine of this i culutural, ive experienced all of these in the us
we do this too in california and bags have not been free for 6 years here
Same in France, always have bags full of bags in the trunk of my car
The bag of bags is a certified classic
I live in the south in the us and my family has always collected bags from stores and other place to keep for these reasons and more.
This is already the most chatty cashier patiently explaining this 😂
It's Edeka. Don't expect this at ALDI.
@@Flugkaninchen or LIDL
@@keck4022in Finland lidl cashier's are pretty nice ☺️
@@pineonapizzayeah but Finland is the happiest country to so😅
@@FlugkaninchenAldi cashiers should be at a f1 pitstop
As a German I expect the cashier not talk to me and never touch my bag.
As a german I try to prevent cash points where a cashier sits. I always go to the self checkout and use the mobile scanners if available.
@@mightypiratethreepwood same, I have like zero social skills and don't even wanna make eye contact with the cashier 😅
@@Staa_nr.143 This, and self checkout is much faster. Esp. with the mobile scanner
Ich nicht, find es schlimm als Kunde höflicher und respektvoller zu sein wie mein Dienstleister von dem ich das selbe auch zurück erwarte.
A short greeting and "Schönen Tag" / "Schönes Wochenende" is mandatory for me tho
Come to Ireland buddy! By the time they finish scanning your groceries you will know everything about them and their families, neighbours, and friends! And,if you are nice,they will even help you with the bagging!
You still have to pay for the bag though! That's why we all have a bag full of bags in every house! 😂😂
Ireland sounds like my kind of place! I will talk to a brick wall!😄
I'll talk to a brick wall before I engage an American in conversation.
I love Ireland.
Was there a few years ago for 2 days. I was told the suniest days in years and everyone was outside.
In front of a Spar, there was a woman sitting on the sidewalk, eating an ice.
As I walked towards the entrence, she smiled at me and told me to call her if I have any questions or wanna pay.
Great visit. 😋
@@MaddogMaddu that's why I love it so much! There are still lots of good people here! And although there is an influence from USA (cause we all love copying them,I don't know why!) most of the people are nice, funny and well mannered!
I am delighted you enjoyed your visit but 2 days is just not enough 🤣🤣
Went late March early April to the emerald isle and fell in love with the people and land. Limerick and squatting in a castle (dude taking advantage of a castle that's been rotting and us finding out from the locals at the pub lol) we're the highlights.
Surprised the cashier took that long to scan his items
HAHAHA
EDEKA not ALDI ;-)
It must have been a dramatic choice for the video ... I'm also amazed how they are always able to film these in a real supermarket
😂 ikr! I thought cashiers were lightning fast in Germany.
he did scan everything offscreen in like two seconds soooo
You can also use en empty Karton, for exemple from the Gemüseabteilung.
Thats really a good lifehack haha
Yes and no. It’s theft, because garbage is property of the supermarket. Even if you help the employees with it.. - I love german laws, kappa.
@@hiimboy8564 If you ask, they let you have it and no one is going to enforce it either way, since they get flattend in the back anyways.
Thats what I do when I forgot my own bag.
@@hiimboy8564 it's only theft if you take it out the front, but if you bring it through the register it becomes part of your purchase like everything else.
all those "xyz in germany" videos are so valid in Poland as well. Like 100% of the situations are the same in Poland and I bet in most Europe as well
yups, same here in Portugal 😂
Speaking for the Dutch, can confirm its the same here!
I'd phrase it differently: all those "American in Germany/Russia/England/Japan/the bottom of the Mariana Trench" videos just show how weird America is.
@@jeremiaas15 i like your inclusion of the Mariana trench
they are perfectly valid in spain, too
I dunno which other countries this is not common but the bag with bags in the car is an epic technique I saw and use in Europe, Latinamerica & Japan
I even do that in the US but to be fair I lived in finland and it became habit
India 😊
Tbf I was beyond surprised when I first visited a Walmart in Los Angeles with my father and the cashier said “hello, how are you today?”. Afterwards I deadass asked my father how did he know the lady.
What does tbf means in English?
@@anderstermansen130 to be fair
You can talk with the cashiers? I can finally ask someone if burgundy goes good with teal and black.
It's sad how rude Europeans are
it does, but it depends on the composition and what colors are touching what colors@@asillygoofygoober
This taught me more about American supermarkets than German ones lol
Bro before america there was no SUPERmarket just market
@@chadwilliams3137 Bro before America there was no SUPERbowl there was just bowl
Same
@@DarthChaos77wth is superbowl
There are some stores in America you do too
Here in Cornwall UK the cashiers are often chatty (except in Lidl). In all our supermarkets now you have to pay for bags. So most people bring their own reusable ones. I have car boot/trunk full of various bags! 😆 We also bag all our shopping, always have.
What's scaring the heck out of me is that - Despite an ever more visibly German identity showing itself in me over time - I still make small-talk with cashiers while I'm being served... 🇬🇧
...In Lidl. 😳
When i visited New Hampshire a few weeks ago, the person that was packing the groceries looked at me soo confused when I packed them myself for my grandma 😭😭
Same here in Canada. Cahiers don't bag your groceries, bags aren't free, and they'll look at you weird if you ask them if they have plans.
Some places have someone to bag them for you and if you ask someone politely their plans it's not a big deal. Let's not ask like Canada or the States are a tiny homogeneous country lol
Same in America damn
@@boopers1 🧗🤺
Same in Turkiye
In Laos, they bag your groceries like in the USA.
Love this lmao. Customers at our local Walmart would absolutely fuckin lose their minds in this situation
Walmart disappeared from Germany. There was no acceptance for those morons.
This is why I stopped shopping at save a lot lol. I will only ever tolerate this behavior from aldi
@@reinadelosrizoss karen
@@reinadelosrizoss ok Karen 🙄, the reason why they charge for bags is simple so ppl stop throwing away plastic bags and stop throwing them on the streets uk has had this law for like a decade. And u bag your own stuff as a cashier I won’t even open the bag for u, unless it someone who needs extra help
Wait, your Wal Mart has cashiers?
The personalities that are on this channel are amazing. Love all of them 🤣
This series makes me so nostalgic. I grew up in europe and only moved to the US for university and onwards. I still miss the simple things like not having to talk to the cashier, or the general lack of having to do small talk in general
As a Brit I was raised to have the iconic bag of bags.
It's the most underappreciated thing in the UK.
In Serbia we also have a bag full of bags. That is a staple item in every serbian house.
Serbia brother
The concil of bags shall decide your fate
What you mean dude
It's totally not just Germany where you need to pack your own stuff! I am shocked how it can even be strange for anybody 😆
Yeah, from seeing these videos I just realise how different America is from the rest of the world.
In Portugal we bag our things since the 80's. 🤣
@@Drood. They're just lazier than the rest of the world.
@@snorky184 I wouldn’t say lazier, but America is the king of convenience. Smarter not harder ya know? It’s not a lot of effort to bag your own stuff and we do have stores that you do this at. Bagging your own stuff doesn’t make you better 🤣
@ NO WAY I FOUND A PORTUGUESE YYOOOOOOO I was going to say that was one more normal day in Portugal too xD
Aldi is in America too so I'm already used to this, tip use their free boxes to save on bags.
Can tell you as a German I have no desire talking to the cashier. I just wanna put my stuff in a bag, pay and leave. Simple as that and I don't want to change it
do they have self checkout?
As a German, I must say that it terrifies me that there could be a possibility of someone else packing my groceries...
Finally normality...I feel the same, and I am not german
French here, same! It could be acceptable for helping the elders or disable peoples.
Especially in Asia country . For example, Hong Kong
The cashier will packing the stuff for you 😂 it’s just a normal thing
We get it, Germans are autistics or have Asperger's.
Thankfully we're fine with a bagger since it also means a much faster shopping experience since a guy who does it for a living, is faster and better at it than the average shopper.
As a Swede the thought terrifies me as well...
Every British household has a random cupboard stuffed with old carrier bags. We then forget to bring said bags with us when we go shopping and have to buy more, but out of stubbornness and pride we never throw old bags away so the bag cupboard grows and starts taking over the house.
Our bags really are for life 😂
😂 not even British but this is my problem too. Only, where I live they make the plastics degradable. So each time I do remember the plastic of plastics, I find a mass of disintegrated material. Then I repeat the process.
Almost all houses in the Midwest do this
So many zoomies think their life is special. Everyone has bags. Like, do you think you're unique that you use soap in the shower?
"OMG I ALSO BATHE WHAT A COINCIDENCE"
Literally subhuman behavior
@@topogigio7031 Zoomies? I think you have deeper issues to address if you think a light hearted relatable comment about shopping bags is "subhuman behaviour". I hope things improve for you.
We have a great rule here that if the bag has the logo of the store printed on it then they can't charge you for the bags no matter what material it is made of and if there's no logo then they can charge you for that
I'd actually hate someone bagging my shopping for me 😂
I thought that was normal everywhere 😅
Same
But it is normal in America this is why you use the free plastic bags from the fruit isles
@@saltycube Might be true, but I'm from Germany, so I meant I thought everywhere was the same like Germany
In Italy is the same
@@saltycube they ain't free no more
Fun Fact: There are super market chains that introduced a "slow cashier" for older persons, that take their time to talk to them.
Where? Germany or USA? If thats in germany I had no idea and never seen that... xd
As someone working as a Cashier in Europe, that sounds impossible for a store to do. It's all smaller budget for the stores to use, whilst being expected to bring in more revenue each year
Me having to not bag my groceries, but also calculate how much I owe in taxes
@@j.rohmann3199
Jumbo supermarket in the Netherlands.
Or at least: they announced a few years ago they were introducing 'talky cashiers' for customers who wanted to take it slow and make conversation, but so far I have not really seen these in shops
(I like the idea though: please corral all the obnoxious slow old people at their own check-out so everybody else can have a speedy experience)
This is the same in Jamaica. Some supermarkets save the boxes from stock for customers to use too. Our cashiers are slow and don't really care about efficiency. We still have baggers.
we r in TEXAS ...we r thankful for Aldi...we have no problem w their policies...the lower prices r TOTALLY WORTH it😊
As a German, I had to laugh when the cashier said that your own bag was free. I always have my cloth bag with me when I go shopping. That's how it should be. 🤣😁😎
You are a german that means you are so rude and not friendly
Du bist sher rude
This is the way
This is the way
We actually dont even use bags, we always take one or two gute alte Klappboxen for groceries!
German cashiers scan quicker than you can bag. My strategy is to always use a shopping cart throw everything back into it and go look for a spot in the bagging area or in the parking lot to do it in peace xD
Or use bagged vegetables or fruits to slow them down
The key is to prepare before you have to pack at the end! you need to plan you re-packing strategy when you put your stuff on the belt by the latest XD
With good planning you can get everything into the bags and be as fast or faster than the cashier. Especially if you've got stuff that tkes long to scan like baking wares which have to be checked and counted individually. You can save time by putting them in the middle
I never use bags that way I can play Tetris with my motorcycles luggage and use every bit of space.
Put all the heavy items (that go at the bottom of your bags) first on the belt
Some places in the US have you bag your own stuff, Winco for example; then you have Costco which doesn't have bags, just spare boxes that used to hold product, and only if you ask and they actually have them.
The bag thing is also in Argentina, but we do talk to eachother while the cashier scan things
You miss a part of German National Sport
Race with cashier
Trying to pack things faster than he would scan them xD
Bro... theyre so god damn fucking fast. Almost impossible to win. If i see a Young cashier, i avoid the line immediatly, i mean why would i give myself a disadvantage, in this important game.
Same in Hungary
Nice comment Same in Italy 😂
@@BonnieOhneClydex nonono I always avoid the OLD cashiers cause their experience let’s em do it blindfolded
Unless you give me items I have to count, I am fast as fuck boi. 4 items a second if it isn't glass.
Having your own bags is just standard - it's way more comfortable too. Getting paper bags is just emergency stuff when you didn't plan to buy anything.
Iv been grocery shopping for decades and have almost never brought my own bags. (Also fun fact paper bags are aorse for the environment than plastic)
@@robertharris6092Nope. Paper bags are about as bad for the environment as plastic bags, but not worse.
@@robertharris6092Also, why are you bragging about not bringing your own bag? You're needlessly creating a lot of trash, which impacts our environment negatively and for no reason at all 🤦
There is no solution more eco friendly than having a ton of bags in your house
You'll never have to buy them again
One of the best things the GDR brought to us are Dederon net bags. I always have one of them in each of my jackets and a minimum of three in my handbag, so at least for smaller shopping stops by foot I‘m always prepared. I‘m "Wessi", by the way.
Of course the usual folding bags you can buy at drugstores, etc. do the same job, but I hate to pack them back into their little storing bag every time. The Dederon nets just shrink again and I can tuck them away as they are.
In my car, of course, I permanently have two plastic folding boxes.
Haven‘t used/bought a plastic or paper bag in many, many years.
it's the same in Italy too, maybe the only difference is that the cashier will probably have a small talk with you, if you are in the mood, like about the weather or things like that, but ofc they won't ask you about your weekend plans, that's actually weird from someone you don't know.
Yeah, as a German (even worse where I live: Switzerland) we HATE smalltalk 😂 we always get so awkward even when it would be appropriate to have smalltalk.
Purtroppo è vero
Crazy that a country that started a world war can call anything weird
@@whereami7586 your reply doesn't make any sense
@@whereami7586 Lmao what
Expecting the cashier to bag your shopping 😂😂
It’s how it’s done in America, hence the title. Stop being dense
@@PtownSoccer15 Absolutely horse shit and 100% stupid 😊 But as are most things in the US, so I'm not surprised
What are they supposed to do while your paying, stand there and stare at you?
You bag while they scan, they bag while you pay, and your done as swiftly as possible. I prefer the american system.
@@MrVlogman101 honestly, he’s trashing the American for “not following the culture” but while doing that isn’t nothing to consider the culture of the American where they do bag for you. The original commenter is just dumb
@@MrVlogman101 Nothing, either you pay cash and they need to get the change, or it takes 10s to pay by card, not much time to stare at you 😂 By the time they told me the amount, I'm already finished packing...
All I can think about is the fact the CASHIER GETS TO SIT DOWN! IN AMERICA THE CASHIER STAND THEIR ENTIRE SHIFT!
You quickly learn in Germany that it always makes sense to have a few bags in the car.
He should thank god that he is the only one shopping 🤣
If not, the cashier would be in full speed mode 🤣
It's Edeka, they usually don't have any speed modes, only slow like a sloth 🦥
Die Kassiere reden schon mit dir. Du musst nur ein Jahr lang mindestens 2mal die Woche dort einkaufen gehen, dann kommst du in den inneren Zirkel und bekommst Antworten. Da kann ja sonst jeder kommen. 😉😅
Ich war im real und die kassiere gesagt hallu und ciao. Das war "wow effect" wiel ich wohne im Polen und unsere kassiere sagen guten/aufwiedersehen
Jeden Tag einen Kaffee ausgeben hilft auch!
Aufm Dorf brauchst du nicht mal das, fang einfach mit "Und, läufts heute?" oder "Schönes Wetter haben wir!" an und lächel, dann erinnern sich die Kassierer an dich und bald schon kannst du sie fragen was sie am Wochenende vorhaben und sie erzählen dir über ihren Garten.
😂😂🤣🤣👍
I'm Scandinavian. The only words i want from my cashier is; "Hello. Do you need anything else? Have a nice day."
Anything beyond that is weird.
I was never a fan of letting someone bag for me anyway. I love the self checkout now
I'm surprised the American didn't call the cashier lazy for sitting
Wait, cashiers in the US have to stand?
@@tinfoil1225 yep. Unless you work at Aldi...
@@tinfoil1225 yea and people argue that making them sit is “lazy” or something
No wayyyy that’s actually a thing?? These poor cashiers!
How the fck is standing is useful for them? What a stupid habit smh
Im in America but I shop at Aldi so this is just how it is. They have a bagging counter by the door though since most people aren't used to quickly doing it at checkout
And this i dont get, save nture by bringing your own bags, and pack while they scan one by one, lazy americans and unorganized americans. I would not want anyone touch my groceries especially not my fruits.
@@katsu9582 LOL. I am not sure where you get the impression that us lazy, unorganized Americans don't have reusable shopping bags. We definitely do, but disposables are still available. Some folks even reuse those ones. When it comes down to bagging the groceries, the second they start scanning, a second employee rushes to start bagging. Every store is like this. It is just not the custom here and most do not question it because they haven't seen it done differently yet
@Smushrum don't worry, though, the comments gone, reusable bags don't do much to reduce plastic waste. You need to shop every day for the rest of your life to offset any waste lol
They have the bagging counter in Germany too fyi
@@TheDarkPacific No not really, you can find all kinds of studies claiming different things and its not like you cant just buy reusable thick plastic fiber shopping bag if you think cotton is not worth it.
You should be careful about coming to conclusions based on some random study since it can be the same case as when tobbaco companies funded studies to prove that its not unhealthy.
Had this in NZ for a bit and it's crazy how many people try to get round it by stealing bags, taking baskets or trying to ask for a free box, to the point where they start pointing to random boxes asking if they could use it just for me to repeatively tell them that pretty much every box they see is being used because all empty boxes get put into the crusher
There's a chain of grocery stores in the midwest called Aldi that has you purchase and bag your own groceries. Their bags are quite large and very reusable, btw.
german store
On one hand, Americans are complaining their "personal bubble" and not enough physical distance - on the other hand they investigate personal private information like plans for the weekend from strangers.
Lemme guess,you from Deutschland
Asking someone if they have any plans for the weekend isn’t really private personal information lol
@@arizonarangershat3831 What? You don't just ask strangers about their weekend plans. That's so weird.
So true! I can’t go to any store without having to make small talk in US! I do live in a small town. Everyone is friendly! At least while wearing mask, I don’t have to smile any more! I still think small talk is nice. You lose nothing by being nice to someone. It is better than being rude. And feel Europeans do come out very rude!
@@bkgksan9798 Smiling is OK, this happens. It needs some training to talk without saying anything. For me this is just exhausting, and I wouldn't be sure the other one is enjoying it. Things like "Isn't the weather nice today". And you have to imagine, cashiers have to have this conversation 20 times per hour.
I just remembered, the German "Fräulein" which indicates unmarried women, was kind of abandoned from german language.
It's too indiscrete to publish the marital status of people to everyone.
Or I remember Wal-Mart, when they tried to open branches in Germany, there was a huge (today we would say shit-) storm.
They had people just to greet customers, they said hello to everybody, all day long.
Customers where horrified about an employer letting people do such an derrogative uneducated job. It's like telling people "You are too stupid for everything, the only thing you can do is saying hello to people".
And employees had to do some morning rituals, shouting out loud some phrases in the morning for "team building". Like "we are great, we are the best", etc.
People feel emberassed then forced to lie.
Well, wal marts shut down after 5 years.
As a cashier, i’m so happy I don’t have to bag items for customers. Hell no
Then you have to scan faster.
I think they have an extra employee who packs the groceries
The cashier doesn’t bag. It’s another job. A bagger.
@@ashleighsparkle8810 Partly correct. The baggers are not there all the time. They are also helping to bring the groceries to the customers cars, if the customer needs help. I really like that concept.
They do it at one of the chain stores where I live and it's in western Europe as well.
Seeing a cashier sitting is something I could never get used to.
Especially at Aldi's the cashiers are so fast. I am seeing this clip for the second time, and only now did I see the bra. Hillarious! LOL. I really like the way the other Zac always poses as a German and it especially cracks me up when he quotes all the rules and laws.
As a cashier I want to stay silent and charge people for bags
And be able to sit while you do it! ❤
hey!! come to Europe
@@frankkiejo5560 LOL I sit at mine due to having a docs notw
And sit down!😢
That's what Aldi does.
The reduction in use and subsequently of litter since the bag fee in the UK has been genuinely amazing. Even though it's such a small amount it makes people actually think about if they need a bag and care more about throwing it away
The bag fee in Washington State hasn't done anything. Barley anyone brings there own bags.
@@noahmeme2 it took us time
The same law which prohibits single-use plastic bags also prohibits plastic straws and mixed McFlurries (because they have to use a wooden spoon, which cannot be inserted into the mixer) and both of these things haunt me every day for the better part of something like 4 years now. Nothing has ever bothered me this much and I stay awake at night, thinking up ways to make the system work against them, so they have to abolish it.
You know whats even more amazing? The reduction in litter from banning plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws that come in plastic containers and add the fun of children chocking on the mulch paper. The city has never been cleaner or quieter
@@noahmeme2han Double the Fee. If you want to Use an unnessessary amount of plastic your should pay For it until it Hurts you
yes always bring your own bag or accept to buy one. I also need to mention occasionally there are events when school kids will pack your items but they will ask for a tip. Since they are collecting money for their school events or other school related activities. In germany services like that cost money.
You can tell he's not a real cashier by how slowly he's scanning the items, and by the fact that he's not hurling them to the end of the row like a football pass
"Got any plans this weekend?" Just working my 8hour shift. No wonder he silent.
As a cashier in America we hate that too. Especially (but not limited to) things like Labor Day weekends "Enjoy your weekend" Where I HAVE to work full shifts all 3 days, because we are going to be busy as hell, and when I get off I'll down a couple of beers to relax before falling into bed.
And they brought that rule to America with Aldi. Seriously, the look on these people's faces when they realize they have to pay for their own bags is priceless. "Why would I pay for this massive tote bag!?" "So you'll have your own *grocery* bag to bring and use for free, next time."
Why would I want to do that... might as well just buy a cow for milk and grow my own wheat for bread too huh your logic is flawed.... put simply we Americans don't want to do things we don't want to do.. we don't want to bring our own bags... THATS STUPID
I work at a convenience store, and I always say we should charge for bags and say it's to help the environment, but in reality, we just want more money.
At least in the area where I’m from in America (New England), you pay for any bags you use. In some states it was legislated as a way to reduce plastic bag usage, but then it just caught on at a wider level and included paper bags and really any type of bag. Also depending on the store, if you bring your own bag, sometimes they take off a couple cents per bag as a discount of sorts :))
@@xnamkcor
It helps the environment tho.
@@CedricBassman That's the spirit!
He sitting AND not obligated to chat with the customer my dream 😂❤😅
I went on a German exchange after 2 years of learning, the cashier was trying to talk to me but I blanked her as I couldn't understand what she said. But she says something that made my exchange laugh so hard
The worst nightmare in Germany is bagging your groceries bag behind a troop of people when they waiting when you finished!
The most patient German cashier lol😂
the bag thing is why i started buying 90% less groceries and just carrying everything by hand it was a good way for government to intervene with my personal shopping choices.
This is why I prefer cashiers in Slovakia. They sometimes start a random conversation and often wish you a good day before you leave. It has never happened to me here in the UK. Cashiers here are polite but grumpy at the same time 😅
I actually would like this more, I don't like watching someone bag and having to just stand there feeling like I should apologize to them
You are lucky you were served by such a funny cashier
I am beginning to be a fan of these 2😂
I'm from the USA in the midwest and it depends on the store most cashier folks are friendly . I use canvas bags I leave in my car because the plastic bags break and are terrible ! places I frequent know me as "the bag lady" and help me bag or let me bag items if they don't have a person bagging my stuff. I love my canvas bags I've had some for 8 years !
We do this in the UK too. Never know anyone to bag our stuff for us ever unless there was some charity event on or something
They used to, Safeway for example, you'd have the cashier sending your shopping down, then you'd have a bagboy at the bottom of the ramp/counter. Sole purpose was to literally organise your shopping for you
At Aldi in the US, we usually buy multiple cans/bags of food so we take the shipping boxes the products come in and use then to transport our goods home lol.
I was needed a power adapter for a laptop I just for for 25 dollars and I was wondering which thrift stores to go to. Thanks for reminding me an Aldi just opened up and I was gonna check it out.
We usually buy for our family...not the entire neighbourhood.😮
My anxiety when I first when to Walmart watching the cashier pack my groceries in the bags for me
my german cashier answers my question about the weekend plans and opens the bag up for me after scanning so it's easier for me to pack right away.
I'm in the States and really it depends on the store. I've been to some higher and lower end stores, and it's always a mix on who bags your stuff and who has you bag your own.
We have this in Australia too, paper and plastic cost money but most people take their own if they remember 😂 and if you go to Aldi you have to bag your own groceries too.
What if you went to Woolies or any other standard shop? Is there a bagger there or do you also still have to bag your own stuff?
@@bigmanmccheez5342 you often have to bag your own stuff
@@Temperius so it's not always the standard to bag your own stuff, that's so strange to me.
@@bigmanmccheez5342 at self serve you bag your own stuff, there are also regular isles where the staff bags your stuff. just depends how you want to pay
Is Aldi in Australia?
I swear they always do the "i didn't poop this morning" face, just smile a little it's your job dude
cashiers in the us are super nice ngl.
i had a full convo with 2 in miami and in the end I was like, this would never have happened in portugal lol
I swear everybody in the Midwest including my dad literally makes small talk with everybody, in the elevator, in a restaurant, in a store checkout line
That must be so annoying...for others, not your dad
I like it. It's being friendly.
Oh, sorry, he has dementia
I hate it
@@lavinianegru4303It’s normal in parts of the US. It’s not considered annoying there. It’s normal.
You can talk to the cashier in germany and ask for his or her plans IF you know the person or if the cashier knows you as a regular one. Most of the cashiers in the supermarket around the corner knows us quite good and asks how things are and stuff like that because they know us for more than ten years.
And likewise we ask how they are in the minute or two we spend there paying for our food. But we don't do that with every cashier there is.
But every cashier likes a polite costumer if you know him or her or not😊
ITS A CULTURAL THING. i was raised in america to be friendly to everyone i meet. ESPECIALLY those in the service industry. it's considered rude to not at least say hello how are you doing. if you dont wish to speak just say "good" or "alright and you?" if they dont wish to talk they just "good".
now, im not going down the road chasing people down to say hello and ask them how they are. but if you end up in a situation that forces us to cooperate or interact i will not just ignore you. i WILL be friendly because to not be is seen as rude here.
@@gibblets17 Was you the one that chased me to ask me if I accepted Jesus as my lord and savior?
We cant forget the bag that has a bag in it that stays at home and carries everything
Jersey started doing that crap this year. Supermarkets and everywhere don’t do plastic bags anymore & they charged you for their paper bags. It’s some BS
There's too much plastic waste around already, so to me an environmentally friendly policy is always a good thing.
@@trixi1608 should’ve been done years ago, still an inconvenience
Im so happy i live California now so every time I pack my bags myself I get a thank you from the cashier although I’ve been doing this my life being from Germany 😂
Same
That's a lie, nobody in California says thank you. All of you are rude.
@@NickBurns-ey6od wtf😂 people might be fake nice but they are nice as hell
@@CaliSayna you just said its fake nice, that doesn't count as being nice.
@@piscarius1its like that everywhere in the united states. Different reasons for it. Staff shortages, or the company just operates like aldi
Same in Australia. Sometimes the cashier will bag your items although most people do it themselves bc it’s respectful. Also bags cost around 50cents - 1 dollar, unless ofc you bring your own.
First-hand experience. 99% of customers still want you to bag their shit. When I get someone who does it themselves it is like a reward.
I always smile when I see your videos
German guy works every job in the county
I’m in Germany for vacation right now for 2 weeks and this really helps. 😂👍
Me just holding everything in my hands instead of a bag and having the cashier just stare at me 💀
😂 omg you always Crack me up
In Colombia you also pay for the bags, but you can get boxes for free (the same ones used to pack the items in the store) so it's all recyclable
How do you end up behind the Edeka checkout? :D
Race against the cashier is always fun in Germany!
I was quite surprised by that when I first shopped at Aldi in the USA
Race is always a fun topic in germany.
"You cannot look as fast as the race is"!!! 😆🙈
@@-Nono- 💀
as a New Yorker who shops at Aldi: this is normal LMAO
Because Aldi is German
Aldi shop assistants will not help pack bags at all. But in my local one to the point of not even helping elderly customers and those with young children, instead just roll their eyes. It is a bit much
My Aldi's in California is just a weird whole foods there's nothing to different compared to like a normal grocery store
Wait aldi is in America? I thought it was just in Europe, cool
@@unoriginalname2050 yeah it’s popular among us with European parents and those who aren’t too stubborn to admit they’re poor and ALDI does everything right 😆
Most of the time the cashiers wont even reply to my „hello“ or „goodbye“ 😂
Ok but that cashier would be fired too slow 😂
I have 2 bags in my backpack.
Foulding slim, no problem 😎
Saving Money... Easyyyyy
same here in NYC and NJ, no free plastic bag anymore. It’s better this way cuz more eco friendly, but you will just need to remember to bring your reusable bags all the time when grocery shopping
I just have two cloth bags and a multi-use foldable plastic one in my backpack.
That's not the hard part. In Europe we have this re-useable bag for fruits and vegetables now, and i forget these things all the time. Need to buy these things everytime...
@@Benderofdemise happened to me in the beginning, but the credit card bill forced me to remember lol
It’s that way for most states jn America, not sure where this guy is from
This is legendary!
It’s the same in New Zealand. Forgot your bags? Pay 50c for a paper one or $1 for a reusable one. But most stores will pack your stuff for you.
The best feeling is going to a supermarket in the UK when you have that little extra money to splurge and getting one of those fancy reusable bags with the cute patterns
UK viewer here. They _might've_ been originally conceived in the UK (I don't remember seeing them offered in any country before we had them) but they're now available in Germany, France, Spain and many other European countries, too... 😇
All Malaysian households have a bag filled with bags for shopping. We do bag our groceries ourselves as well. Plastic bags are charged, and supermarkets also sell reusable bags as another option.
Bag with bags? *Nodding in German*
Good man.
Bro we have a cloth bag full of other cloth bags, and we have a normal plastic bag full of other normal plastic bags that we use for the trash bin. They somehow never got empty in almost 20 years now lol
“Why doesn’t the cashier bag my groceries?”
My colleague and I have a response for this query:
“Sollen wir auch noch den Hintern abwischen und deine Steuererklärung machen??”
One thing I like about Aldi in the USA. It encourages people to be more eco friendly