How to Do Groceries in Finland Like a Finn!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2018
- If you come to visit or live in Finland, one of the places you have to visit is a Finnish grocery store and in this video I will show and teach you some of the basics on Finnish grocery stores as well as some pro tips you can use to save some money!
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I've lived in Finland all my life. Why did I choose to watch this? Also thanks to S-ryhmä for providing those lovely evening sales
It's good to see how Finnish stuff is taught to foreigners. :)
Besides kauppahalli also check the market places/squares. They are like farmers' markets. Very fresh vegetables, berries etc. They also open quite early (6-8 am) so if you are an early bird that's for you.
Good advice there!
I'm sooo glad that l found this video now, then I'm about to move to Finland for studying next 3 years in finnish school. I'm from Russia and I know absolutely nothing about living there, and it's so helpful! Thank you so much!
I love videos like this. Practical every day Finnish life.
Thanks for the comment Agriking!
Thank you, Aleksi! Very useful as always!
Thanks for the comment Barbara Angelina Farkas!
Wow, thanks for this video Aleksi!Awesome!
Thanks for the comment Joe Saniko!
Another great video. Thank you so much. I am coming to Finland in the spring and am using your videos to help me learn about how to get around and do Finland "like a boss"
Thanks for the comment jackdaddy10!
Thank you for another video! :D
Thanks for the comment SiD Billy!
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Excellent video and tips, kiitos Aleksi! We are going to family reunion next July in Finland, so excited to go our ancestors homeland! 👍🏻👏🏻💙🇫🇮
Thanks for the comment bebina!
Very useful! Cheers!
I'm glad you liked it!
Excellent! I'm ready to shop next february
Awesome!
Very useful, thank you so much👍
Thanks for the comment SpaceZombie Cupcake!
I wish I saw this video when I first moved here :( It's extremely useful and even now, there is a ton of useful information I didn't knew! Thanks for this Alexi, keep up the good work!
Thanks for the comment Frank Blah!
Great job ... really like your style !
Thanks for the comment johnney walker!
Good stuff, Aleksi :thumbs up:. This is the sort of everyday knowledge that we take for granted in our own countries. It can be a bigger hurdle than many people realise to learn the ‘rules’ in another land for such ordinary things as catching the bus or going food shopping.
Thanks for the comment Sukerkin!
Great to hear this it will be helpfuly and important
Thanks for the comment Jafar Hafez!
Im moving soon ! Thanx for the tips man !
Thanks for the comment JOHNNYwxw!
I really like your video, I got 2 things from your video, the first thing is I can know about finland and the secound is I can develop my english by listen you. it is really good for me to get both at the same time. 😊😁 kiitos
That's great! Don't forget to subscribe for more videos. :)
Thanks for all suggestion . See U in Helsinki
I am coming to Helsinki to do my PhD. Your videos have indeed helped me alot. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for the comment Stefan Santokhie!
This video was very useful but maybe I saw it a little late... I’m leaving Helsinki tomorrow. But I’m definitely coming back. Thanks a lot! I always watch your videos and they were an excellent introduction to Finnish society and behavior.
Thanks Judith I appreciate it!
Thks so much
I am in finland on holidays now
It helps
Thanks for the comment varsha Huyghe!
Kiitos for this video!
I'm Brazilian but I want to visit Finland one day, and doing groceries is one of my weekend pastimes with my mom. So this was quite useful for me.
Have fun!
Never new about the self weighing on my first visit.Twas fun heheheh!
Thanks for the comment Joe Saniko!
We now successfully moved to finland it is in part all thanks to you aleksii! In espoo looking for cans to recycle now because you just taught me that:)
Thanks for the comment AFROJOE2323!
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I made .85 euro cents in a day! You'd be proud
Puuilo is my favourite store, much better and cheaper than Tokmanni, Motonet, K-rauta etc.
From food stores i prefer S-market, but if i don't need to buy much stuff then i go to K-kauppa. Closest Lidl is 100km away, so i shop at a Lidl only few times in a month.
I haven't even heard of puuilo. :D Seems it's not a mainstream chain.
Joo se ei varmasti ole tunnetuin kauppa, mutta täällä Kainuussa 80- luvulla perustettu kauppaketju, ja pitkin Suomea (ei tosin lapissa) löytyy 19 tavarataloa ja verkkokauppa. Paljon halpoja tuotteita verrattuna jopa muihin halpakauppaketjuihin, ja sieltä löytyy melkein mitä vain paitsi kodinkoneita ja ruokaa. Keksit, karkit, limpparit, sipsit ja muut välipalat ja kuivatuotteet kyllä löytyy.
Tuntuu olevan myös venäläisten suosikkikauppa, Lidlin ja Tokmannin ohella, kun niitä siellä aina pyörii.
Ennen Puuilo nimeä se oli nimeltään Ilmat Pois, niin usein sanottiin että mennään käymään "ilmat pihalle" kaupassa :D
You are so funny and cute. Just found your channel and loving it. I can’t wait to go to Finland.
A tip about discount that you didn't said: make the cards. They are free and give you extra discounts.
And eggs are always cheaper on Tokimanni (usually cheap warm clothes too).
And lidl bottles usually are not returned at k or s markets.
What cards are you referring to?
S-korti and k-korti. The cards from the stores give you some special discounts.
I covered those in the video.
In Prisma they have signs in English above the product aisles ;)
Didn't know that actually!
Rainbow is like the best brand ever
You must remember to never ask: missä on munat?
I had a very awkward situation in duo's Lidl on my first week living in Finland.
Haha good stuff Carlos. :D
hey, me too in Feb
@@koijjots Munia? No extra words.
koijjots Missä on kananmunat? or Mistä löydän kananmunat?
The worst way is:
Missä on munasi? Haluan otaa sen.
Hey Aleksi. Something that is quite unique to the nordics is the nuts and candy by weight section.
Seems so!
oh and both the nuts and candy are delicious in here! :) my favorite are chocolate covered strawberries and cappuccino balls with licorice
When I go to Suomi I’d love to run into you, Lauri & Anni from HPC!
Sounds like a plan!
Hyvä video! What's new in Suomi? I'm Gluten and vegetables intolerant, i make myself veggies juice, can't eat them but can drink ! :D Everytime i put a thumps up on ur videos! Näkemiin!
We have gluten free stuff here as well. :)
mahtava !! I'm still reading the Kalevala and even iN French, there's tons of words that i don't understand! X)
Google Lens is great app if you're lost. It's a camera app which translates everything it sees
Moved to Vaasa 10 days ago, but just saw this video. In Ukraine we also have to weight vegetables, so it was easy, but when I wen to Lidl couldn't understand what to do there, because there were weights with numbers just to check the weight, but they don't give stickers:) Thank you for the usefull videos:)
Thanks for the comment Екатерина Кофанова!
Hi Man! I'm moving to Finland from Latin America in a few months and I find your videos very practical and usefulls. Thank you for your work and keep it in.
I would like to suggest to you make some videos about what finnish people tihink about foreignes, immigrants and maybe latins. Also, how is gay colture and community there, and maybe some apps or ways to meet people and make friends
Thanks for the comment man! I have done two videos on how to make friends here. I'll put the rest on my idea list.
K-group has good discounts, especially if you have their plus-card. Otherwise, S-group is much cheaper, and it's cheaper over all. We have Citymarket (K-group) and Prisma (S-group) next to each other, and many items I buy are cheaper in Prisma. Sometimes it's few euros for the bigger items and sometimes just like 20-30 cents cheaper (like certain juices etc. I like), but the normal shelf price is cheaper in S-groups stores in all the items I buy. With fresh fruits and vegetables the difference is not so big tho.
Thanks for the comment Sanna Peltonen!
Who has a visa for Finland, in which country can he travel?
What's the more common language that people will respond to on basic questions for the grocery (the very basics of where is X or y), English or Swedish?
The K-Citymarket in Jarvenpaa was voted best supermarket in the world. I saw a youtube video on it and it looks luxurious. Maybe, there will be a step up in quality over the supermarkets Americans are used to. Have you spent some time in the U.S., that you can compare and give Americans your opinion about it? I guess if the nuts and candy can be kept fresher, by buying just a little bit, rather than a whole lot and the packaging cost and waste is reduced, it might be a better system.
Is there job opportunities for ACCA..
And chartered accountants
It is quite similar here in Los Angeles, except for you don't weigh (there is still a scale if you care) or bag your groceries. Finland doesn't have COSTCO, there is Prisma, but that is like Target.
Oh yeah, tomatoes and some other things that are easily outdoor year round grown here can be cheaper in Finland.
Thanks!
Great video Aleksi, thank you for this🙏.
In your opinion, how much money a student will need monthly to live in Finland to do basically grocery shopping?
Depends what you eat. Maybe 100-350€/month.
That self-weighing of the produce caused me so much anxiety at first. When I finally went into a Lidell and saw everything was already priced I was so happy. Have you talked about cleaning products at all? In the US you can find products with bleach or ammonia, but in Finland it seemed like there wasn't any that were very strong. Are they mostly natural products?
That is kind of niche-product. I think I've never bought any of those yet. We do have cleaning products here.
Trump Jong Un can you tell me the names of them so I can be on the lookout for them?
I have to be very careful with generic brand foods since most of the ones where I come from contain ingredients I can't put in my system.
There are for example gluten and lactose free stuff here as well.
Reminds me about norway😅 the supermarkets here does also have their own brands and offer some discount cards. Or Rema 1000 case, an app. But heard its not 100% great. In coop, you have coop medlemskap kort and at kiwi, a trumf card. When you use the trumf card, it take a % And save it in a account that you have made to obtain it, you can even link it to your debit card too. I have done that, and have the trumf card in fysical form. In case if have some cash. And those return bottle things, are clever. We does also have those here. I have many times been close to 100NOK each time I returned bottles^^
Thanks for the comment Mina!
Besides cash and card, do supermakets and stores in Finland accept payment by e-wallets as well? If yes, what are the most common e-wallets in Finland?
Google Pay & Apple Pay
Names of shops in oulu
10 points and a parrot mark for Aleksi for mentioning Anni and Julia
I felt they had more value to offer so I had to mention them! :)
Are meat only available packed in supermarket or due you have butchery for fresh stuff? What about fresh veggies?
Yeah in supermarkets there are meat counters where you can get meat too. And Fish.
Tämmöset videot on oikeasti hyödyllisiä. :)
Kiitti kommentista Hampaaton Läski!
Weighing the vegetables sometimes confuses even me, because the notes where the scale numbers and prices are are not always on top of that vegetable, especially for some small veggies, so you might need to know what it is called in finish... good luck with that :D But the finns at the store will help you, even if they don't understand english, they can point you the correct note.
Thanks for the comment Slindi!
Thank you for another awesome video, because this veggie weighing with scale numbers and info in finnish has been something I've thought about from the view of a foreigner or an exchange student
Random question: Do they pack your groceries for you in Finland? I'm from NZ and every supermarket chain packs the groceries for the customer but when I lived in Canada, in some stores, the customer has to bag their own groceries when paying for them
Thanks for the question! No they don't pack your stuff and you can always buy a plastic bag or bring your own.
Suomessa, löytyvätkö välttämättömät tavarat, kuten leipä ja maito, aina etuoven kauimmassa kulmassa, mikä saa sinut välttämään välttämättömiä saaria, kuten karkkeja ja pelimerkkejä, päästäkseen olennaiseen?
3:45 Objection! At the Lidl inside Arabia (Helsinki) you Do need to weight the fruit and vegetables by yourself.
(Maybe it is the exception of the exception...).
That's weird. Never heard of that before but good to know! Thanks for letting us know!
Lidl is the best shop here. I have one a 10 min walk from my apartment
Great!
I didn't know about the time discounts because can't read the Finnish sign 😂 I could have saved quite a bit!
It pays off to know even just basic Finnish!
I live in the States, and i knew Lidel was German, but man, i will feel so at home now when I go to Finland..LIDEL!! oooh
Good stuff :P
@@AleksiHimself thanks..
You must be swedish... It´s LIDL not Lidel...
Pretty much exactly like US grocery stores. Except we don’t weigh our own produce and put a sticker on it. Also we’ve done away with bottle deposits, unfortunately. I wish we would bring them back. Everything is too disposable.
I see thanks for the comment!
How do I obtain a Finntastic shirt?
Merchandise link in the description!
Aleksi: is not IKEA also Cheap like Stockmanni for buying some diverse stuffs?
IKEA is also good but it's more like a furniture & household item stuff.
Stockmann and Tokmanni are diffrent stores.
4:13 "Finns don't use cash at all" Yes they do!! Many people do. I think about 10-20 % of people in the food stores use cash. At least where I'm usually shopping, in western Tampere.
I guess that depends, but quite many people that I know don't really use cash.
I think for food Finland is more cheaper than in Macau or Hong Kong
Hello, I need to know the most famous online shops in Finland 🇫🇮
We don't have famous online shops like Amazon or Target.
I miss DUO :)
I think lidl is much cheaper when you buy meats or something. But the variety in S-market and K-market are much more so...... It's like people prefer go to S-market and Lidl only. K-market has fewer customers.
Thanks for the comment JalenM 6!
Aleksi, you forgot to tell them to make sure to bring your own plastic or other shopping bags, otherwise you will have to pay for the stores plastic bags at check out. That sometimes happens to me when I go back to Finland to visit and I forget the first time I go to the grocery store.
Damn this was in my notes, but somehow forgot it. I'll make a pinned comment about this. Thanks for noticing!
No worries, I notice certain things as a Finn and a foreigner while in Finland, as I was born in Finland, however my family moved to the USA when I was a child, so there is no hope for me as I am a stubborn Finn and a loud and obnoxious 'Merican(when I travel to Europe, maybe?!).....I tell my American friends that I am really inherently a quiet and shy person by nature, however they just start laughing.....can you believe that, maybe its the Karelian side of my family and being raised 'Merican, that must be it? Anyway good vlogs, they make me laugh and I learn some good stuff too as I do not live in Finland so I am always trying to get caught up on Finnish sayings, etc., for when I go back every few years. I have to add that I get to laugh at both cultures since I am a hybrid of Finnish and American, its very entertaining when I am kalsarikannit!
Only hippies and very old citizens bring their own bags! Other people just take a new plastic bag under the cash desk on to the belt and so on...
@@minnaminna2062 yeah, hopefully when the younger get older they will bring their own bags and not pollute the world so much. I don't care how I look as long as i do my part in keeping this world clean. My only real sin is that I am a car guy and love the internal combustion engine and that's not good for the air! Guess we all have our vices?!
If the price ends 1,2,6 or 7 sents pay cash, if 3,4,8 or 9 use plastic. 0 or 5 no matter. ;)
Cheapskate's way to save money. :D
Ah the weighing yourself thing. Same in France.
Didn't know that!
Yeah when i moved here the first shop we did my wife just plonked about 30€ worth of vegetables and fruit down on the counter and she had to go back, while a massive queue was behind us, to weigh and bag it all. Lesson learned !
I kind of like it actually that you can see the price the whole time while you're weighing. You won't have to guess what you'll pay at the cash.
Also same in Turkey .
Do they sell Mexican tortillas or 🌽 corn there? I mean the whole piece 🌽 corn.
I'm Sharing this vid to Facebook 👌
That's great! You can buy tortilla stuff and make your own.
Is Oatley oatmilk available at the grocery store? Peter Pan peanut butter? Bon Maman preserves? Corona? Good hummus? You know, the essentials!
Oatmilk, hummus, and peanut butter (never heard of Peter Man tho) sure.
Peter Pan has not bothered with advertising since the 80s, it’s the best. There was a recall in 2007 and for months we all faced the horror of other peanut butters.
Tokmanni is fairly priced, but i don't like their interior stuff (like bed covers, curtains, table cloths, etc). I prefer JYSK (when they have discounts...otherwise its like wtf - why the same shop has higher prices than in Denmark and Latvia), also Prisma and IKEA are quite nice. Important thing about shopping - for booze you have to go to separate shops called Alko. In grocery shops you can only buy beer. In many grocery shops they have a self-service area which usually don't have any ques, because people are apparently afraid of technology or something :D Don't be afraid - its simple and in English :)
Thanks for the comment Agate Auzāne! TOkmanni is indeed quite cheap for interiors.
Have you ever been to a supermarket in the USA? If not you have to visit one here.
I haven't been to the states yet.
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland I hope you are able to one day visit. I would love to see your perspective on things here.
The key thing is to plan your weekly meal around mainoksia
Do you mean discounts? That would be alennuksia
What about Alepa?? Which country is it from, and how expensive is it??
Alepa is a convenience store chain and part of S Group. They are located mostly in Helsinki area so I can't say for sure.
@@AleksiHimself Aha! Thanks!!
K-Market, Stockmann, K-Rauta, and Kauppahalli, are the best places.
Thanks for the comment ButterFly1970!
What I miss in USA is employees that bag your groceries, and help you take them to your car.
Wow that's crazy! You don't get that kind of service here.
Pamela Kilponen you have that in finland only if you have children😂 or are buying weekend equipment such as beer and food with your mates
what do they do in finland?
ils parlent anglais en finlande?
Yes.
Like videos
Great videos, but this "whipping" sound in between is unfortunately really annoying.
Yeah I haven't used it anymore in my newest videos.
Hi
I hope that you make videos in Finnish language not in English, the entire time in your videos you speak English,but I want to listen to the Finnish language🙂
Hasan Kamal I think having Finnish subtitle is a better option for his videos cause most of his subscribers are foreigners so it’s impossible to speak mostly Finnish here
I do understand your point, but most of my audience can't understand Finnish that well and adding subtitles adds too much of my workload at the moment.
You're doing well. No worry :D Thanks for your content
The hitting sound comes across so loud, when using ear piec, had to exit the video. Will watch later with sound off and cc
It's an old video. I have fixed this in new videos.
Kittos, just thought you should know 🙂
Meilla ei ole Lidliä täällä, vain S market ja K market. Käyn aina S-marketissa.
Noni hyvä juttu!
I always ask for google translate HELP! ahahahaha Has been difficult to find MILK, orange juice, Yogurt and cookies... similar to Brazil.. :-]
It's better to learn some food vocab so you'll have easier time. :)
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Thanks for the comment Branda MARK!
Aleksi Himself - Videos about Finland : how to get to know Finnish gentlemen while not being in Finland? Any clues;-)
I guess that would be online dating then.
name some websites please
Google is your friend. I haven't used online dating sites except Tinder.
Any chance to find Mr. Finnish gentleman around 😉
Lots. Just go and get em. :P
Foods in Finland are so expensive! Especially vegetables! 10 times than in China.Soft drinks also are too expensive.
Thanks for the comment! I bet many things here are more expensive than in China. :D
There's also brand "X-tra" in S-group shops. NEVER buy these. quality is very low.
Good point!
4th
Well done!
Are there really people that don't know how a completely normal supermarkt works?? 😅😅
Me as a finnish dude watching this like "hmm yes interesting"
Good stuff!
Bruh s group is better because its cheaper and the food is better
You forgot how the shoppingcarts works.
There you must have a coin.
And when you return shoppingcart, you get coin back.
That's true.
Finnish store workers across the board will not help you if you look lost you will have to ask them lol
Most of the time that's how it goes.
you need to speak more finnish in your videos. many people are here to learn, you shold teach at least couple of words in every vid... perkele
I learned new words from this video from reading the labels in the store photos. :))
I'll try to incorporate a few useful words in the future. :)