AMERICAN Visits a GROCERY STORE in POLAND. | It's so much CHEAPER than the USA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Today I am taking you to a Polish grocery store chain called Biedronka. Let's take a look around and see what products they have. You're also going to be shocked by how cheap the prices are compared to the USA.
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the whole thing is that all the shops are close. a trip to the store is a moment for a walk - you can buy everything in smaller quantities and not waste food. Respect, my 'big' friend.
@sawomirmarnotrawny1694 That's a great point. In the USA, you need to drive to go to a supermarket. Here in Poland, I have 3 big markets within a short distance of where I live. It's very convenient.
Generally, shops are near houses, but not everywhere. It depends on the place. I have the closest one about 1 km from home. We also have large shopping centers outside the city.
Please note. Tax is included in the price. In the USA you have to add the tax to the price shown on the shelf.
That's correct and thank you for pointing that out.
Unless you live in Texas where food isnt taxed :)
Thats what I dont get why not put prices with tax included .. this is dumb
As European I found it wierd. I know it has to do with different tax laws in different states. But still wierd. Inconvenient for the customer for sure.
@@chrissre7935 Yes, it's also inconvenient for us. But Uncle Sam needs to get his cut.
Forget cheaper, most important it's a real food
Yes, that is the most important.
@@TravelAddictGuy TRy "Spolem" shops they have better quality.
B.S. some of food has worse quality than in the West. With the change in Polish economy, the food also suffered.
12:10 Oh come on now. You can't just randomly put produce where it does not belong. If you want to put something back, bring it to where you took it from :).
You're right, I was in a hurry as I was filming. I should have put it back.
Biedronka is not a Polish chain. It is owned by Jeronimo Martins which is a Portuguese company.
when they started, it was a Polish company
Biedronka is a polish company the fact that is owned by a portugese company does not make Biedronka portugese...
@@bookerproo3924Yes it makes it portuguese, because profits going to Portugal
@@JokerekW ok then, would u call Volvo a chinese brand?
@@bookerproo3924 Of course. Money from selling this cars, are going to China. If you bought something it belongs to you, or to the previous owner?
Actually Biedronka was founded by polish guys and keeps the polish name and vibe but it was taken over by a portugeese holding a long time ago. A polish-polish shop would be a Dino, Społem, Lewiatan or Polomarket. All the best!
Thanks, I need to check out those other grocery stores. 🇵🇱👌
Yes, because as a polish chain it was competely destroyed in reputation by treating their workers like slaves. Portuguese actually rebranded it a bit, cleared it's image and made it into a nice shop.
@@mateuszmazurek7991 Joronimo Martins bought it in 1997 when Biedronka had 200 shops only. Now it has over 3500 so I assume if your work there was a bad experience it's been under portugeese ownership already. Anyhow I prefer shops that keep the profits here so that the economy can grow for our children to come. All the best!
@@mateuszmazurek7991 It was already under Portugese ownership, I suppose. Mateuszku, podrzuć linkę, bo brzmisz jak wychowany na GW.😂
Price differences alone don't tell the whole picture. On average Polish people spend some $150-200 on groceries a month while the Americans spend $475, but the median wage in the US is some $57K while in Poland it's less than $20K, so on average Americans spend ~10% of their wages on groceries while Polish people do around 11-12% so it is slightly more expensive here.
But honestly, I can live with that 1-2% difference bc the quality of products is SO MUCH BETTER thanks to the strict EU and National food regulations. The bread is actually bread!
I like that you showed a percentage of income. I know there are many Americans struggling with high food prices, as well as Poles. I'm sorry if there is anyone out there having difficulties buying food. Yes, European supermarkets offer healthier products, meats, and dairy.
In Poland, (my wife and I) earn together $75k and it's not a great achievement.
@@nnnnnn3647 no fajnie, cieszę się, tylko to kompletnie nie zmienia statystyk.
Mediana zarobków w Polsce to 5,7k brutto (ok 4,2k netto) czyli dokładnie połowa Polaków zarabia mniej niż to miesięcznie.
$75K rocznie to ile, jakieś 292k złotych? 145K rocznie na osobę czyli ponad 12 tyś miesięcznie. Dla większości ludzi w tym kraju to są astronomiczne pieniądze. To ponad dwukrotnie więcej niż mediana i o 50% więcej niż średnia zarobków...
@@edim108 A wiesz jak jest liczona ta mediana i ilu firm dotyczy? To niewielka część gospodarki. Tak, mamy 12k na osobę i nie narzekam, ale nie jest to też jakaś zabójcza kwota. Żyjemy skromnie.
@@nnnnnn3647 "12k na osobę... żyjemy skromnie" ok XD
5,7k brutto lub 4,2k netto to mediana wynagrodzeń według raportu GUS "Struktura wynagrodzeń według zawodów za październik 2022" i nie bierze pod uwagę mikroprzedsiębiorstw, czyli ok 10% osób pracujących (z czego 4,5% to jednoosobowe działalności gospodarcze).
It is so much cheaper but give us american salaries because for Polish people it is not cheap. On contrary, many Poles who live in Western Europe like UK say that food prices in the UK stores are comparable with those in Poland but the salaries here are still not like those in the UK.
It's the same for me, I'm not earning high wages. So, living back in the USA is very expensive or even parts of Europe. Thanks for sharing.
I have lived in the UK and prices weren't lower than those in Poland. The cost of living compared to salary was very close to what it is in Poland. One thing to clarify - the ultra-processed food might be cheaper in UK or in the West - but judge yourself is this a good thing if healthy options are more expensive out there.
Try paying American rents then you’ll see how much of your American salary you have left. In NY the average apartment costs $5000 p/m to rent !
@@KrzysztofK1982 That's way too much. I can't afford it and would never live in New York.
You are right..Buy this groceries in Walmart ,you gonna pay 4 times more plus tax,and every state has different taxes.
2:59 *American: It's only one dollar! Very cheap! What else do you want!?*
*Pole: Taaak?... Akurat!...*
*( **_Yeah... Exactly..._** )*
Biedronka is portuguese, company that owns it is jeronimo martins
Biedronka was created by a Polish businessman in the early 1990s. In 1995, it was bought by the Portuguese.Jeronimo Martins bought the brand when there were only 250 stores in Poland.
@@Diegtiariow no i, a teraz jest siecia portugalska ! a propos bacia miala wasy i dziadkem byla to, jest ta sama bajka i to, nie ma nic z patriotyzmem ale biznesem ! az nie dobrze mi sie robi jak czytam niektore bzdury, a najgorsze sa od tych plaskoziemowcow z KonfedeRuSSi !
Just beware that many discounts are "on the second item" or "when buying 4" and so on. And regardless, it's best to look at the fine print telling you the price per kg or liter.
Thanks for sharing that tip. It does seem like you save a lot with the discount card.
@@TravelAddictGuy Alternatively you can get mobile app to your phone, called "Moja Biedronka" and register it by yourself. It has a virtual card in it (so you don't need a plastic one), plus there are some exclusive discounts for the app, which are not available for regular plastic card. The app also has a bar code scanner, so you can check the price with your phone (just need to be connected to the Internet).
21:10 - whenever you see "przy zakupie X", it mean you need to buy X of these products to get the discount. Sometimes they put a discount for some absurd amount of products, like 12 liters of milk or 10kg of sugar.
21:36 - yep, it's a price for a single can when you buy a 12-pack.
@@TravelAddictGuy It depends on the promotions and what you usually buy. I have similar list of products that I buy always or just from time to time. Sometimes promotions acumulate, sometimes there are none for my products. But in the best days, when there were promotions for most expensive stuff that I usually buy, I had basket worth ~200-240PLN, and with the discount was even around 60-80PLN less than that. You really have to pay attention for these orange colored signs with prices - as mskiptr mentioned, it usually is for second or third same item, or when buying 4, when buying more than [...], sometimes it's 1+1(you get one additional for free), or second one for 1PLN instead for free. Sometimes it's really hard to check the real price without a discount there... They do it on purpose, and regular prices are written with the smallest font possible on these signs... Beware of that and F them for such sh*tty tricks.
Using Biedronka app can help lower your grocery expenses. In my experience, when unfamiliar with the bread, it's advisable to slice it thickly. As for Biedronka, their vegetables may not appear the most appealing, but they have low pesticide, anti-fungal chemicals levels, and some could even be classified as eco by European standards.
Good to know, they charge extra for eco friendly products in the USA.
So that's why they looked like crap. Our vegetables in the USA always look awesome but maybe they use a lot of pesticides?
@@JeanStAubin-nl9uo That is most likely the case. Plus USA stores will not accept vegetables that look unappealing. Which means they waste tons of food.
Average earnings in Poland are 1,500-2,000 dollars , so it's not that cheap, it was much cheaper, but the virus and war in Ukraine affect prices
I'm sorry that this is happening here in Poland. Inflation is also hitting us very hard in the USA.
Yeah, it was the virus who introduced a shitload of new taxes, regulations and social programs.
I'm in Uruguay, and the locals here earn, on average $700 to $1500, and a grocery basket like what Kerry got, would have been at least $15 or more realistically $25+. But you might do better with your salary if you move to Argentina, I think it's cheaper than Poland, I think.
@@leplane_ Hey my friend, how are you enjoying Uruguay?
Not "virus and war" but government and EU.
Say that after getting your salary in Poland, not in US.
Average salary in pl is 1500 USD. Thats no problem.
@@rab8347 Average does not equal to what majority earns, minimal salary is far lower. Moreover, Poland is in top3 unfortunate countries in terms of how many different taxes we have.
And if you include very high housing costs, increased prices for many basic goods (because it's always like this in countries being neighbour to a country in war) and about 1 million immigrants, for which everyone has to pays... You will quickly realize the life is not as cheap as it seems.
You should never treat generalised data found on first google search as a sure fact for everyone, Especially without a bigger picture on living costs (which are not only a food).
5:43 I’m impressed how you said pietruszki 🌿👍👏 BTW. The beer Żubr was per Can so 12x2.99zl and there’s no deposit
@@MarKac9090 Thank you, I'm doing my best with the Polish language. That makes sense about the Zubr price. Dziekuje.
Keep in mind, Biedronka is a discount store, like Aldi or SaveALot in the States. So it is cheaper than, say, Carrefour. The displays and packaging reflect that.
Yes, it's a fair point. The store has a very basic look.
If you can't find the price, every Biedronka has a scanner where you can scan the barcode and see the price. It is usually placed on a pillar ✌ Biedronka usually has the lowest prices of all supermarkets in Poland 👌
You could tell that I was having trouble finding the prices. Yes, some are not even posted, so it is a bit tricky. The prices in Biedronka are very affordable. 🇵🇱👍
@@TravelAddictGuywas what more suprising this one was tidy. Others are like a walking hazards with pallets of everything everywhere in every alley .
@@deadzio You're right, I've experienced one like that before. This store is pretty tidy.
There is an even better trick than looking for a scanner. The Biedronka application has a barcode scanner in it, so you can check the price and possible promotions.
@@0plp0 I need to download that. Thanks.
2.99 is price for one can if you buy 12 at once. If you buy only one or two, the price is higher.
I understand now, that sign was confusing me. Dziekuje.
Those are great prices Kerry. A baguette and some ham and cheese from Publix (back in the US) would have cost me $12 bucks, in 2022! I have no idea how much it would cost now since I moved to Uruguay (and the groceries are more expensive here lol), but to get all this for under 10 bucks that's impressive.
I'm super happy with the prices. Why are things so expensive in Uruguay?
I find your video interesting and informative. I enjoyed watching it. Good job. Keep it up!!!
That's awesome, thank you.
Living in the USA already 20 years ago it’s very interesting how the American people still portray Poland and our country and as they did already back then.
I don't think that most Americans know much about Poland. Maybe that's why. Do you like living in the USA?
@@TravelAddictGuy Back then I really did and simply saying it as not sure how much it has changed since. I I don’t live in the USA anymore. I think like for many people it takes a while to adjust the change of a new country if you live there not only vacation.
It is a nice looking grocery store with great prices.
I like shopping here. 👍🇵🇱
You have to be careful with promotional prices at Biedronka. A lot of the promotional prices (the ones on the orange cards) work on the basis of multiple items. You have to buy e.g. two, three or even more same products and only then will the promotional price works. It's written on those orange cards, e.g: "Buy two and pay 34% less for second item. The price for one item 7,38 if you buy two items" or "The price is 8,99" and written in smal letters "when you buy other products for at least 199 zloty" or "1 + 1 free. Only 9,99" - and written in small letters "price for one item if you buy two". I myself got nicked recently for "1+1 free strawberries for 9.99" but it turned out at checkout that 9.99 was the price for one item when buying two so I paid 20 zlotys for two packages instead of 9.99 as I thought. These beers what you showed Żubr (which literally means Bison or European Bison) cost 2.99 for can if you buy 12 cans. If you buy less than 12 cans - you will pay more than 2.99 for can. And there is no deposit on cans in Poland - there is a deposit on glass beer bottles - but not on all of them either. There should always be information on the price tag whether there is a deposit or not.
In general, Biedronka is the world champion in writing these promotional price tags in such a way that you can never be 100% sure how much you will pay at checkout. In Poland, everyone knows it and hates it. We even laugh that you have to go to the Biedronka with a calculator and a math book to understand these price promos. Biedronka has already received a number of fines from Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów (Office of Competition and Consumer Protection) and they were multi-million fines - but as you can see, it doesn't do much. For example in 2022 they got 115 milion PLN fine for "not putting prices next to all its products, and sometimes the price on the shelf differed from that at the checkout to the customer's disadvantage". Biedronka is known for its messy price tags. They always explain that it is the fault of low unemployment and there are no people to work even though they are looking all the time. So please be careful when checking how much the price is.
Thanks for the warning. We have had some price fixing scams back in the USA as well. Some supermarkets were overcharging customers an several items. At the end of the day that small overcharge ended up being millions of dollars for the company. You have just saved me and my viewers some money with the information you shared. 🙏🏻
on the other hand if you have masters degree in promotions you plus you do bigger shopping for family you can save a lot, but as I said you need masters degree 😁😁
@@Clistes 😁
In my local Biedronkas the ladies at the till will often warn you if you misunderstood a discount.
@@Ula-Ka That is nice of them.
I did enjoy it very much, prices? Way better than in usa, especially NYC it's crazy, have a good day.
Looking forward for another video😊
It's very cheap compared to New York. Thank you. 👌🇵🇱
1:08 *"Biedronka" was a Polish store, but 20 years ago, when it was a chain of just a few stores, now it is a Portuguese store, Poland, of course, has its supermarkets; **_"Dino", "Milla", "Lewiatan", "Piotr i Paweł", "Od i Do", "Groszek"_** and other smaller ones, but all of them have no chance of becoming global corporations...*
I thought the Biedronka was Polish when I filmed the video. I don't think I've even seen those other stores near me.
@@TravelAddictGuy *You won't find many of these stores in Wrocław, these are chains, most of which are based in Greater Poland, for example in Poznań you will find several such stores...*
'Piotr i Paweł' used to be Polish but because they were selling premium products (imported) they were not happy with the business I guess (as they were expensive). They had sold the chain to Spar (which is a brand from... South Africa). Just recently Spar decided to sell their Polish stores (the buyer is not yet revealed). BTW, it's interesting to go to Spar and look what they still offer cause they have many unique products (not available elswhere).
@@Duobatto I shopped at Spar when I was in Budapest.
Biedronka has a lot of promotions on Saturdays and quite the crowd later in the day. Some products may be sold out by 12 PM. So its a good idea to get your shopping in by 10AM.
Thanks for the good advice, I may go early on a Saturday from now on. 🙏🏻
Polska jest ZAJEBISTA!
Biedronka is actually a Portuguese company :) - Jerónimo Martins Polska S.A. is the owner of Biedronka - the largest retail chain in Poland, with stores located in over 1,300 towns, which has been present on the Polish market for 29 years. At the end of the first quarter of 2024, it had 3,596 branches. The largest Polish supermarket chain seems to be Dino Polska SA, owned by one man - billionaire Tomasz Biernacki (a very mysterious guy, absent from the media, even his photo is nowhere to be found :)). At the end of 2022, there were 2,156 stores of this chain - mainly in smaller cities and towns, as well as in villages.
We have one Dino store nearby, next to the village where we live. The selection of products there is much smaller than in the average Biedronka, and I have the impression that the quality of many products is worse. It is a very cheap store, even cheaper overall than Biedronka.
Like someone who has already commented, I believe that a simple comparison of prices in Biedronka to prices in American supermarkets can be very misleading, it would be better to compare prices to, for example, the average salary in Poland and make a similar comparison in America. But of course, if you earn dollars and spend zlotys, it may seem that it is very cheap here and that it is actually a paradise on earth :)
I was not aware that Biedronka was a Portuguee company. It is, however, everywhere in Poland and where many Poles shop. I have not seen a Dino Polska, but it could be worth doing another video there sometime. You made a good point about the salary differences. There is also a huge difference in salaries within the USA. While some people earn millions of $USD, many earn the minimum wage or even less if they work as servers. So there are many people in the USA who are living paycheck to paycheck.
@@TravelAddictGuy Biedronka was Polish. Founded in Poznań, by the same guy who later founded (and still owns) Żabka.
@@yarzyn_5699 Ok, I see. It was founded in Poland but bought by a Portuguese company.
About Dino... no...
It is only owned 51% by Tomasz Biernacki - so he has full control still but around 49% is basically free floating on stock exchange, 32% being owned by institutions, rest being in private hands with very fractured ownership. Heck even I had some of this stock at some point.
Dino has the issue that they don't have their own brands established like Biedronka does, they are growing very aggresively and often in areas generally neglected by other chains.
So they kinda also have quite positive social impact brining stores and jobs into sometimes more remote places. And they are getting by, though profitiability could be better - 2023 they had aroud 340 mln pln profit after tax / amortisation, so like 90 mln USD. It's peanuts, but for agressively epxanding retail chain somewhat acceptable - since they bear costs of greenfield investment which is no longer that cheap in Poland.
@@TravelAddictGuy Exactly - still Polish company. That Jeronimo didn't replicated that success just surf the wave in Poland :)
That nutrition grade is really convenient actually. We should have that here but companies would have a fit
@ryanrector3222 It really is helpful and helps me decide quickly which product is a healthier option. In the USA it's all about fake advertisements. So it's much trickier.
This nutrition grade is a scam. For example the full of sugar and carbs american nestle cereal are marked as 'a' and the pure carrot juice gonna be the grade 'e'. It has nothing common with healthly shopping, you must read ingredients and know whats unhealthly. Typical corpo trick to earn money on lamers.
But it didint always match When normal peanuts should be A they have grade of D or C.
As a person who reads the ingredients of products before purchasing them, I never pay attention to Nutrition grade. When you go deeper in this you can see that some brand with a lot of sugar are A, and some with even better ingredients but other brand is C. It shoud be deleted. Many people think that this is a strange scam designed to increase the profits of a popular brand.
@@Nina.ja9 😲
21:19 *HA! HA! HA! I don't know if you noticed, but you were just browsing the shelf with women's products!* ♀️😆
Only for a few seconds until I noticed it.
@@TravelAddictGuy Thank God!!!
Biedronka brand its name in Poland but real owner its Jeronimo Martins from Portugal.
Thankyou my friend
Dziekuje bardzo.
I work in big supermarket. You have triggered me when you put something where it doesn’t belong. People who work in supermarkets are very busy and have to walk a lot to bring all of those things back. Please respect people’s work.
I understand, I won't do it again.
don't shit yourself... it's very common in US or Canada, but people don't make any problems out of it...
My sentiments exactly.If you aren’t going to purchase the item,have the common courtesy to put it back where you found it.
Very clean store. Attractive packaging, too….
I like shopping here.
Great video comparing the prices from Poland supermarket to American supermarket!
I noticed the eggs are not kept in the refrigerator section, like in US! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for pointing that out, yes eggs are not usually refrigerated in European stores. Thank you.
The reason is, in US eggs are being cleaned before they reach the market. That removes the layer(on the outside of shell) that makes them last longer. In Poland they're not cleaned but that makes them last longer without refrigerating. Can't explain realy how it works but it's true. You can look it up.
@@vubevube I never knew that. Thanks for sharing. 🥚👍
The Biedronka chain is not Polish it's owned by Jerónimo Martins based in Portugal. If you're looking for Polish grocery shops the popular ones are Dino, Polomarket and Społem.
14:55- spaghetti in UK Asda or Tesco cost $0,96 so more expensive than polish prices, but in Poland they potentially earn much less ether.
That is true and the prices reflect that. I do like Tesco, I shopped there when I was in Czechia.
21:30 *and his funny "Żuen" are you French that you can't say B and R? what's interesting is that you pronounced "Ż" correctly, but it's not a German verb, it has to end with "EN", pronounce it a few times; "Żu-br", "Żu-br", "Żu-br" or maybe you will finally remember that it means bison in Polish...* 😂🦬🇵🇱
26:04 *If you were Polish and worked for PLN 1,500 a month, you would not be so happy and satisfied with the price...*
I wouldn't be, but someone already wrote to me and said that Poles make more than that.
@@TravelAddictGuy yes we do, the OP didn't update his data in 15 years I think lol
Now average low paying job in full hours is 3000+ PLN
In Poland, in larger supermarkets such as Biedronka, but also in smaller chains of stores (e.g. Żabka), usually if there is a promotional price - for example, as in 21:44 - details of the promotion for a given product are provided next to this price.
- Beer Żubr:
Price for 1 piece IF(!) you buy 12 pieces at a time = PLN 2.99 for 1 piece, so you need to add +35.88 Polish zlotys for this beer to the final bill (12x2.99)
Below should always be the regular price per piece if you buy this particular product in quantities of less than 12 (i.e. more expensive per piece if you do not buy 12 of them at once..)
And if it is a promotion only for a people who have a "customer card" of this store (or sometimes a mobile application), such information should also be written, because if it is not written next to the price, then this 12x2.99 promotion is available for everyone. 😉
You do not have to pay an additional deposit for beer cans or non-returnable bottles, but if you buy beer in a returnable bottle, an additional deposit is added to each bottle, if you keep the receipt, you can return the empty bottles in this store and the deposit you paid will be returned to you.
Information about whether the bottle is returnable is always on the back label.
sometimes there are also "X + X" promotions, e.g. 2+1 - buy 2 of the same type and get the third one for free or at a lower price (but you have to pay a deposit for a returnable bottle even if it is a "free" beer) 😉
You could see that I was really confused by the beer prices. Thanks for clearing it up.
Prices seems pretty similar to the aldi i shop at in florida usa. Some stuff is a little more expensive here like milk
@@alexsbikesandmotors Thanks for sharing, so not everything is as cheap as it seems. Are you in a major city?
@@TravelAddictGuy apopka fl near orlando
maybe because he went to biedronka which is most popular but from experience constantly more expensive, but overall ye some things are pretty much similar, especially when there's huge wave of ukrainians so the cost of everything went up
Love, love Aldi in the United States. I'm an Aldi addict.
Try to find in Wrocław a grocery store called "Delikatesy" like were Piotr i Paweł, Alma or Bomi (they are not exist). They would offer way better quality food thany any Biedronka but ofcourse more expensive.I am sure You will find one.
Thanks for the tip.
I like this store,in Canada is very expensive camper to this store
I like shopping here too. Thanks for sharing.
This is great when you are a digital nomad and can earn American wages/income. I would imagine living on Polish wages would actually equal if not cost more.
Yes, that's true. But I earn much less now than when I lived in the USA. But I enjoy my life more.
13:00 if you are not sure of the price you can check it on the scanner, one of those is behind you on 21:52 (beside the beer signed "Czytnik cen")
Good advice. Thanks.
LOL
It is cheap for Western tourists, but not for the locals (earning $700 monthly).
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm far from rich, so I understand what it's like.
700USD??? I don't know where you got this value from, but the lowest legally permitted salary in Poland is currently 830 USD net. And try to find a worker on the lowest national wage.
@@TravelAddictGuy Don't mind that. It's our polish custom for everyone to say how they have it harder than anyone else LOL
Go to Stokrotka, Dino or Kaufland they have big variety of meats and they slice for you how much you want. Its like small butchery store inside the market.
I like it when they slice the meat fresh for you. 👍
Just go to Germany and compare the prices versus salary in Germany that's a cheap country when it comes about the daily products vs salaries. Monday products are cheaper than in Poland and salary is about 3-4 higher
I did do a short video in a German grocery store in Dresden. Talking about the variety and how cheap the beer was.
All is with TAX.
BTW pierogi From biedronka are odd in taste in my opinion to chuwe
There is nothing like fresh made. But these are a quick and easy meal. I'm not a very good cook.
Pierogi from biedronka taste heavenly compared to pierogi i bought in lithuanian Maxima super market. Never buy lithuanian made pierogi from the shop!
@@pralinkapl5134 I'm polish and I would not put in my mouth Lithuanian Russian or Ukraine food the quality is so bad or so I heard 🤔
Bruh, sorry to burst your bubble, but right now groceries in Poland are only cheaper if you shop exclusively at Fresh Market, Sprouts and Whole Foods. At Aldi and Lidl and often Walmart food is similarly priced as Poland right now, only people in Poland get paid multiple times less than Americans do. Eggs at Lidl are $1.66 per dozen ($4 organic), Strawberries are $2 per lbs and a whole chicken (organic!) can be as little as $2 per lbs.
Those are some good prices. I didn't know that you had Whole Foods in Poland. Near where I live there is Biedronka, Aldi and Carrefour.
@@TravelAddictGuy No, I meant Whole Foods in the USA. When you look at prices of food at Aldi or Lidl in the USA, they are similar to Poland. Food in Poland got substantially more expensive since 2019. It used to be just cheap, not cheap as compared to Whole Foods in the US… :-)
Is the shit sold in US chains the same quality? Ingredients, amount of sugar, preservatives, colours etc. that are banned in the First World countries?
BTS: Except water and salt EVERYTHING we eat is organic. Basic biology/chemistry.
@wizardman1976 No, it's much worse.
@@wizardman1976 Aldi and Lidl sell organic foods. Things like organic eggs at Lidl still cost the same as organic eggs in Poland ($3.75 for a dozen eggs vs 11 PLN for eggs in Biedronka). Except Americans get paid 3 times as much. Non-organic food options - in bulk you can buy chicken breasts for $2 per lbs / $4.20 per kg) and eggs $1.60 for a dozen.
As to all foods being organic in Poland by default, come on. That train sailed long time ago… 😁 You might have some protections in places like Germany, but they push absolute shit to Poland. You have honey from Russia, Ukrainian grain everywhere, meat from USA and poisonous salt from Germany sold in packages claiming it is from Poland. HFCS instead of sugar since 2011. You vastly under-appreciate how corrupt Polish politicians are. It is just underreported, because they are corrupt “the correct way” (act as neo-colonial enforcers of Berlin, Brussels and Wa. DC as well). And with the “green order” and the destruction of European farming you will be eating „da shit” from South America - the same as we do… 🤪
Also Polish payslips are cheaper. About 3 times.
I'm sure that's true. I was comparing prices to the USA supermarkets. But it's not an apples to oranges comparison.
yeah, its much cheaper cuz the lowest salary in Poland (which a large part of society still earns) is 812 $ per MONTH
No one in the city earns so little.
@@nnnnnn3647 lies
@@nnnnnn3647lies go and check work offers - 99% of them start with 812$, especially all of the factory jobs
You have a local guy that lives here his whole life and im telling the truth yet this content creator is giving heart to a person that is spreading lies😂
Instead of believing a local! I have about 350 friends on fb yet i know maybe 2 person that earns more than 1k$ (and we all have higher education and working office jobs)
Im outta here
@@MyFaithShines My wife is a teacher in a regular primary school. She has a lot of overtime, she also works from home and earns about 7k a month. It's not that hard.
"Dosłownie wszyscy tutaj zarabiają pomiędzy 4 a 5 tysięcy złotych"
Nie znam nikogo kto tyle zarabia. Nawet kuzyn, który zaczął pracę pół roku temu dostał 5k na początek, wkrótce będzie podwyżka. Nie rozumiem jak dajesz radę zarabiając 4k. To wegetacja.
@@MyFaithShines Don't project your failure onto others.
Please stop thas disinformation, Biedronka isn't Polish at all but Portuguese. If you look for a polish grocery store than check Dino, Frac, Polomarket, Społem, Top Market and Topaz.
The title actually says, "A grocery store in Poland" . I was not aware that it was Portuguese owned when I made the video.
@@TravelAddictGuy And yet at 1:08 what you clearly said was „But today …to a Polish supermarket. It is called Biedronka”🤪
@@r0ko899 😁👍
It might be cheap in the context of the conversion of the currency and the buying power of money that you are talking about in comparison to the US Dollar.
But the true price is still talked to based of the economy of the country, the GDP and other factors.
Even if you look through the products of the biggest and most known makers of the USA they will never have the same product priced the same in other countries.
No matter the difference in size of the packaging or the quality even.
But as a regular shopper this is exactly what everyone is nearly always focused on, no matter the business knowledge.
Oh you make me miss polish food.
Those are some great points and yes Polish food is delicious.
Zawsze mnie rozwalają te filmy gdzie to turysta z bogatego kraju przyjeżdża do Polski głównie zwiedza największe miasta i opowiada jak to jest tanio w polskich sklepach, restauracjach, tanie noclegi i w ogóle bajka a jak jeszcze dorzuci ile to zarabiają Polacy np 7 tysięcy 😂😂😂 to Polska jawi się jako kraina mlekiem i miodem płynąca raj dla mieszkańców, ktorych stać na wszystko. Ja tam znam inne opinie, że np jest pięknie, wysoki standard bazy turystycznej, pyszne jedzenie, atrakcje itd ale drogo i pewnie przeciętnego Polaka na to nie stać ze swojej pensji skoro wyjeżdżamy masowo do pracy za granicę.
12:15 You never do that! Return it to a place where You took it from if You don't want it!
It's obviously cheaper as land price and wages are also cheaper.
That makes total sense.
Biedronka is not polish market :) its portuguese network "Jerónimo Martins" . There are no country wide market networks but there are many regional ones like Stokrotka, PoloMarket, Torimpex, Spolem and so on.
'Stokrotka' belongs to a Lithuanian company.
Im from poland
Awesome!
Couple products you checked had the wrong price tag, tuna for example is around 5.99zl or 6.99zl, it's the trap for some people beacuse the price tags are often missplaced and when you grab something quckly and you didn't check correctly, there is suprise by the checkout
Sorry I made that mistake. Holding the camera, while talking and trying to see the price was a bit difficult. It seems like they misplace the tags on purpose so you spend more.
Biedronka is portuguese
Hi Kerry. Thanks for the video. I think it does depend on what you like because some things are expensive, not all. It certainly is expensive for food shopping in the UK. I don't know about America. Aldi appears to be the cheaper supermarket, but for me, I'm not over keen on their products. Take care 😊
Hi Janet, Yes, some imported products may cost more. But the over prices are low in Poland. I feel like the quality is good, too. We also have an Aldi here in Wroclaw.
Some items are even cheaper than Spain. Great video and you picked the items I like.
Spain had some pretty cheap prices, and I used to love shopping at Mercadona. So if these prices are even cheaper, then that is impressive.
I hope you enjoy Poland :) have a good stay! Btw- Biedronka is a Portuguese market
I had no idea. Thank you.
Its cheaper for Americans yes, but for peoples salaries in Poland its considered expensive!
Yes and I meant no offense by that. Just stating facts, some countries are more expensive for us.
17:14 *Ehhh..? So... Good advice; When you are in Poland, God forbid, do not buy bread in the supermarket, because they are made of poor flour with an improver made of chalk and human hair, and they are not baked to completion, but are deep-frozen, so they are potentially poisonous because they may contain salmonella bacteria if If you want to eat real Polish bread in Poland, you have two options; either you go to a bakery with a long tradition of baking bread, of which, fortunately, there is no shortage, or you go to a Polish village and ask someone to bake it for you, because you won't find good bread in the supermarket...*
I do usually buy bread from a local bakery. It's so delicious.
jeżeli nie jesteś pewien ceny, zawsze możesz sprawdzić na czytniku, który jest praktycznie zawsze w zasięgu wzroku, trzeba się rozejrzeć, są oznaczenia
That's good advice. Dziekuje.
When you earn money in poland - everything is super expensive :( As you said - 1 dolar is around 4 PLN so you know...
I'm sorry to hear that the prices are expensive for Polish people. Prices have also gone up a lot for Americans.
Don't listen to the Poles complaining. We always complain, and in front of the store there are new cars, while inside the store there is a Pole saying that food is expensive.
@@Pawel.K86 😄
you must also consider that average salary in Poland is 1900 dollars and in US is 4900 dollars...but maybe you made common mistake, many americans think I have great salary and how cheap we have it here, but when I talk about salary I talk about monthly pay and many americans think, that it´s weekly pay, cause they have weekly pay....and also even average salary is 1900 dollarn(7800 PLN) many earn less, cause there is also a minimu wage per month is around 4000PLN - 1000 dollars
The USA is a big place, with salaries being very different in each state. My state of Michigan the average salary is only $43,000 . So no, not everyone makes $60, 000 in the USA. Of course some make much more and some much less. I do understand that Poles earn on average less and that these prices may be expensive for them. But living in the USA for many of us, is also quite expensive. Thank you for sharing.
Eggs - 40 % for the second package :)
You have to buy a lot of eggs. It's best to shop with a friend at Biedronka. 😁
From what I gathered, a typical salary in Poland is between 3500-4000 zł nett. Thats 800-1000$. i'd say Americans have the same prices, or even better when bought in bulk or using coupons. And you shouldn't just compare the exchange value, you have to take the purchase power of the currency. We earn a 1000$ and have 1$ hummus, you guys earn 4000$ and have 4$ hummus. Basically the same. Now compare car prices.
Health care is not free in the USA, drugs cost 5 to 10 times what they cost here. Health care is also much more expensive. Rents in the USA are very high at the moment. So even making $4,000 a month you will not live comfortably in most states. I do understand that Poles are struggling and I wish that they weren't.
@@TravelAddictGuyHealth care is not free. Your company pays to goverment from your salary a healtcare public insurence every month before you got it netto. With a lot of ilnesses you are forced to pay private dictors anyway because of waiting lists, emergencies and higher quality. You will not get a refund from public insurance. Private medical insurances are getting more popular nowaydays. Greetings😉
@@iww6994 But if you have no insurance will they treat you?
@@TravelAddictGuy You pay it from your salary, it is compulsory for employed and selfemployed. It is called "składka zdrowotna". If your work is in Poland you will see it among: tax, social security and this health contribution. It is all compulsory. Your employer is obligated by law to take it and give it to goverment. It works like insurance but it is complusory among working people.
@@iww6994 We have a similar system in America, but not all jobs come with coverage or some have limited coverage. Which means you need to pay out of pocket for many procedures or drugs even. The people without jobs have no health care at all.
To be fair you should compare average salary USA vs Poland
Bureau of Labour and Statistics, the average salary in the US per month is $6,228 or $74,738 per year.
and next compare adjusting to USA/Poland to average salary
The USA is a very large place and that would not be a fair number. As many states make much less than $74,000. In my state of Michigan, the average income is $48,000 only.
That seems very high. I live in WI and just retired. The most I ever made in a year was $23,000.00. Worked in customer service for over 40 years. Many years I worked two jobs. I would have loved to make half that in a year.
@@JeanStAubin-nl9uo Thanks for sharing. Many foreign countries think that all Americans earn high salaries. That is far from the truth. It must be very difficult to live on that amount of money in the USA.
I miss Biedronka! 🤣
@@RoamingwithStu Hahaha, it's one of my favorites. This and Carrefour, which was also very popular in Spain.
9:40 these are hazelnuts. you have them in america aswell. 14:00 in regards to eggs one are barn eggs while the other are free range eggs. 21:36 its one can for 2,99 pln if you buy 12 of them. you have to be carefull with all these discounts some of them only apply if you buy for example 2 products (or multiple of 2)
Hazelnuts, that's what they were. So one of the eggs is free range range, that makes total sense. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻🐣
@@kilercola Eggs are crap in America , no matter what kind you buy they don't taste like the eggs I ate growing up in Poland. It all depends what you feed chickens.
Biedronka it's not Polish supermarket.
But many Poles shop here.
@@TravelAddictGuy You should try "Delikatesy Centrum" "Dino" Polomarket or "Społem" :))
Try also to compare salaries in Poland comparing to, say Illinois, Carolina, California. In California you can't survive with 4 thousand USD a month salary. But we pay more or as much for fuel, electricity as in many EU countries and US or Canada. Sure food is cheaper but not consumer products like electronics, dishwashers, cars, automotive parts which costs as much as somewhere else in EU or more than in US. So let's be fair Poland for Poles isn't exactly cheap.
10 eggs for $2.25 - in Canada dozen at around $4 Can in place like Food Basics which discount super market. In Sacramento I payed around 3.50 at WinCo, one the cheapest places I could find to shop for food which is equivalent of Biedronka.
You should also have asked the cashier how much she earns monthly and then compare the prices relatively to her salary, maybe your perception of how cheap things are would be different.
You've made a good comparison of Poland to several USA states. I never said that Poland was cheap for Poles. Only for foreigners.
Thanks,
Actually during the visit in Sacramento (I live in Ottawa, Canada) I went to Raley's to do grocery shopping, at least I tried. The prices almost gave hard attack, $3.50 for lb of tomatoes, 4.50 for dozen of eggs, really. Maybe it's store for people driving only Beemers, Mercedes or Teslas.
Take care and happy travels, I hope you like some things in Poland
@@pliedtka Those are some high prices, that's exactly what I've been hearing about.
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20:17 - "They call it a 🤌Pasta Colgatte🤌, Mamma Mia!"
Si y la Pasta Colgate es buenisima. 🦷😁
It's cheaper because a lot of the food is local, they don't have to pay all the middlemen for distribution like we do in North America. Not to mention Poland has a much smaller population, so that affects the supply chain, they aren't having to grow and manufacture food for hundreds of millions of people.
That is certainly more challenging.
Canada has practically the same population as Poland.
@@pralinkapl5134 That's an interesting fact.
7:20 - same Greek yogurt in UK cost $0,6875 per 400gr. So UK prices are same,but wages are double as Polish wages. So no matter what will happen, UK is always a better place for ordinary worker than Poland. Specially because Polish property prices are overvalued at the moment.
It seems like your prices in the UK may be even less than the USA. UK may be a better place to earn money. But Poland is a much safer country to live in.
For regular folks UK is still better option. But for the middle class is the opposite. I have been working as a Software Engineer in the UK. My salary was lower than immigrant working in the warehouse. And with all due respect, I also worked in those places - just clocking in and clocking out, forgetting about any self-improvement was easy money. I moved to Poland a couple of years ago. My salary has been higher than that in the UK. Not only that - my cost of living went down by half. Food including. And during that time my salary increased further. Country is also a lot safer and cleaner. The infrastructure getting better and better, you can clearly see that in a decade Poland will be ahead of the UK in terms of that and life quality. In many aspects it surpassed the UK already.
@@HCforLife1 Sounds like propaganda to me. So you telling me that for like for like job Polish wages are better than UK? Can you give examples please? As in my job field in Poland I would get paid half as what I got paid in UK. Food probably cost you half,because you cook. Food prices are similar to UK prices. I just gave example of Greek yogurt above. Maybe you didn't read my comment in full or with not enough attention to details? Property prices are now similar in both UK and Poland. A lot depends on location, but I recently compared Bialystok properties with Glasgow. It was similar price. While UK wages are 2x.
@@HCforLife1 I just searched and found 2 bed+ living room 60m2 flat in Glasgow not far from town center. for £130k(663k PLN). In Bialystok it would be similar price. Maybe even a bit higher. So please don'g lie,that Poland is cheaper. Food and fuel in Poland maybe 10-15% cheaper, but wages for like for like job are 2x as in UK. So still worth living in UK.
@@HCforLife1 I would choose to live in Poland over the USA any day. As you said it's much safer, great transportation., honest people, lower cost of living. I'm glad that you're living the good life here.
We name Grocery Store like warzywniak and we buy there just vegetables or bread.
7:49 *it doesn't read "Guda" but "Gowda"* 😂
Thank you so much!
Did you ever see a Halal food in the supermarkets? Halal poultry and meat??
I haven't seen that before. Maybe there are butchers that can supply halal meats.
@@TravelAddictGuy I hear that in Carrefour they do have halal products but I've seen this in France idk if they do in Poland or not, and I've searched I found two halal stores in Warsaw as well, I just thought maybe supermarkets sell any so that it'd be more easily accessible
anyway thank you! Great tour I loved it and I loved how you respect everyone's privacy!!
But I've a question, is it safe to walk around in Poland alone in the early morning like at 6 AM as you did?
@@tt7762 I don't know if they have halal meat, but they do have Carrefour in Poland. Yes, it's very safe to walk around at 6 A.M. . In fact the sun rises early in Poland, so it's light our by then and there are many people going to work. Poland is one of the safest countries in Europe.
@@tt7762in Poland you can walk anywhere and anytime(but with some conditions): u need to have an internet on your phone with google maps, BOLT application(taxi) and debit card with contactless payment option. With these things you will never lost and have problems in Poland
@@TravelAddictGuy thanks a lot!
long time! going back to spain? i miss your spain vlogs. where's cat man? whens the big reunion?
@mchu7371 No plans on going back to Spain anytime soon. I do miss it sometimes, thoguh. I have talked to Catman recently. He is still in La Palmilla, Malaga.
8:56 *this is a roast sauce made from lovage, because of this product most Poles confuse lovage with another spice called "Magi", which, however, has a different taste...*
cheaper if you earn in usd
Yes, it is.
Biedronka is owned by the Portuguese group Jerónimo Martins so it is not polish as you said :)
It was polish, but was sold.. For example VOLVO is also isn’t Swedish anymore)) we living in the era of corporations))
@Travel Addict Guy: Plz don't use Nutrition score, specially for comparing different types of food. First of all it does not take into account the degree of processing of products. Second it ignores vitamin, minerals, good/bad fats and omega-3. Nutri score was commissioned by French Food corporations to increase sales of their products. It worked so good that other biggest companies started using nutri-score for their own products. And of course the measuring is only for 100g/per day. If u buy all products for whole day with letter A on a nutri scale and you compare the daily requirement with a dietitian, it will turn out that the product-based diet is very unhealthy. It's quite WELL KNOW FACT in Poland.
BTW. Biedronka "ladybird" its not Polish shop, it's Portuguese with polish name.
That's good advice, thank you.
@@TravelAddictGuy Yes, it hasn't been approved by the EU Commision, so we need to be cautious when using Nutri Score.
love from Canada:)
here we are taxed for everything & our rights & freedom is taken away
we are taxed for being taxed:(
I feel really sad for my Canadian friends. We see what's going on in the news, and it's worse than what's happening in the USA. I hope that things will change for you very soon. 🇨🇦🙏
@@TravelAddictGuy ya, for the better for all people
Cheaper than in Warsaw for some reason
That's good to know.
I now is cheaper
But people in Polen make not to much money
I have money won time per month In US you have chek every week
That's for sure a challenging situation when you get paid once per month. Many people in the USA get paid every 2 weeks and pension checks once per month.
Oglądamy 🙂
Dziekuje bardzo. 🙂
You can also you apps and save a tonn it's very normal these days
I need to do that, good advice.
Jakosc zycia w Polsce w porownaniu do USA przy średnich zarobkach to 2/3 i 75% do Kanady.
Dane ekonomistow.
I think that Poland offers good quality of life.
Carrefour is French, Biedronka(Jeronimo Martins) is Portugeese, Aldi is German.
I thought Biedronka was Polish, they seem to like shopping there.
@@TravelAddictGuy It was at the beginning, but they sold it.
3:00 - "One US dollar for Hamas" - Do you want to get demonetized or banned?🤣
I said $1 for hummus.
Biedronka sells mainly lower quality food, and I personally don't like the taste of many of its products like bread. The dumplings you bought are another good example of what I mean. Lidl is much better in many areas, they also display price tags in a way, that's not problematic (on top shelfs in Biedronka it's common, that the labels are hidden behind products and it makes me irritated 😬).
Greets!
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on Biedronka. I used to shop at Carrefour mostly.
come to Masurian Lake District , is the beatyfull peases place on the world
It sounds beautiful, I'm from Michigan and we also have many lakes.
No it's not an annual income in Poland is 1/5 of the average American annual income. Only if you are visiting Poland it's cheaper, but if you love and work in Poland food is actually more expensive, eith people spending 60% or monthly earnings on food.
That's a fair point, so for Poles these prices would actually be expensive. I was just comparing prices to the USA.
Maybe half the income of the U.S. if not more. Poland = $49,060 (PPP, 2024)
US = $75,257(PPP, 2024). Wow....look at that..
@@user-js9ee2xo1k I don't think that most people earn that much money, especially where I'm from. Plus it's very expensive to live in most USA states.
@@user-js9ee2xo1k I looked up the average salary in Michigan (my home state) . It's $45,720 USD.
60% on food? Are you joking? I would say that most people spend close to 30% of their salary. To me, it is less than 10%, although my salary is quite good. I also eat more expensive options as I cook everything myself, eat a lot of meat, proteins and no processed food.