European reacts to European Girl Visiting WALMART for the FIRST TIME
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- European reacts to European Girl Visiting WALMART for the First Time
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Those shelves look empty to me for a Walmart.
My Walmart is always empty…
eh it depends. The fresh produce section of my local walmart is often half empty, while the rest of the groceries are quite full
depends on day, staffing, and the time. Ours usually bounces between this and fully stocked
😂😂😂 Walmart is chronically understocked on even the most ordinary staples. They drive me freaking nuts I rarely shop there because of that specific issue!
Ummmm...maybe because people are buying things 🤷🏾♀️ Fresh fruits and veggies being main staples to purchase.
Hi from CA, the funniest part for me (as a former Walmart worker) is that they are there the Day before Restocking. The shelves look so empty.
Those shelves are kind of empty compared to what they usually look like. Also most places around the states have farmer's markets on the weekends where you can get farm fresh fruits and veggies. If you want fresh food you can find it very easily.
Come to central Ohio, there's enough corn from local farmers to build a freakin' skyscraper. 😂
Note : Fruits and Vegetables are Irradiated and meats are oxygenated
Wal mart is a trash store with trash customers
@@zibbitybibbitybopRemember when I was a kid, long long ago, we would go pick corn in the farmers field. $1.00 per dozen!!!
@@NicholasEllis-rs3nx Not true. The fruits go through a UV lamp that is seen for disinfecting, commonly done in labs, too. Meat packages have carbon dioxide shot into the package which makes the meat red and more appealing. Meat without that looks brown. Either way, there is no health hazard in either case.
whats crazy is she barely scratched the surface of what WalMart has to offer.
Look what she brought home... packaged noodle soups!
Whoever told you the US doesn't have many fruits and vegetables was lying through their teeth. The Us grows, exports and also consumes a tremendous amount of fruits and vegetables!!
The issue is access in the most densely populated and the poorer areas. The issue isn't supply, it's availability and price
@@ConstantChaos1Small towns have local farmers markets and Walmarts - best of both worlds!
@dingus6317 not really tho, also small towns aren't dense population centers and farmers markets are seasonal and expensive, people need access to produce year round not just every Wednesday for 4 months at 2-5× higher prices. I've lived all across the states in my life as a military brat and while we have a good supply of fresh produce where we have super markets there are towns villages and hamlets where the ONLY place to get groceries in town is the gas station and never have any farmers markets because that requires small farms not industrial farming and the small farm is nearly extinct in America.
@@ConstantChaos1 Oh well I live in Central America in a flyover state in the GreatPlains in a town of around 4,000 and we have small farms all around us! Can buy locally slaughtered meats and fruits and vegetables and even local honey!
@dingus6317 I do too, you are just very lucky my guy and I live that for you but yeah, like I know a small rancher who took their own life because of how large corperations screw them over and I know 2 people who have been sued by Monsanto because of monanto pollin getting on their crops. I wish most small towns were like yours and less like... well like Kahoka MO (where my cousin lives is a real sh*thole with nothing but corrupt officials and incest)
There are almost always 3 cheese sections in American Grocery stores.
- Deli case cheeses in large portions to be sliced.
- Artisan cheeses usually just outside the deli
- Normal cheeses in the dairy section
I love it "normal cheese". Like Kraft Singles , best grilled cheese cheese. But I know what you mean, like blocks of Colby or shredded mozz.
Don't forget the "Mac & Cheese isle" or the Cheese flavored snack isle... We like our cheese!!!
Whole foods market artisian cheese section is amazing
Walmart isn't a "supermarket". It's a big box hypermarket that has a grocery section. Supermarkets sell mostly food, while the grocery section at Walmart is typically only about 1/3 of the store. You can buy all kids of things at Walmart including car tires, TVs, computers, toys, clothes, furniture, housewares, and hardware.
True, although they are the largest food market in Mexico, for example, and stores are packed on weekends. Then we have the huge membership clubs like Costo, Sam;s Club (Walmart owned) and BJ's Club with larger bulk packaging or sizes of both name-brand. private label and generic brands at among the best prices, Quality varies.
Walmart and Target only added groceries about thirty years ago.
Walmart DOES have standalone supermarkets... only food & beer, ask me how I know, we had them in Florida!
🤓 erhm ackshually
@@JustMe-dc6ks It was in 1988, 36 years ago.
I typically just buy non-perishable foods at Walmart. Since I live in a small, rural town most fruits and vegetables are available fresh at the farmers market, and I get fresh meats from the local butcher.
As a European, her visit to Walmart was the most amazing day of her life. To the average American....that was a Tuesday...
The "Great Value" brand is WalMart's generic store brand. It's usually cheaper than major brands but lower quality.
You can tell she’s new to the US because she said Walmart is so nice and she loved it lol give it some time…lol
No kidding! I actually avoid Walmart unless I am close to broke. lol
So where else is there to go that is "so nice?"
@@ghostrecon6788Target is Walmart's main competitor. They carry a lot of the same stuff and have a similar layout to their stores. They're a bit more expensive, but accordingly the products are usually of slightly higher quality.
The main draw of these stores though is that they have such a vast array of products, so you can consolidate a whole day of shopping into one trip, and economies of scale allow them to beat most other retailers on the price of most items.
But unless you're really broke or in a big hurry, I'd recommend going to smaller more specialized stores. Dedicated grocery stores, electronics stores, clothing stores, etc.
The main draw of Walmart is that it's cheap, efficient, and open 24/7.
@@ghostrecon6788 Aldi, Publix, Wegmans, Kroger, ShopRite, etc depends on where you live, most of the "traditional" supermarkets are much nicer than WalMart
@@ghostrecon6788, pretty much anywhere. Walmart is considered low quality in the US.
The main thing about Walmart is that they pop up everywhere and have lower prices, which is how they've killed small mom-and-pop grocery stores across the country.
There's a big produce area with lots of fruits and vegetables in every grocery store.
No,
You shouldn't eat or open the food until after you buy it.
I have seen people do it, but it's really frowned upon.
If you listen close she said they paid and she can't wait to try it
Correct, It's not really acceptable; some do it legitimately and pay for the product but some may not.
Only thing I've ever really don't that to is eaten a grape or two to see if they taste right. Sometimes looks and feel don't cut it and grapes are one of the few things taste without ruining the whole product.
As much as this is frowned upon, I've never seen a Walmart that actually cares if you do this as long as you pay for the items and don't make a mess. Sometimes I'll get a hot snack from the deli counter and just pay for an empty bag on the way out. It's not stealing and none of the employees care enough to say anything. You just have to eat that hot food while it's still hot
@@dudeguy4047 True. in America we are less formal about these things than is typically practiced in Europe i general.NI don't know any of my German friends that would eat in their cars. for example. Few would consider walking while drinking coffee on take away.. None would eat in a movie theatre. Germanic and Nordic countries seem more structured in their cultural norms than Americans, in general, except in queues where it's a free for all. Rudeness must be viewed in social context.
I had to laugh when she kept saying how much selection there was. The shelves were half empty. There should be much more selection in there!
I think what people from outside the US needs to realize is that our country is full of people from every other country with their own set of taste. Our grocery stores need to care for everybody. That's why we have so many different flavors of the same thing.
Good point. We also have many more national brands of the same products, fairly standard packaging and English language labeling compared to Europe taken as a whole. Walmarts are huge stores, generally middle of the road quality and good pricing compared to mainline supermarket chains like Kroger. We do have Aldi with small stores and mostly off or private label products with cheaper pricing and very limited service, and Lidl has big expansion plans but have yet to see them.
@@azielnik I love Aldi's but I don't go there because they don't have all the things I need.
@@adamskeans2515 Where I live Aldi and Walmart are just around the corner from each other so we go to Aldi for low cost and specialty stuff they carry and then go around the corner to walmart for anything we couldn't get at Aldi. Then of course there is Costco for bulk supplies where we occasionally go and get stockpiles of stuff and may not go back for another month or two.
This video you watched really under sells how massive Walmart really is. You don't see the massive wall of cheese, you don't see the nest section which is ridiculously huge, they also have 10 aisles of shoes, an entire section of bedding/ linens/ towels. They have a FURNITURE section (yes you can buy couches, beds, tables, chairs at Walmart) the HARDWARE section (power tools, hand tools, plumbing, ceiling fans, lights, more) the toys section, the outdoors section (tents, camping supplies, fishing rods, knives, and yes guns as well), the automotive area (car parts, oil, tires, accessories, multiple garage bays where people get their oil changed and tires changed) the outdoor garden section (plants, lawn care, lawn mowers, chain saws, hoses, more) and this is at every single Walmart. They are HUGE.
I love it, you're spot on. Every single Walmart. Besides the random green market Walmarts 🤣
Two acres of cheap, Chinese merch.
German POW sent home a picture to his mother and she thought they were beating him but he just gained weight from the amount food they were giving him
There was a WWII POW camp near me. The camp housed younger soldiers who were raised on farms. Local farmers would load prisoners in trucks and have them work in the orchards and do chores around the farm such as feed animals, milk cows, and tame horses. The farmer's wives would feed the prisoners cookies and pie at the end of their work shift before going back to the camp. The farmers would pay the camp for use of prisoners, and they would receive camp-specific credits to buy personal hygiene items.
@@timmooney7528 it really is wild how well we treated Nazi soldiers when you compare it with how we treated Americans with Japanese and other Asian ancestry.
@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3 Not all troops were SS or card carrying nazis. Some were standard Wehrmacht, and forced into the service. The known bad guys and troublemakers were separated from the regular populace, and placed in higher security camps. For the most part, I get the impression for the average POW, the war was over, and working outside the camp was a privilege. The work being given to them was not forced labor, and they were getting compensated for their work. I read the POW's in the logging camps in Michigan's Upper Peninsula were earning up to $80 a day.
@@timmooney7528 you missed the point I was making; it's not a problem that we treated the POWs humanely. The problem is that we stripped U.S. citizens of their civil liberties because they resembled one of our wartime enemies. They were Americans (among immigrants also), and the only "evidence" of their potential to be enemies of the state was their ethnicity. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of POWs from the German military where, as you say, recognized belligerents who followed the rules and didn't openly process ideological alignment with the Nazi regime were given the benefit of the doubt and treated humanely with the opportunity to engage with society and even earn wages.
@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3 That's because the Germans integrated well & Asians are loyal to their communities, not the nation as the whole unlike the integrated Germans - who've been here largely since the 1740s.
There are tiers of products in the US, such that one might get a loaf of "store brand" bread for $1.50, a loaf of "name brand" bread for $2.50, and perhaps a fresh-baked bakery department or other "premium" bread for $4.00. The Vanilla latte drink they got was Starbucks brand and there's not much more premium than that. If there were a similar drink by another name it would cost considerably less than what thye paid for the Starbucks beverage. Cheers for your great videos.
I need to shop where you are! LOL! My name brand bread in the chain grocer down the street is $5.79. I don’t even dream of shopping at a place like Whole Foods.
I like Pete's Coffee
Pretty much every grocery store in the US has a big produce department. Wal-Mart produce is kinda average but they have really good grocery prices. In Texas the popular grocery store is H.E.B. and it has a much better produce department. The prepared meal department at H.E.B. is really good too.
As a virginian, the better main chain is Harris Teeter, but Food Lion is ok. I miss Farm Fresh (they went out of business).
@@hengineer Guessing you're in an area that doesn'tt have Publix or Wegmans?
@esmereldakaffeeklatch8812 nope. Hampton roads. There are other off-chajns, like Trader Joe's or Fresh Market and Aldis. But Food Lion, Harris TEETER and Walmart are the big named Grocery chains.
@@esmereldakaffeeklatch8812 You just named two good stores. When I was in Virginia, the choices were horrible. Harris Tetter was OK, but not as good as Publix. Wegmans is nice, but a bit over priced. The big advantage of Publix is that they don't make you get a Loyalty Card for discount prices. I really hate the stores that run the price up, then bring it back to normal only if you use a card.
In California we have the Savemart/Safeway chain, much better quality than Walmart.
Goldfish crackers are crackers shaped like little fish with smiling faces. They are especially popular with children.
Cheetos are made from cornmeal and cheese. They're shaped something like fat spaetzle. They are crunchy (kind of like a thick slice of expertly toasted bread) and covered with cheese powder and are intensely tasty.
We do have Lidl in the U.S. but it only started to open here a few years ago, and it's in only a few regions.
There are more Trader Joe's but they are not in every town - I think they are only near larger cities. (Trader Joe's started out as U.S. owned chain in California, now owned by Aldi North I think. They are similar to Lidl and Aldi in that they carry their own Trader Joe's brands. They bag your groceries for you, though :) )
As others have mentioned, Walmart carries a lot of groceries but it's not their specialty. If she were to go to an actual grocery store, especialy one with a good delicatessen section, she might find an even better selection of fruits, vegetables, and prepared foods like hummus and potato salad.
Most of our grocery store chains are regional. Some areas also have stores that carry products popular with people from international backgrounds - for example, from South America, Asia, or the Carribbean.
Just in America alone, there are approximately 769,000 beef growers, 24,000 dairies, 67,000 pig farms, 168,000 chicken farms, and 4,500 fish farms. This doesn't include the tens of thousands of vegetable farms and orchards. America produces far more food than it can use and there is no reason whatsoever for food inflation in America or the slightest lack of food. Quit believing the lies, about food shortages are causing higher prices or shortages, because it's not about a lack of food, it's because they are selling too much of it to other countries.
There is no way an animal flu can infect anything but a very small fraction of the food supply, because the American food supply is massive, spread out from coast to coast, and all of these growers are isolated from each other. So, there is very little opportunity for a disease to spread.
My wife and I love Publix by far. Every employee is more than friendly. They have different items every week marked buy one, get one free, otherwise known as BOGO and pronounced just as it is spelled. It's such a handy acronym. They also have buy two, get one free. I just realized there is not an acronym for that. Oh, of course they have a Pharmacy, Bakery, Deli (delicatessen), and Butcher shop at every Publix.
Publix is a great option.. even in gross places like Tennessee lol.
Whats a publix
@@garycamara9955 Grocery chain on the east coast. I used to shop there in TN and it was decent. Kind of like a Kroger/Fred Meyer.
The only problem I have with that European Girl's video is that she does not really show the food she is looking at on the shelves. She also only looked at the food sections. Walmart has other departments or sections like Home goods like furniture, Gardening Center, Electronics Center such as tv and video games, Hardware Area where you can buy tools, Toys Section, and clothing sections for men and women. I understand she ran out of time as she had to leave to go to meet up with some friends later.
If you watch a few of her other videos you'll note she's basing her analysis of life in America while living in an expensive beach resort town in New Jersey. So prices - food, rent, restaurants, etc. are higher than average, selections are smaller, etc. because of where she lives - not to mention she's never traveled America before so it's a very limited viewpoint.
I can give you a rough estimate of what she spent, but note she's not in my area and some brands are different, plus the pricing would be different depending how old the video is.
I am in Oregon and this is what our local Walmart sells these for as of today.
Wheat Bread $1.42
Brownie $1.98
Mini Pecan Pie $0.84
Crunchy Honey Oats Cereal $3.27
Honey Nut O's $1.87
Starbucks Drink $2.97
Milk $2.19
Macaroni Salad $3.82
Potato Salad $3.82
Salad Mix $3.14
Grapes $4.68
Tomatoes $4.48
Bananas $4.16
Cooked Chicken $2.98
Detergent Packs $3.17
Mac N Cheese $3.98
Red Velvet Cookies $3.88
Macadamia Nut Cookies $2.98
Chicken Yakisoba Noodles $1.49 each
So she paid in the $55-$65 range depending on where they are and what year and so on. So in Euro's 50-60. She would also have to pay tax and that depends on the area as well. In Oregon we don't have a Sales Tax so we'd just pay the flat $60 or whatever the final price is.
In California we don’t have a sales tax on food, unless it is prepared, like from a restaurant or hot in a store.
There's no tax on food that is unprepared.
I'm in Texas and we don't have tax on groceries ,either. Just everything else other than food. We have tax on restaurants too.
I wouldn't say its common to open up food packages prior to buying. It does happen sometimes, especially when shopping with kids. Some of those pre-made processed products are common but most american's don't view them as "quality" food, lol. Like the Cheetos Mac n Cheese (the color on that is noticably weird but it does taste good lol). And yea, we are often spoiled for choice when it comes to pre-made foods, even from Grocery Store Bakers.
Stand alone bakeries have better baked goods, by far
Yes, very much so!
Milk is better straight from the dairy.
The bakery stuff and premade deli foods are nasty at Walmart.
Yes, Walmart has a lot of stuff, most of it is not high-end.
and higher prices
I still don’t know how the idea that America doesn’t have fruit and vegetables when our whole country has so many different types of climates and land types. Like you mean to tell me ALL THAT LAND with all the natural variety of nature and we lack in fruit & vegetables?
Especially when 1/3 of the land is dedicated to agriculture.
I think some tourists confuse convenience stores for grocery stores.
Yes, although Walmart's produce quality isn't the highest, the USA also imports huge amounts of produce from South America with the opposite climate such as Chile so off-season iten buys are still widely available. but more costly. Also, we have large refrigerator-freezers in the US, and often buY frozen vegetables picked at their prime and often better than "fresh". You should see the Walmart frozen FOOD FREEZERSVthat take up several aisles!
If you desire higher quality fresh produce, there are several national and regional chains that specialize in this, such as Whole Foods, Fresh Market, etc., but you pay for the higher quality.
One more thing. Because so much variety in fresh produce is available year-round,. Americans have largely lost the "buy in season" instinct. You won;t see us celebrating "spargle season" (fresh white asparagus) as in Germanyfor example. Too bad. Maybe the closest we come are fall and winter flavors like pumpkin spice and Christmas peppermint.
Most Europeans are ignorant about what the US is actually like.
We grow pop tarts and hostess cakes
My favorite is definitely Costco. You have to pay a membership fee, but the discounts are worth it. You usually need to buy larger portions but the per item prices can't be beat. In addition, you also have reduce prices on services like car rentals and such. Costco keeps prices down by ordering by ordering fewer menu items strategically and in bulk. There's a video on how much logistics goes into Walmart's inventories. Also their snack bar is super cheap and you can get a soda and a slice of pizza for about two dollars.
Chris, I think you'd really enjoy a Costco video.
Costco has minimal amount of produce, tho
Goldfish, the snack that smiles back
Yes, they are a small crispy snack cracker, brightly orange cheddar-cheese flavored snack cracker that has been very popular since the mid-1960's .Other introduced flavors are chile-hot, pizza, BBQ, etc. They have a cute imprint of an eye and a smile. Adults love them with along with beer or cocktails.
Beware, in America we don’t have anywhere close to the same food standards. Most of the foods have long ingredients list with ingredients that are banned in Europe.
Yeah, I don’t know what person said we don’t have fresh vegetables and fruits here…we have massive amounts as you’ve seen. Sure smaller stores have a smaller total amount, but they all typically have huge amounts, of most any kind you can think of, that’s reasonable. And each major region of the US typically has minor differences in certain fruits or vegetables that are more common in that area. Plus like others said, most places have their own market areas, and farmers markets where you can buy stuff directly from who grew and harvested it. Also huge bags of things like salad, and fruits. To containers of precut fruit and vegetables that cost more, but are handy at times to just get, of in a hurry, or for like a get together or something, where you don’t want to buy 12 different fruits and clean and cut them up. So whoever said we don’t have that, is crazy, or doesn’t look at anything but junk food and meat. Even our gas stations sell fresh fruits in lots of places, granted it’s like only apple and bananas, oranges. Stuff like that. And really big travel centers, the big gas stations carry even more. Though they are typically more expensive than a grocery store/supermarket.
I think people across the pond don't understand is that most of us only go to the grocery store once a week and get everything for the week then. Some even do just one shop for an entire month. We freeze a lot of things for use later. Many Europeans are used to shopping every day or every other day so you don't need large packages tht will last awhile.
When the closest grocery store is 20 minutes by car, you don't want to have to go there every day for groceries!
Walmart typically has "good" quality fruits and and vegetables rather than "great" quality. I'm from Georgia, USA and I typically get those goods at a grocery store called Kroger. I'd recommend looking into popular grocery chains here in the US, and contemplate making reaction videos of them.
Yeah, that is what I was thinking. We have our own go to places for different things because of quality. I am in Oregon and we try to get as much local during seasons as we can but unlike Georgia our sunshine and warm days are limited so what can grow here is limited too.
Walmart we do frozen stuff, pantry stuff, my husband's addition to Zero calorie sodas.
Local butchery for beef & pork.
Fred Meyers (Kroger's love child) for not in season fruits, veggies, chicken, eggs.
Trader Joes: Spices and freezer stuff
Farmer's Markets for in season stuff
Local Store for cheese, a few specialty items, and other fruits and veggies.
Yep! We have crest here and homeland foods in Oklahoma
Calling Walmart's fresh choices "good" is even being quite kind describing it. At times their quality is downright terrible.
@@OldGeezerstoolbox Yep! I refer to it as the eat it day of because it might not last too long. I find trader joes is like that too.
Walmart sells almost everything. It sells groceries , small appliances, auto services, power tools and much more.
HEB is a true grocery store and are often huge. They are much loved in Texas and people become excited when one is built near them, much like Bucee's.
Never heard of HEB
Ja, Chris, du hast bei 3:51 recht.
Wenn du in den USA bist und bei Walmart einkaufst, besteht das Risiko, dass du dick wirst. Hunderte verschiedene Desserts und Snacks sind günstig.
This right here is why we have an obesity problem in the US. Junk food is cheaper than healthy food. So, guess what lower income families tend to load up on?
@@tiberius1837and the food is chemically designed to be irresistible. I've been 4 weeks on a low cholesterol diet. So glad I listened to my doctor. I can't believe now, how much bad food I ate. It was completely normal. It's food right? How bad can it really be.. pretty bad. Actually very bad.
I lived on box Mac & cheese, hot dogs, burgers, pizza, heavy pasta dinners, fried eggs in tons of butter, ice cream, cakes.
I would really put tons of sugar and cream into my coffee and eat it with a donut for breakfast! Insane. and that wasn't like every once in a while, it was nearly daily.
@@tiberius1837, junk food is rarely cheaper even in the US. It is, however, convenient and takes little preparation time which is great for families that work multiple jobs and don't have much time to cook or need something easy for their kids to consume without burning the house down. It's also common to get some forms of junk food from food banks, so you can't really assume that all of it is bought by the family eating it.
Americans have more problems than that, though.
- For one, we don't understand portion sizes. Most Americans eat too much, which is part of the reason we think healthy food costs too much. I didn't grow up in a family that understood portion sizes. Your portion size was "whatever fills the plate".
- For another, many Americans don't understand the concept of seasonal fruit -- or don't care. We want the fruit we like NOW and not when they're in season and we pay the extra price for it. Fruit is extremely expensive. I wouldn't buy it at all (outside of canned fruits) if it weren't for my girlfriend.
- For yet a third, we Americans do unfortunate things like buying pre-cut broccoli florets that costs significantly more than just buying broccoli. The whole broccoli is edible, tastes the same, and costs way less than buying pre-cut broccoli. Eat the whole thing, not just the florets. Stop peeling your potatoes. That sort of thing. The food waste alone is costing American families GOBS of money all the time.
Onions and garlic grow greens out the top when they get older -- not only is that an indicator that you can grow the plant, but you can just chop up the greens and eat them. It's not a sign to throw the onion/garlic out. I recently plopped some sweet potatoes in some dirt for just that reason.
I've had to stand in my fair share of food bank lines. I work part-time because my girlfriend and her mother are disabled. We've had to learn to scale back hard on costs.
That being said, I also want to soapbox on this:
A ton of food given out at food banks is shit like McTrader's canned food which is inedible and should be considered a human rights violation.
Opening the cans can smell like death and the peas alone are so hard they could be used as BBs.
walmart gets trucks full of inventor 3 day each week. If I remember correctly it's Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. they actually come during the night before so they stuff can be stocked on the shelves for daytime shoppers. so if you go to the store right before they get the trucks and stock, it will appear that the shelves are partially or nearly fully empty.
there is a saying that stores only hold about 3 days of food for shoppers. so if there is an emergency, you have to understand that the food will run out quickly.
Oh! Don't drink out of a bottle until you've paid for it!!!!!!
I would agree but if they scanned it for checkout already, have at it.
Depends, some places are fine with it as long as you pay
Thank you for the temp conversion! Also, thanks to whomever requested for you to do that! 🙃
Don't worry about imperfect grammar, it's cute the way you word things! We watch you bc you're different (from us in the US) You are a beast to live with only a fan! Only two (or 3) generations ago electricity became widely available, so they also had to suffer thru the heat. Hope you get cooler air soon!
I meant to comment this on the heat vid lol😁
Three big tips I suggest for anyone visiting the U.S. and I highly encourage people to at least visit.
1. if you're going to walmart or other large store. expect to spend 3 to 4+ hours in the store to see most of the items. having someone local that can act as a guide will help until you learn the store yourself.
2. connect with someone in the city/town you plan to visit to act as a 'tour guide' to the best food and shopping spots. they can also tell you the 'tourist' spots. they will also help guide you away from any areas that you should avoid, as each city will have areas that are high crime, and the locals know where those are... not to say that you'll always be safe, but much safer if you stay out of those areas.
3. if you plan to visit many States or cities, plan for it to take several months... it would be like if you planed to tour around the entirety of Europe. if you just want to spend a few weeks, just pick ONE State to visit. (maybe two if they are smaller States)
I am lucky here in Chicago we have strip malls with Walmart and Aldi I actually went to Aldi first as a child my mom worked as a German American. Then Walmart when I was older. I love both
My favorite grocery store is my local grocery, it costs a bit more but I prefer smaller stores and it gives them a chance to survive among all of the giants like Wal-Mart, Meijer, Aldi's, Wal-Mart is too big for me and/or I'm too old to walk around such a big store, so I leave all of that to the younger generation!
When thinking about the US, and our “car culture” and the size of everything in our grocery stores… remember that many people in the US may only drive to Walmart (or equivalent grocery store) once every two weeks or even only once per month. For many people, it’s not a daily trip like many folks do in Europe just due to distance.
Favorite grocery store is 'it depends'. For produce I like Randell's/Tom Thumb. H.E.B. has good produce too and is my go to store since it's everywhere. Wal-Mart has the best prices on the big national brands and food in general. I like Kroger for some of their house brands. Favorite grocery store depends on what I'm shopping for.
I’m in Missouri and the only store of the ones you listed that we have is Walmart. It always amazes me how different stores are by region.
Randall's/Tom Thumb is just Albertson's
@@Plasmacore_V Yup, but HEB drove Albertson's out of business in my area. The survivors are Walmart and Randell's. Randell's has about 6 locations and is very expensive while HEB has about 30 locations.
I can guess where you're from 😂😉 I used to work at a Tom Thumb gas station. We didn't have an HEB by us but we had an Albertsons a mile from the Tom Thumb. Kind of funny because they're the same co
@@Katie.JesusIsKing DFW area?
At Wal-Mart, you can get clothes, home furnishings, auto parts, art/school/office supplies, pharmaceutical/personal care items, Sporting goods, pet supplies, toys, shoes, laundry/cleaning supplies and electronics.
Walmart is considered a "hypermarket", so its a grocery store combined with a department store. Target is the other big one in the US.
As for grocery stores, they are usually pretty regional. So in the northeast you'll find Wegmans (my favorite), Tops, Price Chopper, Hannaford, and a few others. But somewhere like southern California, you'll find Sprouts, Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons, and a few others. And that not even including HEB in Texas, Publix around the south, especially Florida
I really love her excitement just going through Walmart. It makes me wonder what the grocery stores look like in Germany.
Who tells you in Germany we don’t have fresh fruits and vegetables?!?! They probably only shopped at a dollar general
I suspect it is more that the average American EATS a lot less fresh fruit and vegetables and cooks with a lot less fresh ingredients on a daily basis.
Usually Walmarts fruits and vegetables sit in warehouses for so long that they are old by the time they hit the shelves.
There is a reaction chanmel called Jolly. They are from Europe and they came tothe US on a couple of different occasions. The came to Texas and tried BBQ and Tje Texas State Fair and went to a Rodeo. They also traveled to Georgia and tried differwnt foods and reasturants there too. But best of all the went to a Texas Truck Stop called BUCKIES. May I suggest you check them out on TH-cam. I watch another reactor from Sweden. He and his wife have also seen some videos from Jolly. I can't wait for the day you can annoumce that you are coming to America for a visit. Thank you for you videos. It gives me a distraction to everything that is going on here. It gives me hope to see others excitement about our way of life here. There is no other place like America in this world. ❤🕊🇺🇸
I enjoy your insight and comments...... Its great to hear your thoughts.
"You don't have a lot of fruits and vegetables"
Just wait until you realize how many of these fruits, veggies, and other farm-fresh products like milk and cheese are produced here.
What, did we import them all? XD
The climates here are so varied we can successfully grow *a lot*.
That being said, I personally would never use Walmart for groceries if I could help it. The one near me doesn't have a lot of quality products.
I am lucky. The Walmart near me has great groceries and very good quality fruits and vegetables.
However, closer to me I have many roadside farmers' stands with daily freshly picked fruits and vegetables. My little grocery store near me has at least a third of the store with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Then of course in the fall there are the apple orchards with cider mills and freshly made apple desserts.
Exactly. I'll buy a few things from Walmart, like name-brand dog food, and frozen dinners, but not the fresh stuff. I've never seen a good pineapple in there. There's a dollar more expensive at Publix, but it's worth it.
@@cherryjuice9946 There are some things that are fine, like bananas, premade salads, and really I do not generally find the quality bad. The prices are sort of high and Publix even worse. I would much rather get produce at Aldi, Lidl or Kroger.
Many Americans think WalMart is gross. So it’s funny seeing people getting excited about it.
6:00 goldfish are a type of cheese cracker cut into the shape of a fish. Sort of like cheezits.
So is it just me or.. does anyone else from the states find it kind of funny that someone visiting here finds it amazing to visit Walmart?...to us its just an average trip the grocery store. My friend.. we are extremely blessed to have what we have and so many tend to forget that.
My favorite grocery store is Kroger. Walmart is not a grocery store, it is a variety store with a grocery section. For that kind of store, I prefer Target over Walmart.
Walmart is so much more than a grocery store. It has electronics, clothing, jewelry, hardware, home furnishings, automotive supplies, cookware, pharmacies, gardening centers and a whole lot more.
Walmart doesn’t have the best fruits and vegetables…. The best food is found at Whole Foods
no, it's found in the Farmer's Market
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Yeah and it used to have tiny bits of pony hooves in it for roughage.
We have lots and lots of fresh fruit and vegetables available here in general. Sometimes families that are poorer, or that don't know as much about nutrition will get kind of stuck going with more processed options though. Out here, you are actually more likely to be overweight if you are lower income. Also, there are places in cities called "food deserts", where there is a lack of access to a variety of healthy foods and they go with what they can get.
It's also that besides being more expensive than highly processed foods, fruit transported from around the world is not going to sit on your shelf or in your refrigerator as long without spoiling, and it also takes effort to properly prepare it for child consumption (you need to wash your fruits and for children under a certain age, you should cut up grapes and blueberries to prevent choking), and fruits are not as easy to toss in a diaper bag or purse or whatever to bring with you to the park or library in case it's going to be your child snack time.
By far, the cost and accessibility is the biggest hurdle, and that, as others have pointed out, fruit at certain stores may look wonderful but still taste awful.
Kroger's supermarkets are really good on the East coast, Whole foods are good for more organic and bulk grains and beans. Aldi's are usually very small.
Proper mac and cheese is just elbow macaroni in a cheese sauce, occasionally with breadcrumbs on top for some reason. It's not entirely cheese or it would turn into something like rubber as soon as it started to cool down. It's a bechamel sauce that you melt cheese into until it gets to the consistency and flavor that you prefer.
The mac and cheese she was looking at has cheese flavored powder in it that you mix with milk and butter. It's not terrible but it is not as good as what you make yourself.
And yet I know way more people who love Kraft mac and cheese more than any homemade or restaurant mac and cheese. Im personally not one but just goes to show you how popular any powder mac and cheese is.
@@jasonnelson6624 Which is counterintuitive, because it shouldn't win nearly so often. But on the one hand, you can't trust the food judgment of anyone under 15 because they're little idiots and on the other hand it's a lot more work to make homemade mac and cheese.
@@themightybuzzard3088 I don't even acknowledge what children like or prefer. But I do imagine there is a connection to what they grew up eating. Just a theory but if they grew up with say Kraft mac and cheese then it's probably a comfort food and familiar. Also I've noticed a lot of people really don't like to try things. Which I really find annoying when someone states they don't like something just to find out they have never even tried it. But they just know they don't like it. I personally dont like Kraft mac and cheese. The Cheetos was ok but of course since its Cheetos it's fluorescent orange so definitely all natural and organic just like mountain dew. 🤣🤣🤣
@@themightybuzzard3088 to your point just look at how popular stuff like pancake mix is? Or salad in a bag and cut fruit. No surprise most people can't cook today. Pretty soon even the pancake mix will be obsolete since they can just put ego waffles in a toaster or microwave.
@@jasonnelson6624 When I find out someone told me they don't like it without ever having tried it, I inform them it IS going in one end or the other but I'll let them pick which one.
I love how excited you are about Walmart. And that video only scratched the surface. The grocery store is only about 1/3 of it. You can get everything there.
As an American, the idea that anyone would be excited about visiting a Walmart seems bizarre. Walmart is a department store for the working class.
Goldfish are a brand of small cracker.
Walmart is not a supermarket. It's a department store, selling all kinds of products. Most of them have food departments, but they are smaller than those of dedicated supermarkets.
Exactly, I don't get why all the "First Time Walmart" videos never leave the grocery portion - that's a relatively small part of a much bigger SuperCenter. Safeway/Krogers are true supermarkets.
Actually walmart also has food stores ... just food and butcher and everything .... there is one where I live ....
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Walmart supercenters (like the one in this video) contain a full grocery market basically attached to a department store. I like Walmart because I can usually find what I am looking for in some variation and prices are reasonable as compared to a Fresh Market that i would need a 2nd mortgage to shop on a continual basis.
The ones I've seen in Canada put a very strong emphasis on the grocery section, say 1/4 to 1/5th of total floor space, visible from the main entrance. This may be regional, though.
Shes literally only in the grocery section😂 There is so much more in the store. Men's, women's, kids clothing, shoes, jewelry, cleaning products, plumbing, camping, fishing, sports, paint, arts and crafts- literally everything imaginable.
I'm SO done with the European remarks "Fat Americans"! We are not all fat. There are fat people in every county!! And I find it insulting to call ANYBODY fat!! We are all individuals and perfect they way we are!!! 🤨 And we have all kinds of fruits and vegetables!!!
While you are correct on both points -- not everyone is fat and everywhere has fat people -- it is also true that the US has the highest percentage of the population that is overweight of any Western/ industrialized nation. According to the World factbook, the US is #13 with 42.7% of the population meeting the "obese" standard. The next highest Western nation is New Zealand at #23 (34.3%). The highest EU country is Spain at #56 with approximately 24%. Germany, where this reactor is from, is #95 with only 19% of the population obese. So, from the point of view of many Europeans, the US is a lot fatter on average than Europeans are.
There is a pretty common grocery chain in the us by the name of “SafeWay” I always buy their French bread because it’s baked fresh daily and they bake more at 4pm (16:00). The bread is also $2.49 for a relatively good amount and comes out at about $0.16/oz (for reference one oz is about 28 grams)
I haven't been in a Safeway store in 52 years, since I lived in Virginia. We don't have any in the deep south. I always liked it above all other chains. I'll never forget how much I loved the Cragmont soft drinks. In my adult life Publix is the best, but after 52 years I don't really have any memories to make an honest comparison.
do you have a post office box, where we could send you some things from America
If he posts a PO box, someone needs to send him Cheetos and Goldfish!
"Subway" is a sandwich shop chain, they often sell franchises to big stores that want a fast food restaurant in the store. Pizza shops and Starbucks are also common inside a department store or grocery store. Costco and Ikea even run their own brand is restaurant inside their stores.
One of the problems Europeans have with American produce (fruits and vegetables) is that they taste bland or are not ripe when they are on display. But our produce is literally criss-crossing the entire country because each area produces foods unique to that area, so produce is picked before it ripens so that it doesn't arrive at its destination spoiled. It's why "farmers' markets" have become popular here, where local farmers sell local produce. And going into supermarkets while abroad is one of my favorite activities. Japanese markets are nothing like British or Italian or Mexican markets. It's fun.
Yes, there is a trade-off. We have many things available year round because they are shipped in but they are often a bit less fresh.
walmarts contain grocery stores, department store, garden center, pharmacy, auto repair shops, sub shop, a bank and an optician office... some have a place to cut hair as well.
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She was so overwhelmed you could tell. Oh look there! Oh look there.
Defectors from the Soviet Union (back in the day) just did not believe that regular supermarkets would carry so much food (fresh and otherwise) thinking, at first, that they were being taken to special, propaganda, supermarkets. The power of capitalism and why it's the best system (even with its faults).
Yep we waste enough food here to feed entire countries
Shop Rite, Stop and Shop, Acme, Lidl, Aldi, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods and lots more... yes we have so many to choose from.
"Cheetos" explanation. What was shown in the video was Cheetos flavored mac and cheese. Cheetos are a very popular snack food here in the US, made from puffed corn bits with cheese flavored powder all over them. Highly processed but delicious. Try not to eat too many.
Macaroni and cheese is made with a bechamel sauce with lots of cheese added and then mixed with elbow macaroni and then usually baked for a while. You can also buy it as a mix (as shown in video), but it's not comparable to homemade.
She is is just to cute😂. She just opened the drink and started drinking😂😂😂
Once Walmart started open stores with groceries around here that was it for mom. She shifted most of her grocery shopping to Walmart. It’s one stop shopping.
Walmart started out as a department store and only expanded to add the grocery section 10 - 12 years ago. So to me, I think of it more as an EVERYTHING store; Tires, Bath Towels, Lightbulbs, TVs, socks... and a grocery store chain secondarily. In fact I still shop at Aldi for about 1/2 my groceries because some stuff is still cheaper there than at Walmart.
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The German Walmart videos are so funny, stuff like 'staff where forced to smile, both staff and customers felt uncomfortable' etc.
As someone from the UK I relate, smiling in shops is a red flag.
Only someone who hasn't had mac n cheese would say "it's just noodles and cheese, right?" It's home. It's comfort and safety. It's mom. It's tradition. It's gosh darn patriotic! 😆
Also! Cheetos are a fried cornmeal snack, covered in a cheese powder! Very popular here, especially amount younger adults and teens. The specific product shown was a cheetos flavoured macaroni and cheese you make in the microwave.
Goldfish are a baked cracker type snack, also cheese flavoured!
We do love our cheesy snacks lol
Your reaction to Goldfish and Cheetos just made me giggle so much haha
Goldfish are just fish shaped cheese flavored crackers. Comes in many flavors and has a logo of “The snack that smiles back”
Most Walmarts, or as I call them Wally Worlds, sell new hardback books, new paperbacks, and electronics.
During the holidays, their lawncare areas inside the store are filled to the brim with holiday decorations for Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, and the Fourth of July.
To be fair, the quality of fruits and vegetables in the US are generally lower than in Europe (or at least lower than here in Portugal), unless you happen to get them in season. And the baked goods and prepared foods at Walmart are really not great, for the most part.
The thing is, Walmart being your supermarket is relatively new for most places. If you just want food to stock you’d go to your shoprites, your piggly wigglys, your krogers. Walmart is for when you want a handful of snacks, new pants and boots for work, a bicycle chain, fishing lures, a coffee pot, batteries, a flat screen tv, and to check if the new limited edition steel book release of your favorite movie trilogy was released yet
No one is going to say how awesome it is to hear him say veggie? “Weggies!” I love it!
I've been that Walmart shopper that had tires put on.
Bought a 12 gauge, shells and waiters for goose hunting.
Got a weeks worth of groceries then got on the road for hunting.
Subway is the subway sandwich store. And what you see is only a small portion of the building. Most of the building has other types of merchandise, including clothing. An actual grocery store (which Walmart is not) is much larger than the Walmart grocery section, and has more food.
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for the price tags in walmart, there is one price that is the actual price of the item. this could be the total price (without taxes) for the container OR it can be the 'price per pound' (typical for meats or veggies/fruits). this is usually in yellow. there is also an orange section of the price tag. this is the 'price per unit' it's how much per piece of the item you're paying, example. it's 12 ozs, but the 'price per unit' tells you what the price per ounce is... that way you can compare items of different sizes or different brands to see if you're getting a better deal.
Payday is a candy bar-shaped core of nougat-like caramel, with a layer of peanuts pressed around the outside. Almond Joy is small pile of shredded coconut with an almond on top, and the whole thing is wrapped in a layer of chocolate.
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As an American, I'm usually lost and overwhelmed at Walmart. My typical store has more food than this Walmart, but less everything else like non-food stuffs.
Went to Walmart for the first time in like 3 years today and I was so emotionally done with the place we left before getting everything on our list. It's just such a terrible store.
A monument to worker exploitation and rampant consumerism.
'Goldfish' are soup crackers. In the past they were plain. As it goes, the food companies added various flavors such as cheese, chocolate, cinnamon, etc. However, the cheese ones are the big seller. It's hard to find even the plain ones anymore.
It's nice to hear someone outside the U.S. say nice things instead of seeing Americans living in other countries slamming the U.S. Thank you!
As far as grocery stores I really love the country stores. In the country stores they got home made canned vegetables. My favorite is the purple cabbage.
The grocery store part of Walmart is just one relatively small portion of the store. They try to have almost everything you could want under one roof, from cellphones to Levi jeans and much more. Going through the whole store shopping can make you weary.
Walmart Super-centers are huge and carry anything from food to electronics, furniture, toys, lawn care equipment, car parts clothing and more. When they move into an area, other stores often close because they can't compete. Sometimes due to price or it could be the simple convenience of everything in one place.
Walmart generally has everything you need. From power tools to food items. Most are relatively cheap most. Yard tools and auto repair and supplies. Audio and clothing. Banks and hair shops. Even tax preparation during the season. Pharmacy and pharmaceutical supplies. Sporting goods toys for children. Like I’ve said almost everything else is there. Footwear and underwear as well as clothing for everyone. Bulk food is available.