I went into this video, seeing the pure shock on your faces and thinking to myself "Our supermarkets arent that special, cmon now. Drop the act" But im glad you gave the insight that you did, my mind was quickly changed. I finished the video feeling very fortunate to live here. Thank you
Hey guys, want to add a few things. Food quality all over the EU is good, part of consumer protection. Cheaper then supermarkets are open air markets, estimate 15 to 20% cheaper then supermarkets for similar products and no prepackage. This goes also all over Europe. Germany is cheaper then Netherlands in general and some things like alcoholic drinks and tobacco a lot cheaper. Belgium, France and Italy are more quality and taste oriented less focused on pure price. Keep in mind in Netherlands housing prices can be extreme, this does effect cost of living a lot of course.
The error in the calculation is because the prices shown are in 500 grams and not in kilo's. They pay 12 reais for a kilo tomatoes. We actually pay 20+ reais for a kilo tomatoes. Also, the average income cannot be compared like you guys do. There are many differences in tax systems, social systems, health and so on. And talking about the European averages is just plain ignorant. Serbia, Poland, Montenegro and Albania have a worse score than Brazil when it comes to the cost of living. When you compare al South American countries you will see that Brazil actually is sub par.
@@mumblic lol the average wage in Brazil is MUCH lower than that..More like 400-500 USD a month.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_countries_by_monthly_average_wage
Thanks for giving us perspective about how privileged we are here in Europe. Even though prices have been rising here as well since 5 years and people have more difficulty buying the same as before. I wish the best for your country!!
We really aren't priviliged, these people are acting, they are actors. They really arent surprised at all. Meat being sold in a supermarket is normal everywhere, even In Chile and countries similar to it.
My wife is Greek, and when family or friends come to stay a few weeks, they love the supermarket. Especially the chocolate Sweets, candies, baked sweets, chips, bread, and pies. Mother-in-law enjoys the ready cut and cleaned vegetables.
You find our supermarket cheap?! We think it's expensive, because the prices in the supermarket are 30 - 40% more expensive than two years ago. But seeing this video and your reaction, it made me realize how luxury the supermarkets are in The Netherlands. You don't realize it. When you are used to it, it's just normal. But also here in The Netherlands, with a low income you can't buy everything you would want.
Also they don't get that those cheap tomato's are grown in greenhouses and taste like nothing;. Better ones are also from greenhouses, but taste way better, but are more expensive (like Eur 3 /500g). The bottom price is a bad metric to compare with.
I am sorry, for beeing soo ignorant! I really thought, living, eating where so much less expensive in Brasil.. I feel ashamed. I did not know you have to pay this much. Thank you for this reaction! An eye opener for all of us...
Kritisch denken wordt hier blijkbaar niet gekweekt. Niet opgevallen dat zij 1 kilo voor 12 reais vergelijken met een halve kilo hier? Wij betalen iets meer dan 20 reais voor een kilo tomaten.
Well, it is not that things are much more expensive in Brazil, most things are definitely more expensive in the Netherlands. But rather that there is much less purchasing power in Brazil when compared to the Netherlands.
@@madjack7777ze heeft het vooral over purchasing power. Oftewel: als zij 1400 in hun valuta verdient, wat kan ze daarmee kopen. En wat kan een Nederlander, die 1400€ verdient, kopen.
As a born and raised Dutch guy I always thought these prices were normal. After having lived in Germany and worked in Luxembourg for 3 years I learned that because the Netherlands is the 2nd largest export country in the world of agricultural products (2nd to the USA.) We are very good at utilizing greenhouses and our soil (being very wet and swampy until we pumped out the water with windmills in polders) is rich in nutrients. A lot of import in the EU comes through the port of Rotterdam. We basically save a lot of import costs that surrounding countries do pay.
It really differs per country, I've visited South Africa last year and on average their stores are better then our Dutch stores. Ofcourse I can't compare prices as the average salary is lower in South Africa.
The Netherlands is switching to visa. But… in this country a credit card is not the norm. We usually do not like to be in debt or pay for paying. A creditcard is usually costlier. We use debitcards and pay directly from our bank accounts. And any debit card that is aligned will be used. Not just ‘dutch’ cards. The lady in the video is wildy misinformed on that front.
She's not, I have a visa debit card, but I also keep a Dutch bank account because although in most supermarkets I can pay just fine with visa, there's still plenty of smaller shops that only take maestro, making the visa card useless.
@@dhgelling that is not what i am saying. Any european bank debit card will work. She is saying that only dutch cards will work. On that area she is not informed.
@@strikeformatik but that's just not the case. Only dutch banks issue debit cards that use maestro, debit cards in other countries all use visa or mastercard. So a debit card from foreign banks do not in fact work in shops that only accept maestro, which still exist in the Netherlands enough to be an issue
I was taking my life in the Netherlands for granted. Seeing this young couple breaks my heart 😢. We complain a lot in The Netherlands, but we are verry blessed. We have affordable, good healthcare and plenty of food. I wish everyone would be so lucky.❤
In my local Albert Hein, there are still cashiers, and a self-scan option. The reason for supermarkets to have self scan options is that it's cheaper for them (they have to hire less personnel). People that choose self scan are randomly selected by the computer for checks to see if you scanned every item in your bag or basket, to prevent theft. It's usually quicker than standing in line for the cashier, but the risk is yours, even if you honestly weren't trying to steal something but accidentally forgot to scan something. (If it's just one small item, they'll usually not immediately assume you were trying to steal, but still, they could do so).
Sure I always go to a cashier, no way self scan. Staying in line means social contact, not only with the cashier, but also with other people waiting in the line. You know social contact is so nice.
@@tomdebruin2512 Unfortunately Albert Heijns (not just the to-go’s) don’t have regular registers at all anymore. They replaced them with self-checkouts that also accept cash.
@@roy_hks Maybe the difference of living in the western part of the Netherlands and the rest .I'm not living in the Western part. In my hometown, always one regular register is available. Even at the AH to-Go.
@@tomdebruin2512 I’m from Groningen, so I doubt it’s a western versus provincial thing. Might be more of a town v. city thing tho, the AH’s in my smaller town and suburbs of Groningen still have regular registers.
Im Dutch and live with my parents and there are still weeks where we don’t have enough food for all of us. The meat and fruits are especially expensive in comparison to the rest for what you actually get. We always look for the discounts just to have enough, I’m not alone since poverty and families just above the poverty line are rising very fast now
Honestly, being poor in the Netherlands pretty much becomes choice, there are plenty of job options that do not require education and pay way above minimum wage. It becomes a matter of preferance and wanting to do a job more than being able to do it.
@@Plat1na and than you get f@cked by the tax authorities or have to pay crazy amounts of money for repairs on your house because of the gas extraction induced earthquakes... there are many other reasons Dutch people can live in poverty. I don't blame you for not understanding, I wish you will not understand it for your entire life 🙂
- 1kg rice ilfor 6 real is 1,13 EUR. When I look online at Albert Heijn the price of 1kg rice is 2,49 EUR. - When I look online 1kg tomatoes is 3,58 EUR wich makes it 18,97 Real - Dont forget the EUR/Real rate. One real is 0,19 EUR at this moment.
Gaat om de verhouding, als je 1400 real verdiend is 6 real duur voor bv rijst. Daarom geven ze ook een voorbeeld met 1:1 vergelijk. Dus als je 1400 eu zou verdienen zou 6eu voor rijst duur zijn....
It's about how you balance it out, the average net salary in the Netherlands is around 2500 euro net a month maybe even more nowadays and this is literally the most expensive supermarket, there are plenty of cheaper options too
Assuming as showed that 1kg tomatoes is being priced BRL 12 in Brasil and about EUR 5 in the Netherlands, prices in the Netherlands are about twice as high (1 EUR = 5 BRL or close atm), but wages are 8x in the Netherlands (Brasil 417 / Netherlands 3200 / maybe wrong, but seems accurate), which makes tomatoes 4x more expensive in Brasil... ouch !
You can't compare the 2 countries like this. In Brasil and the Netherlands the average spend on food is both between 10% and 20% of the income. Tomatoes are low btw/vat and a lot of farms grown them.
@@walterberkouwer1038but he didn’t, he just said that Dutch earn a lot more money than Brazilians, though groceries are more expensive in the Netherlands, it’s still cheaper for us. I’ve been to Brazil multiple times and own homes there, groceries are very cheap for me as I earn in euro, I spent like €150 for a months shopping, where I’d spend that a week in Ireland. Brazil is expensive if you earn a Brazilian salary.
@@jimbomacers Idd if you go with your dutch/Irish salary to brasil you get months groceries for weeks groceries in the Netherlands/ireland. But if you compare a how much a dutch/irish person spends on groceries in the Netherlands/Ireland percentage wise to a person in brasil, they are the same. Some foods are very cheap in the Netherland because there a lot suppliers and the goverment is promoting that food and one of those is tomatos.
I think you go waaay to high, in the Netherlands, your likely to earn 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, ect. Different payment scales, truckers are on 2000 and upwards, teachers 2500/3000, filling those supermarket racks, probably 1500 to 2000 euro's. Want to see horror, house prices, especially the hired house prices and that EU law to hire to what you are earning, not what you actually have the money for. (like a sickness that eats money or something like that, that ain't in the insurance packet of your health insurance)
Median income per house hold is €3600 in the Netherlands. Calculating per person is often giving a muddied view because it's less common for both in one household to work fulltime (35h or more a week) only 52% works fulltime. It's not unlikely to have many households where only one person earns money, and if it's minimum wage (€1800) it can be tight. That doesn't change the fact tomatoes are still expensive in Brazil, of course.
Well to be honest, 12 Reais is EUR2,25 depending on which tomatoes thats about EUR3,50 for a kg. Min wage is about 1900. Rent about half but can be more, Especially around big cities where you would easily pay 1100 for a tiny bedroom only, Then gas and electricity is bout 200 for 2 people. Care is about 200 per person. Internet, TV etc about 70. Salmon about EUR6 Rice 2,25 depending on which rice, per KG. So yeh its not all rainbow and sunshine, but we do have alot of produce, because we are 2nd world exporter for that :D But when I hear you talking, and seeing you so surprised, I'm all the more humble and gratefull I live here. A lot of people tend to go to Germany for food though, because It's cheaper there. Most supermarkets have both a Self checkout AND normal people working behind a cashregister.
I have a new reply strategy in which I search for replies that say exactly what I want to say. Yours is it ! Well put... my only fear now is when they will ever see a Walmart :)
Great video guys ❤👍 This is the shop I got my groceries. For checking out, there are personal to do random checks at customers but also personal to refill boxes when they become empty and for helping finding products.
Never really knowm that our grocery stores are "cheap" cuz for us it is seen as expensive. I work at a Albert Heijn myself for the past 6 years seeing the prices go up and up. And I have a standard salary of about 1800 euros a month whilst being only 21 years old having to work 32 hours a week. This video reminds me how blessed we are the situation we are in over here.
So sorry to hear that it's so hard to buy healthy food over there. I hope the Brazilian government manages to turn things around in the near future. You two are beautiful people and deserve all the best!!! Thanks for taking interest in my tiny country. Edit: About the self-checkout thing. There definitely are a bunch of regular cashiers, the self-checkout is just an additional option. You can choose for yourself whether you want self-checkout or a regular cashier. Whenever you opt for self-checkout there is always personnel keeping watch on the self-checkout isle. You get regular randomized checks when you click the 'pay' button, meaning you have to wait for personnel to come over and check your bag to confirm you've actually scanned everything. Stealing does happen a lot and there are actually debates about completely getting rid of the self-scan option because stores are losing astronomical amounts of money on people stealing stuff. It's a sad situation, I wish people would just pay for their stuff because self-scanning is actually really convenient and way faster than waiting in line for a cashier.
Im sorry that the salary is worse in Brazil, than in the Netherlands. The Albert Heijn is the most expensive supermarket, there are cheaper options, like Vomar, Dirk and german store Lidl, with mostly the same variety
In some stores the gates are man-high. Because when they were lower thiefs jumped over the gates and ran away😂 And the Dutch grow a lot of vegetables themselfs. 2nd agricultural exporter in the world. When you see the stickers with 35% on it, it means 35% discount because date of expiration is coming close. So you can buy products like vegetables, meat, fish, bread and dairy with 35% discount.
It’s crazy to see your reaction, it’s so unfair in the world and it is good that it comes out through your videos. I am very lucky I knew already, but I realized again just yet. Thank you!
@@MarceldeJong you can grow tomatoes and spicy peppers and herbs even on your balcony. In a (very) small garden it’s even easier to grow beans, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots etc. A friend of mine does that for years already.
You both have valid points. I've grown veggies in my windowsill, but growing enough to not have to buy them anymore, is quite difficult in my experience.
@@Judith_Remkes I grow herbs. I found those to be the most expensive. Packaging with way to much and in such a way it spoils easily. And I do not need much room for all the herbs I daily use. Why buy a whole package of mint when I only need a few leaves a week for example.
Hello Dutch person here: When it comes to the self check out and the assumption of no cashiers being there is not entirely true.. as of right now there's only 1 cashier in the store and the other workers at Albert Heijn just stand around and can help you if you need any assistance with the self checkout and will check your groceries to see whether you actually paid or not.. and they will come over to check if you're legal age if you're buying alcohol.. i personally am not a fan of the self checkout because i want a cashier to do it and not do the job for them and i don't want that this country becomes a ''pay with only your Maestro card/bank pass'' country because of my right to my privacy.. the government does not have to know what i spend my money on and how much i spend it on and where i am spending it.. if this country does become a pay only with your card country then i feel that my rights to privacy is being violated
In general all the basics are there in each chain which includes the salads and meal prep kits just less variety and some more special items are only sold in bigger stores of the same chain. We don't consider our groceries cheap because it has become very expensive over the last few years. You can't get a few basket below the 50/60 euros anymore unfortunately. It's really special to see how surprised you are at things that are very mundane for me in my country! Thank you for giving that perspective!
Here in the supermarkets we have indeed still cashiers besides selfscan. I also have a video suggestion about our beautiful themepark Efteling, where we are very proud of😊
thank you for your video and honest reactions. It feels humbling and maybe even a little embarrassing to be reminded that what we in NL take for granted every day, actually isn't. I live in the Netherlands and shop at Albert Hein... I am aware that that is a luxury even in The Netherlands, as not everyone in NL can shop here, or eat that healthy. But on a global scale the difference is even greater. 😔 I think it would be good for us the be more aware and gratefull... your video surely helped. I hope you will have the opportunity one day day to come visit The Netherlands and see it for yourselves. ❤
hi dear people...I come from the Netherlands and even though we have a lot of variety in terms of food, I don't know how to pay half of it here...I have to see how I can make ends meet every month and fortunately I am one who also created a vertical garden and grow my own vegetables in it... every little bit helps, right?! suck fore you guys thats the cost are higher over ther greetings from the south of the Netherlands...
I work at Albert Heijn myself, I find it very important that customers have a lot of options that can help them, I have been working for 12 months and started with an internship. I started working on that a year later and I started around the age of 15 or 16.
The small local supermarket i do my every day shopping has no self scan, only cashiers. But the bigger stores have both. On the self scan there is someone standing supervising several self scan stations. They also do random checks to see if you have scanned everything. Because of the self scan there is a raise in theft, but the savings in full time personel is also a lot. And because the self scan is faster to check out it draws more customers to the store that dont want to wait in line.
This brings back childhood memories. When I was a kid, we traveled a lot for my father’s work and lived in developing countries where getting your groceries basically boiled down to buying what was available and stocking up on that because you could never be certain of how long it’d be available. When we’d go on ‘home leave’ that first trip to the supermarket was WILD. Almost 50 years later, I still have some habits left from those days. Please note that food might be relatively low priced in The Netherlands. Other things are bot. The standard of living is very high but poverty does exist. Not everyone buys sushi, freshly squeezed juice and pre-washed, pre-cut vegetables. But yes,the standard of living in The Netherlands is a lot higher for the average Dutch person compared to the average person in Brazil. I’m so sorry things are so difficult in Brazil and wish they were much, much better. Perhaps interesting to know for some, is that one reason why fruit and vegetables are relatively cheap in a lot of European countries and especially in The Netherlands, is because the Dutch are amazing farmers who actually produce enormous amounts of produce in technologically very advanced circumstances in greenhouses. The European Union subsidises a lot of farming, too. Despite that, farmers are protesting because according to them the portion they earn is very low compared to the profits the supermarkets make.
Hi, I live in the Netherlands. The minimum salary here is between 1900 euros - 2100 euros. The supermarkt prices are are reasonable and Dirk Supermarkt is the mis cheapest but don't forget about electricity and gas price that are very very high. That is the biggest problem here. 😊
I think something to keep in mind for the pricing of a lot of vegetables is; We are the largest producers of bell peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers in the world by a huge margin. So it makes sense that those are cheap here. Melons or mangos on the other hand are very expensive because we cant grow them. We are still privileged though :')
Interesting to see your perspective. My boyfriend is from Spain and I'm Dutch, we live in the Netherlands together. He always complains about the lack of variety here in supermarkets. You should see a Spanish supermarket, there's a lot more variety in the fresh products (vegetables, fruits, fish and meat) and a lot less plastic. I actually don't like how much plastic we use here. Also the ready for consumption packages cause a lot of food waste, they are thrown away a lot by supermarket because the food spoils faster. It's better to buy a complete vegetable. But it really sucks that vegetables are so expensive where you live! About the self checkout: we do have cashiers so you can choose how to pay. At the self checkout they can check your bag and see if you scanned all your items. The number of checks increased a lot because so many things were getting stolen.
They do have one or two cashiers where you may pay with cash. The self-check stations have an employee there for assistance and for random checks whether you scanned all your items; usually they only check five items, not the entire shopping bag. after paying you get a payment slip with a barcode to open the exit gate.
It's very surprising and eye-opening to see all these things I take for granted and find "boring" or even "bad" is like paradise to other people. To think that it's just lucky to be born here seems really unfair.
I want to note a few things as a dutchie myself. About the high alcohol content, supermarkets are allowed to sell it but they need a separate section that's closed off from the rest of the store and customers have to have a store employee with them and they need to purchase the bottle there not at the regular register. Als on the fresh stuff you may have seen 35% stickers, they are put on items whose date is that of the day. This is mandatory I believe to combat the problem of food spillage in the country.
And please please please don't be afraid to try the housebrands of our supermarkets, they are often comparable in taste to the big company equivalent if not better in taste in some cases
I'm from The Netherlands and it kind of makes me a bit sad to see your reaction. Everybody in the world should be able to have this kind of food and being able to afford it... Much love 🙏
1 Euro is around 5,33 Brl, and yes, there are people working there and we have cashiers as wel where they scan your articles, you can pay cash if you want with them, unles it's marked "pin only".
There is usually a mix of cashiers and selfservice in most supermarkets. Some favour cashiers still, and some shops will have a mix at one location and more self service at another. It depends on the location.
We were in Brasil 25 years ago (2nd time) and in those days meat and vegetables were cheap, everything was cheap compared to my country in those days (I mean the Netherlands). Sorry to see it's now the other way around. For us the supermarket shown in the video is not even the cheapest one. By the way, prices are rising here too, but that is nothing compared to Brasil. Hope for you it will get better soon! Saudações da Holanda!
That's true. Everything was cheaper and more accessible. Our salary fail to keep up with price increases. It's great to know that you were in our country, we hope you have good memories. Thanks for watching! Greetings from Brasil!
This is a normal Albert Heijn, we also have Albert Heijn (and other super markets) XL version that is like this but then even more super sized with even more choices. Also the Albert Heijn is considered pretty on the expansive side here. Most if not all supermarkets still have a few cashier lanes, mostly for older people. I am still not sure if I agree with it though because we also waste a lot of food this way. Much thanks for reacting to something else then our bitterballen or stroopwaffels. This is really refreshing to watch.
Be aware please that we have people in Netherlands who can not pay for this food. But they are helped by the supermarkets with food that is not sold. Greetings from Roelof.
yeah dutch food prices in general are very nice but they going up. I made a menu for the week that cost only 38 euros. It contains pizza for 2 days, Tacos for 2 days with fresh salsa salad and a kilo of cheese, and 2 days of schnitzel with fries with cheese home made gravy and veggies.
The reason for low priced and high amount of vegetables (not all with good taste) is mostly because of the greenhouses, the most modern greenhouses in the planet are situated over here. I can definitely recommend watching one of the episodes of reizen Waes where he visits one of the most modern greenhouses in Holland in the Netherlands. Greenhouses take C02 from the air which make the vegetables grow faster and larger and almost everything is automated. The most modern greenhouses can even store all their energy and warmth underground for winter so they use almost none to no energy at all which makes them very cost effective. I really hope some day more countries will be able to have benefits like this, fruits and vegetables are very healthy and in my opinion should be accessible to more people, meat should be a luxury item in all countries even here.
In The Netherlands, we produce more meat than we consume, so we export a lot too. If we would eat all of the meat we produce ourselves, we would eat 1 kg of meat each day... Edit: Also, about the cashier: There are cashiers, but there are also options to self-scan your products. The cashiers will sometimes check if you really scanned everything at the self-scan though...
My dutch mind melts watching their brain melt. I cant wrap my head around their shock about a common European supermarket. And I dont mean that in any negative way what so ever. The things you take for granted as a (western) European..
Their emotions are fake as ...t, don't you see it ? The whole purpose of this video is to get youtube views and comments from Dutch people "explaining them the reality".
A lot of our supermarkets in ireland and uk have fresh bakeries in them, a butchers and often a pizza counter and a fishmonger and believe it or not in the uk especially the prices are even lower than this. For example i can get a pack of apples for 79p a bag of potatos for £1 a sirloin steak for £4 etc. We even have stores like home bargains, poundland lidle/aldi (which is german) that have even lower prices.
You do need to compare it right though. 1reais is like 0,20euro cents. This means 1 euro is 5reais. If you then say 1kg of rice is 6reais, its 1,20 euro which we consider cheap. The hardest thing to compare then are the average incomes in the Netherlands compared too incomes in Brazil.
It's amazing how in 15 years things have changed in Brazil, Then things were much cheaper than in the Netherlands so a pal of mine went for several months to Brazil sometimes 2x a year. Here's a thought for you Albert Heijn is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the Netherlands and Belgium
we earn 2000+- as minimum in the country. most people earn between 2100-2800 monthly and this is per person we do have casheers here but you can pick between the normal lanes or scanning the products. sometimes the one is faster then the other. Also there is security in some stores. if you have any questions let me know ill be happy to awnser them! :D cool video guys :) Thumbs up for you two and keep it up!
I think y'all forgot about the conversion with the prices. Like with the meal kits around 4:30, you thought that they were cheap cause they're about 5 bucks, and that it would be like 10 to 12 bucks there. But 5 Euro means 26 Brazilian Real. That's expensive here too.
Like 1 kg of white rice costs 2 euro so about 10.50 BRL, but you guys pay 6 BRL. Purchasing power is definitely better in the Netherlands, just wanted to point out that conversion gives better context :)
12 Brazilian Real = 2,26 Euro (two Euro and 26 cents) ... conversion rate of valentinesday 14-2-2024 1,99 Euro = 10,56 Brazil Real 1 Euro = 5,31 Brazil Real So your tomatoes are not 12 Euro!!! 😅 Oh, and 1kg of white rice is 1,99 Euro. So 10,56 Brazil Real instead of your 6 Brazil Real. That is almost TWICE as expensive as in Brazil! 😅 Frozen Salmon Filet with 2 slices totalling 250gr costs 4,99 Euro or 26,47 Brazil Real. The Albert Heijen does not sell whole salmons like yours for 100 Brazil Real. Also I am very proud of our Dutch farmers. They can grow almost everything here. So well and so much too that our tint and I repeat TINY country with almost 18 million inhabitants is 2nd largest exporter of agricultural produce in the entire world after the USA. As they say..."no farmers, no food". Help your farmer and he will feed you well. Also buy from the farmers directly as wholesale and retail make it more expensive. 😉
In the AH and every other supermarket there are cashiers. Most supermarkets have a separated part with self service counters. controlled by one employee that has to do random checks on the bought items when the register demands this. These self service counters are only ment to be for people that only have a few up to 15 groceries, Anything more has to be done at a normal cashier.
As yhe nethrrlands are the 2nd large producers of vegetables dutch citizens have acces to a great variety at affordable prices in every supermarket in the country
The Netherlands is NOT the 2nd largest producer of vegetables, it's the 2nd largest EXPORTER of agricultural goods. This is because a lot of stuff gets imported into the harbour of Rotterdam and sold to other countries. This counts as export, but is not produced by the Netherlands. Relatively the Netherlands does produce a lot of goods, especially flowers, dairy products, eggs and meat, and about 70% of goods produced are exported as well, but the amounts produced are not comparable to countries like US, China, India and Russia.
The Dutch cities have regular outdoor markets as well where you can buy vegetables and other foods for much cheaper. And Albert Heijn is one of the more "premium" supermarkets
We do have supermarket personell but they check if you paid everything with random checkings, it depends on the products you buy with more expensive products its more likely that you will be checked.
17:35 In each supermarket there is always (at least) one cashier. It is often used by elderly people who do the old ways, I guess like in your country. Aldi is one of the few who still use cashier. Many others use this system of self scanning. That being said, there are always 1 or 2 (sort of cashiers) watching cameras to check/control you, but don't do much more then looking or helping a client. Every now and then a red light appears on your personal cashier, like a big alarm light, meaning, you cannot pay and must wait for a cashier who then checks your bags if you paid for each. If you get caught you get on a black list. I heard that if you get caught something unscanned to often, and you can never pay for any of that super market branche. So always pay.. The good thing with self scan is that there way more say double or triple the amount of people who can pay. So queues are non existent (except for Aldi). For supermarkets it means you need to hire fewer people.
Dutch food prices have gone up a lot but of course we can't compare to giant inflation in places like Brazil and Venezuela. But also we grow a ton of food here, peppers will be grown in glass houses mere hours away from supermarkets like this and we export a great deal. Glass houses help reduce the need for water and pesticides, often they can employ natural things like bugs that kill pests and because the weather isn't much of an issue yield is very consistant.
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If you visit The Netherlands, dont stay in Amsterdam as a tourist, dont buy anything there unless you need to :P The place is easily reachable by public transport or a car if you have the means. The prices there are just that much higher than outside of the place. Its not as cheap as it looks :P Glad you liked the diversity in the shelves! We have the option of paying at registeres or self checkout at some places, prone to stealing though, so pretty well monitored, even have a supermarket that uses colored baskets for singles for example, or places that have special opening times for elderly.
Supermarkets in the Netherlands are getting more and more self-scanning capabilities. There are still ordinary cash registers with an employee who scans and signs off the groceries. But those are fewer these days. If you go to the self-scan checkout, there is an employee. She watches for theft. There are bag checks, but you don't always get those. That's done automatically at random. But, if employees in the store see that something is not being scanned, they may call you on it. There is security walking around the store, they may pull you over. The prices in the Netherlands have risen considerably in recent years, it is no longer affordable for the common people. The Albert Heijn supermarket is even one of the more expensive stores. We pay a lot in rent and mortgages of houses, water, gas and electricity is also a lot of money, the insurances are expensive, so all in all, the salaries go up but you are still left with little to live on because the prices in stores also go up. Healthy food is almost impossible to afford. I am amazed at how expensive life is with you. So actually we can't complain. This gives me new insights and more respect for you.
A diferença nos preços depende na origem dos produtos. Por exemplo, a Holanda produiz muito legume (tem casas de vidro de kilometres de largura). Outros produtos estão importados do Brasil, por exemplo os produtos tropicais. Eu oberservi que os legumes da Europa têm melhor sabor que os memos no Brasil - os tomatoes são bom exemplo disso. Boa viagem.
I mean, that particular supermarket IS very big though. It's an overabundance of products, probably because of many visitors. The average supermarket in the country doesn't have that much as shown here, usually half of everything. But I of course understand we're still very lucky. I noticed you mentioned how "everything is ready for consumption", and that is spot on for Dutch people. They love the convenience. Many of us are prepared to pay more if it makes our lives easier. But not too much, of course. In most cases we try to do it ourselves first, then fail, get annoyed and decide to let others do it lol. That's very Dutch. I appreciate your views. I know I am very lucky. But your point about being able to make healthy choices is a big deal. It makes me sad too. Wishing a lot of health to both of you. You two are so nice.
About the self-scan cash register, there was some research done recently by a dutch news media company (on dutch population) and they confirmed that while people do steal it's hardly of noteworthy impact, it's pretty much comparable to how often people steal with actual cash registers and cashiers involved, and just like how they dealt with that in the past, the supermarkets simply raise the prices of their produce a bit to account for this. It's not like half the customers are stealing entire bags of groceries, maybe 5% of customers may occasionally not scan an item or two, similar to how maybe 5% of customers would occasionally slip one or two things in their pockets in the past, but the supermarkets can just cope with that loss, especially considering these are massive supermarket chains that easily turn over several hundred million euros in profit each year, they're really not all that worried about some small percentage loss, sure they have posters that police will get involved etc but realistically they don't care enough to actually fight it any more than they already do. Finally it needs to be said that all these self-scan cash registers are extremely well built to _actually detect theft,_ through several different approaches (scales, cameras, etc) but most of the time when it goes beep beep it's such a minor weight difference or low rating by the system that the staff just look your direction and press a button for you to continue, they don't even bother checking most of the time since they're not losing any salary over it either. All supermarkets still have traditional cash registers with cashiers too, i feel like it's required by law or something, maybe for people in wheelchairs/mobility scooters or something? but most supermarkets have been changed in the last few years where 80% is now self-scan & the manned cash register is closed 90% of the time.
Most people earn around 2500-3000 euro ( netto ), but that is for one person, their wifes are mostly working too, but not 40 houres, mostly around 20 houres. So a husband and wife earns together around 3000 - 4000 euro netto. But we pay alot for our energy bill and for our house ( loan or rent ) Renting a house is around 800 - 1500 euro per month.
they dont only have salad prepped meals but for olmost every thing like i like to cook styrfry and i have like 6 different options and its all cut and fresh its vey good if you live alone and still want to cook so you dont have food for 7 days but just for 2 days
The Netherlands is a huge food producer, partially because of our great river delta soil. Ontop of that, we have the largest port in europe, which lies in the center of the north european trade network. This gives us plenty of acces to food.
I want to add some context to this video. My girlfriend has lived in Brazil for 13 years, and a good portion of her family still does to this day. And while many groceries seem cheap here compared to in Brazil. We also pay way more taxes, and mandatory insurances. Healthcare is 125 euros in the cheaper range, that would be 600 reais, and it is MANDATORY! As someone who has been to Brazil and who's Girlfriend has lived there for a long time. I would say, YES, it is cheaper, but not mind blowingly cheaper to live in the Netherlands.
Haha. The prices are even HIGH in the Netherlands. And normal income is not 1400 euro, it's around 3800 euro (before taxes). Taxes are extremely high, so when you get 3800 euro's per month, you will get around 2750 on your bank account. Renting a house costs somewhere between 1000 and 1500 euro for a (small) apartment. And health insurance is, the cheapest one, around 130 euro each month. Per person. Maybe that's why you see low prices in the supermarkets, but it's for Dutch people very high.
shopping @ a supermarket in the Netherlands cost you about€175 euro a week for a familie of 4, depends if you shop on a budget. if you go loopie you can easely spend mutch more.
Great video. Here are some of the actual AH prices: 3 bell peppers 1,99 euro 1kg tomatoes 3,58 euro Rice 1,26 euro per kilo (bag 4,5 kg) Frozen salmon filet 13,56 per kilo (is probably the same as the "fresh' defrosted salmon) Smoked salmon is 48,90 per kilo Semi fat milk 0,93 per liter (bottle of 2 liter) Coca-cola 1,73 per liter AH brand cola 0,78 per liter Btw 1857 euro is the net minimum wage in NL. Many people in NL struggle as well, and can't afford many of the luxury food items shown in the video.
to be fair, we also think the presliced fruits are expensive. Then again, Albert Heijn is our most expensive supermarket over the board. Vegetables, meat, fruit and nuts are still bought on weekly markets by a lot of people.
keep in mind the netherlands is small and dense populated and still the second largest exporter of agiculture products in the world. so fruit and vedges tend to be cheap so is food distibution cheap in a small country. Albert Hein is the most fancy supermaket chain and the more expencive due the larger choice. we spend less and less on food but the rest housing energy and so on is verry expencive.
Just on a side note, our cards here in Luxembourg do "Maestro" by default. Yea much talking to others here in the channel and maybe a bit to much but the comments helps a channel.
There are cashiers in the store but they have reduced cashiers in the last few years and replaced them with "self checkout". Its a mixture of both at the moment. And yes people do steal. You can be randomly checked by an employee to see if you have scanned everything properly.
the Netherlands are the second largest exporters of food in the world. so no surprise the have all this food for those prices. it is a shame that food is so expensive in your country.
Wow ! I really didn't know it was that expensive in Brazil compared to what you earn ! Actually a bit shocking ! Here in Luxembourg, the minimum wage is over 2000€
You don’t want to know how much of all that ends up in the garbage container outside the supermarket. Aside of what we, the costumers, throw away after buying it. I think 40% gets waisted in total.
Love your reaction (although I wish you better times for the future). The Dutch like to complain a lot. That's our national pass time. We tend to forget how good we have it here. Good luck to you 👍
I went into this video, seeing the pure shock on your faces and thinking to myself "Our supermarkets arent that special, cmon now. Drop the act"
But im glad you gave the insight that you did, my mind was quickly changed.
I finished the video feeling very fortunate to live here. Thank you
I feel the same way!
jij nederlands?
@@stephandagelet5545 ik nederlands
You understand their reactions are fake, right?
@MerelvanHouten the reactions may be absurd, too much.. but definitely not fake
Hey guys, want to add a few things. Food quality all over the EU is good, part of consumer protection.
Cheaper then supermarkets are open air markets, estimate 15 to 20% cheaper then supermarkets for similar products and no prepackage. This goes also all over Europe.
Germany is cheaper then Netherlands in general and some things like alcoholic drinks and tobacco a lot cheaper.
Belgium, France and Italy are more quality and taste oriented less focused on pure price.
Keep in mind in Netherlands housing prices can be extreme, this does effect cost of living a lot of course.
Be aware that the brasilian reais -Euro conversion is roughly about 5:1, so 1 Euro is about 5 reais, not 1:1 as you seem to expect
But the typical monthly wage also is 5 times higher in Europe, so it cancels when comparing how much you have to spend.
@@HenryLoenwind The average wage in Europe is NOT 5 times more (not even double)
Brasil avg wage: 1600 euro
Nl avg wage: 2800 euro
The error in the calculation is because the prices shown are in 500 grams and not in kilo's. They pay 12 reais for a kilo tomatoes. We actually pay 20+ reais for a kilo tomatoes.
Also, the average income cannot be compared like you guys do. There are many differences in tax systems, social systems, health and so on. And talking about the European averages is just plain ignorant. Serbia, Poland, Montenegro and Albania have a worse score than Brazil when it comes to the cost of living. When you compare al South American countries you will see that Brazil actually is sub par.
@mumblic our salary is 264 euros (1412 reais)
@@mumblic lol the average wage in Brazil is MUCH lower than that..More like 400-500 USD a month.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_countries_by_monthly_average_wage
Thanks for giving us perspective about how privileged we are here in Europe. Even though prices have been rising here as well since 5 years and people have more difficulty buying the same as before. I wish the best for your country!!
It's got nothing to do with priviledge, alot of 3rd world countries are being controled and used for profit. That's not your privilege.
F off with privileged. The middle class in the Netherlands has problems with paying their bill and food is also expensive for them.
We really aren't priviliged, these people are acting, they are actors. They really arent surprised at all. Meat being sold in a supermarket is normal everywhere, even In Chile and countries similar to it.
were not priviledged at all
go to south africa and find out europe is dead
My wife is Greek, and when family or friends come to stay a few weeks, they love the supermarket. Especially the chocolate Sweets, candies, baked sweets, chips, bread, and pies. Mother-in-law enjoys the ready cut and cleaned vegetables.
We can imagine. We haven't even visited the Netherlands yet and we already love the supermarket. Peace and love from Brasil 🥰
You find our supermarket cheap?! We think it's expensive, because the prices in the supermarket are 30 - 40% more expensive than two years ago. But seeing this video and your reaction, it made me realize how luxury the supermarkets are in The Netherlands. You don't realize it. When you are used to it, it's just normal. But also here in The Netherlands, with a low income you can't buy everything you would want.
it's cheap relatively to the salary , average salary in Brazil is 260€
Also they don't get that those cheap tomato's are grown in greenhouses and taste like nothing;. Better ones are also from greenhouses, but taste way better, but are more expensive (like Eur 3 /500g). The bottom price is a bad metric to compare with.
I am sorry, for beeing soo ignorant! I really thought, living, eating where so much less expensive in Brasil..
I feel ashamed. I did not know you have to pay this much.
Thank you for this reaction! An eye opener for all of us...
meeste word hier gekweekt he
Kritisch denken wordt hier blijkbaar niet gekweekt. Niet opgevallen dat zij 1 kilo voor 12 reais vergelijken met een halve kilo hier? Wij betalen iets meer dan 20 reais voor een kilo tomaten.
So we(europeans) pay the double. @@madjack7777 Did you take the average, brasilian incomst into your mind?
Sry, i wont be rude or condescending!
Well, it is not that things are much more expensive in Brazil, most things are definitely more expensive in the Netherlands. But rather that there is much less purchasing power in Brazil when compared to the Netherlands.
@@madjack7777ze heeft het vooral over purchasing power. Oftewel: als zij 1400 in hun valuta verdient, wat kan ze daarmee kopen. En wat kan een Nederlander, die 1400€ verdient, kopen.
As a born and raised Dutch guy I always thought these prices were normal. After having lived in Germany and worked in Luxembourg for 3 years I learned that because the Netherlands is the 2nd largest export country in the world of agricultural products (2nd to the USA.) We are very good at utilizing greenhouses and our soil (being very wet and swampy until we pumped out the water with windmills in polders) is rich in nutrients. A lot of import in the EU comes through the port of Rotterdam. We basically save a lot of import costs that surrounding countries do pay.
sorry to hear things are more expensive in Brasil. It should be the other way around. love your video's. greetings from Rotterdam , The Netherlands
Yeeee rdam
Waarom moet alles duurder in Nederland en niet in Brazilië ? Raar ventje ben jij .
It really differs per country, I've visited South Africa last year and on average their stores are better then our Dutch stores. Ofcourse I can't compare prices as the average salary is lower in South Africa.
@maxdehaas6776 sorry max mag ik je iets vragen wat hier helemaal niet op aan sluit??
Thank you for your empathy, we hope that one day the situation will improve. ❤️
Very informative, i'm sorry to hear it's so hard to provide for yourselves in Brazil, hopefully things will get better ✌🏾
The Netherlands is switching to visa. But… in this country a credit card is not the norm. We usually do not like to be in debt or pay for paying. A creditcard is usually costlier. We use debitcards and pay directly from our bank accounts. And any debit card that is aligned will be used. Not just ‘dutch’ cards. The lady in the video is wildy misinformed on that front.
She's not, I have a visa debit card, but I also keep a Dutch bank account because although in most supermarkets I can pay just fine with visa, there's still plenty of smaller shops that only take maestro, making the visa card useless.
@@dhgelling that is not what i am saying. Any european bank debit card will work. She is saying that only dutch cards will work. On that area she is not informed.
@@strikeformatik but that's just not the case. Only dutch banks issue debit cards that use maestro, debit cards in other countries all use visa or mastercard. So a debit card from foreign banks do not in fact work in shops that only accept maestro, which still exist in the Netherlands enough to be an issue
@@dhgelling maestro is being phased out for the visa debit system.
@@Thunder1976NL yeah I know, hopefully in a few years this won't be an issue anymore
Although we have a very very small country, we are the second largest agricultural food exporter in the world.
I was taking my life in the Netherlands for granted. Seeing this young couple breaks my heart 😢. We complain a lot in The Netherlands, but we are verry blessed. We have affordable, good healthcare and plenty of food. I wish everyone would be so lucky.❤
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People should travel a lot more, experience different cultures. It humbles the mind and creates more social awareness
In my local Albert Hein, there are still cashiers, and a self-scan option. The reason for supermarkets to have self scan options is that it's cheaper for them (they have to hire less personnel). People that choose self scan are randomly selected by the computer for checks to see if you scanned every item in your bag or basket, to prevent theft. It's usually quicker than standing in line for the cashier, but the risk is yours, even if you honestly weren't trying to steal something but accidentally forgot to scan something. (If it's just one small item, they'll usually not immediately assume you were trying to steal, but still, they could do so).
Sure I always go to a cashier, no way self scan. Staying in line means social contact, not only with the cashier, but also with other people waiting in the line. You know social contact is so nice.
@@tomdebruin2512 Unfortunately Albert Heijns (not just the to-go’s) don’t have regular registers at all anymore. They replaced them with self-checkouts that also accept cash.
@@roy_hks Maybe the difference of living in the western part of the Netherlands and the rest .I'm not living in the Western part. In my hometown, always one regular register is available. Even at the AH to-Go.
@@tomdebruin2512 I’m from Groningen, so I doubt it’s a western versus provincial thing. Might be more of a town v. city thing tho, the AH’s in my smaller town and suburbs of Groningen still have regular registers.
Im Dutch and live with my parents and there are still weeks where we don’t have enough food for all of us. The meat and fruits are especially expensive in comparison to the rest for what you actually get. We always look for the discounts just to have enough, I’m not alone since poverty and families just above the poverty line are rising very fast now
Your parents made the wrong life choices, lol.
You could make a " react to" video to about this. Lots of people don't seem to understand those groceries are not affordable for all Dutch people.
@@regntonneWhat a cruel and dumb comment, have some compassion!
Honestly, being poor in the Netherlands pretty much becomes choice, there are plenty of job options that do not require education and pay way above minimum wage. It becomes a matter of preferance and wanting to do a job more than being able to do it.
@@Plat1na and than you get f@cked by the tax authorities or have to pay crazy amounts of money for repairs on your house because of the gas extraction induced earthquakes... there are many other reasons Dutch people can live in poverty. I don't blame you for not understanding, I wish you will not understand it for your entire life 🙂
- 1kg rice ilfor 6 real is 1,13 EUR. When I look online at Albert Heijn the price of 1kg rice is 2,49 EUR.
- When I look online 1kg tomatoes is 3,58 EUR wich makes it 18,97 Real
- Dont forget the EUR/Real rate. One real is 0,19 EUR at this moment.
Sure, but they would still have to earn 10.000 real per month for it being the same percentage of their income.
Ha, you noticed too... guess because you are an investor. #MeToo. And prices matter, also knowing why the prices differ matter.
Gaat om de verhouding, als je 1400 real verdiend is 6 real duur voor bv rijst. Daarom geven ze ook een voorbeeld met 1:1 vergelijk. Dus als je 1400 eu zou verdienen zou 6eu voor rijst duur zijn....
It's about how you balance it out, the average net salary in the Netherlands is around 2500 euro net a month maybe even more nowadays and this is literally the most expensive supermarket, there are plenty of cheaper options too
They earn 1400 BRL per month. Average salary here is 2800 EUR, that would be about 16.500 BRL. That's the difference.
Thank you both, your video was really humbling and I will be thinking of your struggles next time I do my groceries shopping 🤗
Assuming as showed that 1kg tomatoes is being priced BRL 12 in Brasil and about EUR 5 in the Netherlands, prices in the Netherlands are about twice as high (1 EUR = 5 BRL or close atm), but wages are 8x in the Netherlands (Brasil 417 / Netherlands 3200 / maybe wrong, but seems accurate), which makes tomatoes 4x more expensive in Brasil... ouch !
You can't compare the 2 countries like this. In Brasil and the Netherlands the average spend on food is both between 10% and 20% of the income. Tomatoes are low btw/vat and a lot of farms grown them.
@@walterberkouwer1038but he didn’t, he just said that Dutch earn a lot more money than Brazilians, though groceries are more expensive in the Netherlands, it’s still cheaper for us. I’ve been to Brazil multiple times and own homes there, groceries are very cheap for me as I earn in euro, I spent like €150 for a months shopping, where I’d spend that a week in Ireland. Brazil is expensive if you earn a Brazilian salary.
@@jimbomacers Idd if you go with your dutch/Irish salary to brasil you get months groceries for weeks groceries in the Netherlands/ireland. But if you compare a how much a dutch/irish person spends on groceries in the Netherlands/Ireland percentage wise to a person in brasil, they are the same. Some foods are very cheap in the Netherland because there a lot suppliers and the goverment is promoting that food and one of those is tomatos.
I think you go waaay to high, in the Netherlands, your likely to earn 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, ect.
Different payment scales, truckers are on 2000 and upwards, teachers 2500/3000, filling those supermarket racks, probably 1500 to 2000 euro's.
Want to see horror, house prices, especially the hired house prices and that EU law to hire to what you are earning, not what you actually have the money for. (like a sickness that eats money or something like that, that ain't in the insurance packet of your health insurance)
Median income per house hold is €3600 in the Netherlands. Calculating per person is often giving a muddied view because it's less common for both in one household to work fulltime (35h or more a week) only 52% works fulltime. It's not unlikely to have many households where only one person earns money, and if it's minimum wage (€1800) it can be tight. That doesn't change the fact tomatoes are still expensive in Brazil, of course.
Well to be honest, 12 Reais is EUR2,25 depending on which tomatoes thats about EUR3,50 for a kg. Min wage is about 1900. Rent about half but can be more, Especially around big cities where you would easily pay 1100 for a tiny bedroom only, Then gas and electricity is bout 200 for 2 people. Care is about 200 per person. Internet, TV etc about 70. Salmon about EUR6 Rice 2,25 depending on which rice, per KG. So yeh its not all rainbow and sunshine, but we do have alot of produce, because we are 2nd world exporter for that :D
But when I hear you talking, and seeing you so surprised, I'm all the more humble and gratefull I live here. A lot of people tend to go to Germany for food though, because It's cheaper there.
Most supermarkets have both a Self checkout AND normal people working behind a cashregister.
I have a new reply strategy in which I search for replies that say exactly what I want to say. Yours is it ! Well put... my only fear now is when they will ever see a Walmart :)
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Great video guys ❤👍 This is the shop I got my groceries. For checking out, there are personal to do random checks at customers but also personal to refill boxes when they become empty and for helping finding products.
Never really knowm that our grocery stores are "cheap" cuz for us it is seen as expensive. I work at a Albert Heijn myself for the past 6 years seeing the prices go up and up. And I have a standard salary of about 1800 euros a month whilst being only 21 years old having to work 32 hours a week. This video reminds me how blessed we are the situation we are in over here.
So sorry to hear that it's so hard to buy healthy food over there. I hope the Brazilian government manages to turn things around in the near future. You two are beautiful people and deserve all the best!!! Thanks for taking interest in my tiny country.
Edit: About the self-checkout thing. There definitely are a bunch of regular cashiers, the self-checkout is just an additional option. You can choose for yourself whether you want self-checkout or a regular cashier. Whenever you opt for self-checkout there is always personnel keeping watch on the self-checkout isle. You get regular randomized checks when you click the 'pay' button, meaning you have to wait for personnel to come over and check your bag to confirm you've actually scanned everything. Stealing does happen a lot and there are actually debates about completely getting rid of the self-scan option because stores are losing astronomical amounts of money on people stealing stuff. It's a sad situation, I wish people would just pay for their stuff because self-scanning is actually really convenient and way faster than waiting in line for a cashier.
Im sorry that the salary is worse in Brazil, than in the Netherlands. The Albert Heijn is the most expensive supermarket, there are cheaper options, like Vomar, Dirk and german store Lidl, with mostly the same variety
The Deen is the most expensive supermarket.
@@Siranoxz No, Deen is gone since 2021. Most stores are now Albert Heyn, Deka and Vomar
In some stores the gates are man-high. Because when they were lower thiefs jumped over the gates and ran away😂
And the Dutch grow a lot of vegetables themselfs. 2nd agricultural exporter in the world.
When you see the stickers with 35% on it, it means 35% discount because date of expiration is coming close. So you can buy products like vegetables, meat, fish, bread and dairy with 35% discount.
It’s crazy to see your reaction, it’s so unfair in the world and it is good that it comes out through your videos. I am very lucky I knew already, but I realized again just yet. Thank you!
Have you tried growing your own vegetables from seeds?
You can also use the seeds in tomatoes.
You do need time and space and good soil to grow your own veggies.
@@MarceldeJong you can grow tomatoes and spicy peppers and herbs even on your balcony. In a (very) small garden it’s even easier to grow beans, tomatoes, cabbages, carrots etc. A friend of mine does that for years already.
You both have valid points. I've grown veggies in my windowsill, but growing enough to not have to buy them anymore, is quite difficult in my experience.
@@Judith_Remkes still you’re saving money this way.
@@Judith_Remkes I grow herbs. I found those to be the most expensive. Packaging with way to much and in such a way it spoils easily. And I do not need much room for all the herbs I daily use. Why buy a whole package of mint when I only need a few leaves a week for example.
Hello Dutch person here: When it comes to the self check out and the assumption of no cashiers being there is not entirely true.. as of right now there's only 1 cashier in the store and the other workers at Albert Heijn just stand around and can help you if you need any assistance with the self checkout and will check your groceries to see whether you actually paid or not.. and they will come over to check if you're legal age if you're buying alcohol.. i personally am not a fan of the self checkout because i want a cashier to do it and not do the job for them and i don't want that this country becomes a ''pay with only your Maestro card/bank pass'' country because of my right to my privacy.. the government does not have to know what i spend my money on and how much i spend it on and where i am spending it.. if this country does become a pay only with your card country then i feel that my rights to privacy is being violated
In general all the basics are there in each chain which includes the salads and meal prep kits just less variety and some more special items are only sold in bigger stores of the same chain. We don't consider our groceries cheap because it has become very expensive over the last few years. You can't get a few basket below the 50/60 euros anymore unfortunately. It's really special to see how surprised you are at things that are very mundane for me in my country! Thank you for giving that perspective!
Thank you both 🙏 As a a lowlander myself I tend to forget how “privileged” we truly are…. you both humbled me today… thanks for that!!
Here in the supermarkets we have indeed still cashiers besides selfscan.
I also have a video suggestion about our beautiful themepark Efteling, where we are very proud of😊
Totally agree on The Efteling!
I am so sorry that we can't have equality in this world so every human being could have the same products 😢❤
@@ronnieberck6505 Someday, probably still waaay to far into the future :(
thank you for your video and honest reactions.
It feels humbling and maybe even a little embarrassing to be reminded that what we in NL take for granted every day, actually isn't.
I live in the Netherlands and shop at Albert Hein... I am aware that that is a luxury even in The Netherlands, as not everyone in NL can shop here, or eat that healthy.
But on a global scale the difference is even greater. 😔
I think it would be good for us the be more aware and gratefull... your video surely helped.
I hope you will have the opportunity one day day to come visit The Netherlands and see it for yourselves.
❤
hi dear people...I come from the Netherlands and even though we have a lot of variety in terms of food, I don't know how to pay half of it here...I have to see how I can make ends meet every month and fortunately I am one who also created a vertical garden and grow my own vegetables in it... every little bit helps, right?! suck fore you guys thats the cost are higher over ther
greetings from the south of the Netherlands...
I work at Albert Heijn myself, I find it very important that customers have a lot of options that can help them, I have been working for 12 months and started with an internship. I started working on that a year later and I started around the age of 15 or 16.
The small local supermarket i do my every day shopping has no self scan, only cashiers.
But the bigger stores have both. On the self scan there is someone standing supervising several self scan stations.
They also do random checks to see if you have scanned everything.
Because of the self scan there is a raise in theft, but the savings in full time personel is also a lot.
And because the self scan is faster to check out it draws more customers to the store that dont want to wait in line.
Love your reactions, it's good to be reminded how lucky we are over here. Hope you manage to travel abroad some day 😊
Thank you very much for the support. We can't wait for it. Best wishes to you. Peace and love from Brasil 🥰🥰
This brings back childhood memories. When I was a kid, we traveled a lot for my father’s work and lived in developing countries where getting your groceries basically boiled down to buying what was available and stocking up on that because you could never be certain of how long it’d be available. When we’d go on ‘home leave’ that first trip to the supermarket was WILD.
Almost 50 years later, I still have some habits left from those days.
Please note that food might be relatively low priced in The Netherlands. Other things are bot. The standard of living is very high but poverty does exist. Not everyone buys sushi, freshly squeezed juice and pre-washed, pre-cut vegetables. But yes,the standard of living in The Netherlands is a lot higher for the average Dutch person compared to the average person in Brazil. I’m so sorry things are so difficult in Brazil and wish they were much, much better.
Perhaps interesting to know for some, is that one reason why fruit and vegetables are relatively cheap in a lot of European countries and especially in The Netherlands, is because the Dutch are amazing farmers who actually produce enormous amounts of produce in technologically very advanced circumstances in greenhouses. The European Union subsidises a lot of farming, too. Despite that, farmers are protesting because according to them the portion they earn is very low compared to the profits the supermarkets make.
Hi, I live in the Netherlands. The minimum salary here is between 1900 euros - 2100 euros. The supermarkt prices are are reasonable and Dirk Supermarkt is the mis cheapest but don't forget about electricity and gas price that are very very high. That is the biggest problem here. 😊
Minimum 1900-2100 ????? Dat is niet waar. Minimum is net aan over de 1000 euro. Geloof me ik heb het minimum.
1000 euro is uitkering
@@dutchieq3059 als je onder de 21 bent is dat misschien zo maar anders moet je echt 20 uur p/week werken om zo laag te zitten
lol 1750 is max van een uitkering. nee geen wajong of wst dan ook. als je 1000 krijgt wordt je dus per direct opgelicht😂
@@Driftspecs_Europe als je jonger bent dan 21 kan dat het geval zijn. 1750 is het bedrag dat je krijgt boven de 21 inclusief alle toeslagen.
I think something to keep in mind for the pricing of a lot of vegetables is; We are the largest producers of bell peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers in the world by a huge margin. So it makes sense that those are cheap here. Melons or mangos on the other hand are very expensive because we cant grow them. We are still privileged though :')
Interesting to see your perspective. My boyfriend is from Spain and I'm Dutch, we live in the Netherlands together. He always complains about the lack of variety here in supermarkets. You should see a Spanish supermarket, there's a lot more variety in the fresh products (vegetables, fruits, fish and meat) and a lot less plastic. I actually don't like how much plastic we use here. Also the ready for consumption packages cause a lot of food waste, they are thrown away a lot by supermarket because the food spoils faster. It's better to buy a complete vegetable. But it really sucks that vegetables are so expensive where you live!
About the self checkout: we do have cashiers so you can choose how to pay. At the self checkout they can check your bag and see if you scanned all your items. The number of checks increased a lot because so many things were getting stolen.
They do have one or two cashiers where you may pay with cash. The self-check stations have an employee there for assistance and for random checks whether you scanned all your items; usually they only check five items, not the entire shopping bag. after paying you get a payment slip with a barcode to open the exit gate.
It's very surprising and eye-opening to see all these things I take for granted and find "boring" or even "bad" is like paradise to other people. To think that it's just lucky to be born here seems really unfair.
Holy moly, that's some dire circumstances in Brazil... Hope you both are doing alright despite the insane prices for a basic necessity like food.
I want to note a few things as a dutchie myself. About the high alcohol content, supermarkets are allowed to sell it but they need a separate section that's closed off from the rest of the store and customers have to have a store employee with them and they need to purchase the bottle there not at the regular register. Als on the fresh stuff you may have seen 35% stickers, they are put on items whose date is that of the day. This is mandatory I believe to combat the problem of food spillage in the country.
And please please please don't be afraid to try the housebrands of our supermarkets, they are often comparable in taste to the big company equivalent if not better in taste in some cases
I'm from The Netherlands and it kind of makes me a bit sad to see your reaction. Everybody in the world should be able to have this kind of food and being able to afford it... Much love 🙏
1 Euro is around 5,33 Brl, and yes, there are people working there and we have cashiers as wel where they scan your articles, you can pay cash if you want with them, unles it's marked "pin only".
There is usually a mix of cashiers and selfservice in most supermarkets. Some favour cashiers still, and some shops will have a mix at one location and more self service at another. It depends on the location.
We were in Brasil 25 years ago (2nd time) and in those days meat and vegetables were cheap, everything was cheap compared to my country in those days (I mean the Netherlands). Sorry to see it's now the other way around. For us the supermarket shown in the video is not even the cheapest one. By the way, prices are rising here too, but that is nothing compared to Brasil.
Hope for you it will get better soon! Saudações da Holanda!
That's true. Everything was cheaper and more accessible. Our salary fail to keep up with price increases. It's great to know that you were in our country, we hope you have good memories. Thanks for watching! Greetings from Brasil!
This is a normal Albert Heijn, we also have Albert Heijn (and other super markets) XL version that is like this but then even more super sized with even more choices. Also the Albert Heijn is considered pretty on the expansive side here.
Most if not all supermarkets still have a few cashier lanes, mostly for older people.
I am still not sure if I agree with it though because we also waste a lot of food this way.
Much thanks for reacting to something else then our bitterballen or stroopwaffels. This is really refreshing to watch.
you should not look at the prices but at the percentage of your income that you spend on food. In the Netherlands approximately 10%
Be aware please that we have people in Netherlands who can not pay for this food. But they are helped by the supermarkets with food that is not sold. Greetings from Roelof.
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yeah dutch food prices in general are very nice but they going up. I made a menu for the week that cost only 38 euros. It contains pizza for 2 days, Tacos for 2 days with fresh salsa salad and a kilo of cheese, and 2 days of schnitzel with fries with cheese home made gravy and veggies.
The reason for low priced and high amount of vegetables (not all with good taste) is mostly because of the greenhouses, the most modern greenhouses in the planet are situated over here. I can definitely recommend watching one of the episodes of reizen Waes where he visits one of the most modern greenhouses in Holland in the Netherlands. Greenhouses take C02 from the air which make the vegetables grow faster and larger and almost everything is automated. The most modern greenhouses can even store all their energy and warmth underground for winter so they use almost none to no energy at all which makes them very cost effective.
I really hope some day more countries will be able to have benefits like this, fruits and vegetables are very healthy and in my opinion should be accessible to more people, meat should be a luxury item in all countries even here.
In The Netherlands, we produce more meat than we consume, so we export a lot too. If we would eat all of the meat we produce ourselves, we would eat 1 kg of meat each day...
Edit: Also, about the cashier: There are cashiers, but there are also options to self-scan your products. The cashiers will sometimes check if you really scanned everything at the self-scan though...
The meat in Dutch grocery stores, usually isn't Dutch
My dutch mind melts watching their brain melt. I cant wrap my head around their shock about a common European supermarket. And I dont mean that in any negative way what so ever. The things you take for granted as a (western) European..
Their emotions are fake as ...t, don't you see it ? The whole purpose of this video is to get youtube views and comments from Dutch people "explaining them the reality".
A lot of our supermarkets in ireland and uk have fresh bakeries in them, a butchers and often a pizza counter and a fishmonger and believe it or not in the uk especially the prices are even lower than this. For example i can get a pack of apples for 79p a bag of potatos for £1 a sirloin steak for £4 etc. We even have stores like home bargains, poundland lidle/aldi (which is german) that have even lower prices.
You do need to compare it right though. 1reais is like 0,20euro cents. This means 1 euro is 5reais. If you then say 1kg of rice is 6reais, its 1,20 euro which we consider cheap. The hardest thing to compare then are the average incomes in the Netherlands compared too incomes in Brazil.
It's amazing how in 15 years things have changed in Brazil, Then things were much cheaper than in the Netherlands so a pal of mine went for several months to Brazil sometimes 2x a year. Here's a thought for you Albert Heijn is one of the most expensive supermarkets in the Netherlands and Belgium
we earn 2000+- as minimum in the country.
most people earn between 2100-2800 monthly and this is per person
we do have casheers here but you can pick between the normal lanes or scanning the products. sometimes the one is faster then the other.
Also there is security in some stores.
if you have any questions let me know ill be happy to awnser them! :D
cool video guys :) Thumbs up for you two and keep it up!
I think y'all forgot about the conversion with the prices. Like with the meal kits around 4:30, you thought that they were cheap cause they're about 5 bucks, and that it would be like 10 to 12 bucks there. But 5 Euro means 26 Brazilian Real. That's expensive here too.
Like 1 kg of white rice costs 2 euro so about 10.50 BRL, but you guys pay 6 BRL. Purchasing power is definitely better in the Netherlands, just wanted to point out that conversion gives better context :)
12 Brazilian Real = 2,26 Euro (two Euro and 26 cents) ... conversion rate of valentinesday 14-2-2024
1,99 Euro = 10,56 Brazil Real
1 Euro = 5,31 Brazil Real
So your tomatoes are not 12 Euro!!! 😅
Oh, and 1kg of white rice is 1,99 Euro. So 10,56 Brazil Real instead of your 6 Brazil Real. That is almost TWICE as expensive as in Brazil! 😅
Frozen Salmon Filet with 2 slices totalling 250gr costs 4,99 Euro or 26,47 Brazil Real. The Albert Heijen does not sell whole salmons like yours for 100 Brazil Real.
Also I am very proud of our Dutch farmers. They can grow almost everything here. So well and so much too that our tint and I repeat TINY country with almost 18 million inhabitants is 2nd largest exporter of agricultural produce in the entire world after the USA.
As they say..."no farmers, no food". Help your farmer and he will feed you well. Also buy from the farmers directly as wholesale and retail make it more expensive. 😉
In the AH and every other supermarket there are cashiers. Most supermarkets have a separated part with self service counters. controlled by one employee that has to do random checks on the bought items when the register demands this. These self service counters are only ment to be for people that only have a few up to 15 groceries, Anything more has to be done at a normal cashier.
As yhe nethrrlands are the 2nd large producers of vegetables dutch citizens have acces to a great variety at affordable prices in every supermarket in the country
The Netherlands is NOT the 2nd largest producer of vegetables, it's the 2nd largest EXPORTER of agricultural goods. This is because a lot of stuff gets imported into the harbour of Rotterdam and sold to other countries. This counts as export, but is not produced by the Netherlands. Relatively the Netherlands does produce a lot of goods, especially flowers, dairy products, eggs and meat, and about 70% of goods produced are exported as well, but the amounts produced are not comparable to countries like US, China, India and Russia.
The Dutch cities have regular outdoor markets as well where you can buy vegetables and other foods for much cheaper. And Albert Heijn is one of the more "premium" supermarkets
We do have supermarket personell but they check if you paid everything with random checkings, it depends on the products you buy with more expensive products its more likely that you will be checked.
17:35 In each supermarket there is always (at least) one cashier. It is often used by elderly people who do the old ways, I guess like in your country. Aldi is one of the few who still use cashier. Many others use this system of self scanning. That being said, there are always 1 or 2 (sort of cashiers) watching cameras to check/control you, but don't do much more then looking or helping a client. Every now and then a red light appears on your personal cashier, like a big alarm light, meaning, you cannot pay and must wait for a cashier who then checks your bags if you paid for each. If you get caught you get on a black list. I heard that if you get caught something unscanned to often, and you can never pay for any of that super market branche. So always pay.. The good thing with self scan is that there way more say double or triple the amount of people who can pay. So queues are non existent (except for Aldi). For supermarkets it means you need to hire fewer people.
Dutch food prices have gone up a lot but of course we can't compare to giant inflation in places like Brazil and Venezuela. But also we grow a ton of food here, peppers will be grown in glass houses mere hours away from supermarkets like this and we export a great deal. Glass houses help reduce the need for water and pesticides, often they can employ natural things like bugs that kill pests and because the weather isn't much of an issue yield is very consistant.
We still do have cashiers in our supermarkets. The self scan area is just an option if you don't want to wait in line for the check out🙂
Usually with self-checkout there is still some staff to supervise. And we do have some problems with people just "forgetting" to pay.
The average salary in Holland per month is about € 3000. The average price for a kilo tomatoes is about € 1,50
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so not 1400 EUR :)
If you visit The Netherlands, dont stay in Amsterdam as a tourist, dont buy anything there unless you need to :P The place is easily reachable by public transport or a car if you have the means. The prices there are just that much higher than outside of the place. Its not as cheap as it looks :P Glad you liked the diversity in the shelves! We have the option of paying at registeres or self checkout at some places, prone to stealing though, so pretty well monitored, even have a supermarket that uses colored baskets for singles for example, or places that have special opening times for elderly.
Supermarkets in the Netherlands are getting more and more self-scanning capabilities. There are still ordinary cash registers with an employee who scans and signs off the groceries. But those are fewer these days.
If you go to the self-scan checkout, there is an employee. She watches for theft. There are bag checks, but you don't always get those. That's done automatically at random. But, if employees in the store see that something is not being scanned, they may call you on it. There is security walking around the store, they may pull you over.
The prices in the Netherlands have risen considerably in recent years, it is no longer affordable for the common people. The Albert Heijn supermarket is even one of the more expensive stores.
We pay a lot in rent and mortgages of houses, water, gas and electricity is also a lot of money, the insurances are expensive, so all in all, the salaries go up but you are still left with little to live on because the prices in stores also go up.
Healthy food is almost impossible to afford.
I am amazed at how expensive life is with you. So actually we can't complain. This gives me new insights and more respect for you.
meanwhile , north americans visiting europe complain about the small meal sizes and the fruit prices^^
A diferença nos preços depende na origem dos produtos.
Por exemplo, a Holanda produiz muito legume (tem casas de vidro de kilometres de largura). Outros produtos estão importados do Brasil, por exemplo os produtos tropicais.
Eu oberservi que os legumes da Europa têm melhor sabor que os memos no Brasil - os tomatoes são bom exemplo disso.
Boa viagem.
I mean, that particular supermarket IS very big though. It's an overabundance of products, probably because of many visitors. The average supermarket in the country doesn't have that much as shown here, usually half of everything. But I of course understand we're still very lucky.
I noticed you mentioned how "everything is ready for consumption", and that is spot on for Dutch people. They love the convenience. Many of us are prepared to pay more if it makes our lives easier. But not too much, of course. In most cases we try to do it ourselves first, then fail, get annoyed and decide to let others do it lol. That's very Dutch.
I appreciate your views. I know I am very lucky. But your point about being able to make healthy choices is a big deal. It makes me sad too. Wishing a lot of health to both of you. You two are so nice.
All supermaarkets still have one or two cashiers, the rest is self scan
About the self-scan cash register, there was some research done recently by a dutch news media company (on dutch population) and they confirmed that while people do steal it's hardly of noteworthy impact, it's pretty much comparable to how often people steal with actual cash registers and cashiers involved, and just like how they dealt with that in the past, the supermarkets simply raise the prices of their produce a bit to account for this.
It's not like half the customers are stealing entire bags of groceries, maybe 5% of customers may occasionally not scan an item or two, similar to how maybe 5% of customers would occasionally slip one or two things in their pockets in the past, but the supermarkets can just cope with that loss, especially considering these are massive supermarket chains that easily turn over several hundred million euros in profit each year, they're really not all that worried about some small percentage loss, sure they have posters that police will get involved etc but realistically they don't care enough to actually fight it any more than they already do.
Finally it needs to be said that all these self-scan cash registers are extremely well built to _actually detect theft,_ through several different approaches (scales, cameras, etc) but most of the time when it goes beep beep it's such a minor weight difference or low rating by the system that the staff just look your direction and press a button for you to continue, they don't even bother checking most of the time since they're not losing any salary over it either.
All supermarkets still have traditional cash registers with cashiers too, i feel like it's required by law or something, maybe for people in wheelchairs/mobility scooters or something? but most supermarkets have been changed in the last few years where 80% is now self-scan & the manned cash register is closed 90% of the time.
Thanx, because of you 2, i've got a whole new perspective of my life in the Netherlands. We are so used to our "luxury" here.
Most people earn around 2500-3000 euro ( netto ), but that is for one person, their wifes are mostly working too, but not 40 houres, mostly around 20 houres. So a husband and wife earns together around 3000 - 4000 euro netto.
But we pay alot for our energy bill and for our house ( loan or rent )
Renting a house is around 800 - 1500 euro per month.
Food is relatively cheap here but house prices high.
Muito obrigado! Comprimendos da Hollanda!
they dont only have salad prepped meals but for olmost every thing like i like to cook styrfry and i have like 6 different options and its all cut and fresh its vey good if you live alone and still want to cook so you dont have food for 7 days but just for 2 days
Here in the Netherlands the cheapest 1kg bag of rice costs €2,- that is 12 Reais
The Netherlands is a huge food producer, partially because of our great river delta soil. Ontop of that, we have the largest port in europe, which lies in the center of the north european trade network. This gives us plenty of acces to food.
Not for long ... Agenda 2030 . If you not yet noticed.
you are forgetting our innovative glasshouses.
I want to add some context to this video. My girlfriend has lived in Brazil for 13 years, and a good portion of her family still does to this day. And while many groceries seem cheap here compared to in Brazil. We also pay way more taxes, and mandatory insurances. Healthcare is 125 euros in the cheaper range, that would be 600 reais, and it is MANDATORY! As someone who has been to Brazil and who's Girlfriend has lived there for a long time. I would say, YES, it is cheaper, but not mind blowingly cheaper to live in the Netherlands.
To add to it, when you guys were talking about the meat prices, the video was showing meat replacers, Vegetarian meat, if you will. So not true meat.
I live in the Netherlands, for us this is normal. The normal salary here is 3000 euro, 17.190 real per month.
Haha. The prices are even HIGH in the Netherlands. And normal income is not 1400 euro, it's around 3800 euro (before taxes). Taxes are extremely high, so when you get 3800 euro's per month, you will get around 2750 on your bank account. Renting a house costs somewhere between 1000 and 1500 euro for a (small) apartment. And health insurance is, the cheapest one, around 130 euro each month. Per person. Maybe that's why you see low prices in the supermarkets, but it's for Dutch people very high.
shopping @ a supermarket in the Netherlands cost you about€175 euro a week for a familie of 4, depends if you shop on a budget. if you go loopie you can easely spend mutch more.
Great video.
Here are some of the actual AH prices:
3 bell peppers 1,99 euro
1kg tomatoes 3,58 euro
Rice 1,26 euro per kilo (bag 4,5 kg)
Frozen salmon filet 13,56 per kilo (is probably the same as the "fresh' defrosted salmon)
Smoked salmon is 48,90 per kilo
Semi fat milk 0,93 per liter (bottle of 2 liter)
Coca-cola 1,73 per liter
AH brand cola 0,78 per liter
Btw 1857 euro is the net minimum wage in NL.
Many people in NL struggle as well, and can't afford many of the luxury food items shown in the video.
to be fair, we also think the presliced fruits are expensive. Then again, Albert Heijn is our most expensive supermarket over the board. Vegetables, meat, fruit and nuts are still bought on weekly markets by a lot of people.
keep in mind the netherlands is small and dense populated and still the second largest exporter of agiculture products in the world. so fruit and vedges tend to be cheap so is food distibution cheap in a small country. Albert Hein is the most fancy supermaket chain and the more expencive due the larger choice. we spend less and less on food but the rest housing energy and so on is verry expencive.
Just on a side note, our cards here in Luxembourg do "Maestro" by default.
Yea much talking to others here in the channel and maybe a bit to much but the comments helps a channel.
There are cashiers in the store but they have reduced cashiers in the last few years and replaced them with "self checkout". Its a mixture of both at the moment. And yes people do steal. You can be randomly checked by an employee to see if you have scanned everything properly.
the Netherlands are the second largest exporters of food in the world.
so no surprise the have all this food for those prices.
it is a shame that food is so expensive in your country.
Wow ! I really didn't know it was that expensive in Brazil compared to what you earn ! Actually a bit shocking !
Here in Luxembourg, the minimum wage is over 2000€
In our supermarkets, we also have cashiers and the self checkouts
And to imagine that Albert-Heijn is one of the more expensive grocery stores.
You don’t want to know how much of all that ends up in the garbage container outside the supermarket. Aside of what we, the costumers, throw away after buying it. I think 40% gets waisted in total.
Love your reaction (although I wish you better times for the future). The Dutch like to complain a lot. That's our national pass time. We tend to forget how good we have it here. Good luck to you 👍
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