I remember the 90s having a totally different "feel" than what life feels like nowadays. It's crazy. I can't really explain it. I do miss the simplicity before smartphones and all this new tech though.
I would leave all this tech if someone with a time machine could bring me back to the early 80's. I was born in 81 but would have loved to experience these decades as an adult.
I'm sure this was all used as B-roll footage and little (or none) of this man's personal story made it on the air. He seems like a decent person who was trying to make ends meet for his family. I'd love to know how the ensuing years have been.
@@LINJ638 I watch some of these and laugh how so many people think the people they see are just off doing some other job.. no.. most likely they are …… poop now
Some people are gonna snub their noses because this guy used food stamps. I would say in this case that he is one of the cases who warrants their existence. Life can be expensive, life with children even more so. This guy was working, plus he was going back to school to help his children. He seems like a loving father, and I hope things worked out for him.
My local Albertsons still has the same front doors, where they’re single doors that automatically SWING open from motion censors. And the smell of all Albertsons at the doors is….very memorable.
I remember when you could go to an Albertsons and purchase a white produce paperbag of ripe bananas for 25 cents for the bag and hot french bread right out of the oven for 50 cents a loaf Those were goodtimes
No I wasn’t born in the 80s or 90s but wow, do I find such familiarity and comfortability with these videos. Thank you for being able to give me inexperienced nostalgia!!
Back in the early 90s I could get a week's worth of groceries for about $20 if I shopped carefully and used coupons. A lot of items were less than $1 back then. I didn't think the rent on my first apartment was that cheap, but I always thought food at the grocery store was cheap.
New subscriber here. Absolutely LOVE your channel! I am always looking for content just like this. Please continue to share more great videos, especially ones from the 60's or 70's. Thank you!
@@vampirerobot I'm not trying to sound personal, this is just out of curiosity, how old are you? I only ask because you got videos from the 70s and 80s. That's all.
I hope he ended up getting his college degree and stopped struggling before he passed away. As a single mom of 1, i understood everything he was saying. We just want to give our children everything they ask for.❤
albertsons is just a diffrent store than kroger brookshire and etc etc its my first store and job i worked at in 2011 till we got laid off in 2017 im at kroger now and the memories hit hard it wasnt the 90s but albertsons had a very old school vibe i loved.felt like home ahhh.
I love seeing the old POS equipment. I loved being a cashier as it was busy task work. Kept me busy. I was also the stores official unofficial tech support. Our store manager had a policy that if I was working or scheduled and equipment acted up to have me fix it and only call tech support if I deemed it necessary. I helped at a couple stores setting up new machines or equipment a few times. Pretty cool being given mileage and a room for a night or two at a budget motel at age 18. Thought I was important. Company offered to train me at corporate for onsite support. I turned it down because I’d have to move to a far away location for a year. I now wish I did for experience. Store eventually went belly up and merged. So who knows where I’d be.
Not so. People not starring at cell phones, kids not running around screaming, cashiers actually friendly, prices much cheaper, people respected each other.
The camera and film probably where higher quality that what you are seeing on here. A lot of the uploads on here are for broadcast TV news. It is just uploaded at lower quality than the original.
@@mitchell.9632 not to mention the entrance and the store itself looks so dumpy and dated. It absolutely could not pass for 2023/2024 I don't know what kind of crack that guy was smoking.
I remember in the 90s I could basically shop without looking at prices, and I just worked at a video store (I had a car, rented a place or a room, etc). Now spend too much on groceries and end up homeless. 😅
$3.99 a pound roast beef. 99 cents a pound potato salad. Darn you inflation. Also I worked at Albertsons age 16 in 1999, I remember the round check stands and the sound of the red line/green line intercoms!
No such thing as cheap cereal. If he seen the prices today, he would flip like me. I seen this one cereal at Target that's almost $10 for a regular box of Magic spoon cereal! That's crazy even in this economy!
The Marlboro hat defintely came from the lung dart "miles" catalog. 1995 grocery store not playing the Muzak but instead playing some Jefferson Starship, Elton John, The Bangles, and Wilson Philips or ABBA from earlier decades.
The white and grey floor tiles brings back a lot of childhood memories. Me and my brother would try to stay on the grey tiles and jump to the other grey tiles without hitting the white tiles LOL
I'm from Fort Worth! The Albertsons location at Ridgmar Mall used to look just like what's shown in the video back in the 90s. Used to love shopping there with my folks as a kid!
I would not know. My family refused food stamps and were poor, so we had to get the big bag of generic chips, lol. That was for school lunches only too.
Anyone else remember how Albertson's had the BEST muffins back in the 90s? Then they changed the recipe, maybe in the 2000s (I forget when exactly) but they just weren't nearly as good.
Just when I was thinking about my favorite meal “Chicken Tonight”, I see this! 14:17. Also 23:26 was that really necessary for her to ask that question when see can obviously see he’s using it? She didn’t have to say it out loud for people to hear.
@@jporter9244 I remember using manic panic in the 90's to color my hair and I love that it's still around and the bottle hasn't changed at all, but yes Kool-aid worked too, lol
I remember buying those as a kid and having a Kool-aid stand. Dumped a bunch of generic sugar and homemade ice cubes and sold it for $15 cents a cup, lol. Some people would give me a dollar for one cup and I would be like, WOW!
I hate to hear how this guy was fallen on hard times having to be on food stamps to feed his family and himself too in the process. Imagine the hardship for him in that situation if it was now in 2024. I was just a child in 1995. Lived through the 2008 recession. I wonder how this guy managed through that. Hopefully he had the chance to have an easier time in life. I miss the 90s cause it's nothing compared to what we deal with today.
Back when you did not have outages as he had physical coupons to buy the food with. Not like what happened August 28, 2022 with the outage. Not to mention the analytics beyond just what was sold when these days that go into grocery shopping with the program and with the stores doing it on there end too (and this website too).
Oh Yeah! Kool-Aid was so popular back then. I remember we had a Biggs superstore open up in my hometown and thought it was so cool that it had an enormous Kool-Aid display with a giant Kool-Aid man on top. There were so many different flavors and the display had special little bags use to select and hold a variety of the little powder packets.
Grew up with 5 brothers and sisters around this time. Poorest of my life but we were well-behaved and happy. People like this man make me proud to be American and that we can help others feed their families.
Imagine Infrabren following this guy around weirding him out and telling him he looks really good 100x. I know this guy would sample the pickled sphincter.
"Following a guy around in a grocery store" Seriously? Can't you just leave the poor dude alone? So much for personal space. Unless he said it fine to do so, then I'm OK with that
Troll much? Clearly the guy enjoyed being filmed. Back then we did not piss and moan like Gen Z. No such thing as personal space when in public. You're not entitled to a bubble around you.
Eat fresh, eat simple food and you will live longer and be healthier. 90% of the items in a grocery store are detrimental to your health but great for corporate shareholders profit margins. Stop eating like cattle in a feed lot. 😉
I remember the 90s having a totally different "feel" than what life feels like nowadays. It's crazy. I can't really explain it. I do miss the simplicity before smartphones and all this new tech though.
You were a child in the 90s. There, I just explained it for you
Well it was the 20th century so of course it’s not going to have the same feel as it does now
I would leave all this tech if someone with a time machine could bring me back to the early 80's. I was born in 81 but would have loved to experience these decades as an adult.
Very true. They tell us it's a false memory but we all know the truth. @veganhigler6541
@veganhigler6541wut?
I've been looking for this exact kind of channel. Thanks for the great content!
me too, do you know any others by any chance?
@@milhousevanhouten3796 I don't unfortunately.
I'm sure this was all used as B-roll footage and little (or none) of this man's personal story made it on the air. He seems like a decent person who was trying to make ends meet for his family. I'd love to know how the ensuing years have been.
He is dead, in fact at least 70% of the people in these videos are dead
@@willgibson8534 True. Deadder than ever. Not that anyone cares though.
@@LINJ638 I watch some of these and laugh how so many people think the people they see are just off doing some other job.. no.. most likely they are …… poop now
@@willgibson8534 Since everyone dies then technically we are already dead.
@@cbot375 someone at sometime will read this comment and we will be dead on a meat stick
I used to go to an Albertsons location that looked like this one. It was around until 2004. Brings back memories from 20+ years ago.
Some people are gonna snub their noses because this guy used food stamps. I would say in this case that he is one of the cases who warrants their existence. Life can be expensive, life with children even more so. This guy was working, plus he was going back to school to help his children. He seems like a loving father, and I hope things worked out for him.
He pays taxes and works, so the government owes him!
same. i hope everything got better for him and his fam
Millions of white people use food stamps 😭
food grows from the ground bud. its not a ps4. really not a big deal to eat every day even if you dont work a single day.
Only u must think that way.....also it's the vampire robots dad...he's in the other videos.....
Wonder how this man is doing nowadays? I hope he’s doing well. Be sad if he’s no longer with us.
Sad. But he actually passed away in 2016 Mark.
@@vampirerobot oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. Does he have an obituary by any chance?
@@MarkMeadows90 I've been skeptical about adding it out of fear what might transpire.
@@vampirerobot you're good. I was just curious.
@@MarkMeadows90 Is it an invasion of privacy or is it a loving tribute to a father? That kind of thing.
My local Albertsons still has the same front doors, where they’re single doors that automatically SWING open from motion censors. And the smell of all Albertsons at the doors is….very memorable.
Would love to see this uploaded in near source material quality. I love to look at all the products on the shelves.
Then: look at what 1.00 will buy! Has several items sitting there.
Now: Look what 1.00 will buy: empty shelf.
I remember when you could go to an Albertsons and purchase a white produce paperbag of ripe bananas for 25 cents for the bag and hot french bread right out of the oven for 50 cents a loaf Those were goodtimes
I remember when a dime bag cost a dime
No I wasn’t born in the 80s or 90s but wow, do I find such familiarity and comfortability with these videos. Thank you for being able to give me inexperienced nostalgia!!
Back in the early 90s I could get a week's worth of groceries for about $20 if I shopped carefully and used coupons. A lot of items were less than $1 back then. I didn't think the rent on my first apartment was that cheap, but I always thought food at the grocery store was cheap.
I wish he didn't feel like he had to defended himself when he put the steak in the cart .
Good guy right there !! ✊
Shouldnt have to. People need to mind their own business.
New subscriber here. Absolutely LOVE your channel! I am always looking for content just like this. Please continue to share more great videos, especially ones from the 60's or 70's. Thank you!
Thank you Mary 😊
Ditto! As well as 80s and 90s... haha
@@vampirerobot I'm not trying to sound personal, this is just out of curiosity, how old are you? I only ask because you got videos from the 70s and 80s. That's all.
@@brianbenfield3270 He's an immortal vampire robot.
All of them groceries today would’ve been $200
Was thinking that too.
Ugh
I hope he ended up getting his college degree and stopped struggling before he passed away. As a single mom of 1, i understood everything he was saying. We just want to give our children everything they ask for.❤
@veganhigler6541 lol true. That's why I only have 1. I learned my lesson
@veganhiglerlame6541
@veganhigler6541 lame
TV Guide is the April 15, 1995 edition with Fran Drescher on the cover. Getting near the time when the OKC Bombing happened.
Yup. I used to collect old TV guides. I always look for the TV guide at the checkout in these videos.
albertsons is just a diffrent store than kroger brookshire and etc etc its my first store and job i worked at in 2011 till we got laid off in 2017 im at kroger now and the memories hit hard it wasnt the 90s but albertsons had a very old school vibe i loved.felt like home ahhh.
I love seeing the old POS equipment. I loved being a cashier as it was busy task work. Kept me busy. I was also the stores official unofficial tech support. Our store manager had a policy that if I was working or scheduled and equipment acted up to have me fix it and only call tech support if I deemed it necessary. I helped at a couple stores setting up new machines or equipment a few times. Pretty cool being given mileage and a room for a night or two at a budget motel at age 18. Thought I was important. Company offered to train me at corporate for onsite support. I turned it down because I’d have to move to a far away location for a year. I now wish I did for experience. Store eventually went belly up and merged. So who knows where I’d be.
That cart would be worth $300 today.
Sad but minimum wage was lower than is today
If the camera was higher quality this video could pass for 2023
Not so. People not starring at cell phones, kids not running around screaming, cashiers actually friendly, prices much cheaper, people respected each other.
The camera and film probably where higher quality that what you are seeing on here. A lot of the uploads on here are for broadcast TV news. It is just uploaded at lower quality than the original.
@@mitchell.9632 not to mention the entrance and the store itself looks so dumpy and dated. It absolutely could not pass for 2023/2024 I don't know what kind of crack that guy was smoking.
I remember in the 90s I could basically shop without looking at prices, and I just worked at a video store (I had a car, rented a place or a room, etc). Now spend too much on groceries and end up homeless. 😅
$3.99 a pound roast beef. 99 cents a pound potato salad. Darn you inflation. Also I worked at Albertsons age 16 in 1999, I remember the round check stands and the sound of the red line/green line intercoms!
Now roast beef is like $15.99 a lb for the good kind and like $11.99 for the generic stuff.
Roast beef is over $20 in Australia
@veganhigler6541 Lol won't be far off it the way inflation is heading
Life was real here. Experiences replaced trends. The phone was on the wall at home and videos were on the living room tv.
This is a great comment!
No such thing as cheap cereal. If he seen the prices today, he would flip like me. I seen this one cereal at Target that's almost $10 for a regular box of Magic spoon cereal! That's crazy even in this economy!
This is an amazing video ,90's throwback.
Just wait for cereal to go to $8/box in 2023 💁🏻♂️
50% of people that have college degrees end up having jobs in non related fields not even using their degree (s).
LOOK HOW CHEAP THEM PRICES ARE!
But look how little people got paid
The Marlboro hat defintely came from the lung dart "miles" catalog. 1995 grocery store not playing the Muzak but instead playing some Jefferson Starship, Elton John, The Bangles, and Wilson Philips or ABBA from earlier decades.
Yeah and the days of Joe Camel
I have a marlboro windbreaker from that catalog
wow anyone else trying to guesstimate how much his groceries were going to cost? I pegged it at $150.00. LOL at inflation, wow
The white and grey floor tiles brings back a lot of childhood memories. Me and my brother would try to stay on the grey tiles and jump to the other grey tiles without hitting the white tiles LOL
I remember doing that too.
The exit signage on the door immediately flashed me back to my own local Albertsons as a kid haha
I'm from Fort Worth! The Albertsons location at Ridgmar Mall used to look just like what's shown in the video back in the 90s. Used to love shopping there with my folks as a kid!
He looks like super Mario with the red hat & mustache ! 😂😂😂
More like Luigi with Mario’s cap
this is so grounding compared to the shit show we got going now
That looks like the April 15, 1995 TV Guide at 20:06 with Fran Drescher on the cover.
i could tell it was aprill i saw a misplaced easter egg carten in the egg shelf
Who would've thought that stock footage becomes retro eventually
Back when the chip bags actually had more chips than air
It definitely had more air than chips even back then
I would not know. My family refused food stamps and were poor, so we had to get the big bag of generic chips, lol. That was for school lunches only too.
"Son, what is that damn mirror box you are following me around with?"
Anyone else remember how Albertson's had the BEST muffins back in the 90s? Then they changed the recipe, maybe in the 2000s (I forget when exactly) but they just weren't nearly as good.
Just when I was thinking about my favorite meal “Chicken Tonight”, I see this! 14:17. Also 23:26 was that really necessary for her to ask that question when see can obviously see he’s using it? She didn’t have to say it out loud for people to hear.
Good point!
recorded from april 1995
The 90s were so epic
I love you can still get Kool Aid 5 for 1 dollar.
Great comment Lindsey!
Good "hair dye" back then 😂
@@jporter9244 I remember using manic panic in the 90's to color my hair and I love that it's still around and the bottle hasn't changed at all, but yes Kool-aid worked too, lol
I remember buying those as a kid and having a Kool-aid stand. Dumped a bunch of generic sugar and homemade ice cubes and sold it for $15 cents a cup, lol. Some people would give me a dollar for one cup and I would be like, WOW!
lol not so healthy either@@jporter9244
I hate to hear how this guy was fallen on hard times having to be on food stamps to feed his family and himself too in the process. Imagine the hardship for him in that situation if it was now in 2024. I was just a child in 1995. Lived through the 2008 recession. I wonder how this guy managed through that. Hopefully he had the chance to have an easier time in life. I miss the 90s cause it's nothing compared to what we deal with today.
You don't have to imagine, there's for certain a man in his exact same position in 2024. There's nothing to do but take it one day at a time.
Seems like Aldi has comparable prices today
Where was this Albertsons? I remember Albertsons in the 90s very well.
Lol the titles of the videos sound so creepy, but the videos themselves are loaded with nostalgia!
Back when you did not have outages as he had physical coupons to buy the food with. Not like what happened August 28, 2022 with the outage. Not to mention the analytics beyond just what was sold when these days that go into grocery shopping with the program and with the stores doing it on there end too (and this website too).
Can’t even double coupon in certain stores anymore. Then the coupons now are for items most don’t need usually or expensive stuff
Jefferson Starship "Miracles" playing at 2:15
You could spend like 40 bucks and have lots of groceries for all week
$20 if you bought clearance items!
Your anecdote of $40 vs this guy actually spending $69.80. I wonder which one holds more weight?
this feels like a targeted attack on the guy's privacy
And now we have the sequel: Publix 😌
Oh Yeah! Kool-Aid was so popular back then. I remember we had a Biggs superstore open up in my hometown and thought it was so cool that it had an enormous Kool-Aid display with a giant Kool-Aid man on top. There were so many different flavors and the display had special little bags use to select and hold a variety of the little powder packets.
18:30 those circle shape checkout counters i found cool
7:38 Is that what tostitos' looked like back in the day? Looks almost similar to Herr's Tortilla chips.
T.V guides at the register its long forgotten
Grew up with 5 brothers and sisters around this time. Poorest of my life but we were well-behaved and happy. People like this man make me proud to be American and that we can help others feed their families.
*LOOK WHAT ONE DOLLAR WILL BUY!* As I browse the stores of the modern grocery chain in 2023.
$1 can still buy pretty much anything in the produce section (where that sign was located)
I came here to see raisin bran with the sun wearing sunglasses I know it was a thing dammit
Imagine Infrabren following this guy around weirding him out and telling him he looks really good 100x. I know this guy would sample the pickled sphincter.
Kool-aid 5 for a $1 what a deal😂
Love seeing these videos so much. Well with a glorious mustache like this I know what he did for a living...... I'm kidding.
I was super shocked at his total! I mean mouth dropped and everything. That full cart would be at least $100 today! Even at Walmart lol
I'm not addicted to smartphones, they make my eyes dry out.
People there looked miserable, if only somebody would have told him just to wait 2 more years. John Elway will deliver!!!
Crazy to think I was just 4 at the time
😂😂 I was 11
Jefferson Starship!
I miss Albertsons they closed them all down in Florida
Nowadays for cheaper food, you've got Walmart, Target, WinCo, and Grocery Outlet.
I was 29 years old in 1995 !!! 😊👍🏼
I was 13 most of year till last two months
Back when you could fill up the shopping cart decently, all for $20! Lol
Maybe you didn't finish the video where his total was $69.80
95'
why is this so surreal to me lol
the first very Albertson's on 16th and State St. Boise Idaho is the best one.
The last ti.e I've been to an Albertson's was in 99
Why didn’t you follow him around to the toilet to see whether he missed the bowl?
Some call it stalking, some call it love.
Maybe Gen Z calls it stalking.
look at the prices on these!
Not really..people got paid $4 an hour though
11:47.
toxic grain sludge and seed oils
TWU
"Following a guy around in a grocery store" Seriously? Can't you just leave the poor dude alone? So much for personal space. Unless he said it fine to do so, then I'm OK with that
Troll much? Clearly the guy enjoyed being filmed. Back then we did not piss and moan like Gen Z. No such thing as personal space when in public. You're not entitled to a bubble around you.
@@maxwell-gn2jnWell said I'm sick of these Gen Z kids and their entitlement need to get over themselves
I was born in 1995!
Me too the day Eazy died 3/26/95
Its the op's dad...
Lies
@@dave46459 he films his family
Eat fresh, eat simple food and you will live longer and be healthier. 90% of the items in a grocery store are detrimental to your health but great for corporate shareholders profit margins. Stop eating like cattle in a feed lot. 😉
Pay the extra costs low income can’t afford
I was born in 1995!
I was 18 in 1995.