3:52 Funny, how different people percieve the same thing completely differently. You say “so many bread options :))) While I was thinking “clearly almost sold out, he probably went shopping 1-2 hours before the closing time”.
Did you know that a big part of all the bread sold goes to trash because people won't buy in a shop whose stuff is so good they already sold most of it? What is the use of fresh bread at the end of the day nobody wants to buy tomorrow?
So funny, because I live in America and was like, “That’s a normal amount of bread options.. not even that many.” My grocery store in Maryland has more than that in the bakery area. Pretty similar to Germany. And of course if you go to a bakery that’s not in a grocery store, there are a lot more options. Dieser Typ kommt vielleicht aus einer Kleinstadt. Oder hat leider einfach einen schlechten Markt in der Nähe. 🤷🏼♀️
@@LA-st6dq This exactly. Though depending on the bakery they are open until 8-9pm. Of course, that is not the case with every bakery. But most of the time we will just sell whatever we have left ^^
Not saying you're wrong, just want to elaborate on it. I think it was a valid question as Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz Company was born and raised in the US. His father emigrated from Germany to the US 4 years before he was born. Henry visited Germany a few times when he was already maybe 50 years old(?), probably from the end of the 19th century until WWI. It is a true US product. However, the high quality of it comes from his German background.
@@StefanInOz while i 100% agree... *Ketchup* ... is *not* a US product. Ketchup... the root of name is already from *China!* The *Brits,* brought it from there home. Switched _Fish_ with mushrooms & tomatoes. Heinz picked it up & made it big ;)
Kaufland is more like a Walmart or target in the US I think. Most grocery stores are smaller and don’t have a travel agency or a barber 😂 but most of them have a bakery and a butcher
This really looks more like a mini mall. The supermarket is obviously the main tenant, maybe the other store owners are even subletting from the supermarket. But the travel agency etc. are definitely seperate businesses the same way a lot of German supermarkets host a bakery or flower shop in their entry area that are separately owned and run.
Because you have to buy the plastic coin, you would still lose money by leaving it there. The purpose of a plastic coin is that you don't spend it on anything, so you'll always have a coin for the cart ready in your wallet.
@@karionwhite2367 sure, occasionally, but not all that readily. so if you just leave your plastic coin out of laziness to bring your cart back - saving you a precious 45secs of your life - you'll have to get out of your way to get a new one somewhere before the next time you go shopping again, or - more likely - you'll forget about it until the time you hit the supermarket again and will be scrambling to find a euro in your purse instead.
I am using foreign coins instead of "plastic coin." I have some polish zloty or euro coins which works too in Czech supermarkets. Euro works better, polish zloty is too thin, but it's still possible to use it. 50 cent euro coin works perfectly in our shops, it's the same size as our 10 CZK coin.
Yes, the taxes are always included in the price on the sign. Most of the Bigger grocery stores do have some spaces which they rent out to bakeries and so on. We usually dont consider that a mall.
Also: Fluid has to be written in Liter (Milliliter, Deciliter). Food hast to be signed in Kilogramm (Gramm). The diffrence is always 1-10-100-1000. The price hat to be also written one Kilogramm and one Liter on the label small. So it is easy to compare prices.
there are places that don't have the tax included in the price tag because they are mostly for companies like electricians. in specialized shops like that you have to calculate a bit more than everywhere else. it is that way because the tax get's written off the purchase and paid when the company is reselling the object to the customer so that the object isn't taxed twice.
Well the price isn't always the same. For some glass bottles and most platic bottles as well as for beverages in cans you have to pay a deposit (which you get back if you bring the empty bottle or can back). The price tag usually doesn't include that deposit.
As a german it's funny to me that you have Trader Joe's in the US. My brother who moved to North Dakota told me it's quite an expensive brand over there. In Germany you get it at Aldi and it usually is the cheapest option for any given item.
Working in such a store myself (actually, working for Kaufland, the grocery chain), just something for clarification. The hair salon, the bakery he showed, the flower shop or travel agency aren't part of the grocery store. They're just in the same building and are known as concessionaires, meaning they are stores that rent space in the building. Either Kaufland owns the building or someone else does. In the Kaufland building I work in, there's the grocery store itself, but also a hair salon, an optical store (where they sell glasses), a bakery, a butcher shop, a travel agency, a tobacco shop, a small shop that sells Spreewald specialties, a clothing store, a shoe store and an electronics store. Outside are several food vendors, Chinese, Kebab, Bratwust/chicken, on Wednesdays a Hot Dog vendor, and on Thursdays, a Fish food vendor as well as a field kitchen In the video, the guy seems to be shopping pretty late in the day because the bakery already has a lot of empty trays Also, a market like this isn't actually a grocery store, it's rather a hypermarket, because they don't just sell food stuff and other household stuff but also shoes, clothes, electronics etc
no its a supermarket. thats actually the term for markets that sell general needs + a bit of extra general stuff. still general cuz, as example, everyone needs shoes.
Only 2 minutes in, and I am quite speechless already, “what is the incentive to get your xy token back”? Because that is the correct thing to do? As a German I don't know what to say here, the first thing most would say “well it's because in the US no one cares about anything except for themselves”. The thing is I would rather not be mean here, I am honestly baffled why Ryan has to think about it at all, because here no one would think about it this way.
Right? I would *never* leave my shopping cart just anywhere. I even tend to get annoyed when people don't push them back properly. It's just the right thing to do.
there's NO WAY that full cart would add up to 500€, they just got groceries and household items, I'd estimate it was around 120 to 150€ max. If you're money savvy you could get a full cart of groceries for 80 to 100 €
As a German Girl i Just can sadly say its true , before this whole situation it was already much but Like a 500€ would Like be enough for some weeks depends what you bought, but now with this whole situation with the prices in the Stores went Up Like crazy so that this whole stuff costed 500€ and it maybe ist enough for a week, its so sad :(
@@ThomasKossatz 8% is the overall inflation but unfortunately the traditionally "cheap" foods got more expensive. The cheapest pasta used to be 0,39€ almost everywhere. Now it's at least 0,79€. Same with a lot of basic food items
An other thing: germans hate it, if you don't say the exactly correct information. Exaggeration is a big reason for a dispute between people. But we do it though. Its sooo german. 🙄 We germans love exactness. The comments are an example how true germans act. We call it : you are such an "Allman"! 😂😜
I used to visit Germany, Düsseldorf to be exact a lot. I didn’t bring back souvenirs of Germany. I brought back chocolates. There is nothing like German chocolates. My hairdresser would beg me to bring her back a certain chocolate and my daughter loved chocolate covered cherries but the German chocolate covered cherries were freshly made . I was there in the fall, and they were just made my suitcase was loaded.
Trader Joe's is the US branch of Aldi-Nord (located in the northern half of Germany). The US Aldi is a branch of Aldi-Süd (located in the southern half of Germany). Both German Aldis look very similar to US Aldi and not like Trader Joe's.
@@brittches yes. Similar to Fanta from Germany, which coke did buy. But Fanta (created 1940) in Germany still has 6% fruit juice in while the US version does *not!* ;)
That bakery selection actually isn't that big by German standards. You usually got like 10 different types of bread rolls, even on Sundays, and that doesn't even included the different bread types. I'm pretty sure most Asians would assure you that our "Asian" food doesn't taste anything like what they'd actually serve. Asparagus is a staple in German spring cuisine, but I'd really recommend buying fresh one from one of those little huts (usually the same farmers that have the strawberries also got asparagus plants in their fields :3) Of course you can get Heinz ketchup here as well ^^' - That Hela Gewürzketchup is a bit more like a mix of regular ketchup with something like a barbecue sauce. There's a lot of different spices added to that tomato+sugar+vinegar base and it's usually a bit sweeter :) BTW, just read on another vid, that the American Aldi got frozen Pretzels to bake at home that tastes like real German ones. Oh, and there is 0,1% skimmed milk, you can get that at Kaufland and Edeka both ^^.
1:50 many people kind of get attached to their own personal plastic chips, in my experience. Also it's less about the "getting it back" imo but more about general order and cleanliness, which germans love.
It's also the fact that those chips usually cost about 99 cents to replace, so you'd only save one cent on putting a euro coin into the slit. The main difference between the chips and the coin is that you won't use the chip to buy something and therefore you will always have it in your pocket or attached to your keychain when you need it.
idk which part of germany u guys live in that the carts get brought back but over here a lot of them get left out around like either the friggin coin slot part is just busted open like literally half the handle bar being gone or someone just somehow got the coin out with a damn lockpick or somethin like that.
That's true. I did got attached to my plastic coin and I get angry if my husband takes it 😂😂😂 But only because I'm 100% sure he will never give it back to me.
4:55 When you drive out of the city a few miles you can get asparagus wich was harvested the same day in the morning. Literally in every village. And mostly you get it a little pre-peeled. Or you also can get 'broken' pieces for a much lower price.
Kaufland is very different from other supermarkets. It’s more like a Walmart. Normal supermarkets don’t have travel agency’s, food corners or nail salons in it.
Yes,.maybe we should differentiate 3 classes of German Grocery stores: 1. "Discounter" like Aldi, Lidl, Penny, Netto, Norma 2. "Vollsortimenter" with a much larger choice of articles - and usually a bakery shop / cafe near its entrance/exit ... for example Rewe and Edeka 3. Even larger stores with much more non-food articles than Rewe and Edeka, and with more small external shops in their periphery, e.g. Kaufland, Real, Globus
@@tobyk.4911 The chains for very large stores I see the most here in Hamburg are Rewe Center (obviously owned by Rewe - they used to be called Toom) and Marktkauf (owned by Edeka).
@@LythaWausW Never. It needs a pharmacist who can explain to you the possible side effects and counter indication with taking different medicines. So if a pharmacist opens his shop in a grocery store than yes. Wont happen in a discounter. But usually you have a group of shops at one location. Aldi and Lidl plus a rossmann a general beaverage&liquor shop, at bigger locations probably a pharmacist, doctors clinics and maybe a salon, a hardware store, a fuel station and a bank or at least an ATM. In my 3500 peoples village 5km from a 50000 peoples city there is a discounter, bank, salon, pharmacist, doctor, shoe shop, flower shop at one spot. some more shops at some other locations. When it is a small business it is allowed in a suburb in germany. Like a private house with small shop for electrics or such as a home point of the local plumber or electrician.
@@mweskamppp I didn't get your "Never" cuz after that word you explained the circumstances in which it would be possible, what I was referring to. I'm thinking there were Americans in 1940 who would never believe in such a thing as an in-store pharmacy.
The ketchup bottles he has... it's not really tomato ketchup, but it's more of spicy curry type sauce. But it's a popular condiment in Germany (and the Netherlands)
@@Nils.Minimalist Curry ketchup is amazing! But only the Hela brand, the others don't compare And I'm sometimes amazed how people don't know this outside of Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium
In Germany by law the final price must be obvious for the consumer -- all prices for goods and services targeting the "ordinary" consumer. For professional purposes, like B2B (business to business) the VAT (value added tax = MWSt, Mehrwertsteuer in German) may be omitted. It is also mandatory for most products to reference the price information to "proper" sizes like liter, kilogram (or sometimes 100 grams). You must be able to compare prizes of the 185 gram glass of a product, i.e. peanut butter, to the 205 g glass of peanut butter of a different or even the same producer. Generally, it is "what you see, is what you pay".
@Hellequin Maskharat Wrong. Legally you cant "force" the lower price. Its all about "declaration of intent" or in German "Willenserklärung". The Shop wants 2,99 but you want to buy it for 2,79 because the sign said so. Then your "Willenserklärung" differs and no "Purchase contract" or in german "Kaufvertrag" is happening.
@Hellequin Maskharat The shop cant get sued due to a wrong label. Try it, it wont work. I work in retail. Most retailers give you the lower price because of goodwill. But they are not legally bound to do that. Shops can only be warned due to violation of competition law. But a customer can not force the lower price.
@Hellequin Maskharat That is incorrect. The price in the cash register is the one that counts, but you can reject the price and leave the item in the store.
@Hellequin Maskharat actually they are correct. It is called invitatio ad offerendum. The invitation for a purchase. In general the price of the register is the correct one. The shop have to react and change the label imidiately otherwise they can be sued due to misleading advertising. But they don't have to sell anything to anyone. Both, the costumer and the company, have to agree the purchase. If the company refuse to sell a product underpriced and react to the wrong label, there is no chance for the costumer to force it because the labels are typically offers without engagement.
That thing where taxes are not included in the price you see was quite the culture shock for me when I traveled to Canada. I was so used to the "german way" of what you see is what you pay, it never occured to me that there were other ways to do it. I'm not sure how Tesla is going to fare; Walmart failed miserably and now ALDI (german company) has a good foothold in the US. But it seems like Elon makes some of the mistakes Walmart made, especially when it comes to bargaining with german labour unions.
1:45 easy answer you will bring your cart back to get your plastic token back, so that you will have your plastic token available, the next time you need one to get a shopping cart
The reason you want your "plastic thing" back from the shopping cart is that the next time you go shopping - you can bet that you forgot to bring a new one from home. I.e. you always have your plastic thing (some are made so you can fasten them on your keychain) or a euro coin in your pocket for this very reason. (and in my experience those plastic things are not that common - so it is not like you have dozens of them laying about at home)
I go to ALDI here in the US a lot and I always forget my quarter because I empty all of my change in to a box on my nightstand every night - it becomes mad money. When it gets to be $200 worth of change I cash it in
Most keys with a coin-shaped handle work perfectly fine. And you always want to have your key returned unless you use a key of a discarded lock - like myself.
The intersting thing is that he went to Kaufland. The local Kaufland here actually sells metal versions of the chips for 50 cents, which is obviously cheaper than a euro coin
This haul wasn't 500 Dollars, my guess: it was less than 200 Euros. This is Kaufland = the Vollsortiment (whole assortment with mainly brand goods) of Lidl (discounter). But most people have no clue. Trader Joe belongs to Aldi Nord.
@@meisterwu8922 i assume its even more expensive. i dont know, ive never been. kaufland is fairly expensive when compared to like aldi for instance though
I remember the time, when Aldi (or so I think) introduced this "deposit" for the shopping carts. They claimed at that time, shopping carts often were stolen. Homeless pepople were called to be the culprit (that never was confirmed though). Because these things cost a fortune they thought of this solution. The result was, that the number of stolen carts dropped like a stone an is now well below the 1% mark (from around 25 to 30 %)
In Germany (and in my opinion in the whole EU) the prices shown always include the relevant taxes. You pay what the sign says. Exception: special wholesale chains such as METRO, which only sell to traders. VAT is added to the stated price. Heinz ketchup is also available in Germany. However, many Germans love Hela's spice ketchup (curry ketchup). The European chocolate tastes completely different than your American chocolate from Hershey. You should check out "Why Europeans Hate the Taste of American Chocolate - Cheddar Explains".
Just to clear things up...I actually used to shop in this exact place a few years ago...it's actually more of a mall type of set-up than just the super market. The actual supermarket starts at the entry sign of "Kaufland" inside the building. The other shops are renting space from the supermarket, as it owns the "Kaufhaus" which is a type of shopping mall. The idea is to attract more customers to each other, as they may enter because they need to get something from the grocery store and might stop by the bakery, or the other way around, they have an appointment to get their hair cut and decide to get their groceries while they're at it, instead of driving to a separate location to do so. - However, it is important to mention, that these stores called "Kaufland" only exist in a few locations in the West of germany, you'll find supermarkets like, "Penny", "Rewe", "Edeka", "Lidl", "Aldi", and "Netto" across Germany in more locations than "Kaufland".
We got Kaufland in East Germany too! I've lived in (east) Berlin and Brandenburg and we have several locations. Among students It's recommended as the best paying job even :)
It's kind of unique to Kaufland though. I've never seen a Kaufland without those small stores at the entrance and i don't remember seeing another supermarket that has those small stores, except for small bakeries of course.
The reason why your american Pretzels look different is that german ones are dipped in salt lye before they get into the oven, which makes the skin crunchy and the whole thing slightly saltier
@@TangerineCreamsickle Idk what he means with salt lye, but it's actually sodium hydroxide. The story I know behind that is that a baker some long time ago dropped pretzels into his cleaning detergent by accidant and decided to still bake and sell them.
The incentive is the simple fact that you will need that little plastic thingy again next time you're going grocery shopping. I can tell you, it's really annoying to browse your stuff for a euro coin or the plastic thing before entering the store. Therefore, most germans carry one with them in a certain spot and that way make sure that they're always equipped.
Recently the coins get more or off fashion. Many carts don't have any, the little chain is just dangling. There is a little item which can relate release a cart and can be pulled out afterwards, unlike a coin.
But lately they Hand out key chains that open the shopping cart. People mostly still rerun it at least close to the shop. For the plastic token, well you want it back because you gonna use it again. Found one in my winter jacket yesterday. Was wondering where that went
You want your plastic chip back because you don't have an endless amount of them so if you always leave your chip in the cart you won't have it anymore so you'll be back to using coins. Also we are just used to bringing the cart back.
The incentive to get the plastic thingy back is to be able to use it again. I have a metal one, that I always keep in my vest pocket (edit: not the vest mentioned in the video, lol). That way, I'm never caught without a fitting coin (be it fake or real), when shopping. Plus there's also that innate sense of politeness, and you just don't want to be "that guy" who leaves the cart out on the parking lot, and get stared at.
4.51 it is Asparagus!! You can buy it only for about two months, between April and June. It’s very very popular in Germany, also quite expensive. We eat it boiled with butter, sauce hollandaise, potatoes and ham. During „Spargel time“ every restaurant has its own creation
@@kratzikatz1 Only if it's dry. Couscous is great when it's drenched in a tasty sauce. Probably not the way it's meant to be eaten but yeah, it's pretty gross when it's dry.
We bring the carts back because we're conditioned to do so. Most people put in a Euro, not a plastic chip. And there are several shops where you don't need a chip or a Euro, and people still bring back the cart. It's just... us. Yes, that's a mini mall. Regular super markets usually only have a bakery outlet in addition to the market itself. Yes, when he says Trader Joe's he means the USA. We don't have Trader Joe's here, only its parent company ALDI (which funnily enough has a store brand that's called Trader Joe's). All prices presented to the customer have to prices including taxes. It's the law. I guess HE is the son who lives overseas and is on visit at home in Germany. Yes, we have Heinz. Those magazines are bought by older women (Except Bravo, which I'm suprised to see is still in print). Many of them don't want to take an iPad or something along. A lot of people got jobs at Musk's factory... and quit after a short while They expected to be treated like German workers, but... well, they were treated like Musk treats his workers, no matter what the law says. No, Pinatas are uncommoon here. Ralph's is a west coast thing, maybe even lower west coast only. Never seen "The Big Lebowski"? Further questions?
Toast-Bread is no bread! Toast-Bread does not still hunger by it self! *Bread's* function is to *still hunger* as *mainfood* which _Toast-Bread_ can not fullfill. Invalid as bread. On top, Toast-Bread has no own crust. Crust delivers most of a breads taste, which is why Toast-Bread tastes bland, but a bit sweet. Sweet, bc Toast-Bread root is from *Milchbrot/ Milkbread.* Which is a *yeast pastry.* Toast-Bread is in true form a yeast pastry. No Bread. >> It only can _fake_ to be kind of a bread, by _toasting it,_ to create a fake crust, which *then* adds taste to it. Again, bread is a mainfood like rice, potatoe, nudle,.. *Function is to still hunger as main food, by it self.* ~> Toast-Bread can't be bread therefor with missing function for it. >> Which is why "Toast" needs to be added infront of "bread" bc it is no bread, but "bread-like" in connection of toasting it.
Plastic tokens for shopping carts: you need one every time you go shopping. So either get it back when you are done or somehow get and bring a new one every time - or use a 1€ next time and then you will bring the cart back to get your 1€^^ Sometimes you can get the plastic tokens for free as a promo or something, but that's not a daily thing. Otherwise, you can buy them. And they usually are a euro each at least.
Imagine you left your plastic token thing in the last shopping cart and next time have to use an euro for it, and at the register with your shoppings n shit you realize you're missing 1 euro, which happen to be in the cart but you can't get it. Welp sucks for you, better carry a plastic token with no worth around to use it for shopping carts and don't throw away plastic like a gone mad maniac.
Sometimes, the building "belongs" to the main store, like Kaufland in this case. All the other "shops", like restaurant, nail shop, bakery are their own shops. It's like a mini mall.
9:30 yes a euro is worth more but currently not by much. It used to be 1€=$1.2 last year but this year they actually reached parity at one point and right now 1€ is just $1.01-1.03 so bascially 1 to 1.
I guess the price of the items was around 120-170 Euro (for What i have Seen). Far away From 500 bucks. Kaufland (Name of the Store) is a discount grocery with pretty good prices. You can buy food for a family of 4 for a whole week under 100 Euros. Fresh fruits, vegetables and their favourit snacks included. 🙂
I consider Kaufland as quite pricey, like Edeka :D but you have a wiiide selection of everything which is cool if you need something special. I prefer stores like Netto for weekly grocery shopping / general stuff because I spend less money there👍
1:40 In Latvian supermarkets you usually don't have to put anything to get a shopping cart but most of the people bring it back anyway. I see it as a good gesture of keeping the surroundings nice and clean, even if it's a supermarket. A contribution to the common good.
Its becoming more and more common here in Germany aswell to not have to put anything into the cart. But we still bring it back. I've basically never seen an abandoned shopping cart.
@@themrnoname2945 I've seen one today.......in a river bed. That's not the first time I've seen that. I'd say we should keep the coin requirement for shopping carts. There's to many fools who don't know how to behave.
yes. The plastic chips we want returned to not have to get them again and again and also just because. From time to time I see carts that are just opened and still return them properly. And the main reason to return them is that we are not animals
I'm curious about your black ring. I have one which looks exactly the same. But mine is a contactless Visa Card and I can pay with it for my purchases. Is your ring a bank card, too?
I like watching youtube reactions of Americans to things here in Germany and Europe in general. I never realized you didn't have shopping cart areas for plastic tokens or 1-Euro coins to unlock in front of supermarkets. Sometimes they are located inside near the entrance, which is so handy during the cold winter time or rainfall. As far as the incentive is concerned to bring them back... most people actually put real coins inside the unlocking mechanism, so you want your money back again after you finished shopping and packed all your products in your bag or inside the trunk of your car.
It was funny for me to find out that TJ is more a "posh" brand (store chain) in the US while here in Germany, Aldi exclusively sells Trader Joe's products (since they own them since the late 1970s) and their - say - roasted peanuts in a can are the cheapest you can find. They're pretty good though, and I looked it up: All Aldi peanuts sold in Germany are from the US (Georgia, if I recall that correctly).
Asia food is mostly very authentic in Germany. The restaurants are mostly run by asian people who import their goods directly from asia. So its less a made up look a like style, but real. Well half-true! The restaurants buy their stuff at an asian grocery store in Germany. Those stores import their stuff directly from asia. But I guess it kind of counts. Anyway! As you asked for the bill for the whole purchase ... I am pretty sure it was far less than 100 bucks! ;-)
Asian restaurants have different kinds of levels - European Asian - or Original Asian. Particularly in Thai you will find the difference in heat. They have medium hot, hot, extra hot - and original Thai hot ... which burns a hole in a German esophagus *just kidding
@@franhunne8929 I know. I had a Thai neighbor in my students home. Once i started cooking in the community kitchen for the floor when he came in and put some white - green sausage in the pan. As soon as it got warm, my eyes started to tear. So i left and came back 15minutes later. He was sitting at the table, eating his sausage. Sweat on his face, it was dripping from his nose...
I started to cook Asian foods as a student - in cities you can find little asian food markets that sell you specialities - like glass noodles, soy sauce, sambal olek (chili paste), peanut paste for cooking, bamboo shoots,... There are restaurants that have Chinese, Thai, and Indian food. But you also have the option cook it yourself. We have not that much immigrants from Asia (around 2%, but mostly in big cities) - there are more Turkish immigrants, but weirdly not that much stores for their food.
I am pretty sure it is only USA where tax is paid by the customer on top of the price. In most of the world you pay only what it says on the sticker, and tax is already calculated into the price by the shop.
7:50 Yeah ofc we got Heinz.Heinz kinda Sounds like a German name, doesnt it? Well Heinz only exists because of Germany, it’s kinda a German American Company of you leave out the fact that it’s founder was Born in America 😂. Well Henry John Heinz father was from Germany as well as his mother. They emmigrated to pensilvania and got a few children. Henry John Heinz then founded the Company Heinz in 1869 and Invented the Ketchup in 1876…
Don't worry about when he said "dick". That's just our German word for "fat" (fat like the size, not that stuff in our bodies). Another hard word for English speaking people coming to Germany is "Fahrt", just pronounced like the English "fart" but with another meaning: "drive". Some language students (especially the younger ones) have a difficult time, when they learn some traffic related vocabulary.
kaufland actually is not a regular "grocery store", it s more like a German Walmart, as you said.Foreigners always mix them up in these videos, e.g. they often call "Aldi" and "Lidl" falsely "super markets", which they arent, Aldi and Lidl are DISCOUNTERS. Regular German supermarkets would be "Rewe" and "Edeka" and "Hit".....
You gonna Do this Video near the Suisse border. Swiss get taxes back, so they pay a less of 19 and 7 % for Produkts the buyed. The Arena not europeens.
I just wanna say, this is rather atypical for a german supermarket. Usually, supermarkets will just be grocery stores with a section for kitchen material, some toys, and a few other things like fans. Most supermarkets will also have a small section that's rented out to some bakery chain so you can get your Weizenbrötchen there. For a supermarket to have small rooms with travel offices, a printer repair shop, nail studios, hairdressers, etc. is, at least where i live, highly unusual.
Regarding the Asian food: I live in Düsseldorf and we have a really big Asian community and a lot of very good an authentic Restaurants. So if you ever travel to Germany stop in Düsseldorf, it‘s a beautiful example of different cultures meeting. Because very close to the japanease part of the town is a big arab&turkish community. So you get a lot of amazing food. I really enjoy you content, it gives a new perspective on the mondaine aspects of daily life, so thank you ❤️
About German beer you are right. When I was in the army we had a field exercise with an US company. We had competetive training and we lost. Massively. After that we had BBQ together and we brought German beer. We learnt, one bottle took the US boys out. (Most effective way to win against the US ;) army.) We tried the field exercise (without guns) again and we Germans won big. Mighty beer!
Yes, in Europe, not only in Germany, the prices on the shelf include all taxes. For all products. In the case of services, things are the same. The agreed price is the final price and includes all taxes.
I'd love to send you some of our German sweets and snacks but then I googled how much the shipping costs would be for like 10 lbs and now I'm still in shock 😵💫
About the milk sizes, if you open a gallone pack of milk, you have a whole gallone of milk open that's exposed to air and starts to spoil and can get sour. If you have 4x 1liter packs you use 1 and still have 3 liter fresh.
High pasteurized milk lasts a long time, so it makes sence to sell it by the gallon. Low pasteurized milk on the other hand, only lasts for about a week, and it can't sit out of the fridge for too long before going bad. Because of this, it is better to sell it in litre containers. Why even buy low- pasteurized milk if it doesn't last? Because the pasteurization process destroys a lot of the natural nutrients in the milk.
@@JH-lo9utplus american milk is just more watery than ours... Not the same amount of fat and proteins in it... Not even mentionning the quality of fats and proteins.
kaufland and real are more like wallmart where you can get all kinds of stuff not just grocerys. the typical grocery store in germany are much smaller where you can only buy food and daily products
14:57 he didn't describe what they look like, he quoted an ad for a candy called 'Dickmann'. On tv it always said "Mann, sind die Dickmann." which roughly translates into "Man, are those huge-man." So it was just a nice little german reference when we comment on something overly large. Not that common nowadays but i think everyone still knows that slogan. :) Also at 16:32 you say that 'Schönheit' seems like a long word for beauty. While our word for beautiful is just 'schön'. :D
You have seen enough of these videos for me to not tell you anything new, but take a guess why milk can be sold in a gallon in the US and a liter in Europe? No, the answer is not the metric system ;) Unless it's specially labeled, if you open milk in Europe it spoils in a couple of days. To the point you smell and see that the milk is no longer consumable. As far as I know, US milk is pasteurized and filled with stuff that makes it consumable for weeks.
15:50 This milk in the refrigerator, is only pasteurization. No additives to make it durable, which should be used up quickly once opened. It spoils quickly
We take that cart back because the plastic chip costs more than a EURO 🤣 (In fact, I have a very pretty metal keychain one that's a memento of a trip I took 10 years ago. Definitely going back for that) Also, German Asian food is also its own thing and vastly different in taste from American Asian food. I imagine it's what our Asian hosts think Germans think Asian food is like. Whatever it is, I love it!
The wheels thing surprised me. How do you cope with locked back wheels? If the shop is getting crowded, the ability to shimmy a little to the side to get past someone seems, vital
All supermarkets, hardwarestores, gardencenters etc. use these shopping carts. Easier to have a plastic token than a euro. You don't spend it. Annoying to have to go inside for change.
Spargel is White Asparagus and not even close in flavor to Green nor in texture. Aldi, now in the US owns Trader Joe's, well one part of Aldi does and so on. He is comparing prices in Germany to the US. 😊
With a full cart like that, as long as they did not buy something very small and expensive, the price for all goods should not exceed 250-300 Euros. Usually full carts of store brands would be between 100 and 200 Euros.
Thanks for your reaction! I would consider this Kaufland (grocery) store huge. The average one would be considerably smaller, but most of them tend to let some space to a local bakery chain. Sometimes you also see a newsagent stand, a tailor's shop, a dry cleaner or a hairdresser. In small towns and villages, though, they can be really tiny. And in order to push your cart around tight corners, you need all four wheels to turn!
So funny what he did with the Shoppingcar, I didn’t know that the wheels are frozen in the USA. For a german person as myself it’s such a common thing and for you it’s so special. So funny 😂😂
This store is a lot bigger than the average one over here in Germany. I prefer the smaller ones anyway as I can just dash through and be done in 20 mins. Fun fact: My usual grocery store stopped doing the chip thing at the carts during Covid times as taking a cart was mandatory to get in. They did not get back to it yet - must be working without it now! And regarding the Pinatas: It's not at all common here. Yet. It might be some day though, so many things have. Halloween for example. I love the holiday but I am really sad that the "Trick or Treat" part seems to push our "Laterne singen" (Lantern singing) aside. Very sad for our own cultural remains... 🤷♀️
12:00 Well... about Elon Musks factory. It's built on one of the dryest corners of Germany which has a real struggle with rainfall and it's ground water reservoirs. And for some reason all those pesky bureaucratic hurdles disappeared - poof - like magic. And now he's building a factory that wastes an ungodly ammount of water per day for little to no gain for the local population. Obviously some obstacles can be removed by throwing money at them...
In Germany a Pinata is quite uncommon. Much more often you would have a Schnitzeljagd or Schatzsuche. A treasure hunt. Something that is quite similar to a pinata is Topfschlagen (pot hitting), where you would hide candy under a pot and put on a blindfold. You would hide the pot with the candy in the room, then spin around the kid and give them a big spoon. The kid is supposed to probe for the pot with the spoon and try to find it by feeling around. It is called Topfschlagen, because you would bang on the pot when you found it. Normally the other kids would scream hot or cold depending on if you are going in the right direction or not.
Shopping carts: That coin thing is in Vancouver, Canada, too. Here in Germany, I have never seen any stolen or ditched shopping carts. Shopping cart quality here is amazing though. Never seen one with stuck wheels or other problems. The parking lot spots for shopping carts do exist here too. Oh and the carts will take a 50 cent coin, so does not have to be a 1 Euro coin (or token) Not all grocery stores are that extensive here. Yes Heinz is available here but it is a lot pricier. MAOAM is pronounced May-o-em in English. And most definitely available in North America. German chocolate lives up to its reputation, as good or better than Swiss. Bread here is amazing. Pretty much all baked goods here are amazing. Many supermarkets still have in store bakeries and in store butchers. 'Dick' in German is 'thick' in English, lol. Schönheit is 'beauty.' 'Pflege' is 'care.' And yes, beer here is amazing too. And if you go to something like Oktoberfest, beer is served in a 1 litre glass mug.
oh, then I have news for you. Recently a lot more people who don't come by car drive home with their carts and then just leave them standing somewhere. I have seen someone with a shopping cart on a tram. People here become more and more like Americans when it comes to shopping (customer is king and always right) and I think it's not a good thing.
@@resathe6760 Not seen that anywhere here in Bayern (Bavaria) so far. Sad, but believable though. Oh, in the supermarket, though, they can be really annoying, blocking the aisle with their cart, standing trying to decide on the right whatever forever.... they are usually a bit more polite at the checkout but still... And in restaurants, the service standards are so different could do an entire video on them
@@nctpti2073 I think part of the service standard in the US is the fact that the servers are dependent on good tips to survive, whereas they get a wage in Germany you can actually live on. So you don't have to be as "nice" here. Also so often people are just rude to service personnel and I think it is good that you don't have to tolerate every shitty thing they think they have a right to do
@@resathe6760 It isn't so much that as the standards of nice are very different. Here, the standard is mostly leaving you alone at your table. So you are less likely to be asked things like if you need fresh drinks or a top up for the water in your tea or things like that. And the check comes when you flag your waiter down to ask him for it. The waiting staff usually are friendly enough, even despite tipping not being such a thing here (and as I think I mentioned, tipping too much can be taken as an insult)
3:52 Funny, how different people percieve the same thing completely differently. You say “so many bread options :))) While I was thinking “clearly almost sold out, he probably went shopping 1-2 hours before the closing time”.
Damn
exactly what I thought :D
My thoughts exactly. 🙂
Did you know that a big part of all the bread sold goes to trash because people won't buy in a shop whose stuff is so good they already sold most of it? What is the use of fresh bread at the end of the day nobody wants to buy tomorrow?
So funny, because I live in America and was like, “That’s a normal amount of bread options.. not even that many.” My grocery store in Maryland has more than that in the bakery area. Pretty similar to Germany. And of course if you go to a bakery that’s not in a grocery store, there are a lot more options. Dieser Typ kommt vielleicht aus einer Kleinstadt. Oder hat leider einfach einen schlechten Markt in der Nähe. 🤷🏼♀️
My thought when I saw the bakery : "they didn't have much choice and almost nothing was refilled" 😄
Must been in the evening, they don't bake and refill anymore as bakeries usually close around 6-7pm and try to sell whatever is left after 4 or 5pm.
@@LA-st6dq This exactly. Though depending on the bakery they are open until 8-9pm. Of course, that is not the case with every bakery. But most of the time we will just sell whatever we have left ^^
yeah, same for me. and, NO, these are not "French Baguette". mon dieu, quelle horreur.
Thats not only "Kaufland"! It's a Mall with the Supermarket Kaufland as an anchor store!
"Do you have Heinz?" kind of made me laugh. Since the family of the founder of the Heinz company were originally from Germany^^
Not saying you're wrong, just want to elaborate on it.
I think it was a valid question as Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz Company was born and raised in the US. His father emigrated from Germany to the US 4 years before he was born.
Henry visited Germany a few times when he was already maybe 50 years old(?), probably from the end of the 19th century until WWI.
It is a true US product. However, the high quality of it comes from his German background.
@@StefanInOz while i 100% agree...
*Ketchup* ... is *not* a US product.
Ketchup... the root of name is already from *China!*
The *Brits,* brought it from there home. Switched _Fish_ with mushrooms & tomatoes. Heinz picked it up & made it big ;)
Yet when I in Britain first came across the Heinz brand, (baked beans and tomato soup,) I was convinced it was American. Well, it was 70 years ago!
The Heinz family comes from the same village as the Trump family, Kallstadt.
Heinz is great but once you went Hela (the one with the green top) you never go back to Heinz!
as a german myself, this was very interesting to watch
things that seem so normal in a grocery store are so special to others
very interesting
not from US but that travel agency really unexpected for me 😂
The fact he said so many bread options even though the bakery was already mostly empty
Kaufland is more like a Walmart or target in the US I think. Most grocery stores are smaller and don’t have a travel agency or a barber 😂 but most of them have a bakery and a butcher
A video would be much more interesting
Kaufland vs Lidl vs Aldi
@@tihomirrasperic
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Yeah, and considering that they have Aldi and Lidl in the US, would be interesting to see a comparison on the similarities and differences
And the fresh fish and cheese counters.
This really looks more like a mini mall. The supermarket is obviously the main tenant, maybe the other store owners are even subletting from the supermarket. But the travel agency etc. are definitely seperate businesses the same way a lot of German supermarkets host a bakery or flower shop in their entry area that are separately owned and run.
Because you have to buy the plastic coin, you would still lose money by leaving it there. The purpose of a plastic coin is that you don't spend it on anything, so you'll always have a coin for the cart ready in your wallet.
You get them for free
@@karionwhite2367 sure, occasionally, but not all that readily. so if you just leave your plastic coin out of laziness to bring your cart back - saving you a precious 45secs of your life - you'll have to get out of your way to get a new one somewhere before the next time you go shopping again, or - more likely - you'll forget about it until the time you hit the supermarket again and will be scrambling to find a euro in your purse instead.
Yes. Or you are like me and have some spare change/plastic coins in a car exactly to get the shopping cart or maybe pay for parking etc.
@@karionwhite2367 maybe so, but to get yet another free plastic coin, you'll lose more time than bringing the cart back. Simple math.
I am using foreign coins instead of "plastic coin." I have some polish zloty or euro coins which works too in Czech supermarkets. Euro works better, polish zloty is too thin, but it's still possible to use it. 50 cent euro coin works perfectly in our shops, it's the same size as our 10 CZK coin.
Yes, the taxes are always included in the price on the sign.
Most of the Bigger grocery stores do have some spaces which they rent out to bakeries and so on. We usually dont consider that a mall.
Also: Fluid has to be written in Liter (Milliliter, Deciliter). Food hast to be signed in Kilogramm (Gramm). The diffrence is always 1-10-100-1000. The price hat to be also written one Kilogramm and one Liter on the label small. So it is easy to compare prices.
there are places that don't have the tax included in the price tag because they are mostly for companies like electricians. in specialized shops like that you have to calculate a bit more than everywhere else. it is that way because the tax get's written off the purchase and paid when the company is reselling the object to the customer so that the object isn't taxed twice.
Well the price isn't always the same. For some glass bottles and most platic bottles as well as for beverages in cans you have to pay a deposit (which you get back if you bring the empty bottle or can back). The price tag usually doesn't include that deposit.
15:13 in german "dick" means fat or big so he said something like: "man, these are fat"
As a german it's funny to me that you have
Trader Joe's in the US. My brother who moved to North Dakota told me it's quite an expensive brand over there. In Germany you get it at Aldi and it usually is the cheapest option for any given item.
Trader Joe's is Aldis own brand. So the Trader Joe's Stores in the US are just different Aldi Stores. ;)
Trader Joes is Aldi Nord in America
@@st.quaker2327 And dont forget Aldi Süd!
Working in such a store myself (actually, working for Kaufland, the grocery chain), just something for clarification. The hair salon, the bakery he showed, the flower shop or travel agency aren't part of the grocery store. They're just in the same building and are known as concessionaires, meaning they are stores that rent space in the building. Either Kaufland owns the building or someone else does.
In the Kaufland building I work in, there's the grocery store itself, but also a hair salon, an optical store (where they sell glasses), a bakery, a butcher shop, a travel agency, a tobacco shop, a small shop that sells Spreewald specialties, a clothing store, a shoe store and an electronics store. Outside are several food vendors, Chinese, Kebab, Bratwust/chicken, on Wednesdays a Hot Dog vendor, and on Thursdays, a Fish food vendor as well as a field kitchen
In the video, the guy seems to be shopping pretty late in the day because the bakery already has a lot of empty trays
Also, a market like this isn't actually a grocery store, it's rather a hypermarket, because they don't just sell food stuff and other household stuff but also shoes, clothes, electronics etc
no its a supermarket. thats actually the term for markets that sell general needs + a bit of extra general stuff. still general cuz, as example, everyone needs shoes.
Only 2 minutes in, and I am quite speechless already, “what is the incentive to get your xy token back”? Because that is the correct thing to do? As a German I don't know what to say here, the first thing most would say “well it's because in the US no one cares about anything except for themselves”.
The thing is I would rather not be mean here, I am honestly baffled why Ryan has to think about it at all, because here no one would think about it this way.
Right? I would *never* leave my shopping cart just anywhere. I even tend to get annoyed when people don't push them back properly. It's just the right thing to do.
@@CazuhLynn and everytime to the shortest line, so its not just one long line over the whole parking lot 😁
@@SaridenChan Yes, exactly!!
the plastic thing is also pretty usefull when you have no coins on you.
becaue in germany we like it clean and everthing in its own place
there's NO WAY that full cart would add up to 500€, they just got groceries and household items, I'd estimate it was around 120 to 150€ max. If you're money savvy you could get a full cart of groceries for 80 to 100 €
As a German Girl i Just can sadly say its true , before this whole situation it was already much but Like a 500€ would Like be enough for some weeks depends what you bought, but now with this whole situation with the prices in the Stores went Up Like crazy so that this whole stuff costed 500€ and it maybe ist enough for a week, its so sad :(
@@hey_there3552 Well, 100 Euro plus 8 % Inflation is 108 Euro, not 500.
@@ThomasKossatz 8% is the overall inflation but unfortunately the traditionally "cheap" foods got more expensive. The cheapest pasta used to be 0,39€ almost everywhere. Now it's at least 0,79€. Same with a lot of basic food items
@@horizoon Octopus, even if you double my correct number, you reach 116 Euro, not 500. It is still nonsense.
An other thing: germans hate it, if you don't say the exactly correct information.
Exaggeration is a big reason for a dispute between people. But we do it though.
Its sooo german. 🙄
We germans love exactness.
The comments are an example how true germans act.
We call it : you are such an "Allman"! 😂😜
I used to visit Germany, Düsseldorf to be exact a lot. I didn’t bring back souvenirs of Germany. I brought back chocolates. There is nothing like German chocolates. My hairdresser would beg me to bring her back a certain chocolate and my daughter loved chocolate covered cherries but the German chocolate covered cherries were freshly made . I was there in the fall, and they were just made my suitcase was loaded.
Nothing like German chocolates?? Not sure what the Swiss and (my fellow) Belgians would say to this.
As a German I must say that chocolate from Belgium and Switzerland is best.
“Haribo is rly big here in America” was the moment when every German thought “wenn er nur wüsste”
Translating to English: "If only he knew"
Trader Joe's is the US branch of Aldi-Nord (located in the northern half of Germany). The US Aldi is a branch of Aldi-Süd (located in the southern half of Germany). Both German Aldis look very similar to US Aldi and not like Trader Joe's.
Yes. Aldi is *rank 3* in the US.
LIDL is rushing as well to the top. For last 4 years in most expanding comps in the US.
TJ is just owned by Aldi Nord, but a completely different store. I wish it existed in Germany.
@@Jaeger-LeKilltre Trader Joe was founded 1958 by Joe Coulombe. In 1979 he sold it to Aldi Nord.
@@brittches Aldi north sells some Trader Joe’s products.
@@brittches yes. Similar to Fanta from Germany, which coke did buy. But Fanta (created 1940) in Germany still has 6% fruit juice in while the US version does *not!*
;)
That bakery selection actually isn't that big by German standards. You usually got like 10 different types of bread rolls, even on Sundays, and that doesn't even included the different bread types.
I'm pretty sure most Asians would assure you that our "Asian" food doesn't taste anything like what they'd actually serve. Asparagus is a staple in German spring cuisine, but I'd really recommend buying fresh one from one of those little huts (usually the same farmers that have the strawberries also got asparagus plants in their fields :3)
Of course you can get Heinz ketchup here as well ^^' - That Hela Gewürzketchup is a bit more like a mix of regular ketchup with something like a barbecue sauce. There's a lot of different spices added to that tomato+sugar+vinegar base and it's usually a bit sweeter :) BTW, just read on another vid, that the American Aldi got frozen Pretzels to bake at home that tastes like real German ones. Oh, and there is 0,1% skimmed milk, you can get that at Kaufland and Edeka both ^^.
Looks like the video was made in the afternoon, when many bakery goods are sold out or only a few are left.
1:50 many people kind of get attached to their own personal plastic chips, in my experience. Also it's less about the "getting it back" imo but more about general order and cleanliness, which germans love.
It's also the fact that those chips usually cost about 99 cents to replace, so you'd only save one cent on putting a euro coin into the slit. The main difference between the chips and the coin is that you won't use the chip to buy something and therefore you will always have it in your pocket or attached to your keychain when you need it.
idk which part of germany u guys live in that the carts get brought back but over here a lot of them get left out around like either the friggin coin slot part is just busted open like literally half the handle bar being gone or someone just somehow got the coin out with a damn lockpick or somethin like that.
That's true. I did got attached to my plastic coin and I get angry if my husband takes it 😂😂😂
But only because I'm 100% sure he will never give it back to me.
@@Pelasmo you should move to another town dude 😁😁😁
@@Pelasmo sounds like you are from Frankfurt man
4:55 When you drive out of the city a few miles you can get asparagus wich was harvested the same day in the morning. Literally in every village. And mostly you get it a little pre-peeled. Or you also can get 'broken' pieces for a much lower price.
9:31 Paprika flavor is pretty popular in Germany. They show a red bell pepper on the package, because we use the word paprika for bell peppers
Kaufland is very different from other supermarkets. It’s more like a Walmart. Normal supermarkets don’t have travel agency’s, food corners or nail salons in it.
Yes,.maybe we should differentiate 3 classes of German Grocery stores:
1. "Discounter" like Aldi, Lidl, Penny, Netto, Norma
2. "Vollsortimenter" with a much larger choice of articles - and usually a bakery shop / cafe near its entrance/exit ... for example Rewe and Edeka
3. Even larger stores with much more non-food articles than Rewe and Edeka, and with more small external shops in their periphery, e.g. Kaufland, Real, Globus
@@tobyk.4911 When will any type of grocery store have an in-store pharmacy? *sigh*
@@tobyk.4911 The chains for very large stores I see the most here in Hamburg are Rewe Center (obviously owned by Rewe - they used to be called Toom) and Marktkauf (owned by Edeka).
@@LythaWausW Never. It needs a pharmacist who can explain to you the possible side effects and counter indication with taking different medicines. So if a pharmacist opens his shop in a grocery store than yes. Wont happen in a discounter. But usually you have a group of shops at one location. Aldi and Lidl plus a rossmann a general beaverage&liquor shop, at bigger locations probably a pharmacist, doctors clinics and maybe a salon, a hardware store, a fuel station and a bank or at least an ATM. In my 3500 peoples village 5km from a 50000 peoples city there is a discounter, bank, salon, pharmacist, doctor, shoe shop, flower shop at one spot. some more shops at some other locations. When it is a small business it is allowed in a suburb in germany. Like a private house with small shop for electrics or such as a home point of the local plumber or electrician.
@@mweskamppp I didn't get your "Never" cuz after that word you explained the circumstances in which it would be possible, what I was referring to. I'm thinking there were Americans in 1940 who would never believe in such a thing as an in-store pharmacy.
The ketchup bottles he has... it's not really tomato ketchup, but it's more of spicy curry type sauce. But it's a popular condiment in Germany (and the Netherlands)
I've never bought "normal" ketchup in Germany, cuz curry ketchup is superior. Heinz is on shelves so apparently some people buy it.
I am addicted to curry ketchup!
@@Nils.Minimalist Curry ketchup is amazing! But only the Hela brand, the others don't compare
And I'm sometimes amazed how people don't know this outside of Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium
@@LythaWausW To be fair.. I think both serve a different purpose. But Curry ketchup just goes with so many things and makes it taste even better
Im in love with Hela curry ketchup. For me its the best ketchup in the world :D
In Germany by law the final price must be obvious for the consumer -- all prices for goods and services targeting the "ordinary" consumer.
For professional purposes, like B2B (business to business) the VAT (value added tax = MWSt, Mehrwertsteuer in German) may be omitted.
It is also mandatory for most products to reference the price information to "proper" sizes like liter, kilogram (or sometimes 100 grams). You must be able to compare prizes of the 185 gram glass of a product, i.e. peanut butter, to the 205 g glass of peanut butter of a different or even the same producer.
Generally, it is "what you see, is what you pay".
@Hellequin Maskharat Wrong. Legally you cant "force" the lower price. Its all about "declaration of intent" or in German "Willenserklärung". The Shop wants 2,99 but you want to buy it for 2,79 because the sign said so. Then your "Willenserklärung" differs and no "Purchase contract" or in german "Kaufvertrag" is happening.
@Hellequin Maskharat The shop cant get sued due to a wrong label. Try it, it wont work. I work in retail. Most retailers give you the lower price because of goodwill. But they are not legally bound to do that.
Shops can only be warned due to violation of competition law. But a customer can not force the lower price.
@Hellequin Maskharat No it cant... as i said, try it.
I dont know why that matters but:
Fachverkäufer/-berater/in - Bau-/Heimwerkerbedarf
@Hellequin Maskharat That is incorrect. The price in the cash register is the one that counts, but you can reject the price and leave the item in the store.
@Hellequin Maskharat actually they are correct. It is called invitatio ad offerendum. The invitation for a purchase. In general the price of the register is the correct one. The shop have to react and change the label imidiately otherwise they can be sued due to misleading advertising. But they don't have to sell anything to anyone. Both, the costumer and the company, have to agree the purchase. If the company refuse to sell a product underpriced and react to the wrong label, there is no chance for the costumer to force it because the labels are typically offers without engagement.
That thing where taxes are not included in the price you see was quite the culture shock for me when I traveled to Canada.
I was so used to the "german way" of what you see is what you pay, it never occured to me that there were other ways to do it.
I'm not sure how Tesla is going to fare; Walmart failed miserably and now ALDI (german company) has a good foothold in the US. But it seems like Elon makes some of the mistakes Walmart made, especially when it comes to bargaining with german labour unions.
1:45 easy answer
you will bring your cart back to get your plastic token back, so that you will have your plastic token available, the next time you need one to get a shopping cart
The reason you want your "plastic thing" back from the shopping cart is that the next time you go shopping - you can bet that you forgot to bring a new one from home.
I.e. you always have your plastic thing (some are made so you can fasten them on your keychain) or a euro coin in your pocket for this very reason.
(and in my experience those plastic things are not that common - so it is not like you have dozens of them laying about at home)
I go to ALDI here in the US a lot and I always forget my quarter because I empty all of my change in to a box on my nightstand every night - it becomes mad money. When it gets to be $200 worth of change I cash it in
Yeah they are not that common but also not that rare. I mean i'm german and don't even know where to get one of these things.
Most keys with a coin-shaped handle work perfectly fine. And you always want to have your key returned unless you use a key of a discarded lock - like myself.
The intersting thing is that he went to Kaufland. The local Kaufland here actually sells metal versions of the chips for 50 cents, which is obviously cheaper than a euro coin
This haul wasn't 500 Dollars, my guess: it was less than 200 Euros.
This is Kaufland = the Vollsortiment (whole assortment with mainly brand goods) of Lidl (discounter). But most people have no clue.
Trader Joe belongs to Aldi Nord.
Yeah, 500 seems insane, the cart definitely did not include stuff this pricey even after the recent increases.
I say it's 80€, maybe 100, but not more
even if kaufland is fairly "expensive" they probably did not spend 500 euros on that cart of food. i doubt it went over 150 or 200
Probably closer to 150 than 200 I would guess.
@@andreasforster3614 yea, definitely not more than 150.
If Kaufland is expensive what about Famila?
@@meisterwu8922 i assume its even more expensive. i dont know, ive never been.
kaufland is fairly expensive when compared to like aldi for instance though
I remember the time, when Aldi (or so I think) introduced this "deposit" for the shopping carts.
They claimed at that time, shopping carts often were stolen. Homeless pepople were called to be the culprit (that never was confirmed though). Because these things cost a fortune they thought of this solution. The result was, that the number of stolen carts dropped like a stone an is now well below the 1% mark (from around 25 to 30 %)
As a Student end of 80th I had a cart as a wardrobe. there was punky cool Times ...
I HAVE TO ADD,THAT CART OF GROCERIES WAS PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN 150 EUROS.
In Germany (and in my opinion in the whole EU) the prices shown always include the relevant taxes. You pay what the sign says. Exception: special wholesale chains such as METRO, which only sell to traders. VAT is added to the stated price. Heinz ketchup is also available in Germany. However, many Germans love Hela's spice ketchup (curry ketchup). The European chocolate tastes completely different than your American chocolate from Hershey. You should check out "Why Europeans Hate the Taste of American Chocolate - Cheddar Explains".
I think it's an EU directive to show customers the end-price with all taxes included.
@@T0MT0Mmmmy you are right, customer has right to know the final price before purchase otherwise is illegal for end - customer type of stores
Just to clear things up...I actually used to shop in this exact place a few years ago...it's actually more of a mall type of set-up than just the super market. The actual supermarket starts at the entry sign of "Kaufland" inside the building. The other shops are renting space from the supermarket, as it owns the "Kaufhaus" which is a type of shopping mall. The idea is to attract more customers to each other, as they may enter because they need to get something from the grocery store and might stop by the bakery, or the other way around, they have an appointment to get their hair cut and decide to get their groceries while they're at it, instead of driving to a separate location to do so. - However, it is important to mention, that these stores called "Kaufland" only exist in a few locations in the West of germany, you'll find supermarkets like, "Penny", "Rewe", "Edeka", "Lidl", "Aldi", and "Netto" across Germany in more locations than "Kaufland".
We got Kaufland in East Germany too! I've lived in (east) Berlin and Brandenburg and we have several locations. Among students It's recommended as the best paying job even :)
Kaufland as well as these „mini shopping malls“ are not uncommon within „East Germany“
Yes Netto from Denmark 🇩🇰😎😊👍🏻
Yeah Kaufland (German) and Auchaun (French) as well as carrefour (French) usually have this sort of “mall but that’s the main store setup”
It's kind of unique to Kaufland though. I've never seen a Kaufland without those small stores at the entrance and i don't remember seeing another supermarket that has those small stores, except for small bakeries of course.
The reason why your american Pretzels look different is that german ones are dipped in salt lye before they get into the oven, which makes the skin crunchy and the whole thing slightly saltier
That's interesting because in america they are dipped in sodium bicarbonate.
@@TangerineCreamsickle Idk what he means with salt lye, but it's actually sodium hydroxide. The story I know behind that is that a baker some long time ago dropped pretzels into his cleaning detergent by accidant and decided to still bake and sell them.
@@marcodoe4690 salt lye is just a more traditional name for sodium hydroxide. (as opposed to pot lye for example, which is potassium hydroxide)
Thank you very much for reviewing my video. I appreciate it. Funny to see.
That was a german mall not a Grocery Store
Check out Black Forest Family's comparison of US and German grocery stores as well if you are interested in full comparisons. :)
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The incentive is the simple fact that you will need that little plastic thingy again next time you're going grocery shopping. I can tell you, it's really annoying to browse your stuff for a euro coin or the plastic thing before entering the store. Therefore, most germans carry one with them in a certain spot and that way make sure that they're always equipped.
Yeah IT IS so Logic. Why do they dont understand
Recently the coins get more or off fashion. Many carts don't have any, the little chain is just dangling.
There is a little item which can relate release a cart and can be pulled out afterwards, unlike a coin.
But lately they Hand out key chains that open the shopping cart. People mostly still rerun it at least close to the shop.
For the plastic token, well you want it back because you gonna use it again. Found one in my winter jacket yesterday. Was wondering where that went
You want your plastic chip back because you don't have an endless amount of them so if you always leave your chip in the cart you won't have it anymore so you'll be back to using coins. Also we are just used to bringing the cart back.
The incentive to get the plastic thingy back is to be able to use it again. I have a metal one, that I always keep in my vest pocket (edit: not the vest mentioned in the video, lol). That way, I'm never caught without a fitting coin (be it fake or real), when shopping. Plus there's also that innate sense of politeness, and you just don't want to be "that guy" who leaves the cart out on the parking lot, and get stared at.
4.51 it is Asparagus!! You can buy it only for about two months, between April and June. It’s very very popular in Germany, also quite expensive. We eat it boiled with butter, sauce hollandaise, potatoes and ham. During „Spargel time“ every restaurant has its own creation
You can buy it all year. The really good stuff is what's only available in late spring - early summer.
I think asparagus is the most digusting thing ever.
Schnitzel!!! Not Ham!😉😉🤭🤭🤭
@@BirteK1975 no! Couscous is.😉
@@kratzikatz1 Only if it's dry. Couscous is great when it's drenched in a tasty sauce.
Probably not the way it's meant to be eaten but yeah, it's pretty gross when it's dry.
also, something most americans do not realize:
OVER HERE, OUR CASHIERS SIT WHILE DOING THEIR JOB!
Hela Gewürzketchup ❤ best Ketchup ever ...
We bring the carts back because we're conditioned to do so. Most people put in a Euro, not a plastic chip. And there are several shops where you don't need a chip or a Euro, and people still bring back the cart. It's just... us.
Yes, that's a mini mall. Regular super markets usually only have a bakery outlet in addition to the market itself.
Yes, when he says Trader Joe's he means the USA. We don't have Trader Joe's here, only its parent company ALDI (which funnily enough has a store brand that's called Trader Joe's).
All prices presented to the customer have to prices including taxes. It's the law.
I guess HE is the son who lives overseas and is on visit at home in Germany.
Yes, we have Heinz.
Those magazines are bought by older women (Except Bravo, which I'm suprised to see is still in print). Many of them don't want to take an iPad or something along.
A lot of people got jobs at Musk's factory... and quit after a short while They expected to be treated like German workers, but... well, they were treated like Musk treats his workers, no matter what the law says.
No, Pinatas are uncommoon here.
Ralph's is a west coast thing, maybe even lower west coast only. Never seen "The Big Lebowski"?
Further questions?
Toast-Bread is no bread!
Toast-Bread does not still hunger by it self!
*Bread's* function is to *still hunger* as *mainfood* which _Toast-Bread_ can not fullfill. Invalid as bread.
On top, Toast-Bread has no own crust. Crust delivers most of a breads taste, which is why Toast-Bread tastes bland, but a bit sweet.
Sweet, bc Toast-Bread root is from *Milchbrot/ Milkbread.*
Which is a *yeast pastry.*
Toast-Bread is in true form a yeast pastry. No Bread.
>> It only can _fake_ to be kind of a bread, by _toasting it,_ to create a fake crust, which *then* adds taste to it.
Again, bread is a mainfood like rice, potatoe, nudle,..
*Function is to still hunger as main food, by it self.*
~> Toast-Bread can't be bread therefor with missing function for it.
>> Which is why "Toast" needs to be added infront of "bread" bc it is no bread, but "bread-like" in connection of toasting it.
Plastic tokens for shopping carts: you need one every time you go shopping. So either get it back when you are done or somehow get and bring a new one every time - or use a 1€ next time and then you will bring the cart back to get your 1€^^
Sometimes you can get the plastic tokens for free as a promo or something, but that's not a daily thing. Otherwise, you can buy them. And they usually are a euro each at least.
Loved this reaction. I am dutch, but we go shopping once a month in Germany at Kaufland. Next time I will do it smiling remembering this video.
Imagine you left your plastic token thing in the last shopping cart and next time have to use an euro for it, and at the register with your shoppings n shit you realize you're missing 1 euro, which happen to be in the cart but you can't get it. Welp sucks for you, better carry a plastic token with no worth around to use it for shopping carts and don't throw away plastic like a gone mad maniac.
Sometimes, the building "belongs" to the main store, like Kaufland in this case. All the other "shops", like restaurant, nail shop, bakery are their own shops. It's like a mini mall.
9:30 yes a euro is worth more but currently not by much. It used to be 1€=$1.2 last year but this year they actually reached parity at one point and right now 1€ is just $1.01-1.03 so bascially 1 to 1.
I guess the price of the items was around 120-170 Euro (for What i have Seen). Far away From 500 bucks. Kaufland (Name of the Store) is a discount grocery with pretty good prices. You can buy food for a family of 4 for a whole week under 100 Euros. Fresh fruits, vegetables and their favourit snacks included. 🙂
I consider Kaufland as quite pricey, like Edeka :D but you have a wiiide selection of everything which is cool if you need something special. I prefer stores like Netto for weekly grocery shopping / general stuff because I spend less money there👍
1:40 In Latvian supermarkets you usually don't have to put anything to get a shopping cart but most of the people bring it back anyway. I see it as a good gesture of keeping the surroundings nice and clean, even if it's a supermarket. A contribution to the common good.
Its becoming more and more common here in Germany aswell to not have to put anything into the cart. But we still bring it back. I've basically never seen an abandoned shopping cart.
Exactly
@@themrnoname2945 I've seen one today.......in a river bed. That's not the first time I've seen that. I'd say we should keep the coin requirement for shopping carts. There's to many fools who don't know how to behave.
yes. The plastic chips we want returned to not have to get them again and again and also just because. From time to time I see carts that are just opened and still return them properly.
And the main reason to return them is that we are not animals
Germany is a low trust society though.
I'm curious about your black ring. I have one which looks exactly the same. But mine is a contactless Visa Card and I can pay with it for my purchases. Is your ring a bank card, too?
Did you know haribo is named after the company's founder and the city where is came from .
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I like watching youtube reactions of Americans to things here in Germany and Europe in general. I never realized you didn't have shopping cart areas for plastic tokens or 1-Euro coins to unlock in front of supermarkets. Sometimes they are located inside near the entrance, which is so handy during the cold winter time or rainfall. As far as the incentive is concerned to bring them back... most people actually put real coins inside the unlocking mechanism, so you want your money back again after you finished shopping and packed all your products in your bag or inside the trunk of your car.
It was funny for me to find out that TJ is more a "posh" brand (store chain) in the US while here in Germany, Aldi exclusively sells Trader Joe's products (since they own them since the late 1970s) and their - say - roasted peanuts in a can are the cheapest you can find. They're pretty good though, and I looked it up: All Aldi peanuts sold in Germany are from the US (Georgia, if I recall that correctly).
Asia food is mostly very authentic in Germany. The restaurants are mostly run by asian people who import their goods directly from asia. So its less a made up look a like style, but real. Well half-true! The restaurants buy their stuff at an asian grocery store in Germany. Those stores import their stuff directly from asia. But I guess it kind of counts. Anyway! As you asked for the bill for the whole purchase ... I am pretty sure it was far less than 100 bucks! ;-)
Asian restaurants have different kinds of levels - European Asian - or Original Asian. Particularly in Thai you will find the difference in heat. They have medium hot, hot, extra hot - and original Thai hot ... which burns a hole in a German esophagus *just kidding
@@franhunne8929 I know. I had a Thai neighbor in my students home. Once i started cooking in the community kitchen for the floor when he came in and put some white - green sausage in the pan. As soon as it got warm, my eyes started to tear. So i left and came back 15minutes later. He was sitting at the table, eating his sausage. Sweat on his face, it was dripping from his nose...
I started to cook Asian foods as a student - in cities you can find little asian food markets that sell you specialities - like glass noodles, soy sauce, sambal olek (chili paste), peanut paste for cooking, bamboo shoots,...
There are restaurants that have Chinese, Thai, and Indian food. But you also have the option cook it yourself.
We have not that much immigrants from Asia (around 2%, but mostly in big cities) - there are more Turkish immigrants, but weirdly not that much stores for their food.
Lol wo bitte bei 12% Inflation? Geh zum Edeka oder was auch immer. Gerademal 1/5tel Wagen gefüllt: 60€ weg.
You should have listened to him and find Out yourself what Schokoküsse was called before they changed their Name 😂😂
I am pretty sure it is only USA where tax is paid by the customer on top of the price. In most of the world you pay only what it says on the sticker, and tax is already calculated into the price by the shop.
7:50 Yeah ofc we got Heinz.Heinz kinda Sounds like a German name, doesnt it? Well Heinz only exists because of Germany, it’s kinda a German American Company of you leave out the fact that it’s founder was Born in America 😂. Well Henry John Heinz father was from Germany as well as his mother. They emmigrated to pensilvania and got a few children. Henry John Heinz then founded the Company Heinz in 1869 and Invented the Ketchup in 1876…
Don't worry about when he said "dick". That's just our German word for "fat" (fat like the size, not that stuff in our bodies).
Another hard word for English speaking people coming to Germany is "Fahrt", just pronounced like the English "fart" but with another meaning: "drive". Some language students (especially the younger ones) have a difficult time, when they learn some traffic related vocabulary.
kaufland actually is not a regular "grocery store", it s more like a German Walmart, as you said.Foreigners always mix them up in these videos, e.g. they often call "Aldi" and "Lidl" falsely "super markets", which they arent, Aldi and Lidl are DISCOUNTERS. Regular German supermarkets would be "Rewe" and "Edeka" and "Hit".....
You gonna Do this Video near the Suisse border. Swiss get taxes back, so they pay a less of 19 and 7 % for Produkts the buyed. The Arena not europeens.
Hi. You need to look at a YT video. “ i’ll never find another you”. The Seekers with Judith Durham. Good Aussie stuff
Nothing beats german bakery. I can't live without it
I just wanna say, this is rather atypical for a german supermarket. Usually, supermarkets will just be grocery stores with a section for kitchen material, some toys, and a few other things like fans. Most supermarkets will also have a small section that's rented out to some bakery chain so you can get your Weizenbrötchen there. For a supermarket to have small rooms with travel offices, a printer repair shop, nail studios, hairdressers, etc. is, at least where i live, highly unusual.
Regarding the Asian food: I live in Düsseldorf and we have a really big Asian community and a lot of very good an authentic Restaurants. So if you ever travel to Germany stop in Düsseldorf, it‘s a beautiful example of different cultures meeting. Because very close to the japanease part of the town is a big arab&turkish community. So you get a lot of amazing food.
I really enjoy you content, it gives a new perspective on the mondaine aspects of daily life, so thank you ❤️
5:13 Bro literally says "Radieschen" in the video and Ryan still think Germans call it the American way 🤦🏻♂
You are going to laugh but Dick is a german word and just means thick… so he just wanted to say that the sausage (in german: Wurst) is thick…
About German beer you are right. When I was in the army we had a field exercise with an US company. We had competetive training and we lost. Massively. After that we had BBQ together and we brought German beer. We learnt, one bottle took the US boys out. (Most effective way to win against the US ;) army.) We tried the field exercise (without guns) again and we Germans won big. Mighty beer!
Yes, in Europe, not only in Germany, the prices on the shelf include all taxes. For all products. In the case of services, things are the same. The agreed price is the final price and includes all taxes.
I wish pfand was included on the posted price.
I'd love to send you some of our German sweets and snacks but then I googled how much the shipping costs would be for like 10 lbs and now I'm still in shock 😵💫
I know what you ment. Send a present with some snacks over to a firend in the US and payed about 130€ for shipping only.
@@Talkshowhorse_Echna holy shit. i'm about to send 2 20lbs packages over there. I'm just gonna surprise myself with whatever that's gonna cost
If you can keep the packages under 2KG it's only 7,40E. That's a pretty small box though: (
@@LythaWausW ohhh really? Oh cool …
Then, Ryan, if you‘d like to have some sweets, contact me ;)
Trader joes is actually Our german Aldi. Because there are Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd, one of them hat to change their Name in the usa
Funnily enough: HARIBO = Hans Riegel Bonn which is the name of the founder + the city the company was founded in.
About the milk sizes, if you open a gallone pack of milk, you have a whole gallone of milk open that's exposed to air and starts to spoil and can get sour. If you have 4x 1liter packs you use 1 and still have 3 liter fresh.
High pasteurized milk lasts a long time, so it makes sence to sell it by the gallon.
Low pasteurized milk on the other hand, only lasts for about a week, and it can't sit out of the fridge for too long before going bad. Because of this, it is better to sell it in litre containers.
Why even buy low- pasteurized milk if it doesn't last? Because the pasteurization process destroys a lot of the natural nutrients in the milk.
@@JH-lo9utplus american milk is just more watery than ours... Not the same amount of fat and proteins in it... Not even mentionning the quality of fats and proteins.
BTW: ALDI isn't called ALDI's.
And yes - all prices (everwhere and anywhere) on the tags are the price you pay - no extra tax rip off on top.
kaufland and real are more like wallmart where you can get all kinds of stuff not just grocerys. the typical grocery store in germany are much smaller where you can only buy food and daily products
but kaufland has not a bad Reputation like Walmart
We dont want the plastic Thing but when it was an Euro we wanted to get it Back and now erverybody Brings it Back cause we Always do
5:14 There it izzz. You got it. He is talking about Trader Joe´s in the States. He is originally from Germany, but he lives in California.
14:57 he didn't describe what they look like, he quoted an ad for a candy called 'Dickmann'. On tv it always said "Mann, sind die Dickmann." which roughly translates into "Man, are those huge-man." So it was just a nice little german reference when we comment on something overly large. Not that common nowadays but i think everyone still knows that slogan. :)
Also at 16:32 you say that 'Schönheit' seems like a long word for beauty. While our word for beautiful is just 'schön'. :D
"Mann sind DIE dick Mann, super Dickmanns aus der Frischebox" 😂🎉
You have seen enough of these videos for me to not tell you anything new, but take a guess why milk can be sold in a gallon in the US and a liter in Europe? No, the answer is not the metric system ;)
Unless it's specially labeled, if you open milk in Europe it spoils in a couple of days. To the point you smell and see that the milk is no longer consumable. As far as I know, US milk is pasteurized and filled with stuff that makes it consumable for weeks.
15:50 This milk in the refrigerator, is only pasteurization.
No additives to make it durable, which should be used up quickly once opened. It spoils quickly
We have more than enough asians to make food Here xD but i believe ITS comonly less spicy
15:02 he just said: that the sausage is really big. If u say "dick" to a person you say that he is fat. Dick = fat /wide /big
We take that cart back because the plastic chip costs more than a EURO 🤣 (In fact, I have a very pretty metal keychain one that's a memento of a trip I took 10 years ago. Definitely going back for that)
Also, German Asian food is also its own thing and vastly different in taste from American Asian food. I imagine it's what our Asian hosts think Germans think Asian food is like. Whatever it is, I love it!
The wheels thing surprised me. How do you cope with locked back wheels? If the shop is getting crowded, the ability to shimmy a little to the side to get past someone seems, vital
All supermarkets, hardwarestores, gardencenters etc. use these shopping carts. Easier to have a plastic token than a euro. You don't spend it. Annoying to have to go inside for change.
Spargel is White Asparagus and not even close in flavor to Green nor in texture. Aldi, now in the US owns Trader Joe's, well one part of Aldi does and so on. He is comparing prices in Germany to the US. 😊
I am from Germany and he should have gone to Edeka, Aldi or Lidl. Or Rewe or another shop
With a full cart like that, as long as they did not buy something very small and expensive, the price for all goods should not exceed 250-300 Euros. Usually full carts of store brands would be between 100 and 200 Euros.
With current prices, I'd say that cart is well over 200 euros.
Yeah, just posted that. Looks more like 150 euros of grocaries to me.
Thanks for your reaction!
I would consider this Kaufland (grocery) store huge. The average one would be considerably smaller, but most of them tend to let some space to a local bakery chain. Sometimes you also see a newsagent stand, a tailor's shop, a dry cleaner or a hairdresser. In small towns and villages, though, they can be really tiny.
And in order to push your cart around tight corners, you need all four wheels to turn!
So funny what he did with the Shoppingcar, I didn’t know that the wheels are frozen in the USA. For a german person as myself it’s such a common thing and for you it’s so special. So funny 😂😂
This store is a lot bigger than the average one over here in Germany. I prefer the smaller ones anyway as I can just dash through and be done in 20 mins.
Fun fact: My usual grocery store stopped doing the chip thing at the carts during Covid times as taking a cart was mandatory to get in. They did not get back to it yet - must be working without it now!
And regarding the Pinatas: It's not at all common here. Yet. It might be some day though, so many things have.
Halloween for example. I love the holiday but I am really sad that the "Trick or Treat" part seems to push our "Laterne singen" (Lantern singing) aside. Very sad for our own cultural remains... 🤷♀️
12:00 Well... about Elon Musks factory. It's built on one of the dryest corners of Germany which has a real struggle with rainfall and it's ground water reservoirs. And for some reason all those pesky bureaucratic hurdles disappeared - poof - like magic. And now he's building a factory that wastes an ungodly ammount of water per day for little to no gain for the local population.
Obviously some obstacles can be removed by throwing money at them...
You use these plastic chips because you don't always have change with you and you don't run the risk of spending it.
You should check out the “Black Forest family” for in depth videos, they also made one specifically ab Aldi
In Germany a Pinata is quite uncommon. Much more often you would have a Schnitzeljagd or Schatzsuche. A treasure hunt. Something that is quite similar to a pinata is Topfschlagen (pot hitting), where you would hide candy under a pot and put on a blindfold. You would hide the pot with the candy in the room, then spin around the kid and give them a big spoon. The kid is supposed to probe for the pot with the spoon and try to find it by feeling around. It is called Topfschlagen, because you would bang on the pot when you found it. Normally the other kids would scream hot or cold depending on if you are going in the right direction or not.
There's a very small options where some have over one hundred difference types of bread and sweets
Who's buying those weird magazines? Old people, that's who
Shopping carts: That coin thing is in Vancouver, Canada, too. Here in Germany, I have never seen any stolen or ditched shopping carts. Shopping cart quality here is amazing though. Never seen one with stuck wheels or other problems. The parking lot spots for shopping carts do exist here too. Oh and the carts will take a 50 cent coin, so does not have to be a 1 Euro coin (or token)
Not all grocery stores are that extensive here. Yes Heinz is available here but it is a lot pricier.
MAOAM is pronounced May-o-em in English. And most definitely available in North America. German chocolate lives up to its reputation, as good or better than Swiss.
Bread here is amazing. Pretty much all baked goods here are amazing. Many supermarkets still have in store bakeries and in store butchers.
'Dick' in German is 'thick' in English, lol. Schönheit is 'beauty.' 'Pflege' is 'care.'
And yes, beer here is amazing too. And if you go to something like Oktoberfest, beer is served in a 1 litre glass mug.
oh, then I have news for you. Recently a lot more people who don't come by car drive home with their carts and then just leave them standing somewhere. I have seen someone with a shopping cart on a tram. People here become more and more like Americans when it comes to shopping (customer is king and always right) and I think it's not a good thing.
@@resathe6760 Not seen that anywhere here in Bayern (Bavaria) so far. Sad, but believable though.
Oh, in the supermarket, though, they can be really annoying, blocking the aisle with their cart, standing trying to decide on the right whatever forever.... they are usually a bit more polite at the checkout but still...
And in restaurants, the service standards are so different could do an entire video on them
@@nctpti2073 I think part of the service standard in the US is the fact that the servers are dependent on good tips to survive, whereas they get a wage in Germany you can actually live on. So you don't have to be as "nice" here. Also so often people are just rude to service personnel and I think it is good that you don't have to tolerate every shitty thing they think they have a right to do
@@resathe6760 It isn't so much that as the standards of nice are very different. Here, the standard is mostly leaving you alone at your table. So you are less likely to be asked things like if you need fresh drinks or a top up for the water in your tea or things like that. And the check comes when you flag your waiter down to ask him for it.
The waiting staff usually are friendly enough, even despite tipping not being such a thing here (and as I think I mentioned, tipping too much can be taken as an insult)