BRITISH VS AMERICAN GROCERY STORES | AMANDA RAE

[@davenorman8966]

Great video, thanks Amanda. It's a sad reflection on some peoples behaviour that racks under the shopping trollies in the UK were done away with. It became too easy for people to forget items or deliberately walk out with out paying for them.

[@jarvisa12345]

3:57 In the US, eggs are legally required to be washed. This removes a natural coating that prevents bacterial intrusion so the eggs must then be refrigerated. In Europe, eggs are sold unwashed and do not need to be refrigerated.

[@davidvarley1812]

Actually I think your find eggs are sprayed with sanitizer that kills selminela. In the UK sanitizer is washed off in manufacturing, in the states its done domesticly.

[@shadybacon3451]

@@davidvarley1812 pretty certain eggs are not washed in the UK or anywhere in Europe for that matter. If eggs in the UK have the British lion stamp on then it has been laid by a hen which has been vaccinated against salmonella and no washing is required.

[@Savagetechie]

@@davidvarley1812 In the uk your eggs will still come with the odd feather and maybe a bit of chicken poo on them. I don't think they are sprayed with much. I may be wrong though.

[@davidvarley1812]

@@Savagetechie born in UK and lived 63 years, can't say I've ever found chicken poo or feathers in a box of eggs. There was a selminela crisis in Britain in the 1990s and all our eggs were from then on sanitizered. America does the same but obviously the British egg production is small compared to the USA. So in America to keep cost low and make production quicker the sanitizer is left on eggs. There is such a insignificant risk to the consumer that its not worth washing the sanitizer off. American eggs are perfectly safe. Have eaten them myself and will do again when I'm state side. I work in food production in UK, that's how I know about this.

[@Savagetechie]

@@davidvarley1812 really? It's a common occurrence and I'm not talking about farmers market purchases, just sainsburys. Top grade eggs aren't washed according to the egg council.

[@robinfryer479]

Thankyou for the truthful and nice things that you say about us in UK! I don’t feel old, but I’m nearly 74. People of my generation were taught directly and by example, ‘Good Manners’, and to be polite. I regret that these standards are being ferociously stamped out. I would also like to reciprocate, by saying that despite Hollywood depictions, I have been privileged to have met extremely polite and agreeable Americans and Europeans, too.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Good comment ,Robin, totally agree....

[@chrisjames1924]

Btw, Pickled Onion and Ketchup flavour are both made by Walker’s. You might need to visit a larger Tesco’s. Pickled onion is definitely one of my favourites but it’s rarely in stock.

[@michaelstamper5875]

Hi Amanda. Another great video. One of the reasons the £1 to unlock a trolley was introduced was to prevent trolleys being stolen and then abandoned in all sorts of weird and wonderful places all around town. You probably knew that already, but I just thought I'd mention it. Xxxx

[@LADYRAEUK]

I figured as much but thank you! I hope you’re well 😊

[@davenwin1973]

In the US, only Aldi has locking carts (trolleys) at all stores. Some Save-A-Lot stores (similar to Aldi) have the locking carts too. By me, another store by me called Ruler Foods, owned by Kroger, also has locking carts. The carts require a quarter. This has not deterred people from stealing carts here. One Save-A-Lot store by me was forced to drop the locks from their carts, after it didn't stop theft, and the people who live near the store refused to embrace it. The store lost more money fighting it with the locks, which the customers literally broke, just to get a cart. As for the few independents and the big chain grocery stores, they're not convinced that it works. The stores these find it cheaper to replace the carts, because they get the cheapest ones available. Stores that are union are also against the locks, because it takes away a job of somebody retrieving the carts.

[@Mackeson3]

Slightly OT what really angers me about Manchester airport ( Do any others do this? ) is having to have a £1 coin to release the baggage trolleys there. Number 1 you've just come back from abroad and just might not have any British coins in your pocket and Number 2 the actual trolley release mechanism is completely crazy. (OK rant over)

[@liverbirdfranna1903]

Its $6 in American airports! and you don't get your $6 back when you return it.

[@gggggggg3542]

Commented on a few of your videos before, but as I work for Morrison doing home deliveries I have to say a few things. 1, it's physically a hard job, lugging totes of shopping up stairs into flats - - - and it's always the bleeding heavy stuff like tins of beans, drinks or my fav, cat litter!!!! 2, when you get your shopping delivered, answer the door!!!! and if you have kids, keep them away from the goods until you get them inside, as they just get in the way 3, be patient if you see a supermarket van in a side street (any supermarket), we have a tight schedule to keep to, allotted driving time, allotted delivery time (usually about 6minutes, 7 if you are lucky)...... we'll get moving as soon as we can 4, most people think home deliveries come from some special warehouse, they don't, next time you're shopping lookout for staff pushing carts with up to 8 plastic containers on them, they're picking orders for either later that day, or next morning's deliveries

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Keep up with the great work that you do....E

[@MagentaOtterTravels]

GREAT ADVICE! Thank you for your service! Especially the last two years... what you do is ESSENTIAL work! I'm an American who has travelled to Britain twice since the start of the pandemic twice... and getting grocery deliveries (and Amazon deliveries) was a complete lifesaver!!

[@plasticcreations7836]

Grocery shops used to pack your bags for you in the UK in the 1970's/1980's but it died out for some reason. The shopping trollies also used to have that lower rack in the UK but again seems to have disappeared.

[@stevecarrol7227]

I have lived in both countries. Trying to find real food in the states is hard. Mass produced high in sugar and salt are easy.

[@mr.balloffur]

You need to look harder

[@glastonbury4304]

I grew my own veg in the States, and only bought organic meat from my local farm shop ...kept well away from Walmart etc unless I needed toilet rolls and cheap clothes made by Malaysians for $1 a day as we deserve to put our feet up, own a boat, 2 cars and a dog 👍🤣

[@chrisjames1924]

US definitely 100% has better fruit and veg. Cheaper too.

[@glastonbury4304]

@@chrisjames1924 ..🤦🤦🤦

[@chrisjames1924]

@@glastonbury4304 sorry, I don’t talk emoji but I’m guessing you don’t agree? In reality it depends what State you’re in but in Southern California fruit/veg is typically better than anything you’ll find in Tesco. 3 juicy avocados for $1 (5x more expensive here), enormous bunches of bananas for $1, juicier tomatoes, juicier oranges, massive bunches of fresh coriander, pistachio nuts (10x cheaper) etc….but their sliced bread, cheese and chocolate is largely terrible; unless you visit somewhere like Wholefoods. Maybe if I’d spent time living in deepest Nebraska I’d have had a different experience. One last thing, in terms of cheap Chinese labour, we’re really no different. In fact, Walmart owned Asda for over 20 years, until last year when they offloaded most of its shares.

[@michaelloach9461]

Thanks Amanda, great vid. One thing I do like is the bakeries in the UK. I don't know if you have them in the US but they are great. So we have butchers, bakers but I don't think we have candlestick makers. We do have fishmongers though. All the best...

[@h0ckeyd]

Tomato ketchup flavour crisps were on sale in the UK for a very long time actually. You just don't see em as much now.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Cheese and onion for me....

[@linzkirk]

British trolleys don't have a lower section because it was used so often for shop lifting, or forgetting to pay for the items on the lower shelf.

[@kennyanderson1532]

When we are in the US we normally do our food shopping in Publix, when you buy cooked meat or cheese they always give you a slice to see if you like it, brilliant idea.

[@tatooinestar]

Having worked as a floor manager in one of the largest UK companies, although a long time ago now, the till stools/chairs are mandatory in the UK, health & safety regs. The trolley one is a bit of a 'depends where you shop' thing. Some stores have trolleys with shelves underneath, others don't, some have racks for fresh flowers or baguettes, others have fittings for wheelchair users, single or double child seats etc. There's actually quite a different range at some stores. Again same thing for the trolley coin deposit system, although that was brought over here from European countries in the 90's. Yes, the fresh bread or bakery is always at the back of the store, makes you pass more products that might tempt you to spend more. The large end of aisle displays used to happen, but again, health & safety regs. stopped them after too many accidents. Again, we did used to have bag packing staff at tills, and at Christmas some stores bring it back for the busy times, but generally it was scrapped as a cost saving measure. Online store shopping and home deliveries started in the UK about 8 or 9 years ago, but think nearly all stores do it now. Love your videos, keep them coming.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thank you! Hope you’re well 😊

[@tiggerwood8899]

Online grocery shopping started more than 9 years ago. I've been shopping at Tesco online since 2005. The very first online grocery shopping transaction was made with Tesco in 1979 using an online shopping system called Videotex

[@thehonestcritic6577]

Having the coin system to release the trolly is a good idea as it encourages you to return it instead of dumping it in the middle of the carpark

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻

[@mikaeljacobsson1437]

I have been following your channel for a while and also another channel with an american living in Sweden. Both channels compare things. And i have become fascinated on how different things are between European countries.

[@roberttill3787]

Amanda, if you miss packers and feel rushed, shop at Aldi or Lidl. The window on the exit lane just past the checkouts has a shelf which is there for the use of customers to arrange their bags and drop it into the trolley to make their way to the car park. If you go through the checkout and just put everything back in the trolley, you can use the shelf afterwards to get everything in the right place in your bag at your own speed.

[@flamencoprof]

Ha! WRT trolleys that needed a coin. In 1996 on a trip from NZ was the first time I encountered this. On the platform in Paris for the TGV to Calais I discovered all these abandoned trolleys. I linked them all together and collected the Francs, made a fair bit before the TGV departed!

[@skelband]

One of the things I find about trolleys/shopping carts here in Canada (and I assume in the US also) is that the rear wheels are fixed and don't swivel like they do in the UK. Having rear swiveling wheels makes them a lot easier to get around cramped spaces and corners and often end up skidding them a bit to navigate around. On the subject of the underneath area for putting big things, I thought that trolleys in the UK did also, but my memory might be playing tricks on me.

[@davidjones332]

For many years my local Sainsburys used to ask if I needed help with my packing; why I don't know as I'm neither elderly nor disabled -it was just something they offered to everyone, though it seems to have stopped in recent times. Having heard of charity volunteers dropping bags of potatoes on people's cream-cakes, I prefer to do it myself!

[@philiponicho]

Asda still ask

[@Aidan-mt6cl]

Tesco still ask as well

[@Lee0568]

When I stayed in Hotchkiss in Colorado,everytime I went to the supermarket,and they found out my now ex wife and I were English,we were followed around and was asked questions,just so they could hear our accents,not many Brits in hotchkiss.

[@AnubisX1]

I used to work for Morrisons at the check outs and our manager used to let us have cups of tea or coffee at the checkout while we were on duty, the chairs also make a huge difference, totally save on back problems. Also we used to have bag packers but customers would complain so much that we were packing them wrong so we stopped. The coin for trolley is a security thing, as people seem to like taking the trolleys away. Though my Tesco and as a don't use them.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ah that makes sense

[@jillhobson6128]

The pound coin is refunded when you return your trolley

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Love the salad bar in Morrison's...

[@AnubisX1]

@@eamonnclabby7067 I love the bakery ooh the pies and pasties, aswell as the cakes!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@AnubisX1 you,re not wrong....

[@frankmitchell3594]

I've only needed to shop in a US supermarket once and asked where the bottles of wine were. They did not stock wine!

[@DannyHeywood]

Supermarkets in the UK put 'essential things' like Eggs, Bread, Milk, Beer. in different places so that people walk past other things on offer and buy them, especially if the person is hungry, they come out with a full bag instead of 1 thing. They also put the premium products at eye level and now and then throw in things your kids will ask for and mum will just say 'Yes' to shut them up. Most people had no idea the amount of research that went into these places before Amazon/Google/Facebook made it a bit too public.

[@jillhobson6128]

Not being a baker, I don't understand why flour, eggs and milk etc should be in the same place. I wouldn't think of milk and flour being on the same aisle. Do you think milk and cereals should be on the same aisle? Bread and butter on the same aisle? Etc etc

[@DannyHeywood]

@@jillhobson6128 I think the idea is Bread and Milk are some of the most common items people quickly nip in to get on the way home.

[@jillhobson6128]

@@DannyHeywood That's why we have corner shops and places like Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local etc

[@ianwebster3544]

Hello Amanda. In the UK supermarkets they keep moving items around so you have walk around to find stuff, I find that really annoying.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Yes 👍🏻👍🏻

[@davenwin1973]

In the US, this is done by certain grocery stores too. Wholesale club, Costco does this a lot, and I get irritated as a shopper for other people, having to hunt down items, and trying to checkout, then deliver people's groceries in a certain time frame.

[@mr.balloffur]

American grocery stores do that too so people have to relearn the layout, it gets them to buy more things and to spend more time in the store

[@arthurrsaker8893]

@@mr.balloffur what they overlook is the frustration and irritation it builds in the customer, who, once their threshold of patience is broken, can't wait to get the whole ghastly experience over with and get away from the store, it's sanctimonious covid reminders and the soul destroying idiot drivel music torture they subject their customers (victims) to. This is why I like Lidls, limited choices, and minimal info broadcasts. I'd like it even more if they would abandon their belief that everyone needs a mind numbing soundtrack of idiot noise to help them do the shop.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Totally agree ,especially when pressed for time...

[@jmhardy1967]

The one thing we always comment on when we going shopping in The US is there are guns, crossbows and big hunting knives on sale in the supermarket/ grocery store 😮🤣

[@rhodiusscrolls3080]

Yes I have always noticed the ubiquitous brown paper bags that Americans use in grocery stores. Needless to say we have never had them in England. Dan Fogelberg set one of best songs in a grocery shop and talked about packing them and a lady spilling her purse.

[@omnious1982]

we don't have the rack on the trolly base anymore as it's easy to forget or hide items hidden down there as you pass the tills. many times I've forgotten to pay for paint when DIY shopping

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ah ok 👍🏻

[@jordanbooth4470]

Dunno if anyone has said this to you before Amanda, but having watched your videos for a while now I noticed in this video especially your accent is becoming more and more English on certain words, truly one of us now 😂

[@jillhobson6128]

One thing about your accent you still say parsta not pasta and lasargne not lasagne. Don't tell me that's the Italian pronunciation. Plenty of Italians say that pasta is correct, not parsta

[@PeterMackett]

Eggs do not have to be put in a fridge as they will stay fresh anyway, we do have the trolleys with the shelf underneath here, it depends where you shop, as for having to stand at the tills all day, that is just crazy!, the reason we don't pile things up at the end of each row is because of health and safety rules, a child or old person could be injured if they were knocked over.

[@kevodowd5282]

In France and Italy nearly all the trolleys require a Euro, it's to stop people nicking them.

[@maltesephil]

Lidl have a bagging area, the idea is you throw your shopping back into the trolly, then pack your bags. You don't get adult nappies in British supermarkets. I do like to go shopping when I'm back in England and see what's new.

[@TRIPLEM316]

Hi Amanda I think lays crisp in USA is the uk walkers same company making them just differed packing

[@LADYRAEUK]

They do look really similar in packaging

[@sebetc7]

The US seems to have a lot more competitors in the supermarket sector. (Also just have to say Piggly Wiggly!) Fresh fruit and veg seem to be cheaper in the UK in the mainstream shops. The choice of products in the US is way better, which can make a trip expensive and heavy. You still get free bags at the checkout in the US.

[@charlestaylor9424]

I believe the US has more regional grocery stores but almost no universal ones.

[@kristinajendesen7111]

My local Tesco superstore has all the aisles next to each other, bread, eggs then milk with the fresh bread/bakery running across the top of all 3.

[@НинадаТарапицца]

6. Stores names - TESCO, Saintsbury's, Lidl VS. Walmart, Target, KMart

[@terencecarroll1812]

The Isle ends are used to highlight new, sale and promotion items we don't stack them high as they get knocked over

[@glastonbury4304]

When I lived in the States I used to joke "I'm going down the chemists for the weekly shop" , due to the amount of preservatives and chemicals in US products 🤣🤣...sorry, just my sense of humour I guess 🤦😉

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol too much 🤣🤣

[@glastonbury4304]

@@LADYRAEUK ...used to spend hours in Walmart looking at the huge variety of flavours and products 🤣....I mean 50 types of cling film just confused the hell out of me and the amount of different cereals to choose ...I'm sure I lost at least 2 years of my life just shopping for food in the US 🤦🤷🤣🤣

[@kathryn1304]

As an American I can agree our stores carry too much! Btw Amanda, you will rarely find someone to bag your groceries anymore. It’s all “do it yourself” now.

[@glastonbury4304]

@@kathryn1304 ...a good idea for bagging in the UK is we often have kids from local scout groups, brownies, youth clubs etc helping out at supermarkets on the tills, during their busiest days/hours for charity, where they just stand at the end of the checkout and ask the customer if they would like any help bagging their shopping ....it's a great way of raising money for charities 👍💕

[@kathryn1304]

@. Glastonbury this is a beautiful idea!

[@A14Rors]

As soon as Sainsbury started the delivery service I signed up. Best thing ever. Hate grocery shopping. Delivery every fortnight, just keep adding to the list up until 24 hours before the delivered date.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@ghosthorse77]

In Australia, they do the same as the USA. They stand and pack your bags at the check-out. My family when they come over from Australia are amused that they do not pack the bags at the check-out. My niece said to one at the check-out why do you not pack customers bags, the reply came back" I don't get paid to do that."

[@Aidan-mt6cl]

They do pack your bags for you if you want them to in the uk, they always ask are you alright packing and you can say no and someone will help you

[@Si-mc6dl]

I find that the layout in supermarkets is pretty good, if you know how to use it. For instance we have the chillers as you walk in at most places. However I find people grabbing chilled item first then proceeding to shop for an hour before going to the tills. Not healthy. I used to pick for online shopping orders and we had half an hour to fulfill chilled orders. Meaning all items off the shelf and into the chiller in the warehouse ready for delivery. Reason being is health and safety and product quality. The chillers are center or at the end of the sections close to tills for ease of access at the end of shopping.

[@enochpowellslibrarian5595]

Supermarkets in the UK didn't like the rack under the trolley because people could easily "forget" to pay for a crate of beer or other large items that were placed there.

[@stevenbrindley2469]

I was in the USA in the mid 1990's and found the grocery stores very varied and big & I think the UK has gone that way now.

[@nemosvoice7102]

Another great video,I think you might find the British comedian stewart lee worth the watch,keep up the great work

[@scottfowler50421]

The olden days, everybody used to shop at they local grocery store everyday for the freshest food. I think now in supermarkets they is such stuff they spray on certain foods to keep them longer what isn't good really. Alway try to buy your meats at your local butcher as well, to keep them in a job.

[@steveluke4779]

All of the major supermarket chains plus the frozen food stores 'Iceland' offer a delivery service, they existed before Covid.

[@jethro4665]

Amanda As always, a constructive observation on the differences between our two societies. Personally, as already mentioned, the brown paper bag option adopted in the US has always appeared to me as the most impractical way of trying to get your purchases home. As for the trollies, maybe before you were welcomed to our shores, you were unaware of the large amount of supermarket trollies you could find absolutely anywhere in the neighbourhood. Particularly in rivers and canals. The £1 charge has certainly cut that down. BTW, did you ever check out Billy Connolly - Dwarf on a Bus?

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’ve heard about that lol people are nuts It’s on my list 😊👍🏻

[@jethro4665]

@@LADYRAEUK Many thanks for the acknowledgement. Much appreciated

[@jillhobson6128]

@@LADYRAEUK The £1.00 coin is refunded when you return your trolley to the trolley park.

[@jillhobson6128]

How do you carry your shopping home in a brown paper bag that doesn't have handles? We don't all have cars.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@LADYRAEUK I like the ergonomic trollies...the deeper ones wreck my back...and Mrs C,s too....working in the NHS has that effect on lower back posture..personally I like both US and UK supermarkets...that said I like having the choice of M+S , Sainsburys ,the good old Co op...there is even a corner shop in Secombe here on the wirral ....called Singhesburys... another great post...best wishes from the wirral....E

[@langdalepaul]

Those racks under the carts are great places to forget your expensive cases of beer when you get to loading the car. 😁

[@xorsyst1]

I hate the bag packing in US grocery stores when I've visited. I never know what to do with myself while my stuff is being checked out and they always pack it wrong anyway. But in the UK these days I always use a "scan and pack as you go" system with a little portable gun, so you can just pay and leave at the end and not have to go through a checkout at all.

[@davehooper4498]

I shop at Lidl because I like the small shops. But for variety go to the big hyper markets they have everything,........

[@richardcastro-parker3704]

In some supermarkets in the UK you can scan as you go around, pay then go. No need to put items in your trolley, unpack to pay pack in bag and go. Both Sainsbury's and Tesco's have the scan as you shop handsets.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@peterellams166]

The first time my wife and myself went to N.Y . For our sons wedding 18 years ago . She loved the Deli’s because everything was in pounds and once’s. I expected supermarkets everywhere but there was only one and that was underground and was huge . And tills everywhere. Always enjoyed going every year . Different yes , but it’s good to be different.

[@LADYRAEUK]

I agree, I love the differences 😊

[@fenman7147]

Ounces I and no apostrophe

[@jeh1333]

Amanda, the reason essential foods are spread around is so that we have to go looking for them. In this way, we end up buying stuff we see but don't need! Marketing? Upselling? Either way, we buy more than we need and the supermarkets makes more sales and bigger profits etc.

[@LADYRAEUK]

That makes complete sense lol

[@adamev]

The biggest difference I found was no alcohol in Grocery stores in the US. I know this is by State, but all the ones I have been to do not allow this. Same for Canada.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻good point

[@davenwin1973]

In Indiana, it depends on the liquor license the store has. My local Aldi that have a liquor license, only sell beer and wine. Most Walmart and Meijer stores by me sell beer and wine, and a limited selection of rum and vodka. Indiana is one of 3 states that only liquor stores can sell refrigerated beer.

[@skelband]

They do allow it in many places in Quebec.

[@10thdoctor15]

I like the idea of the shelf at the bottom of the trolley.

[@paulhill1665]

If you like ice cream, you need to try otter valley ice cream, but you have to go to them, small local producer, they have a restaurant at Otter St Mary, in Devon, on the A303/A30 trunk road

[@cheekybesom]

US grocery store can only sell beer & wine, UK supermarkets can also sell spirits/liquor The annoying thing when someone else bags your groceries is that they often bag items together with no regard to what needs to be chilled/frozen. So hours later you find one of those items in your bag of canned goods that you left on the kitchen table.... Sigh!

[@HROM1908]

North American carts have two wheel steering but in the UK they all steer. Tough if you are small and have a heavy load.

[@petejones879]

The pound coin thing with the trolleys was brought in because of all of the thefts of the trolleys.. But as you know you can retrieve your pound coin when u return the trolley back to where you picked it up.. Some of our trolleys do have the tray underneath it depends on which store you use

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

Love the pop up when you make a mistake, it's the poet Michael Rosen who i have met twice.

[@LADYRAEUK]

🤣😊

[@jillhobson6128]

@@LADYRAEUK I hate the pop up!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Nice....!!!! ...sorry Jill...maybe suggest a new one..

[@jillhobson6128]

@@eamonnclabby7067 Anything rather than the one she's got! Why not just admit she says daft things? None of us can speak perfectly!

[@richardsevern9841]

Did you notice that there are no clocks it UK stores? That's to stop you dashing out when time is up for you to go home

[@LADYRAEUK]

I never noticed that ! Lol

[@Mackeson3]

4:10 I must admit I love internet shopping for food, it does save a lot of hassle but as for "Small fee" some supermarkets actually deliver free if you spend above say £40. I know Morrisons do via Amazon. Order early enough and it's delivered on same day too.😉

[@LADYRAEUK]

I didn’t know that!

[@williebauld1007]

You will NEVER be able to bag your messages as quick as an Aldi check out operator scans them, you need to have the reactions of Jackie Chan for that!

[@wibblejellygames81]

You should never bag your groceries into your trolley at Aldi, their checkout are designed for you to load your groceries back into your trolley and then to bag them on the large counter near the exit or straight into your car boot. Trying to bag your groceries at Aldi will slow down the queue and annoy everyone. If you put them straight back into your trolley you can beat an Aldi checkout operator but you will have to be very fast, racing them is one of my weekly highlights!

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol that made me chuckle! They are fast 🤣

[@AnubisX1]

@@LADYRAEUK Actually if you ask them to slow down they will, esp if they see you struggling. The reason Aldi and Lidl checkouts are so fast is because those companies set targets on how many items are scanned an hour, its so many thousand an hour. But as i said if you ask them to slow down they will, well my local aldi's always slows down when i ask them.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

I can usually keep up,but its important to put shopping on the conveyor in the order you want to pack them,big stuff at the front,smalls in the middle and delicate (bread) items last. It's also critical to have bags open and ready to go,as well as having payment in reach,so you can pay with one hand while putting the last bits in before you get the receipt. It's almost like a military exercise, Positive Pre - Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

[@williebauld1007]

@@wibblejellygames81 I bag them, but I only use the “bag your bargains here” counter to finish packing my leftover items from my checkout

[@rachelpenny5165]

Some of the cashiers in my local Tesco Express have been known to take my empty bag which I often put in the basket and put the shopping from the basket into it. But it is a small shop and they tend to recognise the regular shoppers.

[@beverleyringe7014]

Asda always ask if you need help with the packing..

[@Mark-1978]

The way the milk, bread and eggs are separated is a sales trick to get you to pass more products and hopefully for them fill your basket up with what you see.

[@LADYRAEUK]

That makes sense 👍🏻

[@jackthelad8182]

I'm not sure about the states but most supermarkets in the UK have certain electrical goods except aldi and lidl they sell power tools Jack's for cars ect bicycle assersories even lawn mowers I even bought a folding bed

[@LADYRAEUK]

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[@iaincleary321]

There are still some grocery stores here in the UK that have racks on the bottom of trolies/kart, Aldi I think still have them, but most stores changed the trolies over to not having racks on the bottom sometime between mid 80's to early 90's, I recall it made riding around on trolies so much harder as there is no bar at the bottom back of most trolies without racks now, Dam fun police lol.

[@neilfleming2787]

For the market stuff, I guess it depends where you go for the type of trolley you get. The pound coin idea came in because too many were being taken from the stores and not returned which meant they had to send people out to retrieve them, having to deposit a coin to use a trolley is fine as long as you then return it to get that coin back. I have seen trolleys with the underneath bit but again depends on the store and the size/depth of the trolley. Checkouts, well I have always bagged all my own because I generally live close enough where I can just carry my stuff home so I want to try and even out the load. Varieties.....well, how many do you need? I must admit there are still things in Australia I find hard to get (well not so much hard as ridiculously expensive as they classed as specialized imports - haven't had Jaffa cakes for more years than I want to think about. I live in Dallas for 7 months and I actually enjoyed shopping in American markets...Albertsons was where I usually went.

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’d love to visit Texas someday, it’s always appealed to me 😊

[@mrade5321]

The thing that annoys me the most is, in the UK (not sure about US), they constantly move stuff. I've got to the point that, if I go to get something and they have moved it, I can't be arsed looking for it. I'd rather just get it at another shop. I'm not a fan of giving people money to mess me about. I'm stubborn that way. If you want my money, leave things where I can bloody find them! 🤬

[@ianhow100]

You're on your own with Ketchup lol. Grew out of that stuff long ago. Saying that, I still love Marmite. One novelty brand of crisps available here in Northamptonshire was hedgehog flavour. A short lived novelty.

[@julieoldfield5506]

Just as well I don't live in America. The ice cream sounds divine. Would have to try every single one! Thanks Amanda feel quite hungry now.

[@jonbolton3376]

You spoke about crisp flavours, but the first time i sent my Texan girlfriend a selection of Walker's crisps she was amazed we had flavours like cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, roast beef, prawn cocktail, smoky bacon, roast chicken and Worcester sauce. I don't know if Lay's (which she tells me is similar to Walker's) do any of those flavours in other States, but it seems not in Texas lol.

[@LADYRAEUK]

A few of them but not all 😊 Has she ever been to the uk?

[@jonbolton3376]

No, but we are both hoping to visit eachothers home country one day, lol lockdowns and other commitments allowing.

[@pauly741]

When we visited the states we wanted a proper dinner not fast food , we went to Walmart to get ingredients for toad in the hole but couldn't find proper sausages anywhere in the store. I think in the states they're called links sausages but we didn't know that at the time

[@LADYRAEUK]

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[@asylumgamingcartel6137]

Last year my wife and her friend from SC were on facetime when we were shopping in Asda, the friend in the us couldn't believe we had a aisles for spirits and wines she even said our staff were so friendly(staff kept waving from beind the wife)

[@angelavara4097]

I lived in New Jersey for a couple of years and I loved the pickles that were in containers and I could pick my own I miss them.

[@Scurvybilgerat10]

walkers crips used to do guest flavours and i liked the Heinz tomato sauce flavour they also had a hotdog and mustard flavour once which was lush

[@Jp67-n6b]

I visited my sister whose husband was in the air force in Plattsburgh and stayed on the base brilliant prices as everything was cheaper. We went to a store and I had never seen so much choice and the fruit displays were pristine and huge. Stores over here tend to be much smaller. In Australia the checkouts are manned with people standing up and packing the groceries, mind you they used huge quantities of plastic bags, also not much in the way of choice. WA in oz is known as wait awhile, it’s the furthest city from any other city in the world, a five to six hour flight!

[@glastonbury4304]

Being a revenue manager the UK supermarkets are very clever in enticing you to buy , that's why you find the eggs, bread and milk in different places so as you have to go up and down aisles buying things you never entered the store for 🤣...also the way they move products around each week is they track customers to see where they congregate most and tend to put a product in that place on offer just to shift it faster....other tricks they do is just before closing you will find the music speeds up so subconsciously the customers begin to speed up 😅...they also incorporate gadgets under counters that spray gently the smell of fresh bread enticing you to buy and lastly though there's many more tricks they don't stack shelves in order of price , although it looks that way where the cheapest brands are low down and the most expensive are high up, the reason why they do this is because kids being small usually grab all the sugary , cheap snacks and foods parents don't tend to go for , whilst the most expensive niche type of brands are high up as the men being generally taller than women and always on the large shop love buying something a bit different as there usually the ones when cooking love to experiment , but have the bigger egos 🤣, so need the more expensive products to prove they can cook better than anyone, whilst using every pan in the kitchen making just a sauce 🤣🤣...and then of course the middle shelves are left at a height for the women who go for the everyday normal shop of 2 for the price of 1 and the everyday household items you really need, which are usually the known popular volume selling brands 👍😉💕

[@fasteddie406]

Trolley rental for £1 is due to the magnetic force that drags loose trolleys into the nearest canal. So lock your trolley away again get your pound back.

[@conjigalo]

The reason the bread, eggs and milk are in different places is because the uk doesn’t bleach their egg shells, so don’t need to be refrigerated. Plus bread develops mold quicker if it is chilled. So the milk is the one thing that needs to be chilled. Hope that helps.

[@phoebus007]

Availability of alcohol in US grocery stores varies from state to state.

[@Jamienomore]

In Tesco You have a choice, Self Service or Cashier. Most Stores are like that. Try a different Store. Tesco has Price Comparison on it's Groceries and there is always Tesco Online Grocery Shopping.

[@cornwallonline]

I used to work for a company based in Milford, PA, which I visited many times for meetings and such. First port of call was always the massive Walmart next to the hotel I used to stay in....I was always fascinated by the HUGE range of food and non-food - I often bought tools and gadgets and clothes and my boss often took a second suitcase to fill with goodies to bring back to the UK! Also, one of the most beautiful parts of the world I ever visited (PA, not Walmart 🤣 )

[@elyphot]

The layout of food in supermarkets isn't mad.in the UK. It is designed to make customers visit as many aisles as possible

[@catherinespencer-mills1928]

We have started shopping at Winco in the western US. (I don't know if they are local or national.) You can bring your own bags or purchase some and you have to bag your own groceries. They do have a neat system of two bagging lanes with a swinging barrier so the cashier can block one side or the other as the customer finishes bagging. Speeds up things a little.

[@grabtharshammer]

We used to have the bagging lanes in the UK too. As a cashier you would push the barrier left and right to separate each customers goods. No idea why they disappeared

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Some chains-not Lidl-do allow cashiers to help packaging...Lidl trollies do have the trolley rack,however...🎩

[@themusiqfreak]

In USA (don't know if it's just some states or a regular thing) but not having alcohol in your supermarkets and having to make a separate trip to the liquor store... that's annoying. Also, I found it eye-opening visiting Walmart and seeing guns and knives on offer in their sporting section right next to kids bikes and stuff, so strange.

[@Auron710]

I think Tesco (at least used to) have the rack underneath the trolley but costco definitely do still have that here. maybe supermarkets phased it out for cheaper trolleys? i had not thought about it until you mentioned it honestly. I'd love to give my opinion but the last time I was in the USA I was 10.... so I don't quite have a sophisticated memory of the shopping scene haha.

[@davidmckie7128]

We were talking with my daughter in New Zealand at the weekend and she said that the fruit and veg is at the front of the shop and my wife's comment was that she preferred to get fresh stuff like that last so it would still be fresh when you got it home.

[@imgordonanderson]

The shopping trollies are IRISH all four wheals turn. In the US only the front wheals steer the trolley and the back ones are strait like your car. Cashiers don't count back the change. My first time in London you English stand to close to each other while queuing (lining up) at the till. Still love you guys living here since 2002

[@fletch9702]

I'd probably say the biggest difference is that our Walmart (Asda) doesn't sell guns. I challenge ANYONE to find a bigger, more extreme difference than that.

[@petejones879]

We do get those large product displays Amanda in some of the larger stores like sainsbury or Asda or Tesco

[@36814]

I worked in Saudi Arabia when my son was an infant and I always placed his carrier on the rack beneath the cart. All went well until the day I forgot he was there and drove home without him . As soon as I realised what had happened I went back to find him sitting on a checkout being fussed over by the staff and thoroughly enjoying all the attention.

[@frederickferdinand5909]

That's a brilliant story it made me laugh ,especially when you found him being made a fuss of by the staff. He's obviously got an eye for the ladies !!! best wishes to you and your little fellow !!!

[@tonys1636]

I think we have all forgotten that we had a kid with us at times, ashamed to say I've done it more than once in the past, now they sometimes forget they've got Grandad with them, as long as it's in the pub I don't mind.

[@Mackeson3]

Heck and I felt bad enough leaving the dog tied up outside a shop then set off walking home WITHOUT him . Fortunately I hadn't gone to far when I realised what I had done 😊

[@ianhunter2374]

It would be great to hear you talk about the difference in air quality and which you think is better

[@martinh1962]

Interested to know whether you weekly shop is cheaper in the UK or the US? Also what does a check out clerk earn in the US? Peanuts or a proper wage? And if you are in a hurry use a minimarket!

[@RiverMersey]

UK shopping trolley/carts used to have a tray underneath but those designs were phased out about 15 years ago - around the time that the UKs last trolly maker went out of business. Supermarkets have deliberately laid out the store with things like eggs, milk, bread as far away from each other as possible - so customers going between these items might suddenly think they also need to buy a frying pan or anything else they might see traveling between key items! UK supermarket cashiers have been sitting on the job for as long as I can remember - at least since 1980! Other commentators on videos on this subject have mentioned how USA packs of crisps can be sold in a single large bag whereas UK also sell the same large bag but that it contains multiple smaller bags.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ah that’s a good one, I forgot about that

[@chindleymuffin]

They do have the large bags of crisps on sale in the UK, they are called Share Bags and are mainly made by Walkers Crisps or the Doritos Share Bags, which are huge. Mostly found in stores like Home Bargains and Poundland, who have started selling chilled groceries (milk, cheese and bacon) in recent years. I have also got a Premier Store near me that has just introduced a US sweets aisle, you can get Hershey Bars, Nerds and Reese's Pieces, amongst other items like a different version of Dr. Pepper to the UK one. Just thought I would let you know.

[@LADYRAEUK]

We have that too 😊

[@RiverMersey]

@@LADYRAEUK fyi: UK Walkers & US Lays are the same company

[@wilmaknickersfit]

@@RiverMersey I was just about to Google it because the Lays bag looks like the Walkers.

[@dkpierce5038]

In Michigan there is no tax on food i.e. eggs $2.09 at checkout it is $2.09.

[@duxberry1958]

at morrisons we always offer to pack / and the reason why eggs/ milk and bread is kept apart so while you walk around looking for it so impulse buying kicks in ...

[@LADYRAEUK]

That makes sense 👍🏻

[@clivewilliams3661]

Be aware, the greater the variety the more expensive the food, this is why the Lidl and Aldis of this world have cheaper products and indeed IMO Lidl in particular has better quality food that most of the major supermarket chains (but at cheaper prices). If you have greater variety you need a bigger store that costs more money to build and run and this has to be passed on to the customer and that principle also applies to check out assistant baggers. The reason we have coin deposits in the trolley/cart is because often UK stores are close to centres of population and the trolleys would be found littering all the public spaces as people used them to take their groceries home without the coin deposit. It also encourages the shopper to return the trolley to the collection point. Lidl trolleys have an under tray and a fold down rear tray that is very useful for locating the shopping/cool bags whilst you shop

[@bill53uk]

some supermarkets in the uk have trays below the trolley. depends where you shop

[@hellobanking802]

I like to go food shopping, absolutely trollied. Swinging my cart around in circles as I'm doing so. 😂