Reaction To Finnish Supermarket K SUPERMARKET

[@tossaja]

in Finland like 99% of cans and bottles end up in these machines. It is awesome. This is my local K-Supermarket in the video 😃. It is actually pretty high-end one.

[@zabnat]

True, even those that are thrown in the trash or in the environment. Also a good way to earn extra cash by collecting bottles, if one is less fortunate on the financial side.

[@SorbusAucubaria]

fun fact. In the past the number of K's in the side indicated the size of the shop. One K meant it was a small shop, two K's medium sized shop and three K's indicated it was a supermarket. For some reason they gave up that kind of classification.

[@Skege1000]

Wonder why 😂🤣

[@formatique_arschloch]

Yeah, KKK-MARKET😂

[@unknownentity8256]

"Some reason" lol

[@Moukula]

Another fun thing is to tell someone in english that you went to S-Market and bought a Megapussi (of chips).

[@temet_fin]

A clip called "America first, but Finland second" may have had some influence on the fact the K-chain stopped naming the the supermarkets "KKK-supermarkets .😄 The K-shops all are nice, but unfortunately the most expensive ones. Prisma is trying to do their best to compete with the German Lidl, which has managed to take about 10% share of the market, while the other two big ones both share some 40% each. What the food products just meant to be heated cost, depends very much on the quality - prices range from 1.80 to 6.00, even more if prepared in the shop. But in my opinion all of them are just fine if you're hungry.

[@Skege1000]

The deposit is included in the price. And now we have bigger machines that takes 100 bottles and cans at once. You just dump a bag full of bottles and cans in it and it automaticly checks them. Both Prisma and K-Markets are okay. They both have their own bonus-card systems. In K-Market they have special prices if you use their card. But Prisma has bonus where you can get bit of money back in every week. More you use and spend money, more you get back. It has tier list how many % you'll get back. And both stores have their own brand of products. K-Market has Pirkka and Prisma has Rainbow.

[@KalleKilponen]

Both chains have special discounts for their members and get money back depending on how much you buy, but the bonus schemes are a bit different. They also include things like petrol, and even purchasing things like cars. So a lot of things can impact which bonus scheme is the most advantageous for different people.

[@a-mr8745]

In K-stores, K-menu, and in S-stores, Xtra, are the cheapest brands of the stores.

[@elinahamalainen5867]

Salmiakki is not actually liquorice. Or it is liquorise base with added ammonium chloride aka salmiakki. We made that ammonium chloride on chemistry class on school once. It was actually white powder. They use charcoal for colouring it. In Finland we have laku (liquorice) and salmiakki as two different things.

[@leohuxtable439]

The word "salmiakki" refers to ammonium chloride alone and also the mixture of ammonium chloride, licorice and sugar. Hence the wiki mention "Salmiakki on ammoniumkloridilla eli salmiakilla maustettu lakritsimakeinen", that isn't remotely logical (A+B=A).

[@jtekholm]

Yes, you pay the price when you buy the bottle and when you return it, you get it back. Just encourages recycling, very nice system.

[@yorkaturr]

Milk production in Finland is absolutely huge, and cheese is a very common item. In fact, milk consumption in Finland is the highest of all the countries in the world. The spoken language word for any regular supermarket is "maitokauppa", literally "milk store". Cheese is still expensive because it's expensive to produce, and imported cheeses are even more expensive because of logistics obviously. We mostly eat Swiss style Emmental or Edam, and everything else is a distant second. Every Finnish household has at least 1 Fiskars cheese slicer. Not many people eat that pre-sliced individually packaged stuff you see in other parts of the world.

[@LadyRotterdam]

Prismas and Citymarkets are actually called hypermarkets. They are bigger than supermarkets and offer almost anything you need, including clothes, house appliances, sports equipment etc. etc. Furniture is one thing they don't offer.

[@MlCROPIZZA]

Only international supermarket chain in Finland is Lidl. Others are finnish origin. The K-group stores (as seen in the video) is the most expensive one to shop. The S-group stores (Prisma) are about 10-15% cheaper. The Lidl being at same price level as S-group stores, however their selection is a bit smaller

[@C0necat]

To answer your question about returning bottles, and if you get 0,40€ back, or if it is an extra 0,40€. It's a bit of both. Let me explain. Yes, the price is added to the price of the product, so the price you see on a price tag, already has the return value in it. However, the return value is meant to work in a couple of ways. Obviously, the person purchasing the product will be inclined to return the packaging (bottle, can, etc.) to get some of the money used on it back, but in addition to that, people that see these bottles or cans left on the ground can also return them, earning them an extra 0,40€ (for example). So it's a bit of a yes and no :), cheers from Finland.

[@Ohris]

Pretty much all bottles are recycled like this in Finland. You get a deposit back when you recycle but since its a deposit you paid it when you bought the bottle.

[@jk8557]

The number of K's in the name previously indicated the size of the shop (from single K meaning the small neighborhood shop to KKKK which was the largest) but now there's only K-kauppa, K-supermarket, and K-citymarket and each name indicates the size of the shop where the K-kauppa is smallest and K-citymarket is largest. My nearest shop is K-kauppa which is only like 10s of meters from my home and the 2nd closest shop is the largest K-citymarket about a kilometer from my home in a local shopping mall. Then 3 kilometers from my home is the next closest shop which is K-supermarket.

[@sakle]

Prisma and K-citymatket are competitors and can be found in almost every bigger city. In the shops, you can find almost everything that families need. there are products everywhere, usually at the cheaper end. For example, if you want better sports equipment, you should rather go to a sports store. Due to the large supermarkets, there are no longer separate meat, milk, cheese and bread stores in Finland, but everything can be found in one place. The main reason for that is probably our long and dark winter. It is more convenient to drive the car to the parking garage and do the shopping at once. This is what we are used to. This is efficient and easy, but perhaps not as romantic as, for example, in France and other parts of Central Europe where there are still many small private food boutiques.

[@saturahman7510]

It is hard to find a-cup bra here in Finland !

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

Haven't been to a K-chain store in a few years. The products are basically same as in S-chain stores and cost more.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

As a kid is was possible to get some money for the sweets by finding some empty bottles and cans and taking them to a store. I guess that's what they were up to too. Keeping a tradition alive. The possible pawn reads in the bottles and cans. Also crates can have a pawn. Food hygiene in Finland is on pretty high level. Meaning that food production and distribution is quite regulated. The healthiness of the ready meals differ. Some are like home food and some who knows what. Lonkero was created for the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. There's three main grocery retail chains in Finland, so not much competition there.

[@elinahamalainen5867]

Those were just deli cheeses. There is also packaged cheeses on another aisle, which are cheaper.

[@SK-nw4ig]

Long drink aka Lonkero was made for the olympics in the 1950's held in finland. It is super popular.

[@ronny7216]

Yes the Pant is already included in the price when purchasing drinks

[@Xerdoz]

Nobody knows what you mean by pant unless you mean you are exhausted from running or something. Or trousers but even then it's spelled wrong. It's a deposit.

[@digitalspecter]

Those two chains have pretty much a duopoly here. K -stores belong to a chain but each store owners whereas S-stores (including Prismas) are just owned by the chain (S-chain is a cooperative so technically owned by hundreds of thousands of people). This leads to more variety in K-chain stores but sometimes higher prices too. S-chain stores have more homogenous inventory so you usually know what you'll find there no matter which store you go to. Both also have their own store brands. Anyway, I tend to favor certain K-markets because they have stuff I like that's not found in S-chain stores.

[@Tuomas_Oskari]

Yes, you're basically right that 40 cents is a little money. You won't even get 40 cents for smaller returnable bottles and cans, but when there are really a lot of those returnable bottles and cans, they can add up to big sums over time. And preferably returned and recycled, than littering nature. At least before, there were a few bottle collectors who went around the city, especially on weekends and holidays, collecting bottles thrown away by partygoers and then used the accumulated money for, for example, an annual vacation trip. The former neighbor's co-worker reportedly went on a two-week holiday trip somewhere in Southern Europe every year with only the money he accumulated by returning bottles and cans that others had removed

[@Antony_Oscar]

I believe the fresh breads and pastries are mostly transported to the shops frozen, and then baked in the ovens at the store (at least for the bigger stores, not necessarily for the smaller corner shop style stores). So they are made there at least partly.

[@arosko]

I used to deliver pretty much everything except freezed goods, some drinks and other misc. stuff to this exact supermarket from the Kesko (K) warehouse 😂

[@marciusmarciukas5467]

Watching those 2 people made me lose intelligence for first 5 minutes🤣

[@SPPhotography89]

There are two large market chains in Finland, Kesko and the S group. The M chain is small, entrepreneurs who left the previous stores. In addition, there are other individual local shops that do not belong to anything. The life of the Tarmo store ended.

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

Finland's Järvenpää City market was named the best grocery store on earth 2023 at a global retail awards in London by the IGD a consumer consortium based in the UK.

[@Antony_Oscar]

Believe me, those chocolate crisps are DELICIOUS. I thought the idea was disgusting at first but then I tried them and became addicted.

[@a-mr8745]

Note: K-markets are small convenience stores (quite expensive), K-supermarkets are medium-sized supermarkets, and K-citymarkets are large hypermarkets. The same system applies to S-stores as well. In K-stores, they have their own good products, and if you have a K-Plussa card, you can get good benefits from certain changing products, in addition to bonus points. Almost all Finns use bottle return, and it would be foolish not to use it when you can get money from it. Less mess on the streets. Quite a few also collect empty ones from the street/trash cans, which others leave there. You can actually make quite a bit of money from them if you're willing to roam around and search (especially in the summer time). You could also check out Lidl, they have their own unique, good, and cheap selection. You can get, for example, cherry pie there, which is heavenly. Finns use far too little cherry, and cherry products are not very common in our own stores.

[@mariano7654]

Yes, we get money back of the bottles we recycle and the 20 cent or whatever we get back is included in the original price. I'm 47 years old and I don't remember time that this wasn't the case.

[@harrikaijansinkko8387]

K-markets is a chain of privately owned shops with wholesale organisation Kesko ( the K) Sometimes Kesko owns thd estate of bigger shops, but in countryside the shop houses are often also private owned. Citymarkets belong also to K-chain. S-group to which Prismas, S-markets, Alepas and Sales belong is a co-operative organisation.

[@MauriMahtava]

Idea is to put the bottoms first.. In Finland they add 0,15€ to cans, 0,1€ to glass bottles, 0,2€ for small plastic ones and 0,4€ to big plastic ones. This is when you buy. Then when you return, you get the money back. This makes the bottles almost 100% recycled.

[@LilA-zl6tf]

If you compare Prisma, with the K-group market, it should be Citymarket. Those two would compare. Supermarket is smaller, like normal S-Market, which is smaller than S-groups Prismas. K Supermarket and S-Market are you everyday shopping stops, mostly for food and day to day household things, like paper products.

[@Zarniwooper]

Bottle pawning system is genius, it stops sea creatures wearing plastic bottles as jewelry and you will never see bottles or cans laying around outside, some kid or elderly person always picks them up and gets a bit of money to spend out of it.

[@Xerdoz]

What the hell is a bottle pawning system? Maybe it's something where you make chess pieces from used bottles. It's a deposit.

[@Zarniwooper]

@@Xerdoz Ever heard of pawnshops? Oxford dictionary: "an object left as security for money lent." A bottle is literally the pawn of your money lent.

[@r2dezki]

We do produce a lot of cheese but not a lot of it is handmade premium cheese.

[@temenurminen]

There are two shopping chains in Finland the S and the K. S chain is usually cheaper but I personally like the K better for their wide selection of products. Prisma is the largest type of a S chain store where as the K counterpart would be K Citymarket. The S counterpart for K market is (surprisingly) S market. The smallest ones are called K supermarket and Sale for the S chain. The S and The K chains has their own hardware store where as S has their own restaurants. There is also a German chain Lidl in Finland. (You can take everything I just said with a grain of salt because I didn't sight my sources)🤣

[@Ankfank]

One correction I want to make it K-market=Sale and K-supermarket=S-market.

[@hennahallikainen711]

Yes! We finns recykle everything ❤every store we have these machines.

[@sundflux]

Prisma is cheaper for daily food and random stuff, k-market is more like premium food market, sort of. smaller ones sell local stuff etc and bigger ones sell that + premium imports and prisma /s-market is more like a budjet market, but good one.

[@DrunkFisher14]

id wager most peoples favourite fazer product is a rye bread called Puikula

[@Robert-k-R]

K-market is more expensive but have often sales on items and a bit better selection on items while s-marker never have sales but all the pruducts standard price is a bit cheaper

[@Sc0pee]

K-Market is a small, typical market. K-SUPERmarket is a much larger supermarket(duh) and last, K-Citymarket is a HYPERmarket which is the biggest of the three. Almost everybody uses those machines. You get 0,15e for typical smaller bottles and cans and up to 0,40e for the large 1.5 liter bottles and yes you pay for the PANT as well. But the good thing is that sometimes you find bottles and cans on the street that some lazy ass just tossed out there.

[@Wezqu]

Well its 0,10€ for small bottles (under 0,35l, includes glass bottles under 1l), 0,15€ for all cans (size does not matter), 0,20€ for 0,5l bottles (in reality bottles over 0,35l and under 1l, but you rarely see anything else than 0,5l, also over 1l glass bottles) and 0,40€ for any bottles that are larger.

[@kokkolintu3528]

We have 2 main store -chains in Finland: Kesko (K Supermarket is part of this) and S-Ryhmä (Prisma is part of this). Basically similar as in UK they have Tesco VS Sainsbury's. I personally prefer S-ryhmä, as they are a bit cheaper + you can open a real bank account with them, where you get your bonus points as money every month. 😊 About the bottles: yes. The deposit is included in the price when you buy the bottle, and you get it back by recycling the bottle. (It's VERY popular, people use these machines all the time)

[@lightningrider5849]

This K-Supermarket is actually smaller than Prisma. K-group has also so called Citymarkets that is similar size as Prisma.

[@Jantzku]

Yes it is included in the prize. But for example a lot of people are collecting cans etc on the weekends and people give them to you, if they don't want to return those themselves. Then that is just free money for the gatherer. It is a incentive to recycle.

[@the_yay_guy]

It is actually most of the time K-Market than K-supermarket

[@TheMinttuFI]

0,10€ for a glass bottle, 0,15€ for a can, and 0,40€ for a large plastic bottle! It incentivises people to recycle! Collecting bottles and cans is a big thing, since you get a deposit for it. You will see no leftover cans or bottles littering the streets, since they will be recycled.

[@SPPhotography89]

This new government will increase the maximum percentage of alcohol for drinks sold in shops to 8%, while it is now still 5.5%

[@qwineth]

Well, we have K and S, the duopoly... At least Lidl makes an effort

[@Zarniwooper]

The taffel chips/snacks bags historically did read "megapussi" but when globalisation took over we decided it might not be a best trademark :)

[@ricmatify687]

Bottom first! Jeez!

[@godE25]

Its part of the price you paid. Bottles and cans i mean

[@AngelicaSJ]

These prices are very comparable to American prices

[@freddyfatbear03]

K Supermarkets are commonly a lot expensive than Prisma

[@Gekko1970]

K-Market .... KOO Market .

[@QHullu]

If you don't teach your kids better options, with cheap microwave pizzas and meat pockets you can feed them years.

[@pekkakalevi2718]

98% bolltes get back.. fact.. NO BS!! as Birti Bs..LYE

[@santtumoilanen3065]

after covid shit food prices went insane... it wasnt that expenice always.... was actuallly rather cheap

[@kikkoMeow]

Lidl is very cheap market and it has also very good selection. Please if you ever go to finland, make a my day/week in finland and experience everything you have watched about markets, foods, places, commons in finland it would be so interesting and awesome video idea! Have a nice day (:

[@zoolkhan]

why do we care about frigging supermarkets? :)

[@user-wo6nh8ex1k]

Bottle Machines are 20 years old. More than 20 years there are been bottle machines in Finland.

[@ristovirtanen6396]

The K comes from their parent company Kesko whose biggest markets are called City Market in some big cities only. FYI Kesko refers to keskus =centrum in English. And Salmiakki isn’t sweet at all but salty and some would say bitter salty. Who has ordered that candy must be sweet when it can be salty also!😳👌