They don’t put the full price on the sticker because different counties a mile away from each other can have different taxes. different states and counties vary on price, so just adding it at the cash register and mass producing price tags for shops nationwide is easier than individually pricing everything
The tax in the US is much lower in the Uk as well, with 6% in my area. $1=0.06 cents. It doesn't really bother anyone as you don't calculate exactly when you are shopping around until you reach the cashier.
@@Ra111denIn the city where i live we have a 10% sales tax. It was 8% before 2004. The county tax is only 4%. From what I learned the mayor then wanted the sales tax higher to fund the downtown revitalization projects. The Riverfront park, baseball stadium and other things. Edit: but I'm not sure if that's true. Maybe it was for additional revenue. Because the sales tax but not only that, you have lodging tax and gas tax which contributes heavily to the city budget. I think was 6 to 7 million a year.
While it can be difficult to keep up with updating price tags. It's also just because there's no laws requiring store to include tax, so they're going to put the lower looking price. Though I imagine every time someone tries to pass a law requiring the inclusion of sales tax somewhere, it probably doesn't pass for that reason.
Sales tax can be different by town, village , county, state. So it’s cheaper to add it digitaly instead of print a bunch of different tags for the same product,
walmart is known as a superstore, not a supermarket. it has a section for groceries, clothes, games, tools, toys, bikes, sports, and more. its not just food
I moved from North Carolina to Illinois and the first thing I noticed about Illinois is you can buy liquor at Walmart as opposed to NC where you had to go to a state-run ABC store.
@@MsLove-we8ry One of our Walmarts had an Auntie Anne's too but it went out of business. Guess nobody in the area was going to pay $8 for a single pretzel lol
All you have to remember is that the U.S. has no national sales tax. Therefore, sales tax is left up to the individual states which will then have the option to delegate sales tax to their respective counties and sometimes even to the individual cities. The state that I live in has a statewide sales tax of 6%. There is no tax on food unless it has been cooked by the supermarket. All food sales in restaurants are taxed.
In Pennsylvania sales tax is 6% but if you're in Allegany County you have to add an additional 1% for local tax so it is 7% and if you're in Philadelphia add an additional 2% local tax so you would pay 8% in Philadelphia.
In Maryland the state sales tax is 6%. In Delaware there is no sales tax (so we usually go to the outlets there). I still haven’t gotten used to the sales tax in Rochester NY where the state sales tax is 4% but Monroe county has an additional 4% tax on certain items.
Walmarts even have eye doctors and banks inside of them. They're massive. You should react to a video of someone just shopping inside a Walmart, I'd be curious to see what you think.
Many of the brands mentioned are from the U.S., but they redesign them for other countries or international sales. Countries can vary on what ingredients are allowed as well, making the redesign even more necessary. Also, the options are so great here that some people get what's called decision fatigue.
Supermarkets originated in the U.S. around 1930, and we still call them supermarkets, or grocery stores. Walmart is more like a superstore because it sells more than food - like electronics, clothes, sports gear, car accessories, etc. There are some very small stores/sometimes a bank at the front of Walmart, but they're not a significant part of the store.
And toys, shoes, crafts, paint, furniture, home décor, camping & fishing equipment, gardening, bikes, supplies & plants/flowers, kitchen supplies, hygiene & makeup products, liquor, office supplies, pet food & supplies, my store also has a photography studio, pharmacy, optician, auto center and a McDonalds. For the most part they have everything you could possibly need except for more high end products like name brand clothes, shoes, purses, etc.
I’ve watched this video so many times today! Zaddy is next level sexy, ∴ I’m not ashamed to admit q Thanks, Bobbi, I was a bit confused when Lawrence said that Brits say “supermarket” & we say “grocery store” ‘cause I know we (me & my home state’s citizens) may say some things differently from y’all in the other 49 states, but I’ve heard a lot of American’s say supermarket. After having watched half of the video, I think it’s a weird comparison ‘cause it sounds like he’s comparing grocery stores/supermarkets (“GSS”) and superstores. I think of GSS as being places like Safeway, Trader Joes, Vons, ShopRite, etc. where they primarily sell foods/beverages but also some basic things we need in our homes like rubbish bags, light bulbs, pens, markers, brooms, mops, buckets, etc. But superstores have GSS INSIDE of them and makes up maybe 25% of the entire layout, with the other 75% being a wide array of clothing, bedding, home decor, electronics, automotive, sporting goods and apparel, jewelry, animal/pet supplies, stationary, etc. and these include places like Walmart, Costco, and Sam’s Club. I think sometimes the Brits forget just how massive the disparity between the UK and US is in terms of population...but also in terms of geography. There are, literally, almost 5 times as many ppl in the US as there are in the UK. For perspective, California & Texas, combined, have 2 million more people than the entire United Kingdom...that’s 69M to 67M. California has 2M more ppl than all of Canada, 39M to 37M. Texas has 3M more ppl than all of Australia. We have so many people in the US that the country of Sweden, which has 10.1M people, would be our 10th most populated state! But even in terms of geography, the United Kingdom is 94K sq mi...which would be our 12th biggest state. AK is 7.07x bigger than the UK, TX is 2.85x bigger, CA 1.75x bigger, MT 1.56x bigger, NM 1.29x bigger, AZ 1.21x bigger, NV 1.18x bigger, CO 1.10x bigger, OR 1.04x bigger, WY 1.04x bigger, MI 1.02x bigger. As a whole, the US is 3,797K sq mi while the UK is 94K sq mi....that’s 40 times as much land, and supplying 5 times as many people. So, naturally, we’re going to have large selections and larger stores. Imagine if the entire European Union decided to have EU supermarkets and superstores...with the 440M people in the EU, they’d probably have selections and options as massive as we do. I dunno, I just don’t think population and geography can be ignored. That would be like me complaining we don’t have a Trader Joe’s, IKEA, or Olive Garden here...but we have a whopping 1.4M people which ranks us at No.40, and we rank No.47 in terms of land size (we’re No.43 in total area, but there’s a lot of water between our 8 plots of land. LOL!). So when 38 states have more ppl and 46 states are bigger than us...and the closest state is 2,500 miles away, why would those companies spend all that money to build stores here and pay to have their goods shipped out into the middle of the Pacific just to break even? 🤣😂 Size matters. 😜 Anyway, I hope u and ur ohana are staying safe and healthy during this pandemic! Sending y’all lotsa love and aloha from Honolulu! 😁🤙🏽❤️🌈☀️ (Hawai’i symbols) PS - So at what point did you figure out where my home state was? Oh yeah, one of the things that all of my mainland friends have told me that we say but none of them say, these are friends from all over the country, is “rubbish”. They all think it’s weird that we call them “rubbish cans” or “rubbish bins”...they all say “trash” or “garbage”. But if you look at the Hawai’i state flag, you’ll see another country’s flag in it...and that country says “rubbish” too, as well as “brilliant”, “fancy”, and “reckon”. In the early 1800s, the Hawaiian monarchy would travel to London to study at University. In fact, in 1887, Princess Liliu’okalani attended Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee as the representative of the Hawaiian monarchy as her brother, King David Kalākaua could not attend...4 years later, in 1891, she would become Hawai’i’s first, and last Queen...as we, America, staged a coup an overthrew the Hawaiian Gov’t and the Hawaiian monarchy & incarcerated Queen Liliu’okalani in 1893. Since we, America, annexed Hawai’i just 5 years later, historians have said it’s clear that we were protecting our investments in Hawai’i...do I think it was abhorrent? Absolutely. Does that mean I hate being American? A resounding no; I love my country and my family’s been here since 1868. All it means is that this is my little way of letting my compatriot get a glimpse into a part of American History that has never been taught in American Schools...but I think it should be, ‘cause most White Americans in 2021 aren’t the same as the White Americans who staged a coup in 1893...but some are, as we saw a coup staged on January 6, 2021. One of the biggest reasons we study History is to make sure we don’t repeat mistakes and/or bad behavior...so we need to stop hiding the mistakes of American History. I wish they’d teach about the 3 years that some of my relatives spent in concentration camps, despite having been 3rd generation Americans...and none of what happened 70 years ago would affect how I see people in 2021. I love my compatriots, and I’d die for my friends of all races and colors. 🇺🇸
The food sections in Walmart only take up about 20% of the store. Most of it is clothing, and it also includes garden supplies, electronics, toys, bathroom supplies, home decor, a pharmacy near the checkout lanes, and maybe a small restaurant near the exit/entrance (in my case it's a Dunkin Donuts).
Inside a Walmart super store, there will be small shops along the front near the registers. The one I frequent has a McDonalds, a bank, a photography studio, a salon, and an eye center. They also sell auto stuff in most of them, and mine also has an auto center with repair services. Also, they are split between groceries and regular retail, so you can literally buy almost ANYTHING in one. I feel lucky, it's quite a nice and clean place, unlike others I've had the misfortune of visiting over the years.
The store I frequent is also clean and the workers seem to like their jobs ok. It's a nice change of pace to some of the other Wal-Marts I've been in too.
@@newgrl From what I understand, it's a difference in which member of the Walton family owns the specific store. Some are better than others for keeping them up to scratch.
The value added tax in America makes sense because the federal government, states, cities, and even counties can all have their own tax rates. It's much easier to just add it on, as some stores even a mile or two apart can have varying tax rates from each other based on jurisdiction. The price tags can thus be mass produced nationwide, saving on costs for the stores themselves.
I can attest to this. I live 30 minutes away by Highway going East to my nearest Supermarket. There, sales tax all told is 10%. If I drive 35 minutes West instead, I hit another town with a Supermarket and tax is only 8.75%. If I go to the city nearest me that straddles the state line, I can buy groceries in the next state with a very low 3.5% tax on food instead of my state that charges full tax for food. The options vary wildly.
No there is only 2 tax state and federall tax in some states like nj you dont have tax on clothes tax free or some other things are tax free and it all diffrenet % in all states
I looked this up recently for my area. In Texas, the state charges 6% and then they allow counties and cities to charge up to 2% extra. Of course here in Dallas, they charge that extra 2%. I think 1% goes to the county and 1% goes to DART (transit). It's only 7% in my home town and I think some really rural only have the state cut. There's a state, I want to say Vermont, that has no sales tax at all. That blew my mind when I heard it since I'm so used to being charged for sales tax.
Value-added tax is charged to the producer in each step of the production chain. Sales tax is charged to the end-user purchaser. I don't know how it started that sales tax is not included in the sale price but it has been that way since before I was born fifty years ago.
And even people like myself, who are awful with numbers/math can tell pretty much exactly what the final price will be, because you keep a loose running total in your head after a while. I’ve never been really surprised by the final cost of groceries. Since you mentioned it, I find the ease of moving the grocery cart seems to differ by store names. Walmart carts always seem to want to ram into other shoppers, but Hannaford carts glide effortlessly across all surfaces with a slight pressure. Taxes: My county has a special sales tax that is charged on certain items and every penny goes to the Metropolitan Transit Authority to help subsidize NYC’s subway system (which is nowhere near us), and if I drive three miles, I’m in a different county that won’t have that tax but may have another similar setup with the money going elsewhere. The various state legislatures fight over these things and we all pay the price.
@@Bigamir545 We make our own sweet drinks--mostly teas & lemonade. Have you ever tried "cold fused" tea or lemonade? Throw in some old fruit or frozen fruit & let is sit a few hours. Cold tea with peaches? Lemonade with strawberries? Yummy, yummy for the tummy!!!
walmart is a superstore, that's why its so big. They sell groceries, cloths, toys, sports and camping equipment, bikes, paint, tools, school suplies, and even guns. They also commonly have things like subways and hair salons in them, but it's still it's own store.
Regarding sales tax: The store displays the price they are selling the item for then the state, county, and city add their percentage in tax. Which varies depending on the state, county, and city you live in.
If I were to shop at my local Walmart sales tax would be 9.5%, 4.5% State, 1.75% County, 3.25% City. If I go to the next town over it is 5.15%, same 4.5% State, no county, and 0.65% city. So I go to the next town over if the amount I plan to spend justifies the gas, with how gas prices are now, that would be around the $400-$500 range.
Stricter Food Safety Standards US Eggs are washed to remove chicken feces and Salmonella off the egg shell. Consequently washing also removes the natural coating of the egg, leaving the shell porous. Thus we refrigerate to prevent germ growth inside the egg and improve shelf life.
I'm not sure it's stricter, just different safety standards. In Europe the chickens are vaccinated against salmonella, thus no need to wash the shells.
My local Walmart in Arizona has a tire shop, optometrist where they'll give you a vision test along with prescription eyeglasses, haircut place/salon, McDonald's, bank, nail salon and picture studio.
Nonononono. I'm old enough (45) to remember that there were Mars Bars, Milky Way bars, and Three Musketeers bars in the candy. But he's younger than I am. Maybe things have changed. But when I remember them, they were all very distinctly different.
Usually up front there will be little shop spaces like a Subway, maybe a small bank branch, I think nail salons are required, then sometimes an eye doctor or glasses shop.
The thing about Walmart is they didn’t even really sell groceries until like the mid ‘90s. You used to have normal Walmarts (no groceries) and Super Walmarts, (with groceries) but by the mid ‘90s it seemed all Walmarts had become Walmart Supercenters. They used to just be department stores where you could get stuff like home goods, sporting goods, toys, TVs, crafts, clothing, computers, movies, music, and video games. Now they’re that with a supermarket added to side; used to always be on the left side, new ones it seems to be on the right side. They also use to be a pretty shitty place to buy music when the rating came around because they’d only sell the censored stuff, and they wouldn’t carry any movie over an R rating...but at some point they stopped selling radio edits, and in the early 2000s NC-17 movies (The Evil Dead Book of the Dead DVD was the first I remember ever seeing) started showing up their as unrated. I was surprised to find a couple years ago while out of state that there are still Walmarts (and this was smaller than even the old normal Walmarts) that are basically just department stores that food wise sell the kind of stuff you could get from the gas station and some non perishables. Couldn’t really do any major grocery shopping there.
Walmart is not a supermarket. It CONTAINS a supermarket, which is a part of what we call a big box store. It's really a discount department store. Sales tax varies from state to state, and also, it varies depending on the item. Gasoline is taxed differently than food, etc.
5:17 - "Are there like shops within shops in Wal-Mart?" - There may be a small bank, a hairdresser or nail salon, a Subway or other small version of a chain restaurant, etc... up front. Maybe even 4 or 5 of these, but in the picture you see 95% of that is Wal-Mart proper. That looks to be a Supercenter which incorporates both Wal-Mart goods (electronics, clothes, rifles and hunting gear, bicycles and sporting gear, stationary, kitchen goods, etc.) and a full grocery store together. There are thousands of them here. Thousands upon thousands. Every nook and cranny. Every town great or small. Wal-Mart is everywhere.
Cereal anytime I visit my family in Germany they have 5 different cereals to chose from but here at home hershey, Pennsylvania we have an entire aisle of Cereal and half for warm Cereals. Its crazy
Not crazy. I'm sure the German's don't eat cereal like we do. My 16 year old would eat it 3 meals a day, if I let him--plus snacks. And I'm a really good cook. We had left over pork tenderloin from dinner, last week. He came home from work & was looking for a snack. He prefers Cheerios. I actually have to order him to eat protein.
A Wal-Mart Supercenter near me has other shops and such inside it. They go across the front near the registers. There is an eye doctor, a pharmacy, a bank, a Western Union, a hair salon, a nail salon, a photographer, a McDonald's... That might be it, it's been a while since I was there. There's a Redbox rental kiosk, too. Plus the mini arcade games and soda/pop machines. And then in the Wal-Mart itself there's the garden / yard / outdoor section; the auto section with car parts, mechanics, key makers, etc.; the massive grocery section that takes up the entire left side; the clothes and shoes section, obviously, and home goods area with appliances, furniture, dishes, decor, etc.; the drugstore area with meds, bath stuff, makeup, etc.; the usually massive toy section with bikes; the entertainment section where they also sell computers, cameras, phones, and the like; the hunting and fishing area with rifles, scopes, poles, and so on; the home improvement area; and little miscellaneous areas like crafts, greeting cards, sports equipment, pet supplies and fish to buy, party supplies, etc. Some of them sell gas (petrol), too. It's literally a one stop shop for most things and many are open 24/7/365. It's frankly bonkers.
7:49 Sales tax isn't added to the sticker price because sales tax is different from state to state. Also it's sometimes different from county to county within the same state.
The reason the tax isn't added to the price tag is because that tax laws can vary greatly from city to city, town to town, or county to county. Stores just a few miles apart can have wildly different tax policies.
Along with different tax amount for different products. In my city food item have 0% sales tax. But liquor and smokes have extra tax. Pre-pepared food in the deli has the same tax as non food items. I think we had an extra tax on lightbulbs for a bit. I generally just assume 10 cents per 1.00. I'd rather over guest the final bill than under.
Wal-Mart is Wal-Mart. You may get a small McDonald's or little bank, but basically they are just HUGE. I live a few blocks from one of the smaller, in the middle of a big city, ones, and it's still giant.
They're also called supermarkets in the US. I guess I'd call the bigger ones supermarkets, but the medium ones grocery stores, and the ethnic ones markets. Also in MN there's no tax on food (or clothes), so some items on your receipt are taxed like toilet paper (and it's marked) and others aren't like milk.
Lawrence is actually wrong about the grocery store vs Supermarket naming thing. I think the dominance of calling them "Grocery Stores" must be a Midwest thing (where he lives). I know where I live, the terms are used interchangably, with Supermarket probably having a slight edge. If you want proof, the gameshow "Supermarket Sweep" started in the US before being adapted for the UK. Under that same name.
We don’t have anything left at my local Walmart except the auto dept and eye center, at different points it also had a cafe, then a McDonald’s and last a Subway. Also had a bank and a hair salon for years. Oh and at on time a photo studio and an arcade
There was an American Mars bar in the eighties. It had almonds and caramel. Three Musketeers originally had vanilla, chocolate and strawberry nougat but eventually just had chocolate but they still kept the original name, in which confuses people.
Walmart is essentially a department store with a grocery store as one of the departments, so there are sections for food, clothing, tools, electronics, gardening, toys, etc., but it's all Walmart. (A lot of them, and other supermarkets, too, rent out space in the front to banks, and my local one has a McDonald's in there too, but the departments are not separate stores, and you can take your beer and guns and bras to the same register, because 'murrica!)
Maybe it’s just because most grocery stores are supermarkets now, but I can definitely remember supermarket and grocery store being used as two different things when I was little.
Walmart will have some smaller shops towards the front of the store. My local Walmart has a hair salon, a nail salon, a tiny shop where a lady threads eyebrows & gives facials, a H&R Block tax service, an optometrist & optical shop, & a restaurant (in this case a wok shop) Most Walmarts will have a restaurant like a McDonald’s or Subway in it & a hair salon. Any other stores or kiosks will vary by location
My local Walmart has a subway, fedex shipping shop, arcade, glasses store, and a barber shop. I live in a small county with under 40,000 people so that puts the size into perspective.
There are some extra large Walmarts in the U S that sell almost everything that could possibly be called food and lots of other stuff including automotive parts and accessories. Imagine a Marks and Spencers, an automobile parts store, and a grocery store merging into one huge store.
In the US we have Superstores and Grocery Stores. Grocery stores are mostly comprised of food stuff and only have 1-3 aisles of non-food related things ( health/beauty, stationary/office, gift wrap/ cards, etc.). Superstores have basically everything you could need with only like 10-25% of the store selling food stuff.
Having lived in a dry county for most of my life, I was briefly confused when he said 'the wine section of the supermarket'. I forgot that most places actually can sell alcohol in regular grocery stores.
Walmart has an Automotive Department, Eye Doctor, Restaurant, Salon, Bank, Tax Kiosk, Photo Studio, Liquor Store, Game Room for the littles, Furniture Store, Pharmacy. You can get your tires, oil changed and all that jazz while you shop for clothes , groceries, get new glasses or hair did. It's a One-Stop-Shop.
Walmart generally has a service station, an optician, a gas station, a salon (hair and nails), a pharmacy, and a Subway. Generally there's one more business, that one varies. I've seen clinics, massage parlors, facials, barbershops, etc.
Walmart is a superstore with basically everything you can think of. It’s not only a grocery store, it also has a pharmacy, garden center, photo center, auto repair, hair salon, vision & glasses optometry center, home furniture department, outdoor hunting (yes, guns) and camping department, electronics and computer repair, literally everything and it’s usually 24 hours. The place is enormous and usually jam packed with people walking too slow in front of you.
Some fast food outlets are located in Walmarts and Targets. There are specialty sections in Walmarts like optical, pharmacy, etc. Some Walmarts have larger grocery sections.
Not all Walmarts are super Walmarts. Super Walmarts have a bigger grocery section than a "regular" Walmart. They vary greatly from state to state. My favorite grocery store when I lived in Florida was Publix and now that I'm back in Massachusetts it's Market Basket.
Walmart sells almost EVERYTHING. Auto, guns, used to sell pet fish and live lobsters (few still do) There’s even a wholesale Walmart store (Sams Club) they sell CASKETS!!! CASKETS!!
In the early 1900s there were separate tiny "grocery stores" for meat, milk, bread, vegetables/fruit, candy, etc. The first "supermarkets" combined these into one store. But they were still very small, like a modern convenience store. Then they became bigger and bigger. Nowadays "grocery store" can mean any supermarket or a small one. Supermarkets sell mainly food, and on the side health products, stationery, etc. Walmart is a combination supermarket, department store, and drug store.
Different states have different taxes and so does different counties or cities in those states have different taxes. Edit* as an example Pennsylvania has a flat sales tax of 6% or $0.06 for every dollar. If you're in Allegany County sales tax is 7%; 6% for the state and 1% for the county. If you're on the other side of the state in Philadelphia you have 8% sales tax; 6% for the state and 2% for the city.
The candy bar this is the only thing I'd say is amiss. We have all the bars he mentioned (except Mars bars are pretty hard to find). And they are a fair bit different from each other. But I guess they'd be your equivalent for sure. They're all made by either M&M Mars or Hershey's.
No. Their names are all switched around in the UK. It's still the Mars Co., they use the same names and package designs, but they use them for different candy bars. That Milky Way bar he showed, with the packaging that looks just exactly like ours? If you buy it in the UK, what you'll get is what we call a Three Musketeers bar. If you want what we call a Milky Way bar, you have to ask for a "Mars bar."
@@elkins4406 That make be true in the UK, but not the reverse - which was what I was pointing out. The US has all 4, and they're all different products, the UK has 2 and they're in "wrong" packaging based on what kind of bar they'd typically hold. They're not merely the exact same ingredients given a different name - and one that no one else has - like all the other examples. So, it's not the same.
A major reason they dont put tax on the tag is because different areas have different taxes which means that it's more math for them, and anyway most Americans prefer a debit card over cash. You could walk into a store to buy a 5 dollar item and bring your debit card in
Sales tax can vary from state to state city to city and county to county. Also sales tax varies by item and different places tax different items differently. Like marijuana products for instance have a very high sales tax.
Size of the country.... an orange in Florida is cheaper there because it is grown there, as opposed to having it shipped all the way to Montana. So, things vary in prices depending on where you live, and sales tax varies depending on where you live. It's easier to add the state sales tax when you buy.
Nope, SuperWalmarts as you saw there, generally just have a few separate shops upfront along the front wall of the store. Like a restaurant of some such, like a McDonald's or a Subway. Other shops may include an Eye Doctor, a Bank Outlet, or something else. But the rest of the store is open warehouse, with maybe the exception of a Tire "store" and a Seasonal lawn & garden "store." But the way Super Walmarts are laid out is you have your Grocery section on the far right of the store, the regular part of the store in the middle, and the automotive/seasonal stuff on the far left. However huge internal shopping malls that became popular in the 60s and 70s, have been dying off over the past 25 years. Because people don't wanna go into these huge buildings just to have to walk to their favorite stores. Stand alone brick & mortar stores have replaced a lot of those, and of course Amazon has changed the entire retail industry as you may know. Before Amazon used to have to drive all over Hell's 40 Acres to find the certain kind of music I liked, only to be let down when the Record Store wouldn't have what I wanted. But now, I can order what I want on my phone.
There are even different brand names for the same product in different states. Hellmann's mayonnaise is called Best foods on the west coast. Same packaging just different name
Nestlé Water is similar they have multiple brands based on the region in the US. Arrowhead for California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado Ozarka for Texas Ice Mountain for Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Deer Park for Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Georgia Poland Spring for New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine Zephyrhills for Florida
In US supermarkets and grocery stores, food is not taxed (except for junk food) Non foods items are taxed, like soap, detergent, deodorant, aspirin, etc.
We call large stores that offer everything department stores. It's because you can walk in and find countless departments which sell different things. Jewelry, shoes, clothes, grocery, pets, pharmacy, toys, etc etc etc.
I went into Sainsbury's in London's Gloucester Road and it looked to me like an American supermarket. It's not as large as Walmart, but Walmart isn't a typical supermarket. It's a hypermarket (although the word isn't used in the US). In the 1980s there were supermarkets like Sainsbury's selling food; and discount department stores selling housewares, hardware, clothes, toys, TVs, electronics, etc. Walmart combined the two into one store and made it twice as big.
"It is shops within shops"yeah kinda. In a Walmart, you can have at least 1 or 2 restaurants ( the one near me, has a subway and a pizza place with sit down tables) eye doctor, a bank, a nail salon, a photo studio place, a pharmacy. All this in addition to the Walmart superstore part. Costco and BJ's (which are competitors to Walmart) are just as big.
Grocery Store is like the once in the corners in NYC, Supermarket is for food and cleaning things. Walmart is a SuperStore that is taken from Grocery Store
There are stand alone groceries that sell only food. Then there are Wal-Mart's that have a grocery attached to a regular clothing/home goods store. And there is also a pharmacy and a garden center that sells plants. This is all under one huge roof.😊🐝❤
Walmart is mostly one store. They do sometimes have fast food, optician, bank, etc., but they are just around the outside with a giant warehouse size store in the middle.
The Walmarts here are supercenters. So, its got either a fast food restaurant in to or a coffee shop or both. Along with a deli. Ours has an eyeglass and contacts store as well as a nail salon. Theres even an auto shop attached in the rear near the garden center.
Walmart has McDonald' s, an optometrist, salon and a few other shops, sometimes a bank and a cellphone store. They also often have a auto-repair/tire shop in the back. Tax amounts can vary from town to town, county and state. It still seems like they could figure it out for us though.
Cashiers stand their entire shift basically. Sometimes there’s exceptions like handicap or if it’s a family owned store where the owners don’t care, but generally speaking; most retailers, including gas stations, cashiers stand and might do other stuff when no customers are around.
There are tens of thousands of different taxing districts in the United States. Sometimes, I have to pay village tax, county tax, and state sales tax on the same item at the same time. It makes no sense to put the final price on an object when the local sales tax changes every time you go two or five miles down the road.
Wal-Mart doesn't just sell tires, but most of them have an auto service area where they will put the tires on your car, and can change the oil, and do other minor repairs.
They do rent out space to non-Walmart retail. In the one I frequent: hair dresser, bank, subway, phone repair, tax assistance, nail salon, eye glasses. I think that's it.
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Depending on the specific walmart thing scan vary, products, layouts and prices. There can be food places (subway, dunkin donuts, McDonald's etc.) Their own hair salon (smart style), pharmacy, vision and hearing aid, ours has a Claire's shop in it also and the one a town over has a bank in it. The Walmart in my area sells so many different things and also has an auto shop. I can literally go in walmart and get mostly everything I need (or don't need lol) at one time. Tax in my area is 8¢ on the dollar.
American grocery store cashiers are told to stand all day in order to look more energetic and more ready to start ringing up your total spend a [ split second ]!!! after you start pulling your purchases out of the trolley/ shopping cart and putting them on the counter near the cash register.
In the US and Canada, eggs are first washed before packaging. This washing removes a protective layer, and is the reason why they must now be refrigerated. In most of the rest of the world, eggs are not washed, thus allowing them to be displayed unrefrigerated. Eggs in north America in stores are usually at a minimum 6 weeks old already.
Each state/county sets their own sales tax which has a tendency to change after a set period of time due to voting or some other regulation. Some states don't have sales tax.
We also have brands that have different names in different parts of the States, usually west coast vs east coast, such as Hellmann's vs Best Foods mayonnaise.
Walmart has 2 entrances at each end of the store. Running along the wall between the 2 entrances are small shops such as Subway, a bank and a hair salon.
Ours only has one entrance, but still has a few of those shops at the front. It's built in an urban-ish area so they squeezed it in. Believe it or not it has a parking lot out front about the size of two fast food restaurant parking lots. It's one single aisle along the front for cars, mostly past the single entrance. The secret -- the rest of the parking is underneath the store. You drive around the side down a little ramp and under the store to park. The parking lot under the store is as big as the store itself.
Many Walmarts have guns in the back. And the ones that don't, usually sell ammo lol. Usually right next to the camping supplies and electronics sections
Walmart is mostly just a store that has a large variety of items, including guns... But it will sometimes have small stores/stands inside of it such as a little Mc Donalds or a Subway.
They do sell tires at Walmart but you don’t have to take them out yourself. In fact many Walmart stores have automotive departments that will install them for you. And no that thing about brand differences is one hundred percent true. It shocked me the first time too.
Sales tax differs by state and some cities/counties have additional taxes. For example, Pennsylvania sales tax is 6% but there is an additional “sugar tax” on sugary drinks in the city of Philadelphia
Sales tax is based on your total because for instance of you buy 3 items that would equal 2.004 in tax each it would be rounded to 2 each. But if you buy 3 it's 6.012 so it is an extra cent in tax since we can't charge a fraction of a penny.when you consider the billions of transactions those pennies add up.
They don’t put the full price on the sticker because different counties a mile away from each other can have different taxes. different states and counties vary on price, so just adding it at the cash register and mass producing price tags for shops nationwide is easier than individually pricing everything
The tax in the US is much lower in the Uk as well, with 6% in my area. $1=0.06 cents. It doesn't really bother anyone as you don't calculate exactly when you are shopping around until you reach the cashier.
@@Ra111denIn the city where i live we have a 10% sales tax. It was 8% before 2004. The county tax is only 4%. From what I learned the mayor then wanted the sales tax higher to fund the downtown revitalization projects. The Riverfront park, baseball stadium and other things.
Edit: but I'm not sure if that's true.
Maybe it was for additional revenue.
Because the sales tax but not only that, you have lodging tax and gas tax which contributes heavily to the city budget. I think was 6 to 7 million a year.
While it can be difficult to keep up with updating price tags. It's also just because there's no laws requiring store to include tax, so they're going to put the lower looking price. Though I imagine every time someone tries to pass a law requiring the inclusion of sales tax somewhere, it probably doesn't pass for that reason.
its actually because the sales tax is based on the amount of the total sale not individual items
Well said, you also get used to guessing what the price would be after tax, I’ve never really had a problem with wondering if what I have will do
There's like 50 options of toothpaste in US grocery stores.
My local Walmart legit has dozens of different brands of shampoo, at least like 40.
And all are made with horse jizz
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Sales tax can be different by town, village , county, state. So it’s cheaper to add it digitaly instead of print a bunch of different tags for the same product,
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walmart is known as a superstore, not a supermarket. it has a section for groceries, clothes, games, tools, toys, bikes, sports, and more. its not just food
You can get your car serviced at my walmart
Don’t forget about gas ! My Walmart down the road sells gas.
And guns. I bought some ammo there. The gun selection isn't the best though
I moved from North Carolina to Illinois and the first thing I noticed about Illinois is you can buy liquor at Walmart as opposed to NC where you had to go to a state-run ABC store.
Only some has grocies mine walmart does not
Both of the Walmarts in my area have a Subway, hair salon, eye doctor, pharmacy, and auto center inside them. One of them also has a nail salon.
Replace the subway with a McDonald's and my local one is identical
Same where I live but they have an Auntie Anne’s and Subway
@@MsLove-we8ry One of our Walmarts had an Auntie Anne's too but it went out of business. Guess nobody in the area was going to pay $8 for a single pretzel lol
And they might have eye doctors.
Same
All you have to remember is that the U.S. has no national sales tax. Therefore, sales tax is left up to the individual states which will then have the option to delegate sales tax to their respective counties and sometimes even to the individual cities. The state that I live in has a statewide sales tax of 6%. There is no tax on food unless it has been cooked by the supermarket. All food sales in restaurants are taxed.
In Pennsylvania sales tax is 6% but if you're in Allegany County you have to add an additional 1% for local tax so it is 7% and if you're in Philadelphia add an additional 2% local tax so you would pay 8% in Philadelphia.
@@HALberdier17 I think in Altoona we just stick to the normal 6%
In Maryland the state sales tax is 6%. In Delaware there is no sales tax (so we usually go to the outlets there). I still haven’t gotten used to the sales tax in Rochester NY where the state sales tax is 4% but Monroe county has an additional 4% tax on certain items.
That’s how it is here. Sales tax is 8.75% in my city, but if I literally drive two blocks down, I’m in Huntington Beach and it’s 7.75%
6% 😭 I grew up with 10.25% tax in Chicago
Walmarts even have eye doctors and banks inside of them. They're massive. You should react to a video of someone just shopping inside a Walmart, I'd be curious to see what you think.
I want to see a true foreigners' first reaction to our stores
@@crenee4742 they are exist on RUclips just search it
Oh god let’s not tell em that, it’s also where the crack heads go🤦🏼♂️😂
I bet their "flag ship" store makes Costco look like a bodega lol
A video? To film all of Walmart, he may have to do a miniseries.
Many of the brands mentioned are from the U.S., but they redesign them for other countries or international sales. Countries can vary on what ingredients are allowed as well, making the redesign even more necessary. Also, the options are so great here that some people get what's called decision fatigue.
Yeah, I often get overwhelmed and just pick one and move on.
I'm a picky eater so i ignore every option until I find the one I know I like. An entire aisle of chocolate? Begone and show me the kitkats.
Supermarkets originated in the U.S. around 1930, and we still call them supermarkets, or grocery stores. Walmart is more like a superstore because it sells more than food - like electronics, clothes, sports gear, car accessories, etc. There are some very small stores/sometimes a bank at the front of Walmart, but they're not a significant part of the store.
And toys, shoes, crafts, paint, furniture, home décor, camping & fishing equipment, gardening, bikes, supplies & plants/flowers, kitchen supplies, hygiene & makeup products, liquor, office supplies, pet food & supplies, my store also has a photography studio, pharmacy, optician, auto center and a McDonalds. For the most part they have everything you could possibly need except for more high end products like name brand clothes, shoes, purses, etc.
I’ve watched this video so many times today! Zaddy is next level sexy, ∴ I’m not ashamed to admit q
Thanks, Bobbi, I was a bit confused when Lawrence said that Brits say “supermarket” & we say “grocery store” ‘cause I know we (me & my home state’s citizens) may say some things differently from y’all in the other 49 states, but I’ve heard a lot of American’s say supermarket.
After having watched half of the video, I think it’s a weird comparison ‘cause it sounds like he’s comparing grocery stores/supermarkets (“GSS”) and superstores. I think of GSS as being places like Safeway, Trader Joes, Vons, ShopRite, etc. where they primarily sell foods/beverages but also some basic things we need in our homes like rubbish bags, light bulbs, pens, markers, brooms, mops, buckets, etc. But superstores have GSS INSIDE of them and makes up maybe 25% of the entire layout, with the other 75% being a wide array of clothing, bedding, home decor, electronics, automotive, sporting goods and apparel, jewelry, animal/pet supplies, stationary, etc. and these include places like Walmart, Costco, and Sam’s Club.
I think sometimes the Brits forget just how massive the disparity between the UK and US is in terms of population...but also in terms of geography. There are, literally, almost 5 times as many ppl in the US as there are in the UK. For perspective, California & Texas, combined, have 2 million more people than the entire United Kingdom...that’s 69M to 67M. California has 2M more ppl than all of Canada, 39M to 37M. Texas has 3M more ppl than all of Australia. We have so many people in the US that the country of Sweden, which has 10.1M people, would be our 10th most populated state! But even in terms of geography, the United Kingdom is 94K sq mi...which would be our 12th biggest state. AK is 7.07x bigger than the UK, TX is 2.85x bigger, CA 1.75x bigger, MT 1.56x bigger, NM 1.29x bigger, AZ 1.21x bigger, NV 1.18x bigger, CO 1.10x bigger, OR 1.04x bigger, WY 1.04x bigger, MI 1.02x bigger. As a whole, the US is 3,797K sq mi while the UK is 94K sq mi....that’s 40 times as much land, and supplying 5 times as many people. So, naturally, we’re going to have large selections and larger stores. Imagine if the entire European Union decided to have EU supermarkets and superstores...with the 440M people in the EU, they’d probably have selections and options as massive as we do. I dunno, I just don’t think population and geography can be ignored. That would be like me complaining we don’t have a Trader Joe’s, IKEA, or Olive Garden here...but we have a whopping 1.4M people which ranks us at No.40, and we rank No.47 in terms of land size (we’re No.43 in total area, but there’s a lot of water between our 8 plots of land. LOL!). So when 38 states have more ppl and 46 states are bigger than us...and the closest state is 2,500 miles away, why would those companies spend all that money to build stores here and pay to have their goods shipped out into the middle of the Pacific just to break even? 🤣😂 Size matters. 😜
Anyway, I hope u and ur ohana are staying safe and healthy during this pandemic! Sending y’all lotsa love and aloha from Honolulu! 😁🤙🏽❤️🌈☀️ (Hawai’i symbols)
PS - So at what point did you figure out where my home state was? Oh yeah, one of the things that all of my mainland friends have told me that we say but none of them say, these are friends from all over the country, is “rubbish”. They all think it’s weird that we call them “rubbish cans” or “rubbish bins”...they all say “trash” or “garbage”. But if you look at the Hawai’i state flag, you’ll see another country’s flag in it...and that country says “rubbish” too, as well as “brilliant”, “fancy”, and “reckon”. In the early 1800s, the Hawaiian monarchy would travel to London to study at University. In fact, in 1887, Princess Liliu’okalani attended Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee as the representative of the Hawaiian monarchy as her brother, King David Kalākaua could not attend...4 years later, in 1891, she would become Hawai’i’s first, and last Queen...as we, America, staged a coup an overthrew the Hawaiian Gov’t and the Hawaiian monarchy & incarcerated Queen Liliu’okalani in 1893. Since we, America, annexed Hawai’i just 5 years later, historians have said it’s clear that we were protecting our investments in Hawai’i...do I think it was abhorrent? Absolutely. Does that mean I hate being American? A resounding no; I love my country and my family’s been here since 1868. All it means is that this is my little way of letting my compatriot get a glimpse into a part of American History that has never been taught in American Schools...but I think it should be, ‘cause most White Americans in 2021 aren’t the same as the White Americans who staged a coup in 1893...but some are, as we saw a coup staged on January 6, 2021. One of the biggest reasons we study History is to make sure we don’t repeat mistakes and/or bad behavior...so we need to stop hiding the mistakes of American History. I wish they’d teach about the 3 years that some of my relatives spent in concentration camps, despite having been 3rd generation Americans...and none of what happened 70 years ago would affect how I see people in 2021. I love my compatriots, and I’d die for my friends of all races and colors. 🇺🇸
The food sections in Walmart only take up about 20% of the store. Most of it is clothing, and it also includes garden supplies, electronics, toys, bathroom supplies, home decor, a pharmacy near the checkout lanes, and maybe a small restaurant near the exit/entrance (in my case it's a Dunkin Donuts).
There used to have a McDonald’s in mine but they opened a actual store and switched to Dunkin Donuts but I’ve seen a lot that have Subway
@@whoishim2998 same mine used to have a McDonald’s but now they are going to put a Pizza Hut
We have a Subway in ours, at least the last time I checked. I live in Washington and we don't have Dunkin Donuts here.
Mine typicaly have a gun isle and the shotguns wont even be in cases they will just leave them on the spinning racks
[Continuation] Bikes, camping supplies, guns, etc.
Inside a Walmart super store, there will be small shops along the front near the registers. The one I frequent has a McDonalds, a bank, a photography studio, a salon, and an eye center. They also sell auto stuff in most of them, and mine also has an auto center with repair services. Also, they are split between groceries and regular retail, so you can literally buy almost ANYTHING in one. I feel lucky, it's quite a nice and clean place, unlike others I've had the misfortune of visiting over the years.
The store I frequent is also clean and the workers seem to like their jobs ok. It's a nice change of pace to some of the other Wal-Marts I've been in too.
@@newgrl From what I understand, it's a difference in which member of the Walton family owns the specific store. Some are better than others for keeping them up to scratch.
The value added tax in America makes sense because the federal government, states, cities, and even counties can all have their own tax rates. It's much easier to just add it on, as some stores even a mile or two apart can have varying tax rates from each other based on jurisdiction. The price tags can thus be mass produced nationwide, saving on costs for the stores themselves.
I can attest to this. I live 30 minutes away by Highway going East to my nearest Supermarket. There, sales tax all told is 10%. If I drive 35 minutes West instead, I hit another town with a Supermarket and tax is only 8.75%. If I go to the city nearest me that straddles the state line, I can buy groceries in the next state with a very low 3.5% tax on food instead of my state that charges full tax for food. The options vary wildly.
No there is only 2 tax state and federall tax in some states like nj you dont have tax on clothes tax free or some other things are tax free and it all diffrenet % in all states
I looked this up recently for my area. In Texas, the state charges 6% and then they allow counties and cities to charge up to 2% extra. Of course here in Dallas, they charge that extra 2%. I think 1% goes to the county and 1% goes to DART (transit). It's only 7% in my home town and I think some really rural only have the state cut.
There's a state, I want to say Vermont, that has no sales tax at all. That blew my mind when I heard it since I'm so used to being charged for sales tax.
Value-added tax is charged to the producer in each step of the production chain. Sales tax is charged to the end-user purchaser. I don't know how it started that sales tax is not included in the sale price but it has been that way since before I was born fifty years ago.
And even people like myself, who are awful with numbers/math can tell pretty much exactly what the final price will be, because you keep a loose running total in your head after a while. I’ve never been really surprised by the final cost of groceries.
Since you mentioned it, I find the ease of moving the grocery cart seems to differ by store names. Walmart carts always seem to want to ram into other shoppers, but Hannaford carts glide effortlessly across all surfaces with a slight pressure.
Taxes: My county has a special sales tax that is charged on certain items and every penny goes to the Metropolitan Transit Authority to help subsidize NYC’s subway system (which is nowhere near us), and if I drive three miles, I’m in a different county that won’t have that tax but may have another similar setup with the money going elsewhere. The various state legislatures fight over these things and we all pay the price.
Every foreigner I have ever met always talks about our cereal and sodas lol.
@Mind traveling Sagittarius I swear all the drinks hear taste the same
I had a friend from Scandinavia who would wax poetic about our salad dressings and the variety of ice cream flavors.
@@Bigamir545 We make our own sweet drinks--mostly teas & lemonade. Have you ever tried "cold fused" tea or lemonade? Throw in some old fruit or frozen fruit & let is sit a few hours. Cold tea with peaches? Lemonade with strawberries? Yummy, yummy for the tummy!!!
walmart is a superstore, that's why its so big. They sell groceries, cloths, toys, sports and camping equipment, bikes, paint, tools, school suplies, and even guns. They also commonly have things like subways and hair salons in them, but it's still it's own store.
Don't forget makeup and prescription drugs. They even have a pharmacy lol.
Many have auto care centers as well. Also, many have arcades (sadly the Walmart near me shut theirs down).
Regarding sales tax:
The store displays the price they are selling the item for then the state, county, and city add their percentage in tax. Which varies depending on the state, county, and city you live in.
If I were to shop at my local Walmart sales tax would be 9.5%, 4.5% State, 1.75% County, 3.25% City. If I go to the next town over it is 5.15%, same 4.5% State, no county, and 0.65% city. So I go to the next town over if the amount I plan to spend justifies the gas, with how gas prices are now, that would be around the $400-$500 range.
Stricter Food Safety Standards
US Eggs are washed to remove chicken feces and Salmonella off the egg shell.
Consequently washing also removes the natural coating of the egg, leaving the shell porous.
Thus we refrigerate to prevent germ growth inside the egg and improve shelf life.
I'm not sure it's stricter, just different safety standards. In Europe the chickens are vaccinated against salmonella, thus no need to wash the shells.
My local Walmart in Arizona has a tire shop, optometrist where they'll give you a vision test along with prescription eyeglasses, haircut place/salon, McDonald's, bank, nail salon and picture studio.
Same in central Florida. They even have a bank and a tax person that you can get your taxes done lol
@@SherriLyle80s I forgot about Jackson Hewitt tax services in there at tax time. haha
Go Arizona!! 🙂
Don't forget about the cell phone repair shop......and the infamous returns department where the lines sometimes stretch all the back to Terre Haute.
I got my first glasses at a Walmart.
Nonononono. I'm old enough (45) to remember that there were Mars Bars, Milky Way bars, and Three Musketeers bars in the candy. But he's younger than I am. Maybe things have changed. But when I remember them, they were all very distinctly different.
Usually up front there will be little shop spaces like a Subway, maybe a small bank branch, I think nail salons are required, then sometimes an eye doctor or glasses shop.
The thing about Walmart is they didn’t even really sell groceries until like the mid ‘90s. You used to have normal Walmarts (no groceries) and Super Walmarts, (with groceries) but by the mid ‘90s it seemed all Walmarts had become Walmart Supercenters. They used to just be department stores where you could get stuff like home goods, sporting goods, toys, TVs, crafts, clothing, computers, movies, music, and video games. Now they’re that with a supermarket added to side; used to always be on the left side, new ones it seems to be on the right side. They also use to be a pretty shitty place to buy music when the rating came around because they’d only sell the censored stuff, and they wouldn’t carry any movie over an R rating...but at some point they stopped selling radio edits, and in the early 2000s NC-17 movies (The Evil Dead Book of the Dead DVD was the first I remember ever seeing) started showing up their as unrated.
I was surprised to find a couple years ago while out of state that there are still Walmarts (and this was smaller than even the old normal Walmarts) that are basically just department stores that food wise sell the kind of stuff you could get from the gas station and some non perishables. Couldn’t really do any major grocery shopping there.
Walmart is not a supermarket. It CONTAINS a supermarket, which is a part of what we call a big box store. It's really a discount department store. Sales tax varies from state to state, and also, it varies depending on the item. Gasoline is taxed differently than food, etc.
Luka please keep reacting to lost in the pond he’s so good, man!
Big agree!
5:17 - "Are there like shops within shops in Wal-Mart?" - There may be a small bank, a hairdresser or nail salon, a Subway or other small version of a chain restaurant, etc... up front. Maybe even 4 or 5 of these, but in the picture you see 95% of that is Wal-Mart proper. That looks to be a Supercenter which incorporates both Wal-Mart goods (electronics, clothes, rifles and hunting gear, bicycles and sporting gear, stationary, kitchen goods, etc.) and a full grocery store together. There are thousands of them here. Thousands upon thousands. Every nook and cranny. Every town great or small. Wal-Mart is everywhere.
You can't compare Walmart to a regular grocery store...they sell everything...when I was a kid, Walmart never had groceries.
And grocery stores/supermarkets didn’t used to sell furniture etc.
And neither of them used to have gas pumps.
Cereal anytime I visit my family in Germany they have 5 different cereals to chose from but here at home hershey, Pennsylvania we have an entire aisle of Cereal and half for warm Cereals. Its crazy
Not crazy. I'm sure the German's don't eat cereal like we do. My 16 year old would eat it 3 meals a day, if I let him--plus snacks. And I'm a really good cook. We had left over pork tenderloin from dinner, last week. He came home from work & was looking for a snack. He prefers Cheerios. I actually have to order him to eat protein.
A Wal-Mart Supercenter near me has other shops and such inside it. They go across the front near the registers. There is an eye doctor, a pharmacy, a bank, a Western Union, a hair salon, a nail salon, a photographer, a McDonald's... That might be it, it's been a while since I was there. There's a Redbox rental kiosk, too. Plus the mini arcade games and soda/pop machines.
And then in the Wal-Mart itself there's the garden / yard / outdoor section; the auto section with car parts, mechanics, key makers, etc.; the massive grocery section that takes up the entire left side; the clothes and shoes section, obviously, and home goods area with appliances, furniture, dishes, decor, etc.; the drugstore area with meds, bath stuff, makeup, etc.; the usually massive toy section with bikes; the entertainment section where they also sell computers, cameras, phones, and the like; the hunting and fishing area with rifles, scopes, poles, and so on; the home improvement area; and little miscellaneous areas like crafts, greeting cards, sports equipment, pet supplies and fish to buy, party supplies, etc. Some of them sell gas (petrol), too.
It's literally a one stop shop for most things and many are open 24/7/365. It's frankly bonkers.
7:49 Sales tax isn't added to the sticker price because sales tax is different from state to state. Also it's sometimes different from county to county within the same state.
That doesn't really explain why they don't add it to the sticker price, though.
@@zach.0 they would have to have thousands of different price tags for EACH product.
@@zach.0 what's the point of adding it? Some people like to know exactly how much they're taxed anytime they're forced to pay a tax.
The reason the tax isn't added to the price tag is because that tax laws can vary greatly from city to city, town to town, or county to county. Stores just a few miles apart can have wildly different tax policies.
Along with different tax amount for different products. In my city food item have 0% sales tax. But liquor and smokes have extra tax. Pre-pepared food in the deli has the same tax as non food items. I think we had an extra tax on lightbulbs for a bit.
I generally just assume 10 cents per 1.00. I'd rather over guest the final bill than under.
5:10 nope! It's all just one massive store. Sometimes there might be a Mc Donald's/Starbucks, but that's it.
Wal-Mart is Wal-Mart. You may get a small McDonald's or little bank, but basically they are just HUGE. I live a few blocks from one of the smaller, in the middle of a big city, ones, and it's still giant.
They're also called supermarkets in the US. I guess I'd call the bigger ones supermarkets, but the medium ones grocery stores, and the ethnic ones markets. Also in MN there's no tax on food (or clothes), so some items on your receipt are taxed like toilet paper (and it's marked) and others aren't like milk.
Most big stores in the US are arranged in a way to get you to spend more time and money there.
Lawrence is actually wrong about the grocery store vs Supermarket naming thing. I think the dominance of calling them "Grocery Stores" must be a Midwest thing (where he lives). I know where I live, the terms are used interchangably, with Supermarket probably having a slight edge.
If you want proof, the gameshow "Supermarket Sweep" started in the US before being adapted for the UK. Under that same name.
We don’t have anything left at my local Walmart except the auto dept and eye center, at different points it also had a cafe, then a McDonald’s and last a Subway. Also had a bank and a hair salon for years. Oh and at on time a photo studio and an arcade
There was an American Mars bar in the eighties. It had almonds and caramel. Three Musketeers originally had vanilla, chocolate and strawberry nougat but eventually just had chocolate but they still kept the original name, in which confuses people.
@@Some__Rando OMG, you're right!! I totally missed that!
Walmart is essentially a department store with a grocery store as one of the departments, so there are sections for food, clothing, tools, electronics, gardening, toys, etc., but it's all Walmart. (A lot of them, and other supermarkets, too, rent out space in the front to banks, and my local one has a McDonald's in there too, but the departments are not separate stores, and you can take your beer and guns and bras to the same register, because 'murrica!)
my local walmart has its own bakery and deli section and also a mechanic area on the other side of it
Maybe it’s just because most grocery stores are supermarkets now, but I can definitely remember supermarket and grocery store being used as two different things when I was little.
Walmart will have some smaller shops towards the front of the store. My local Walmart has a hair salon, a nail salon, a tiny shop where a lady threads eyebrows & gives facials, a H&R Block tax service, an optometrist & optical shop, & a restaurant (in this case a wok shop)
Most Walmarts will have a restaurant like a McDonald’s or Subway in it & a hair salon. Any other stores or kiosks will vary by location
My local Walmart has a subway, fedex shipping shop, arcade, glasses store, and a barber shop. I live in a small county with under 40,000 people so that puts the size into perspective.
There is also a spot in the back where you can get car inspections and oil changes. I also forgot that they have a pharmacy (chemist)
There are some extra large Walmarts in the U S that sell almost everything that could possibly be called food and lots of other stuff including automotive parts and accessories.
Imagine a Marks and Spencers, an automobile parts store, and a grocery store merging into one huge store.
The Tire’s are in the service section in Walmart just like a regular mechanic shop. Wouldn’t make sense to not have a mechanic shop but sell car stuff
Walmart in my area doesn't have an auto service center but still sells car stuff
When I went on vacation in the UK, I found that my favorite American candy, Starburst Fruit Chews, is called Opal Fruits in the UK.
What is considered a small garden supplies section at the back of a supermarket or a Walmart would be considered a large section in the UK.
walmart usally has an eye doctor, a bank and a car mechanic.
In the US we have Superstores and Grocery Stores. Grocery stores are mostly comprised of food stuff and only have 1-3 aisles of non-food related things ( health/beauty, stationary/office, gift wrap/ cards, etc.). Superstores have basically everything you could need with only like 10-25% of the store selling food stuff.
Having lived in a dry county for most of my life, I was briefly confused when he said 'the wine section of the supermarket'. I forgot that most places actually can sell alcohol in regular grocery stores.
At 5:15 Yes. You can find a McDonalds inside Walmart, Eye Glass store even Nail Salons. A bank branch.
Walmart has an Automotive Department, Eye Doctor, Restaurant, Salon, Bank, Tax Kiosk, Photo Studio, Liquor Store, Game Room for the littles, Furniture Store, Pharmacy. You can get your tires, oil changed and all that jazz while you shop for clothes , groceries, get new glasses or hair did. It's a One-Stop-Shop.
I was at Walmart yesterday, were the toothpaste was and told myself and I quote “they all look the same to me.” There be like 50 kinds of toothpaste!
Walmart generally has a service station, an optician, a gas station, a salon (hair and nails), a pharmacy, and a Subway. Generally there's one more business, that one varies. I've seen clinics, massage parlors, facials, barbershops, etc.
Walmart is a superstore with basically everything you can think of. It’s not only a grocery store, it also has a pharmacy, garden center, photo center, auto repair, hair salon, vision & glasses optometry center, home furniture department, outdoor hunting (yes, guns) and camping department, electronics and computer repair, literally everything and it’s usually 24 hours. The place is enormous and usually jam packed with people walking too slow in front of you.
Some fast food outlets are located in Walmarts and Targets. There are specialty sections in Walmarts like optical, pharmacy, etc. Some Walmarts have larger grocery sections.
Not all Walmarts are super Walmarts. Super Walmarts have a bigger grocery section than a "regular" Walmart. They vary greatly from state to state. My favorite grocery store when I lived in Florida was Publix and now that I'm back in Massachusetts it's Market Basket.
Publix is based... I thought it was everywhere than figured out it's mostly in Florida.
Walmart sells almost EVERYTHING. Auto, guns, used to sell pet fish and live lobsters (few still do) There’s even a wholesale Walmart store (Sams Club) they sell CASKETS!!! CASKETS!!
In the early 1900s there were separate tiny "grocery stores" for meat, milk, bread, vegetables/fruit, candy, etc. The first "supermarkets" combined these into one store. But they were still very small, like a modern convenience store. Then they became bigger and bigger. Nowadays "grocery store" can mean any supermarket or a small one. Supermarkets sell mainly food, and on the side health products, stationery, etc. Walmart is a combination supermarket, department store, and drug store.
Different states have different taxes and so does different counties or cities in those states have different taxes.
Edit* as an example Pennsylvania has a flat sales tax of 6% or $0.06 for every dollar. If you're in Allegany County sales tax is 7%; 6% for the state and 1% for the county.
If you're on the other side of the state in Philadelphia you have 8% sales tax; 6% for the state and 2% for the city.
The candy bar this is the only thing I'd say is amiss. We have all the bars he mentioned (except Mars bars are pretty hard to find). And they are a fair bit different from each other. But I guess they'd be your equivalent for sure. They're all made by either M&M Mars or Hershey's.
No. Their names are all switched around in the UK. It's still the Mars Co., they use the same names and package designs, but they use them for different candy bars. That Milky Way bar he showed, with the packaging that looks just exactly like ours? If you buy it in the UK, what you'll get is what we call a Three Musketeers bar. If you want what we call a Milky Way bar, you have to ask for a "Mars bar."
@@elkins4406 That make be true in the UK, but not the reverse - which was what I was pointing out. The US has all 4, and they're all different products, the UK has 2 and they're in "wrong" packaging based on what kind of bar they'd typically hold. They're not merely the exact same ingredients given a different name - and one that no one else has - like all the other examples. So, it's not the same.
A major reason they dont put tax on the tag is because different areas have different taxes which means that it's more math for them, and anyway most Americans prefer a debit card over cash. You could walk into a store to buy a 5 dollar item and bring your debit card in
Credit not debit. Besides that your point stands. I never understood why it was a problem. Europeans always looking for something to complain about.
Sales tax can vary from state to state city to city and county to county. Also sales tax varies by item and different places tax different items differently. Like marijuana products for instance have a very high sales tax.
Size of the country.... an orange in Florida is cheaper there because it is grown there, as opposed to having it shipped all the way to Montana. So, things vary in prices depending on where you live, and sales tax varies depending on where you live. It's easier to add the state sales tax when you buy.
Nope, SuperWalmarts as you saw there, generally just have a few separate shops upfront along the front wall of the store. Like a restaurant of some such, like a McDonald's or a Subway. Other shops may include an Eye Doctor, a Bank Outlet, or something else. But the rest of the store is open warehouse, with maybe the exception of a Tire "store" and a Seasonal lawn & garden "store." But the way Super Walmarts are laid out is you have your Grocery section on the far right of the store, the regular part of the store in the middle, and the automotive/seasonal stuff on the far left.
However huge internal shopping malls that became popular in the 60s and 70s, have been dying off over the past 25 years. Because people don't wanna go into these huge buildings just to have to walk to their favorite stores. Stand alone brick & mortar stores have replaced a lot of those, and of course Amazon has changed the entire retail industry as you may know. Before Amazon used to have to drive all over Hell's 40 Acres to find the certain kind of music I liked, only to be let down when the Record Store wouldn't have what I wanted. But now, I can order what I want on my phone.
Luka needs to go to a Costco
The best warehouse store in the US for sure. Not so great for single people but essential for families.
@@pspublic13 or my dad who bought in bulk just for himself 😂😂😂 He had a freezer in the garage so it worked
There are even different brand names for the same product in different states.
Hellmann's mayonnaise is called Best foods on the west coast. Same packaging just different name
Nestlé Water is similar they have multiple brands based on the region in the US.
Arrowhead for California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado
Ozarka for Texas
Ice Mountain for Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
Deer Park for Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Georgia
Poland Spring for New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine
Zephyrhills for Florida
In US supermarkets and grocery stores, food is not taxed (except for junk food) Non foods items are taxed, like soap, detergent, deodorant, aspirin, etc.
in Illinois food is taxed especially in the Chicagoland area lol
Food is taxed in Kansas. Depends on where you are.
That's a state by state thing. Also in some states state sales tax does not apply to groceries but county and city tax does.
Not true. Food here in Kansas is fully taxed. There are 4 states left that still fully tax groceries: Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, and Oklahoma
Junk food not taxed either.
Korean billy made a brand name comparison video between USA, UK, Australia, and South Africa.
In our local Walmart they have a nail salon, cell phone repair, flower shop, McDonald’s and bank.
We call large stores that offer everything department stores.
It's because you can walk in and find countless departments which sell different things. Jewelry, shoes, clothes, grocery, pets, pharmacy, toys, etc etc etc.
I went into Sainsbury's in London's Gloucester Road and it looked to me like an American supermarket. It's not as large as Walmart, but Walmart isn't a typical supermarket. It's a hypermarket (although the word isn't used in the US). In the 1980s there were supermarkets like Sainsbury's selling food; and discount department stores selling housewares, hardware, clothes, toys, TVs, electronics, etc. Walmart combined the two into one store and made it twice as big.
"It is shops within shops"yeah kinda. In a Walmart, you can have at least 1 or 2 restaurants ( the one near me, has a subway and a pizza place with sit down tables) eye doctor, a bank, a nail salon, a photo studio place, a pharmacy. All this in addition to the Walmart superstore part.
Costco and BJ's (which are competitors to Walmart) are just as big.
Grocery Store is like the once in the corners in NYC, Supermarket is for food and cleaning things. Walmart is a SuperStore that is taken from Grocery Store
There was also the discussion of the baggers. Checkout helpers. Love it. Great first job for young’uns.
@ Lav Luka Because every state has a different sale tax % (some don't have any)
true, there are 2 walmarts here are that not even 3 miles apart and they have different tax rates
There are stand alone groceries that sell only food. Then there are Wal-Mart's that have a grocery attached to a regular clothing/home goods store. And there is also a pharmacy and a garden center that sells plants. This is all under one huge roof.😊🐝❤
Walmart is mostly one store. They do sometimes have fast food, optician, bank, etc., but they are just around the outside with a giant warehouse size store in the middle.
The Walmarts here are supercenters. So, its got either a fast food restaurant in to or a coffee shop or both. Along with a deli. Ours has an eyeglass and contacts store as well as a nail salon. Theres even an auto shop attached in the rear near the garden center.
Walmart often has a Subway or McDonald's, a bank/check cashing, an optometrist, a salon, and a cell phone provider. At least here in TN.
Walmart has McDonald' s, an optometrist, salon and a few other shops, sometimes a bank and a cellphone store. They also often have a auto-repair/tire shop in the back. Tax amounts can vary from town to town, county and state. It still seems like they could figure it out for us though.
Cashiers stand their entire shift basically. Sometimes there’s exceptions like handicap or if it’s a family owned store where the owners don’t care, but generally speaking; most retailers, including gas stations, cashiers stand and might do other stuff when no customers are around.
There are tens of thousands of different taxing districts in the United States. Sometimes, I have to pay village tax, county tax, and state sales tax on the same item at the same time.
It makes no sense to put the final price on an object when the local sales tax changes every time you go two or five miles down the road.
Wal-Mart doesn't just sell tires, but most of them have an auto service area where they will put the tires on your car, and can change the oil, and do other minor repairs.
I think the only "shops" you may find in Walmart are the Garden Center, the Pharmacy, the occasional McDonald's, and sometimes a mechanic.
They do rent out space to non-Walmart retail. In the one I frequent: hair dresser, bank, subway, phone repair, tax assistance, nail salon, eye glasses. I think that's it.
Luka I absolutely love you and your reactions. They are so genuine and innocent. I will subscribe so I won't miss any. And I will chime in for advice just like I would for a brother on friend. Keep it up Bruh.
Depending on the specific walmart thing scan vary, products, layouts and prices. There can be food places (subway, dunkin donuts, McDonald's etc.) Their own hair salon (smart style), pharmacy, vision and hearing aid, ours has a Claire's shop in it also and the one a town over has a bank in it.
The Walmart in my area sells so many different things and also has an auto shop. I can literally go in walmart and get mostly everything I need (or don't need lol) at one time. Tax in my area is 8¢ on the dollar.
Yes, sometimes you have a Subway, and optometrist, and a hair salon in the Walmart
American grocery store cashiers are told to stand all day in order to look more energetic and more ready to start ringing up your total spend a [ split second ]!!! after you start pulling your purchases out of the trolley/ shopping cart and putting them on the counter near the cash register.
"Are you taking the piss!?"
LOVE! IT!
In the US and Canada, eggs are first washed before packaging. This washing removes a protective layer, and is the reason why they must now be refrigerated. In most of the rest of the world, eggs are not washed, thus allowing them to be displayed unrefrigerated. Eggs in north America in stores are usually at a minimum 6 weeks old already.
Each state/county sets their own sales tax which has a tendency to change after a set period of time due to voting or some other regulation. Some states don't have sales tax.
We also have brands that have different names in different parts of the States, usually west coast vs east coast, such as Hellmann's vs Best Foods mayonnaise.
Yes they have shops in Walmart near the front
Walmart has 2 entrances at each end of the store. Running along the wall between the 2 entrances are small shops such as Subway, a bank and a hair salon.
Ours only has one entrance, but still has a few of those shops at the front. It's built in an urban-ish area so they squeezed it in. Believe it or not it has a parking lot out front about the size of two fast food restaurant parking lots. It's one single aisle along the front for cars, mostly past the single entrance. The secret -- the rest of the parking is underneath the store. You drive around the side down a little ramp and under the store to park. The parking lot under the store is as big as the store itself.
Many Walmarts have guns in the back. And the ones that don't, usually sell ammo lol. Usually right next to the camping supplies and electronics sections
there is a tax in every state and the tax is different at each state
Walmart is mostly just a store that has a large variety of items, including guns... But it will sometimes have small stores/stands inside of it such as a little Mc Donalds or a Subway.
They do sell tires at Walmart but you don’t have to take them out yourself. In fact many Walmart stores have automotive departments that will install them for you. And no that thing about brand differences is one hundred percent true. It shocked me the first time too.
Sales tax differs by state and some cities/counties have additional taxes. For example, Pennsylvania sales tax is 6% but there is an additional “sugar tax” on sugary drinks in the city of Philadelphia
The US has Supercenter stores where you can buy food, clothes, furniture, car parts, electronics. Almost basically everything
There is a Starbucks in my local Grocery store (Kroger) and a pharmacy and a little clinic.
5:20 they do sometimes have things like starbucks and other things in grocery stores
Sales tax is based on your total because for instance of you buy 3 items that would equal 2.004 in tax each it would be rounded to 2 each. But if you buy 3 it's 6.012 so it is an extra cent in tax since we can't charge a fraction of a penny.when you consider the billions of transactions those pennies add up.