I’m a (retired) truck driver and I have a comment regarding the size of Walmart parking lots. In many regions, there are no truck stops and therefore nowhere official to park for the night. However, you can almost always find a Walmart and their huge parking lots are a literal oasis for exhausted truck drivers. They are well lit and Walmart security people patrol 24 hours a day. In many places, the local Walmart is much safer than a typical truck stop. I will be forever grateful to Walmart for the hundreds of nights that I slept safe and sound in their parking lots.
My Dad and my brother drove 18 Wheelers for years. We felt better knowing they had safe places to rest. The stores were open 24 hours so they could always go in to shop for drinks, food, etc. before they left again. We love truck drivers, they are the gentlemen of the highways. 👍👍
Smart move - I'm not a truck driver, but when I was driving across the country to visit my kids (they're in FL and CA - and I'm in the Midwest), I'd always stop in Walmart parking lots at night (or daytime) to sleep because it was safer there.
I live near the Smokey Mountains, during the summer there would be several RVs, and Semi trucks year round. Not over flowing with them, but several. I can appreciate wallyworld letting that happen.
The guns he found on the shelf were BB guns: They are powered by compressed air and shoot light pellets. But the rifles in the rotary case were real firearms. Walmart caters to hunters and sportsmen and sell hunting clothing, weapons and ammunition. That includes hunting with bows and arrows. However, they've cut back on them recently. How many universities does the USA have? As of 2020, there were 3,982. Most are State institutions. "Redneck" is a term for a Caucasian person from small towns or rural areas, and usually is used to imply that the person is not well educated or has a low income. The term is a reference to the fact that historically such people wore very short hairstyles and easily got sunburned on the back of their necks. Sales taxes vary from city to city and town to town, and the amount varies by quite a bit. That's why we don't include them in the sticker price on items. Since I don't know where they are, I can't look up what their local rate is. But I can give you examples by telling you local rates in my area. The town I live in has a sales tax of 8.61%. The next town south of us has a sales tax of 9.48%. In countries that use the VAT system, they have the same taxation across the entire country and that makes it easy for them. But we only charge the amount the local government needs to operate. Since my town is smaller than the other one, it doesn't need to charge as much. Walmart is a very large chain, but they are not all the same. They visited what is called a Walmart Super Center. My town does not have one of those, and ours is much smaller. Walmart is not a grocery store; it's a department store with a wide variety of departments. The Super Centers have large food departments, but my local one only has around seven aisles devoted to food. None is fresh, just canned and frozen.
@@jimmy12234 Here in California, we have 7.25% sales tax, but we have no tax on food and other consumable, except for targeted taxes, like alcohol tax, or the more recent "sugar tax" (which I think is limited to San Francisco). It does make dr pepper zero about $2 cheaper than Dr. Pepper, and has actually improved my health as I try to save a bit of money :) However, our minimum wage, at least here in San Francisco is $18.64, and Cali state min wage is $16. granted, San Francisco living is very expensive, I pay $1,500 for just under 200 sq feet, about the size of an avg bedroom in Indiana :)
Walmart used to sell AR15s and handguns but the current CEO is an anti-gun nut and had all the AR15s, pistols, revolvers, and associated ammunition marked down to get rid of. They still have regular rifles and shotguns but no “scary black guns” anymore. My best friend works at Walmart and he said those AR15s, handguns, and ammo flew off the shelf at half price.
In New Jersey, gun sales are strict. You will not even find a BB gun. People go to Pennsylvania to buy their BB guns. Firrworks, too. Until fairly recently, there were no sales of fireworks to the public. Now, small items and sparklers are available year round, with bigger ones near Independence Day.
Walmart is a big box stores. Not a mall, not a department store, but a store that has food, pharmacy, electronics, garden, camping, pet foods, jewelry, and clothing.
Back in the last century I was in college and met a fellow student that had grown up in the former USSR. She told me of her shock that she felt when she stopped at a grocery store with her host family on the way home from the airport. She recalled that when she was little in Saint Petersburg her mom would join long lines just to find out what item the state was making available that day. She could not believe that Americans lived with such luxury.
Walmart is not a grocery store predominantly, it started as a department store and added most of its food when they started doing Super Centers. There are 5300 colleges in the nation.
I remember when Walmart started showing up in my area about 40 years they were just rinky dink junk department stores like Kmart. I don’t know who added groceries first but they both got their act together and cleaned up their stores and it was a strong competition with groceries and other goods. Walmart won the fight when Kmart and Sears merged and they quickly faded into obscurity.
Warm beer is for when you have time to buy ahead, take it home and chill it, so a store can stock more than they have fridge space for. Cold beer is for when you're going to drink it pretty immediately
The USA has one of the largest education systems globally, with over 6,500 institutions, including five of the top ten ranked universities according to QS World
Also Walmart is not technically a Supermarket - it is known as a Superstore. Has sections for Food, Homegoods, Clothing, Lawn and Garden, Automotive, Healthcare (pharmacy), Baby, Electronics (TV, Computer, Video Games etc) Home repair, Storage solutions, Outdoor (Some like this one also have hunting, others like mine in Florida do not) Camping, Bikes, Boating, Toys, Bath needs (shampoo ets) Cosmetics, Kitchen goods, School goods, and Crafting, Paints, Vision, and a few others that vary by store.
And usually a restaurant of some kind of the front of the store, either a McDonald's or a SubWay, most of the time. (For the foreigners who may not know, Subway is a submarine sandwich shop, not the underground train.)
@@blessingsoutlaw Some of our nearby Walmarts have bank branches inside them, & Eye Dr./ Vision places where you can get your eyes check and buy new glasses or contacts, any many different businesses. Walmart is definitely NOT a supermarket! Many people I know avoid Walmart unless it’s the absolutely only place to buy something that you need quickly. Such as my gluten-free friends can only find certain items at Walmart unless they want to order a large amount online and wait for it to be delivered. But ethically, in the last 25 years I can’t count how many tens of thousands of small businesses have had to close in regular towns all across the country, because a Walmart opened somewhere in their county. People were willing to drive from far out in the country to a Walmart so they could buy things cheaply and not need to spend time going many different places. They have so many different flavors and options because they want Everyone to find things they like! But in the small town I grew up near, when Walmart came to town more than 15 other stores had to close because they didn’t have enough sales to make a profit anymore. The Kmart closed, our Kroger Marketplace closed, a hardware store closed an office supply store closed, and an outdoors store closed, the sewing machine, sewing supplies, crafts & fabric store closed. A very nice clothing store closed, a really unique grocery store that had been around 100 years closed, 2 bookstores closed, 2 pharmacies closed. I think 3 gas stations closed. Just think of all the people who lost their jobs! Walmart has decimated the US countryside, and made countless small hometown businesses close down, which had supported many families for generations! In the beginning people would drive 15 - 25 miles to a bigger city in an adjoining county maybe once or twice a month, so they could shop at a mall, maybe go to a specialist doctor and also so they could stock up on food, filling their freezers, fridge and pantry shelves with everything that was a good price. Then they would not need to go shopping so often. People tended to buy as much as possible at a mega mart when shopping at a farther away Walmart. Now most rural counties in the US have a Walmart at least in the County seat. Walmart purchases cheap items from China for a very low price, because they buy such a large volume. Other stores cannot compete with the deal Walmart gets from the east Chinese factories. It has also put out of business many US factories, and many factory workers who formerly were members of unions and had good paying jobs. The US economy has changed, and it seems like most people don’t mind relying on China. Some of us like to shop atlocally owned stores, selling US-made products. They are better quality, they will last longer, such as shoes or other clothing. So they cost a bit more. It’s becoming harder to find those type of stores in small towns. Walmart has now destroyed the downtowns of so many small towns. There are several I drive through now that used to have 5 to 10 businesses, & a couple I know only have one store left that’s open, a dollar store like Dollar General or Dollar Tree. More people are now moving away from small town‘s, because they have to drive so far to find every day needs they used to be able to buy in their hometown. so I avoid Walmart personally, but I do shop at Meijer and Kroger marketplace, which have some of almost everything you see in Walmart, just not quite as much of the various options. One thing that has improved is, most counties in my area now have at least one or two Aldi stores! Those save me a lot of money, So thank you for sending us Aldi!! But if I’m going to buy fruit and I want it to last for a few days without starting to mold, I will buy my fruit at Meijer or directly from someone who grows it. I definitely support my local farmers markets! Local is picked when it’s ripe instead of when it has not yet developed a sweet flavor; local produce tastes best!
17:00 - Hershey's Symphony chocolate bar is what I'd recommend if you want a good value domestic chocolate bar. There are also Cadbury chocolate bars, the US license for which is owned by Hershey, and they also have a good milk chocolate bar. Other good options for quality chocolate bars are from German companies in the US like Aldi and Lidl. Also you'll want to be careful if you vist the US as most US chocolate is modeled after Hershey's chocolate which contains butyric acid. It's a substance found in Parmesan and a number of other dairy products and it gives the chocolate a slight tangy taste, but a lot of Europeans who aren't used to it may be extra sensitive to it and think it tastes like vomit, as that acid is present there too. I'd just suggest you try it first. If you don't care for it, well, there's plenty of other places you get chocolate from that don't have it. BTW, look up the history of Hershey's chocolate sometime. It's really quite impressive. There is a program called "The Foods that Built America" on the History Channel which does a good job of covering the history of a lot of these food brands.
In Florida where I am, the tax is 7% but no tax on groceries. It varies slightly. It’s actually 6% in Florida but the county I live in has an additional 1% tax
I'm in SE Texas. In my county, the sales tax is 8.25%. Texas does not have a state income tax; they make up for it via sales tax and other nickel and diming ventures.
There in Germany, even the villages have a bakery, apothecary, grocer, and market-platz. The larg8 12:25 towns and cities 12:40 that I saw have general merchandise stores as well as all the others. The first time I ever saw an Aldi, it was in Frankfurt-am-Mein. So, imagine an Aldi, and multiply it times ten. That's a Wal-Mart, only with lower quality.
Fun fact, walmart failed in europe because the product quality was too low, and most europeans live closer to various shops where they can get higher quality products. In america you are more used to driving a long distance to go shopping, so you want to go to one place to buy everything you need, and you don't want to do it very often. But when you live a 10 minute walk from a nice bakery, butcher, and grocer, then you can just go shopping whenever you want.
That is true. But when my husband was a student, we lived in Heidelberg (Germany) for about eight months way back in the 1960s, when there were only small stores in the suburbs. I had three children, one eight years old, one three years old, and an infant, and found the shopping took a lot of time. I had to go almost daily, because things came in small quantities that could be carried by a pedestrian shoppers. I had to go to three or more stores (a tiny grocery with fresh vegetables, bagged and canned food, then, a bakerie for bread, a "flescherie" for meat, and if we needed other things, like a toothbrush or needles and thread, etc,. you had to find other shops. I had no baby sitter, so I had to take all three of my children with me and only buy what I (and the eight-year-old) could carry or stash in the the stroller or carriage with the baby. It rained a lot, to make it more challenging! Of course, the refrigerator was tiny, too, so we couldn't store much fresh food there anyway. Going "downtown" took an hour because we had to wait for a trolley both ways, and carry anything we bought in our hands. It was very hard. I didn't get to see or do much while I was there. It was a wonderful experience and I was in my twenties and very strong, but nevertheless, an average suburban Walmart would have been a miraculous dream. I appreciate Walmart for what it is, one-stop shopping!
@msjazzmeblues there are many little things that German's do that westerners don't think about. I come from Canada, and I loved your comment so much I asked a german friend about it. He said that today, many german parents have strollers with extra compartments for groceries. He also said that the strollers have waterproof tops now, and that in such a situation he would wear a rain jacket. He also noted that younger german children would likely be left at home, which is something that surprised me, as I wouldn't leave my 8 year old at hoke for multiple hours, but apparently it's not considered taboo there. Lastly, he said that going out for shopping like that is considered part of the good daily routine. Germans like going for long walks, and so that would actually be part of the appeal, and you might also agree beforehand to meet up with a friend to do the shopping together.
Those songs really were for the 12 days of Christmas. Maybe a week before that. Not the 12 months of retail. It really should be considered some kind of sin.
THANK YOU! No Christmas talk until after Thanksgiving dinner dishes are done. That's when the first Christmas movie is allowed. Save the Reindeer!!! (You can cheat a bit with Nightmare Before Christmas without endangering any baby reindeer.)
5:46 The sizes are good for a good amount for anyone and easier for storage. And, yet, if you have heard of Costco, it's similar to a warehouse and a convenience store/market. Walmart and Costco are the best or decent products for the cheap price.
A key thing to understand about American megamart is population density. The really big Walmarts, Meijers, etc. are usually found far away from big cities where not many other stores exist. One reason they sell things in such huge quantities is that families from rural areas and small towns might drive up to an hour to get to the nearest megamart, and buy all the things their family will need for the next month in one trip. When I worked with a colleague who lived in a small town, she referred to her and her husband going to Walmart for "provisions" once a month or so. The store's strategy is to buy a whole bunch of cheap land (cheap because it's in the middle of nowhere), and have you spend ALL your money there so they try to stock everything a family could possibly need. They usually have much smaller locations in bigger cities where land is more expensive and there are more stores competing, if they exist at all in urban areas.
When I was a kid, my stepfather worked as a department manager at the local Wal Mart, in charge of the hardware department. At this time, the only real differences between the Wal Mart you see here and the one I grew up with, was they had no food or groceries and there was no automotive center for basic car maintenance. Wal Mart was still a massive store with multiple departments for buying things all under one roof. Clothes, electronics, toys, lawn care, hunting, camping and sporting goods, house supplies such as cabinets and other storage options as well as home repair components and tools. By the time I graduated high school, they had closed their original Wal Mart location, and moved into their new Super Wal Mart which added to all of the aforementioned departments, groceries, automotive care, pharmacy and bath products. So while yes it wasn't always a massive store with groceries, guns, televisions and clothes, it has always been a grouping of numerous departments and selections under one roof. It's success is largely due to the capability to roll all of the purchasing, shipping and distribution of goods into one streamlined process all controlled by Wal Mart itself. But it should not be forgotten that the other main pillar of Wal Mart's success was the destruction of the small town landscape here in America. By this I do not mean actually tearing up property to build stores (though that happened as well of course), but rather I mean the aggressive manner in which Wal Mart would push other business's to need to shut down their operations, not just what are known as "Mom & Pop" stores, but numerous regions chains as well. As a kid when my stepfather worked for Wal Mart, their main competition in the department store arena was two fold, there was K-Mart which was nationwide but who had never really tried to compete by shutting down competition (at least here in Texas) and there was a more local/regional chain called Howards. They all three sold the same basic merchandise, often times from the same manufacturers. As a kid there were often important differences (to me at least) in that they would have different selections available for toys and video games (Nintendo, Sega). Part of my Stepfather's job as a department manager at Wal Mart, was to "scout" the competition's prices and make sure that Wal Mart's prices were always at least the same, if not cheaper. Wal Mart was able to undersell their competition simply because they fully control their own supply chain. They buy massive amounts of products in bulk and then distribute them amongst their store locations based on where the items show the best sales. Stores with lackluster sales will often have poorer selections of merchandise and sometimes two Wal Mart locations will be close enough to actively compete with each other for customers. In the 80's and early 90's this practice was certainly aggressive but not destructively so. After the founder of Wal Mart, Sam Walton passed away however, his children who inherited the business ramped up the aggressive tactics to predatory levels. In any case, it was more this aggressive practice of undercutting their competition even if the individual product sales were at a loss, that pushed their competition out of business. Now, Wal Mart is the only store within 50 miles or so that we can go to for most anything not grocery related. We still have several choices for grocery stores as the expiring nature of groceries makes it difficult (but not impossible) to impose the same stranglehold. There are in fact numerous towns and cities across the United States which rely solely on a local Wal Mart for all of their grocery and department store needs on a day to day basis. I personally go out of my way to avoid Wal Mart whenever possible. I will go out of town some 50-60 miles away, to buy non grocery products elsewhere whenever possible. I don't harbor any illusions that my stance harms Wal Mart in any real way however. For 90% of the populace near any given Wal Mart, they are easily the best combination of convenient and affordable, and folks ain't got time for all that. Still, fun video watching both your and their reactions to what they encountered in the Wal Mart. Thoroughly enjoyable. [edit] Almost forgot, on the tax aspect. Here in Texas at least, the tax isn't a concern on perishable food. It is on everything else though, but it's been the same rate my whole life and I've been calculating it in my head all this time. I don't even think about it anymore, I just factor it in as I add items to the basket. The only tax I need concern myself with when shopping is the sales tax, 8.25% of whatever my total is at checkout.
Chris asked about the word "red neck." It originated with coal miners in the American Ozark mountain regions, who very often wore red bandanas around their necks to keep coal dust from seeping further into their underclothing. During the worker strikes the miners wore the bandanas as a sign of solidarity. The term later expanded to include farmers who spent a lot of time in the fields and got sunburns on their necks.
As a southerner I find the term redneck very offensive. The assumption is that if you're from the south or if you're blue collar worker you are ignorant, poorly read and poorly educated. To me this kind of bigotry is right up there with the n-word. It is prejudicial and offensive indicting an entire group of people based on their economic standing .
"Redneck" is just another word for people from rural areas(typically, people from the southern states). It's interchangeable with terms like hick or hillbilly. Possible origin for the terms comes from farmers or other hard labor workers that would be out in the sun so long that their necks would turn red from being sunburned.
Generally good people salt of the earth... There are some though, if they heard him making fun of them, would take him out in the parking lot and give him a good old country @$$ whippin
Redneck originates in West Virginia, and comes from the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain because of their red bandanas. Then, its used by the coal barons in a derogatory way to associate the unionized coal miners with communists. It then eventually got used generally as a term for blue collar working people. Hillbilly, especially in Appalachia, means something different entirely. Usually refers to usually off grid backwoods mountain people, and have a stereotype of being incredibly territorial and fairly reclusive
@@Adam_0_310 You're talking about the origin of those words - not how they are used in American English in the present day. For all intents and purposes a hillbilly (sometimes referred to as a hilljack) is a redneck who lives in the hill country. Some modern colloquialisms extend hillbilly to being a direct synonym for redneck even if they don't live in hills. In present day America redneck, hillbilly, hick, bumpkin, hilljack, and rube all describe an unsophisticated person who lives in the country and regardless of their original meanings and distinctions are often used interchangeably.
13:37 Coke is the most popular soda in the USA, and there are so many varieties of it, caffiene-free, sugar-free, I like the Coke with sucralose (sugar substitute). And many flavors too - Cherry, Vanilla, Lime, Lemon, Spiced, etc.
Walmart started out in Arkansas which is a very rural state. Having a store in a small town that had *everything* was helpful so people didn't have to travel miles and miles to shop. It sort of grew out of that need to now just a super convenient place to do all your shopping at once.
Originally, Walmarts were like department stores that did not sell food. They had clothes, shoes, furniture, electronics, movies/games/books, office supplies, camping & sporting goods, pharmacy, beauty & hygiene, garden tools, plants, patio furniture, toys, automotive supplies which includes auto mechanics. Sometimes, there will be a fast food restaurant like McDonalds or Burger King inside. Or an ophthalmologist & eye glass section. There used to be a photography studio but that went away in the early 2000s. Then we got bigger stores called Super Walmarts that also had a grocery section & bakery. Where I live at least, all of the regular Walmarts became Super Walmarts and now everyone just calls them “Walmart”. They also now have Walmart Markets which is just like a regular grocery store (but also includes a pharmacy). American grocery stores usually have an aisle in them with random things like automotive oil or windshield wiper fluid or duct tape or a small sewing kit.
For sales tax, there are three basic common methods: 1) You just don't use cash most of the time (a lot of Americans do this) 2) You can estimate about how much you'll need. It's easier after you've done it for a while. 3) Some women used to carry a calculator in their purse. Now everyone has one in their phone.
As an Oregonian (we don't have a sales tax, instead a steep State income tax), I'm always caught off-guard when I travel to another State, buy a $5.00 item and the final price is something like $6.84 🤔
Wal-mart only started having sizeable grocery sections over the last 25-30 years. Before that it was more of like a budget version of a department store, hardware store, home goods store, electronics store combined. During the '90s the "Super Walmart" concept came about where they made even bigger stores with fresh groceries(K-Mart did the same thing with "Super-K"), and that's only grown over the years. They've pretty much brought this to all Wal-Marts now, so there's no longer "Super Walmart" AFAIK. So while many now have the things a supermarket has, Wal-Mart wasn't traditionally a supermarket.
At 1:31 while he’s walking across the parking lot it looks like there’s an old Circuit City building attached on the right side of the Walmart. that large grey building offset and taller than the rest of the front of the building was probably a red circuit city entrance.
There are 3,982 universities in the US. In Rhode Island, the smallest state (only 55% bigger than Luxembourg), there are 13 universities. Luxembourg only has 4 universities.
I had been about to post "As of 2021-2022, the National Center for Education Statistics reported 3,899 degree-granting post-secondary institutions in the US. However, other sources estimate the number to be closer to 5,300." And the number has actually been declining since 2013. :D
@@Winona493As an American they probably are more educated, at least in regards to the quality of Education they receive. The problem with having so many Universities is a lot of them are mediocre in underfunded severely which leads to them being for profit colleges.
@@morrius0757 This sounds sad, but nevertheless the people are educated somehow even if it is not the most best you can get. But certainly I don't know. Unfortunately I never made it to the US. But next year it is perhaps possible for me. Press your thumbs (as we say in Germany 😂) for me!!! Greetings from the Ruhrgebiet/Germany.
3:06 this bag is so big because is for Halloween to give kids when they come knocking at your door. Also the parking lot are big because people bring their RV to pick up stuff like meat, hot dog, burgers on their way to their favorite campsite specifically for holidays like the 4th and Memorial Day. Also truckers that drive from state to state like to park there because is convenience and safe for overnight sleep.
One thing nice about Wal-Mart is you can get all you need there. My best friend is disabled and only goes to the store once a month. She needs to use the electric carts. We get her medication, food, clothing, toiletries and whatever else she needs in that single trip. Wal-Mart has changed over the years. When Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart he stocked a lot of " Made in America " items. In fact, that was the big advertising campaign the company ran for years. Since Mr. Sam passed that credo no longer exists.
@@JustMe-dc6ksand they have driven many of their suppliers out of business with their demand for a price point so low the suppliers were selling to Walmart at a loss. I recall a case study from graduate school where they demanded a 5 gallon bucket of pickles from Vlasic at a price point they would be sold at about the same price point Vlasic sold 16 ounce jars in regular supermarkets. Which meant they would be selling the pickles to Walmart at a loss or losing market share to whatever competitor Walmart went to next for the same product. It was a lose-lose situation.
@@Nerple One thing the video & reactor did not mention - Walmart DID go to Germany and COMPLETELY failed! It LOST more than a billion dollars and departed that country with its tail between its legs.
11:49 avg sales tax is around 7%; there are 3 or 4 states that have 0% sales tax, while in some states you have to add also city and/or county tax which can bring it up closer to 10%
Walmarts come in a few sizes, so not all of them are as big as the one in the video. But even a "small" Walmart is a pretty big store with lots of different items. Another huge store in the USA is Costco. The joke is that you can't see the back wall of a Costco because it bends over the horizon.
Come visit us in Iowa sometime. We have a massive gun store & shooting range outside of Des Moines that makes Walmart look beyond pathetic. I'd take you to a college football game too and Zombie Burger! Course Texas has these things too. If you ever get to Texas, make sure to go to a Buc-ees.
Traditionally, sales tax is added at the check out because Americans in the past wanted to see just how much tax they were paying on goods. Remember, our nation was founded due to a tax revolt. Sales tax varies throughout the US based on state, county, and city tax rates. The average sales tax nationwide is 7-8 percent. Items can be taxed at different rates depending on the jurisdiction, alcohol may be taxed at a higher rate than general food items. Also, health and beauty products, fresh food or prepared food may have different tax percentages. Another example would be a Blue state taxing guns and ammunition at a much higher rate than a Red State for example. Alcohol and cigarettes are subject to "Sin Taxes" with logic being if people are going to buy these the government collects additional revenue in the hope to discourage purchasing. This doesn't really stop people from buying the product. It is more convenient for the retailer to add the tax at the end due to the varying percentages. If tax rates increase, it is much easier to make that change in a computer system than retag products on the shelf. The sales receipt usually itemizes the percentages paid by product category thus making it transparent what the customer paid in taxes. Another American tax eccentricity are the annual state sales tax exemption days, usually in August before the school year starts. States will designate specific weekend that clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales tax. This is to stimulate sales for retailers and save citizens a few dollars on supplies. This practice has been very successful and the retailers will advertise and offer additional product sales to encourage shoppers.
I was an Assistant Manager at one of the largest Walmart's in New Hampshire, Hinsdale, (I started at a very small Walmart in Rindge, NH). There is usually a space for seasonal Holidays items at the entrance. (I HATED Halloween, Christmas and School Season). Then the Lawn and Garden Dept. is usually responsible for storing the special items that will be on sale the day after our Thanksgiving holiday. We put them in trailers, then the night before we unload and display it in a few hours. NH does not have a sales tax....but does have a tax if the food you buy is prepared for you. One Walmart on an average makes hundreds of thousand dollars a day. I would have to count and make the bank deposit ready the next day. I have become very indifferent to counting large amounts of money. It is just paper. It is odd that I have never seen someone share that Walmart also has an auto department. You can shop while waiting on your vehicle. We would just page your name when done.😊❤😊
4:49 -- "I feel scared." They practically are all alone in the sports area, and the firearms are locked up. Wait until she goes into the pharmacy area and sees that the shaving razors and toenail clippers aren't locked up.
But the shaving razors ARE locked up now. Walmart has tons of non-dangerous things locked up these days, if they are things that frequently get shoplifted (because those items are outrageously priced so I don't really blame the shoplifters lol).
Couldn't tell if the machetes and household knives were secured, either. Granted, these days, they are one e-mail away from putting security tags on the candy bars...
Chris, there are other superstores in the US, but not as well known as Walmart. Most will also have small stores (separate businesses that rent the space), etc spanning inside the front of the store. Usually a few or several of the following: a bank, the optomitrist (get your eyes examined and purchase glasses/contacts), hair salon, nail salon, cell phone store, fast food restaurant (even some big chains, such as Subway), etc. The superstore chain, Meijer, also has a couple of unique new mini store options along that entry wall: a post office (some stores) and kiosks where you can get your car registration renewed. Other departments that most Walmart superstores have, which were not shown here: automotive (which includes not only supplies to purchase, but also car services, such as changing the oil, getting new tires put on your car), and garden (includes furniture, plants, landscape, etc), regular furniture (desks, small sofas, shelves, lights etc), bedding, kitchen appliances/dishes, shoes, cards/party supplies, jewelry, baby needs (including car seats etc), camping (including tents etc), pet supplies .... oh the list goes on! One feature that Walmart doesn't have that other superstore chains tend to have: gas stations. There are many Americans who dont want to navigate all of that and like to keep it more simple. I moved to a small community and am starting to really like the smaller local shops. We also like your Aldi stores. Lol.
The reason sales tax isn't included is because the amount varies from state to state and sometimes even from county to county; also, some items are taxed differently, such as clothing or alcohol, so it's really not possible to add the sales tax to the price unless the store does it themselves and with a store this big that would be hell for the workers. Realistically, only small stores add sales tax into the price into the US.
It absolutely is possible to price the items, they scan them with their scanner to print out price tags all the time, there is zero reason not to include tax other than to make the item look cheaper than it is.
@@ThatDamnPandaKaiIn a lot of places it is actually illegal to include the tax in the price. It makes it easier to cheat the government out of the sales tax collected.
@@ThatDamnPandaKai hiding it is a good way for the government to hide how much they are taxing us. You think it's the cost of the item from the store, but it's not. People don't object to taxes as much when they don't see how much it is. Gas tax is a perfect example of that. If people had that added on after, they'd go nuts.
Also because tax rates are often voted upon and can change, rendering a lot of prices invalid. Best to just not include the taxes in the price and just include about 10% extra in your calculations.
I just subscribed, ich bin ami I've been studying German for over two years with no German speakers nearby lol like allot of Americans I have a good bit of German ancestry. Kudos on your channel I'll be watching...tchuss!
Walmart almost singlehandedly changed the landscape of the USA. Most of the small mom and pop shops could not compete and have gone out.of business. No more small electronic stores, clothing stores, small grocery stores, and the list goes on and on. There are 5300 colleges and universities in the United States. Lol. Bear in mind we're a country of 350 million people .
Walmart was in Germany for almost 10 years and they had absolutely no chance against the competition. When I think back, I don't know anyone who enjoyed shopping at a Walmart store, no matter how big the store was - the American business model simply doesn't work in Germany.
Walmart started in competition to another department discount store chains in the US. One around here that Walmart has almost totally wiped out is called K-mart. Years later Walmart added the grocery store and pharmacy departments and renamed those locations "Super Walmarts". That is the kind they visited in the video. That puts them in direct competition with many grocery stores and pharmacies. Since almost all of Walmart locations have now been upgraded like that they went back to calling most of the stores just Walmart again. There are a lot of Walmarts in the US now. To give you an idea of how many, I live within 4 miles of three different (Super) Walmarts. We also have other similar stores like: Target, Publics and Kohls too, but overall Walmart usually has the largest stores (and parking lots).
They have an auto service center, they sell tires and batteries... you can get your oil changed. They have a hardware section where you buy tools. They also have a garden center.
Yes, yes, yes. And a full servic e drug center where you can get flu, covid, pneumonia, etc., shots and all prescriptions. Clothes for any age, toys, books, music, appliances, kitchenware, hardware of all kinds. pet supplies and food, appliances from little coffee makers and phones to huge television sets. We are SO lucky!
@3:45 they are bb guns they shoot metal pellets usually they are meant for teenager's to train with to handle actual guns later on in life, it teaches them to be safe while still providing minimal casualty [meaning you won't die if shot from one, but you might lose a eye or a finger.] its basically a really op toy for older kids, it will make you bleed if you are unsafe with it, but you won't die.
@4:28 NOW those are real, but they are for hunting wild animals. like boar or coyotes [both of which are invasive and can kill a human.] they aren't great for self-defense.
@11:26 tax depends on where you live its usually around 1 to 2 us dollars. it just depends for me its 1 dollar but for my brother who lives like right over a bridge but counts as another county its 2.
@18:09 i have a few friends who will die on this hill, but to me white castle isn't that good. it just depends on who you ask, some people LOVE it and say its better then any other fast food, and then people like me will say "is it though?" it just depends on your taste buds.
I'm an older American, and as a child Christmas shopping and Christmas anything only started the day after Thanksgiving (last Thursday in November). Now Christmas merchandise and big store Christmas promotion shopping starts at the beginning of October. I find it annoying, because it's so commercial and profit driven to buy, buy, buy. We're inundated by TV and advertising for Christmas shopping months ahead of Christmas Day. The last 3 months of the year, and the following January as well, account for the largest percentage of annual sales for the American economy. For some companies, it's more than 60% of total annual sales. I live in San Francisco, California and big superstores like Walmart are not permitted in the city limits. One reason is San Francisco is very compact geographically (7 miles by 7 miles) and population dense, so superstores would dwarf everything else here, cause tremendous traffic problems, and put many local stores and businesses out of business. All the big superstores are 25 or more miles away. San Francisco is also politically negative about superstores, because they pay their employees the lowest wages and provide them with NO benefits of any kind.
I gave up celebrating all holidays years ago (including my birthday) because of how commercialized, monetized and over-stimulating it all is. I didn't even like it as a kid when they were only putting stuff out after Thanksgiving. For me, and my family "Christmas" was December 17th to Jan 2nd. Full stop. Now, Christmas is 3-4 months long (1/3rd of the year) and the novelty and specialness that the holiday used to have gets old, really quick and I got sick of it. Holidays are just seizure triggers for me.
In my state of Nevada, there is no tax on groceries/food. Food prepared/served at a restaurant is taxed. Fast food is taxed. You need to go to Costco next. Walmarts pretty much have very similar stock from one to another. Different parts of a state or country may offer different items depending on what customers want or need. They tried smaller stores here and there a few years back, but they did not do well. Customers then preferred their own, familiar stores with familiar, fewer items they were used to. You can order pretty much anything online from your local store to have it delivered to your home. Some items have to be shipped from a separate warehouse. Employees do your shopping for you. You can also order online, drive to the store, and they will load up your car for you. These options are available at many different stores.
What they didn't show, there's usually always a barber shop in the front of the store. Theres also a bank and an optometrist who will sell you eye glasses. The deli usually is preparing warm food but have some deli condiments and stuff too. Typically there maybe a fast food place in Walmart. They used to be McDonald's but most of those got turned into a Subway sandwich shop. Theres also a place towards the back of Walmart where you can get new tires or have your oil changed in your car. They also have an aquarium section with pet fish to buy. This is becoming more rare to see though. The electronics and video games were kinda skipped but the electronics section sell phones, video games, and headphones and sound systems and even vinyl records. When your a kid, the only place you wanna go to is their 5 or more aisles dedicated to children's toys. One aisle is specifically girly toys, the other more men, the next aisle is neutral and usually sell classic novelty items and the last two are dedicated to bikes and outdoor play. The Christmas section is usually the garden center most of the time throughout the year, and they'll sell you seed, fertilizer, potted plants, pesticide, farm tools, mulch and whatever else you need to make a garden. Walmarts game plan for business is to make everywhere else obsolete and you wouldn't have to go anywhere else. Now you don't even have to go anywhere. They even do your shopping for you and will deliver to your house that same day. Walmart is pretty cool come to think of it. This is something I didn't know you didn't have. I figured every country had a similiar super center store but it went by other names. I guess Europe's not big enough for Walmart. The parking lots alone could fill the whole country up.
HELPFUL HINT my friend... For the most part in the state where I live (Michigan) sales tax is 6%.... HOWEVER, almost all food is NOT taxed at the stores. The only time we pay tax is if food is prepared FOR US (Like in a restaurant)... Other than that, beer and liquor are taxed, as well as household items, soap, etc. But packaged food is NOT taxed (Again, that's in my state of Michigan).
Lol. In the small town in Germany i stayed with my stepmoms family for the summers. They had the town store. It was a room on the bottom floor across from their living room and kitchen. Lol. The whole family that would come were a bit overwhelmed when they visited here.
When I was stationed in Germany they had 2 Walmart stores that I know of. One was near Mannheim. They didn’t last there at all, I think they were gone in less than 3 years. It was between 1998-2003 if I’m not mistaken.
@@LoveHideForever2 Walmart had to give-up operating in Germany and most of Europe because they kept violating labor laws and kept getting huge fines and were finally ordered to either obey the various laws or go.
The size of the Walmart can depend on where it’s at. I’m in upstate New York and the Walmarts are not as big as this one. I actually live near one that that doesn’t have the full grocery section. It doesn’t even have an auto service center. Where I grew up out in Kansas the Walmarts are huge like the one in this video. I went to eastern Tennessee last year and theirs are huge also. My oldest son lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and theirs are huge and they also have Fleet Farms which are almost as big as the Walmarts. I hope you get an opportunity to explore the US someday. I think you’d really enjoy it based on your reactions to the videos of things in America. I really enjoy your videos. You’re such a nice and positive young man. Thank you for sharing.
I just don't really like a lot of his point of view sometime, but I do watch their channel.Keep up the good work. Much love from Lawton Fort Sill Oklahoma. Ps I do speak fluent German lol . (Bad Kreuzach Rhineland-Palatinate) *** THE GERBLAXICAN ***
Most Walmarts are similar in size to this one in the video. Walmart says the average super center is 182,000 square feet, or 17,000 square meters. Most have a bank branch, a hair salon, an optometrist, and a Subway restaurant. There are also Mega Walmarts that are nearly twice the size of this one. You saw the guns and ammo, there’s also house paint, hardware, plumbing and bathroom parts, limited furniture, vacuums, pots and pans, glassware, silverware, and on and on. My favorite section is the camping aisle, where you can get tents, sleeping bags, camp stoves, water jugs, camp cookware, propane and so forth. You asked about games. There’s usually a whole aisle dedicated to gaming systems and games. In the same area, you have laptops, computers, monitors, cell phones, ad nauseam. There are so many more sections I’ve not mentioned such that it boggles the mind. However, too many Americans take it for granted.
Sales tax is generally a combination of city, county, and state taxes. Think of it like VAT, but unlike VAT which is standard for the entire country, our states and counties set slightly different rates. Taking Oreos as an example, every Walmart in America will charge the same base price for Oreos, but the sales tax will be different in a New York Walmart than in a California or Arizona Walmart. VAT is the same everywhere, so it can easily be included in the price on the Oreo packets in Eurozone countries, but in the US (where we don't have a VAT), the Oreos might have an 8.3% sales tax in one county and a 9.2% sales tax in the next county over. This makes it much more difficult for the products to have tax added on the label. Sales tax can vary between 5% and 10% typically, and it can easily be looked up for your location so that every customer knows what the added percentage will be if it's important to them for budgeting reasons. I used to calculate my sales tax as I shopped. It's something we're used to here. Essentially, this is just one more way things are different in a country as physically large and economically diverse as the United States, especially given that each of our states has a completely separate government that operates independently of the others and has a different budget along with different tax rates for everything (not just retail sales).
Florida taxes most groceries, some are exempt but they often show a sign somewhere on which types are exempt... if they don't, you'll notice a letter code besides the item on the receipt. Then around things like school starting there are tax free weeks for school supply items.
Arkansas used to charge tax on groceries, then they started to charge only half the normal tax amount, and later they changed to no tax on groceries. It might have changed again though, I have not been back there in over a decade.
It is a department store. Clothes, pharamacy, food, deli, bakery, office supplies, craft and art supplies, camping gear, fishing gear, sports and recreation gear, automotive care, hardware, garden, housewares, luggage, jewlery, watches, toys, books and magazines. Most of them also have a hair salon, a nail salon, Optometrist, some kind of fast food resturant like Mc Donald's or Subway, and Automotive Service Center. The majority of Walmarts are this size. In large metro areas we also have Walmart Neighborhood stores which are a much smaller scale and mostly carry groceries.
I live in Oregon and Moved here from New Hampshire which also has no sales tax. Growing up in Maine I hated calculating tax. Sales tax is so regressive anyhow...good riddance
You can’t recycle most plastic though. I think its over 70%. Like liquid soap for laundry, those containers can’t be recycled because the liquid gets absorbed in the plastic.
For reference, the current ratio is $1.08 Dollars per Euro. So, the price he quoted is 5.05 Euros. Sales tax varies by state. Cities can add their own tax, and it varies by category of product. You can buy different things at the same store, and have multiple tax rates applied to your purchase, because they each attach to the different products you bought. I haven't gone into a Walmart often, but there have been times I am so thankful it exists. Many years ago, my mom and I needed to live for a while in another state, after my grandmother passed away. We rented an apartment near where she lived, and went to Walmart for some of the things we needed. I remember we both got inflatable mattresses from there, and that was just what we needed. They weren't as good as a real mattress, of course, but much better than sleeping on a mat, or the floor. I think we also got some disposable dishware, and a toaster oven for warming things up/cooking. It helped us a lot to be able to get these things in one place.
Walmart was in Germany for almost 10 years and they had absolutely no chance against the competition. When I think back, I don't know anyone who enjoyed shopping at a Walmart store, no matter how big the store was - the American business model simply doesn't work in Germany.
Tax varies alot depending on where you are. Sales taxes are largely set by each state individually and can even change depending on the city or county you are in.
There are about 4000 accredited colleges and universities in the USA. There are also hundreds of nonaccredited schools to serve religious or niche markets.
Yes we have very big parking lots. Also: Wal Mart is a "discount department store" meaning they sell a big variety of items. Some do sell groceries but its usually a bit of a smaller selection than a regular supermarket.
The cheapest frozen chicken where i live is 3lbs for $10. This might be because of inflation, I'm not sure when this video is from. Thank you for the great reaction video 😻
Former Walmart employee here: Yes, all those departments make it huge. Walmart stores are at least the size of a city block or so ( size verifies with individual Walmart), so we had several older people that would come in regularly to "walk around the block" for their "daily walks" because it was safer (other people around to help if the seniors fall/slip) than doing it outside/elsewhere. A lot of Walmarts even have benches so you can rest on your "walks"/shopping.
@@livingcancer5772 Even hot meals in the deli are not taxed here, as long as it can be eaten it won't be taxed! Even candy and soda are not taxed! Yet! Thank you for your reply!
@@livingcancer5772 You betcha'! I love Kentucky, I've visited there a few times! I'll have to remember about the sodas and hot food! Thanks again for your reply!
11:34 Presuming they are in South Carolina (which is where Clemson and USC are), tax on non-food items is 6%. Food items aren't taxed (except things that are cooked and ready to eat, like rotisserie chicken, and things like sodas and alcoholic beverages). The oreos (as they are a food item) probably won't be taxed. The "crooked" prices also encode information in them (such as discontinued items, whose price may end in a certain digit).
I helped set up and open a new Walmart. On Monday, we walked into a completely empty store. You could see from one end to the other. By Friday we had set up every section. There were 50 of us split into small crews and assigned departments to complete. My crew set up the shoe department and sporting goods. The next week we were assigned the department we would work in when the store opened. That's when merchandise started arriving and we had to start stocking. I went to work in the bakery as part of the donut crew. We trained for 3 weeks to properly make the donuts. During training we worked from 9 pm to 1 pm the next day with no days off. That was before the store was open. Once we opened my shift was 3 am to 1 pm. After training for 3 weeks doing 16 hour shifts I was exhausted but well paid for that time and was able to pay cash for an engagement ring. So it was well worth it.
the parking lots usually fill up a lot around holidays or big shopping days like black friday. as for the candy, those bags are meant to be given out to trick-or-treaters and are seasonal items otherwise not found at other times of the year.
it speaks volumes about your culture that walmart ended up leaving the german market bc they didn't want to respect german culture and regulations. its nice to see a country stand up for their people against bully corporations.
Exactly!! Walmart is a terrible company that doesn’t treat its employees well (talking large-scale here, don’t come for me with an individual story about how your boss is nice lol), and creates a “race to the bottom,” putting the squeeze on manufacturers of different goods, with their mega huge buying power, to reduce prices so much it sometimes creates the need for layoffs on their end. Additionally, a lot of Walmarts are poorly-staffed, so you can’t find help or it takes forever to check out… I try really hard not to spend a dime at Walmart if I can help it, but every now and then I have to go in there for an item I can’t find elsewhere and don’t have time to wait for a delivery, and I always dread it. I can tell you that the last two times I went in the one near me, (the only two times this year, though they were both last month for gardening/patio stuff): Once I ended up leaving after three different people couldn’t find the one person who supposedly had a key to get in a case for an item I wanted… and it did not take a short time to find any of those three people by the way, I was probably in there for a good 30 minutes before giving up); and the other time I picked up the one item I needed, which was a very long walk to the far side of the store, got to the registers, and realized they had only ONE register working, with probably about twenty people in line, many with full carts… I put the item down, walked away, and decided I could wait a couple days for it to come from Amazon.
@@vespista1971My best friend’s been working at Walmart the last ten years or more and says the problem is with the younger workers not wanting to work and quit or get fired is why there’s such a high turnover rate. The older workers don’t have a problem working and stay much longer, most retire. He also said problems at HQ is due mostly to young executives always changing things up and the young department heads, section leads, and managers at individual stores don’t have management or leadership skills or experience that compounds the problems. So it’s not just a one size fits all problem with Walmart.
12:16 I believe the reason tax isn’t included in price is because the online price is the same no matter where you are, but different states, cities, counties, etc. all have different tax amounts for items, so they can’t just give you the actual price, because something that’s “$10.99” could come out to $11.87 in one city, and $11.65 in another city.
Walmart has some cons: The money spent at Walmart does not necessarily stay in the community, but goes away to Walmart headquarters. Food sold at Walmart is GMO. GMO food can cause genetic anomolies aka changes to the DNA. The only longitudinal study on GMO food showed that baby rats had hair growing around their teeth. Walmart may have inexpensive prices, but in small communities, there are no longer mom and pop stores because Walmart has eliminated competition.
They're also very anti-labor. There used to be butchers in the super centers, but the butchers at one store started talking about getting organized so now there are no butchers at all.
I worked at walmart 20 years ago and their anti-union training videos were longer than any of their other videos like workplace safety or sexual harassment
I'm a Walmart employee and you would be surprised on how much stuff is actually there. The store I work at is pretty small but it's basically a pharmacy, automotive store, clothing store, outdoors store, hardware store, craft store, grocery store, electronics store, pet store, and beer store all in one😂
That was not all that you can find in Walmart Superstores. Some stores have optician offices and you can order a pair of prescription glasses while you’re there. Others have restaurants in them like Subway or McDonald’s and still, others have small arcades or even beauty shops in them.. Also the garden department in a Walmart store has an outdoor section with garden furniture, plants and other decorative items. You can also find gardening tools there, although they do rotate the stock out during the winter to put all those Christmas trees in that section. my sister used to work in the jewelry department at our local Walmart and I worked in the shoe department so there’s even more sections that they didn’t even show you in this video. Most of the superstores also have an automotive department where you can get tires put on or an oil change done while you shop. There are smaller stores called Walmart neighborhood markets that are just groceries and personal care items along with a pharmacy, a bakery, and a deli. Also redneck is a term for someone who lives a simple, rural life like a farmer who doesn’t come to the city much and are therefore unaware of social etiquette. The term literally refers to the fact that the person’s neck and arms would most likely be sunburned from being out working in the fields, hunting, or fishing.. It’s sort of a less than complementary term for someone who is not considered to be cultured or who is thought of as naive, uneducated, or uncouth. Fortunately, most of the people that redneck refers to are aware of what other people think and honestly don’t care. They enjoy their lives just the way they are. In Tennessee, where I live., redneck lifestyle is pretty common. Rednecks are independent and hard-working and they like to drink and have fun. For some context, you can look up Jeff Foxworthy videos- he makes a lot of jokes about rednecks and their lifestyle.
1:15 the average walmart (in my experience) is always big enough to have at LEAST 200 cars. and to get from one end of a walmart to another its usually a good minute or 2 walk. thats just whats open to the public. also no most walmarts dont have guns. my local walmart does. but its for hunting so shotguns and rifles.
Walmart isn’t a supermarket. It’s a department store that sells groceries. You can buy beer warm, but we don’t drink it warm. If it’s cold at the store you don’t have to wait for them to get cold. And it’s advertising. 😂 Self checkout lowers the workforce. I won’t use them. Sales Taxes are different everywhere.
@@Wolf-vc4wj it’s fine… but starting out with that’s not true … hits hard. I wasn’t implying they didn’t have other liquor, I was just commenting on him saying cold beer is that advertising. And in my state they do sell other things, I just didn’t seem relevant, but I guess it is! He doesn’t know. 🤷♀️ Thanks for your response!
@@storminight again sorry for that it was my fault. Completely misread it. I know some states don't allow the sell of alcohol at places like Walmart or grocery stores. And I was just trying to say it's not all states but that was just me not reading the whole thing
0:32 hello again always find your videos quite interesting, your culture shock amazes me. Walmart is not really a grocery store as you say, it is an all-purpose general merchandise store that just happens to have groceries as well as everything else. Imagine a Harrods that sold food, clothing, hardware, electronics and even cars depending where you are. It was founded in 1962.
I've never heard of that, and I've been to about half the states. So it's not most, maybe some. Food taxes are between 2%-8% depending on what category it is, in all the states I've been to.
Chris, Walmart is the largest retailer globally. They sell twice as much as Amazon, and almost 5 times as much as Aldi. What you saw there was a "Super Center". It is not a supermarket, but it has a supermarket inside of it, as part of it. Most of the super centers are as big as each other, with some exceptions. They also have what they call "neighborhood markets" which are much smaller, but also large, but they are like supermarkets. The neighborhood markets carry only groceries. In one city, there may be several super centers and several neighborhood markets. in the city where i live, there are probably 5 or 6 super centers within 20 minutes of my house. Cheese balls are cheese puffs in a ball shape. Like "Cheetos" cheese puffs, but round. It is an extruded snack. Also, please don't confuse volume with quality. Walmart sells things which are cheap and cheaply made, as well as discounted national brands. They constantly press their suppliers for lower prices, and find the cheapest goods on the planet. Walmart has created an open sluice from China, where China dumps in its cheapest garbage, and it ends up on the shelves of Walmart in our local neighborhoods. Walmart has done more than any other business to lower the standard of living for Americans. In order to be cheapest, they lower the prices by pennies. That is why you see those prices which seem odd. They shave pennies off the price. Americans will switch stores to save a penny, and to get more goods.
@miammissophiapetrillo actually a lot of states don't tax cold prepared ready to eat but tax hot prepared ready to eat. The idea being that cold you can take home and put in fridge like regular groceries but hot you have to eat in your car or right when you get home so it's more like a takeout restaurant.
I’m a (retired) truck driver and I have a comment regarding the size of Walmart parking lots. In many regions, there are no truck stops and therefore nowhere official to park for the night. However, you can almost always find a Walmart and their huge parking lots are a literal oasis for exhausted truck drivers. They are well lit and Walmart security people patrol 24 hours a day. In many places, the local Walmart is much safer than a typical truck stop. I will be forever grateful to Walmart for the hundreds of nights that I slept safe and sound in their parking lots.
My Dad and my brother drove 18 Wheelers for years. We felt better knowing they had safe places to rest. The stores were open 24 hours so they could always go in to shop for drinks, food, etc. before they left again. We love truck drivers, they are the gentlemen of the highways. 👍👍
Because they want you to come in and buy some stuff for the road. But you are 💯 percent right. I use them all the time.
Same for RV'ers
Smart move -
I'm not a truck driver, but when I was driving across the country to visit my kids (they're in FL and CA - and I'm in the Midwest), I'd always stop in Walmart parking lots at night (or daytime) to sleep because it was safer there.
I live near the Smokey Mountains, during the summer there would be several RVs, and Semi trucks year round. Not over flowing with them, but several. I can appreciate wallyworld letting that happen.
The guns he found on the shelf were BB guns: They are powered by compressed air and shoot light pellets. But the rifles in the rotary case were real firearms. Walmart caters to hunters and sportsmen and sell hunting clothing, weapons and ammunition. That includes hunting with bows and arrows. However, they've cut back on them recently.
How many universities does the USA have? As of 2020, there were 3,982. Most are State institutions.
"Redneck" is a term for a Caucasian person from small towns or rural areas, and usually is used to imply that the person is not well educated or has a low income. The term is a reference to the fact that historically such people wore very short hairstyles and easily got sunburned on the back of their necks.
Sales taxes vary from city to city and town to town, and the amount varies by quite a bit. That's why we don't include them in the sticker price on items. Since I don't know where they are, I can't look up what their local rate is. But I can give you examples by telling you local rates in my area. The town I live in has a sales tax of 8.61%. The next town south of us has a sales tax of 9.48%. In countries that use the VAT system, they have the same taxation across the entire country and that makes it easy for them. But we only charge the amount the local government needs to operate. Since my town is smaller than the other one, it doesn't need to charge as much.
Walmart is a very large chain, but they are not all the same. They visited what is called a Walmart Super Center. My town does not have one of those, and ours is much smaller. Walmart is not a grocery store; it's a department store with a wide variety of departments. The Super Centers have large food departments, but my local one only has around seven aisles devoted to food. None is fresh, just canned and frozen.
Damn here in Indiana sales tax is state wide and only 7%
@@jimmy12234 Here in California, we have 7.25% sales tax, but we have no tax on food and other consumable, except for targeted taxes, like alcohol tax, or the more recent "sugar tax" (which I think is limited to San Francisco). It does make dr pepper zero about $2 cheaper than Dr. Pepper, and has actually improved my health as I try to save a bit of money :) However, our minimum wage, at least here in San Francisco is $18.64, and Cali state min wage is $16. granted, San Francisco living is very expensive, I pay $1,500 for just under 200 sq feet, about the size of an avg bedroom in Indiana :)
Walmart used to sell AR15s and handguns but the current CEO is an anti-gun nut and had all the AR15s, pistols, revolvers, and associated ammunition marked down to get rid of. They still have regular rifles and shotguns but no “scary black guns” anymore. My best friend works at Walmart and he said those AR15s, handguns, and ammo flew off the shelf at half price.
@@JohnFourtyTwo Some still do, it all depends on the state
In New Jersey, gun sales are strict. You will not even find a BB gun. People go to Pennsylvania to buy their BB guns. Firrworks, too. Until fairly recently, there were no sales of fireworks to the public. Now, small items and sparklers are available year round, with bigger ones near Independence Day.
Walmart is not a super market. It is a mega mart. Everything from soup to nuts plus a million other things.
I always encounter plenty of nuts in Walmart…..most have 2 legs
Walmart put Sears and other large department stores out of business... Walmart actually stocks more stuff than the former large department stores...
Walmart is a big box stores. Not a mall, not a department store, but a store that has food, pharmacy, electronics, garden, camping, pet foods, jewelry, and clothing.
Always loathed them, soul crushing atmosphere, always slightly depresses me on rare visits.
@@lorriescott8775 Represents the worst America has to offer.
Back in the last century I was in college and met a fellow student that had grown up in the former USSR. She told me of her shock that she felt when she stopped at a grocery store with her host family on the way home from the airport. She recalled that when she was little in Saint Petersburg her mom would join long lines just to find out what item the state was making available that day. She could not believe that Americans lived with such luxury.
Walmart is not a grocery store predominantly, it started as a department store and added most of its food when they started doing Super Centers.
There are 5300 colleges in the nation.
Right. Most ppl over, say, 40, know WM as a department store that added limited food groceries not all that long ago.
When he said, what, 200 colleges in the US I snort laughed😂 nooooo
@@Tulsa_Time Lol same. Like add another 5,000 to that number and that's a ballpark estimate at the very least. Mostly more.😂
@@JohnH.Sturgis Most people over 30 remember it as a department store first lol
I remember when Walmart started showing up in my area about 40 years they were just rinky dink junk department stores like Kmart. I don’t know who added groceries first but they both got their act together and cleaned up their stores and it was a strong competition with groceries and other goods.
Walmart won the fight when Kmart and Sears merged and they quickly faded into obscurity.
There's an American movie where a woman temporarily lives in a Wal-Mart. It's called "Where the Heart Is".
Warm beer is for when you have time to buy ahead, take it home and chill it, so a store can stock more than they have fridge space for. Cold beer is for when you're going to drink it pretty immediately
Some beers are better when kept cold...talking to you Coors.
Some places charge more for refrigerated beer. Also it's not warm beer, just room temperature.
American beer and Walmart in general is trash. I don't even step foot in those stores, twice a year max.
@@anthonyv6962 Have a cookie.
@@anthonyv6962 enjoy your privilege.
The USA has one of the largest education systems globally, with over 6,500 institutions, including five of the top ten ranked universities according to QS World
And the largest number of dumb graduates who consistently rank around #20 place.
Also Walmart is not technically a Supermarket - it is known as a Superstore. Has sections for Food, Homegoods, Clothing, Lawn and Garden, Automotive, Healthcare (pharmacy), Baby, Electronics (TV, Computer, Video Games etc) Home repair, Storage solutions, Outdoor (Some like this one also have hunting, others like mine in Florida do not) Camping, Bikes, Boating, Toys, Bath needs (shampoo ets) Cosmetics, Kitchen goods, School goods, and Crafting, Paints, Vision, and a few others that vary by store.
And holiday stuff... for every holiday.
And usually a restaurant of some kind of the front of the store, either a McDonald's or a SubWay, most of the time. (For the foreigners who may not know, Subway is a submarine sandwich shop, not the underground train.)
neighborhood market Walmarts
Don’t forget the nail and hair salons inside WalMart! 💅💇♂️
@@blessingsoutlaw Some of our nearby Walmarts have bank branches inside them, & Eye Dr./ Vision places where you can get your eyes check and buy new glasses or contacts, any many different businesses.
Walmart is definitely NOT a supermarket! Many people I know avoid Walmart unless it’s the absolutely only place to buy something that you need quickly. Such as my gluten-free friends can only find certain items at Walmart unless they want to order a large amount online and wait for it to be delivered.
But ethically, in the last 25 years I can’t count how many tens of thousands of small businesses have had to close in regular towns all across the country, because a Walmart opened somewhere in their county.
People were willing to drive from far out in the country to a Walmart so they could buy things cheaply and not need to spend time going many different places. They have so many different flavors and options because they want Everyone to find things they like!
But in the small town I grew up near, when Walmart came to town more than 15 other stores had to close because they didn’t have enough sales to make a profit anymore. The Kmart closed, our Kroger Marketplace closed, a hardware store closed an office supply store closed, and an outdoors store closed, the sewing machine, sewing supplies, crafts & fabric store closed. A very nice clothing store closed, a really unique grocery store that had been around 100 years closed, 2 bookstores closed, 2 pharmacies closed. I think 3 gas stations closed. Just think of all the people who lost their jobs! Walmart has decimated the US countryside, and made countless small hometown businesses close down, which had supported many families for generations! In the beginning people would drive 15 - 25 miles to a bigger city in an adjoining county maybe once or twice a month, so they could shop at a mall, maybe go to a specialist doctor and also so they could stock up on food, filling their freezers, fridge and pantry shelves with everything that was a good price. Then they would not need to go shopping so often. People tended to buy as much as possible at a mega mart when shopping at a farther away Walmart. Now most rural counties in the US have a Walmart at least in the County seat. Walmart purchases cheap items from China for a very low price, because they buy such a large volume. Other stores cannot compete with the deal Walmart gets from the east Chinese factories. It has also put out of business many US factories, and many factory workers who formerly were members of unions and had good paying jobs. The US economy has changed, and it seems like most people don’t mind relying on China. Some of us like to shop atlocally owned stores, selling US-made products. They are better quality, they will last longer, such as shoes or other clothing. So they cost a bit more. It’s becoming harder to find those type of stores in small towns. Walmart has now destroyed the downtowns of so many small towns. There are several I drive through now that used to have 5 to 10 businesses, & a couple I know only have one store left that’s open, a dollar store like Dollar General or Dollar Tree. More people are now moving away from small town‘s, because they have to drive so far to find every day needs they used to be able to buy in their hometown. so I avoid Walmart personally, but I do shop at Meijer and Kroger marketplace, which have some of almost everything you see in Walmart, just not quite as much of the various options. One thing that has improved is, most counties in my area now have at least one or two Aldi stores! Those save me a lot of money, So thank you for sending us Aldi!! But if I’m going to buy fruit and I want it to last for a few days without starting to mold, I will buy my fruit at Meijer or directly from someone who grows it. I definitely support my local farmers markets! Local is picked when it’s ripe instead of when it has not yet developed a sweet flavor; local produce tastes best!
17:00 - Hershey's Symphony chocolate bar is what I'd recommend if you want a good value domestic chocolate bar. There are also Cadbury chocolate bars, the US license for which is owned by Hershey, and they also have a good milk chocolate bar. Other good options for quality chocolate bars are from German companies in the US like Aldi and Lidl.
Also you'll want to be careful if you vist the US as most US chocolate is modeled after Hershey's chocolate which contains butyric acid. It's a substance found in Parmesan and a number of other dairy products and it gives the chocolate a slight tangy taste, but a lot of Europeans who aren't used to it may be extra sensitive to it and think it tastes like vomit, as that acid is present there too. I'd just suggest you try it first. If you don't care for it, well, there's plenty of other places you get chocolate from that don't have it.
BTW, look up the history of Hershey's chocolate sometime. It's really quite impressive. There is a program called "The Foods that Built America" on the History Channel which does a good job of covering the history of a lot of these food brands.
Not all States have sales tax, but the amount varies by State and city. It's usually 7-8% more or less.
Yea, in my state it's 6% but many grocery items aren't taxed at all.
Or 10.1%. But in all fairness, we do not have income tax.
In Florida where I am, the tax is 7% but no tax on groceries. It varies slightly. It’s actually 6% in Florida but the county I live in has an additional 1% tax
@@Kamandi2 Same. DUVAL!
I'm in SE Texas. In my county, the sales tax is 8.25%. Texas does not have a state income tax; they make up for it via sales tax and other nickel and diming ventures.
There in Germany, even the villages have a bakery, apothecary, grocer, and market-platz. The larg8 12:25 towns and cities 12:40 that I saw have general merchandise stores as well as all the others. The first time I ever saw an Aldi, it was in Frankfurt-am-Mein. So, imagine an Aldi, and multiply it times ten. That's a Wal-Mart, only with lower quality.
That large package of candy was for Halloween. We hand them out to the children who come trick-or-treating.
Yes it's just for the kids at Halloween time, I have never bought bags this size for myself on multiple occasions 🤫
And parents eat the kids treats😂
@@krisfinley6706 haha
I bought a package a bit smaller than that once, but no kids showed up so I had to eat it all myself. 😂
@@knighthawk3749score!!!😅😅😅
Fun fact, walmart failed in europe because the product quality was too low, and most europeans live closer to various shops where they can get higher quality products. In america you are more used to driving a long distance to go shopping, so you want to go to one place to buy everything you need, and you don't want to do it very often. But when you live a 10 minute walk from a nice bakery, butcher, and grocer, then you can just go shopping whenever you want.
That is true. But when my husband was a student, we lived in Heidelberg (Germany) for about eight months way back in the 1960s, when there were only small stores in the suburbs. I had three children, one eight years old, one three years old, and an infant, and found the shopping took a lot of time. I had to go almost daily, because things came in small quantities that could be carried by a pedestrian shoppers. I had to go to three or more stores (a tiny grocery with fresh vegetables, bagged and canned food, then, a bakerie for bread, a "flescherie" for meat, and if we needed other things, like a toothbrush or needles and thread, etc,. you had to find other shops. I had no baby sitter, so I had to take all three of my children with me and only buy what I (and the eight-year-old) could carry or stash in the the stroller or carriage with the baby. It rained a lot, to make it more challenging! Of course, the refrigerator was tiny, too, so we couldn't store much fresh food there anyway. Going "downtown" took an hour because we had to wait for a trolley both ways, and carry anything we bought in our hands. It was very hard. I didn't get to see or do much while I was there.
It was a wonderful experience and I was in my twenties and very strong, but nevertheless, an average suburban Walmart would have been a miraculous dream. I appreciate Walmart for what it is, one-stop shopping!
@msjazzmeblues there are many little things that German's do that westerners don't think about. I come from Canada, and I loved your comment so much I asked a german friend about it. He said that today, many german parents have strollers with extra compartments for groceries. He also said that the strollers have waterproof tops now, and that in such a situation he would wear a rain jacket. He also noted that younger german children would likely be left at home, which is something that surprised me, as I wouldn't leave my 8 year old at hoke for multiple hours, but apparently it's not considered taboo there. Lastly, he said that going out for shopping like that is considered part of the good daily routine. Germans like going for long walks, and so that would actually be part of the appeal, and you might also agree beforehand to meet up with a friend to do the shopping together.
Every time a store plays a Christmas song before Thanksgiving, Santa kills a baby reindeer. You don't want that on your conscience, do you?
Most of my family in New England gets rabid when they see Xmas stuff before Thanksgiving
Those songs really were for the 12 days of Christmas. Maybe a week before that. Not the 12 months of retail. It really should be considered some kind of sin.
THANK YOU! No Christmas talk until after Thanksgiving dinner dishes are done. That's when the first Christmas movie is allowed. Save the Reindeer!!! (You can cheat a bit with Nightmare Before Christmas without endangering any baby reindeer.)
14:00 The warm beer cases are to take home and put in the fridge for later. Just like wine.
So funny when Chris paused the reaction to go get the empty frozen pizza box out of the trash can. LOL
5:46 The sizes are good for a good amount for anyone and easier for storage. And, yet, if you have heard of Costco, it's similar to a warehouse and a convenience store/market. Walmart and Costco are the best or decent products for the cheap price.
A key thing to understand about American megamart is population density. The really big Walmarts, Meijers, etc. are usually found far away from big cities where not many other stores exist. One reason they sell things in such huge quantities is that families from rural areas and small towns might drive up to an hour to get to the nearest megamart, and buy all the things their family will need for the next month in one trip. When I worked with a colleague who lived in a small town, she referred to her and her husband going to Walmart for "provisions" once a month or so. The store's strategy is to buy a whole bunch of cheap land (cheap because it's in the middle of nowhere), and have you spend ALL your money there so they try to stock everything a family could possibly need. They usually have much smaller locations in bigger cities where land is more expensive and there are more stores competing, if they exist at all in urban areas.
I disagree. We have Walmarts all over even in big cities.
I remember being SO EXCITED when WalMart finally came to my hometown, well, 30 miles away, but that is close on the high plains.
@@hollybrooke322 They tend to be on the outskirts of the cities, however. At least mine are.
I lived in DC and NYC for 20 years, and 18 years in a city in Connecticut of 110,000. None of these cities had WalMart. I've never been to one.
@@krispyier I've never seen one in Chicago either. I've been to them when I lived in Alabama, but never in Chicago.
When I was a kid, my stepfather worked as a department manager at the local Wal Mart, in charge of the hardware department. At this time, the only real differences between the Wal Mart you see here and the one I grew up with, was they had no food or groceries and there was no automotive center for basic car maintenance. Wal Mart was still a massive store with multiple departments for buying things all under one roof. Clothes, electronics, toys, lawn care, hunting, camping and sporting goods, house supplies such as cabinets and other storage options as well as home repair components and tools. By the time I graduated high school, they had closed their original Wal Mart location, and moved into their new Super Wal Mart which added to all of the aforementioned departments, groceries, automotive care, pharmacy and bath products.
So while yes it wasn't always a massive store with groceries, guns, televisions and clothes, it has always been a grouping of numerous departments and selections under one roof. It's success is largely due to the capability to roll all of the purchasing, shipping and distribution of goods into one streamlined process all controlled by Wal Mart itself. But it should not be forgotten that the other main pillar of Wal Mart's success was the destruction of the small town landscape here in America. By this I do not mean actually tearing up property to build stores (though that happened as well of course), but rather I mean the aggressive manner in which Wal Mart would push other business's to need to shut down their operations, not just what are known as "Mom & Pop" stores, but numerous regions chains as well.
As a kid when my stepfather worked for Wal Mart, their main competition in the department store arena was two fold, there was K-Mart which was nationwide but who had never really tried to compete by shutting down competition (at least here in Texas) and there was a more local/regional chain called Howards. They all three sold the same basic merchandise, often times from the same manufacturers. As a kid there were often important differences (to me at least) in that they would have different selections available for toys and video games (Nintendo, Sega). Part of my Stepfather's job as a department manager at Wal Mart, was to "scout" the competition's prices and make sure that Wal Mart's prices were always at least the same, if not cheaper. Wal Mart was able to undersell their competition simply because they fully control their own supply chain. They buy massive amounts of products in bulk and then distribute them amongst their store locations based on where the items show the best sales. Stores with lackluster sales will often have poorer selections of merchandise and sometimes two Wal Mart locations will be close enough to actively compete with each other for customers. In the 80's and early 90's this practice was certainly aggressive but not destructively so. After the founder of Wal Mart, Sam Walton passed away however, his children who inherited the business ramped up the aggressive tactics to predatory levels.
In any case, it was more this aggressive practice of undercutting their competition even if the individual product sales were at a loss, that pushed their competition out of business. Now, Wal Mart is the only store within 50 miles or so that we can go to for most anything not grocery related. We still have several choices for grocery stores as the expiring nature of groceries makes it difficult (but not impossible) to impose the same stranglehold. There are in fact numerous towns and cities across the United States which rely solely on a local Wal Mart for all of their grocery and department store needs on a day to day basis. I personally go out of my way to avoid Wal Mart whenever possible. I will go out of town some 50-60 miles away, to buy non grocery products elsewhere whenever possible. I don't harbor any illusions that my stance harms Wal Mart in any real way however. For 90% of the populace near any given Wal Mart, they are easily the best combination of convenient and affordable, and folks ain't got time for all that.
Still, fun video watching both your and their reactions to what they encountered in the Wal Mart. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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Almost forgot, on the tax aspect. Here in Texas at least, the tax isn't a concern on perishable food. It is on everything else though, but it's been the same rate my whole life and I've been calculating it in my head all this time. I don't even think about it anymore, I just factor it in as I add items to the basket. The only tax I need concern myself with when shopping is the sales tax, 8.25% of whatever my total is at checkout.
15:01 Hominy is not beans. It's corn, specifically processed.
Chris asked about the word "red neck." It originated with coal miners in the American Ozark mountain regions, who very often wore red bandanas around their necks to keep coal dust from seeping further into their underclothing. During the worker strikes the miners wore the bandanas as a sign of solidarity. The term later expanded to include farmers who spent a lot of time in the fields and got sunburns on their necks.
This is apocryphal. Possibly true. But another folk etymology is that the word simply describes the sun-burnt necks of field workers on farms.
As a southerner I find the term redneck very offensive. The assumption is that if you're from the south or if you're blue collar worker you are ignorant, poorly read and poorly educated. To me this kind of bigotry is right up there with the n-word. It is prejudicial and offensive indicting an entire group of people based on their economic standing .
It was also a sign whether your coal mine was unionized
OK but this doesn't explain the lingo of what a redneck actually is. It's a stereotype.
I had heard rednecks were farmers in an area of the Deep South thot had red soil, thus they would get red necks from the dirt.
"Redneck" is just another word for people from rural areas(typically, people from the southern states). It's interchangeable with terms like hick or hillbilly. Possible origin for the terms comes from farmers or other hard labor workers that would be out in the sun so long that their necks would turn red from being sunburned.
Generally good people salt of the earth... There are some though, if they heard him making fun of them, would take him out in the parking lot and give him a good old country @$$ whippin
The way rednecks speak English is how Austrians speak German.
Redneck originates in West Virginia, and comes from the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain because of their red bandanas. Then, its used by the coal barons in a derogatory way to associate the unionized coal miners with communists. It then eventually got used generally as a term for blue collar working people.
Hillbilly, especially in Appalachia, means something different entirely. Usually refers to usually off grid backwoods mountain people, and have a stereotype of being incredibly territorial and fairly reclusive
@adamoakes5928 Thanks for the clarification, from Cali, so we just use all those terms interchangeably.
@@Adam_0_310 You're talking about the origin of those words - not how they are used in American English in the present day. For all intents and purposes a hillbilly (sometimes referred to as a hilljack) is a redneck who lives in the hill country. Some modern colloquialisms extend hillbilly to being a direct synonym for redneck even if they don't live in hills. In present day America redneck, hillbilly, hick, bumpkin, hilljack, and rube all describe an unsophisticated person who lives in the country and regardless of their original meanings and distinctions are often used interchangeably.
13:37 Coke is the most popular soda in the USA, and there are so many varieties of it, caffiene-free, sugar-free, I like the Coke with sucralose (sugar substitute). And many flavors too - Cherry, Vanilla, Lime, Lemon, Spiced, etc.
Walmart started out in Arkansas which is a very rural state. Having a store in a small town that had *everything* was helpful so people didn't have to travel miles and miles to shop. It sort of grew out of that need to now just a super convenient place to do all your shopping at once.
Originally, Walmarts were like department stores that did not sell food. They had clothes, shoes, furniture, electronics, movies/games/books, office supplies, camping & sporting goods, pharmacy, beauty & hygiene, garden tools, plants, patio furniture, toys, automotive supplies which includes auto mechanics. Sometimes, there will be a fast food restaurant like McDonalds or Burger King inside. Or an ophthalmologist & eye glass section. There used to be a photography studio but that went away in the early 2000s.
Then we got bigger stores called Super Walmarts that also had a grocery section & bakery. Where I live at least, all of the regular Walmarts became Super Walmarts and now everyone just calls them “Walmart”. They also now have Walmart Markets which is just like a regular grocery store (but also includes a pharmacy). American grocery stores usually have an aisle in them with random things like automotive oil or windshield wiper fluid or duct tape or a small sewing kit.
For sales tax, there are three basic common methods:
1) You just don't use cash most of the time (a lot of Americans do this)
2) You can estimate about how much you'll need. It's easier after you've done it for a while.
3) Some women used to carry a calculator in their purse. Now everyone has one in their phone.
As an Oregonian (we don't have a sales tax, instead a steep State income tax), I'm always caught off-guard when I travel to another State, buy a $5.00 item and the final price is something like $6.84
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9:20 He got the gum (or tobacco) chewing so perfectly.
Wal-mart only started having sizeable grocery sections over the last 25-30 years. Before that it was more of like a budget version of a department store, hardware store, home goods store, electronics store combined. During the '90s the "Super Walmart" concept came about where they made even bigger stores with fresh groceries(K-Mart did the same thing with "Super-K"), and that's only grown over the years. They've pretty much brought this to all Wal-Marts now, so there's no longer "Super Walmart" AFAIK.
So while many now have the things a supermarket has, Wal-Mart wasn't traditionally a supermarket.
At 1:31 while he’s walking across the parking lot it looks like there’s an old Circuit City building attached on the right side of the Walmart. that large grey building offset and taller than the rest of the front of the building was probably a red circuit city entrance.
There are 3,982 universities in the US. In Rhode Island, the smallest state (only 55% bigger than Luxembourg), there are 13 universities. Luxembourg only has 4 universities.
Wow!!!! And most of the Europeans think they are gosh way more educated than the Amis.😂
I had been about to post "As of 2021-2022, the National Center for Education Statistics reported 3,899 degree-granting post-secondary institutions in the US. However, other sources estimate the number to be closer to 5,300." And the number has actually been declining since 2013. :D
@@Winona493As an American they probably are more educated, at least in regards to the quality of Education they receive. The problem with having so many Universities is a lot of them are mediocre in underfunded severely which leads to them being for profit colleges.
@@morrius0757 This sounds sad, but nevertheless the people are educated somehow even if it is not the most best you can get. But certainly I don't know. Unfortunately I never made it to the US. But next year it is perhaps possible for me. Press your thumbs (as we say in Germany 😂) for me!!! Greetings from the Ruhrgebiet/Germany.
3:06 this bag is so big because is for Halloween to give kids when they come knocking at your door.
Also the parking lot are big because people bring their RV to pick up stuff like meat, hot dog, burgers on their way to their favorite campsite specifically for holidays like the 4th and Memorial Day. Also truckers that drive from state to state like to park there because is convenience and safe for overnight sleep.
One thing nice about Wal-Mart is you can get all you need there. My best friend is disabled and only goes to the store once a month. She needs to use the electric carts. We get her medication, food, clothing, toiletries and whatever else she needs in that single trip.
Wal-Mart has changed over the years. When Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart he stocked a lot of " Made in America " items. In fact, that was the big advertising campaign the company ran for years. Since Mr. Sam passed that credo no longer exists.
And they actually drove a lot of their suppliers to move production out of the US with their demands for lower prices.
@@JustMe-dc6ksand they have driven many of their suppliers out of business with their demand for a price point so low the suppliers were selling to Walmart at a loss. I recall a case study from graduate school where they demanded a 5 gallon bucket of pickles from Vlasic at a price point they would be sold at about the same price point Vlasic sold 16 ounce jars in regular supermarkets. Which meant they would be selling the pickles to Walmart at a loss or losing market share to whatever competitor Walmart went to next for the same product. It was a lose-lose situation.
I even got my COVID vaccinations there.
@@Nerple One thing the video & reactor did not mention - Walmart DID go to Germany and COMPLETELY failed! It LOST more than a billion dollars and departed that country with its tail between its legs.
11:49 avg sales tax is around 7%; there are 3 or 4 states that have 0% sales tax, while in some states you have to add also city and/or county tax which can bring it up closer to 10%
Walmarts come in a few sizes, so not all of them are as big as the one in the video. But even a "small" Walmart is a pretty big store with lots of different items. Another huge store in the USA is Costco. The joke is that you can't see the back wall of a Costco because it bends over the horizon.
Come visit us in Iowa sometime. We have a massive gun store & shooting range outside of Des Moines that makes Walmart look beyond pathetic. I'd take you to a college football game too and Zombie Burger! Course Texas has these things too. If you ever get to Texas, make sure to go to a Buc-ees.
The huge packs of candy are for giving out to the kids on Halloween, she should have explained that
She also said that she doesn't feel safe around firearms locked up in a cabinet, so she doesn't appear to be very bright. Brainwashed.
Wertkauf in Germany reminded me of Wal-Mart. I was there 1996 -1999.
I loved living in Europe!
Walmart is not a super market - which implies more about food here. Walmart is a super center which sells everything!
The big bags of Halloween candy is to give to the children that are Trick-or-Treating. Most food prices are not taxed.
Food is taxed in many places. Sales tax varies by state though.
Food is taxed in Arkansas.
We don't have food tax in New Mexico, but we tax clothing. In Minnesota they don't charge clothing tax.
He’s going to be so disappointed when he makes the White Castle sliders 😂 great work 👍🏻
Traditionally, sales tax is added at the check out because Americans in the past wanted to see just how much tax they were paying on goods. Remember, our nation was founded due to a tax revolt. Sales tax varies throughout the US based on state, county, and city tax rates. The average sales tax nationwide is 7-8 percent. Items can be taxed at different rates depending on the jurisdiction, alcohol may be taxed at a higher rate than general food items. Also, health and beauty products, fresh food or prepared food may have different tax percentages.
Another example would be a Blue state taxing guns and ammunition at a much higher rate than a Red State for example. Alcohol and cigarettes are subject to "Sin Taxes" with logic being if people are going to buy these the government collects additional revenue in the hope to discourage purchasing. This doesn't really stop people from buying the product.
It is more convenient for the retailer to add the tax at the end due to the varying percentages. If tax rates increase, it is much easier to make that change in a computer system than retag products on the shelf. The sales receipt usually itemizes the percentages paid by product category thus making it transparent what the customer paid in taxes.
Another American tax eccentricity are the annual state sales tax exemption days, usually in August before the school year starts. States will designate specific weekend that clothing and school supplies are exempt from sales tax. This is to stimulate sales for retailers and save citizens a few dollars on supplies. This practice has been very successful and the retailers will advertise and offer additional product sales to encourage shoppers.
I was an Assistant Manager at one of the largest Walmart's in New Hampshire, Hinsdale, (I started at a very small Walmart in Rindge, NH). There is usually a space for seasonal Holidays items at the entrance. (I HATED Halloween, Christmas and School Season). Then the Lawn and Garden Dept. is usually responsible for storing the special items that will be on sale the day after our Thanksgiving holiday. We put them in trailers, then the night before we unload and display it in a few hours. NH does not have a sales tax....but does have a tax if the food you buy is prepared for you. One Walmart on an average makes hundreds of thousand dollars a day. I would have to count and make the bank deposit ready the next day. I have become very indifferent to counting large amounts of money. It is just paper. It is odd that I have never seen someone share that Walmart also has an auto department. You can shop while waiting on your vehicle. We would just page your name when done.😊❤😊
4:49 -- "I feel scared." They practically are all alone in the sports area, and the firearms are locked up. Wait until she goes into the pharmacy area and sees that the shaving razors and toenail clippers aren't locked up.
Yeah, I was exasperated with that too.
I hope she doesn't go in the bathroom at Walmart. That is truly a scary place.
Don't be so triggered, snowflake.
But the shaving razors ARE locked up now. Walmart has tons of non-dangerous things locked up these days, if they are things that frequently get shoplifted (because those items are outrageously priced so I don't really blame the shoplifters lol).
Couldn't tell if the machetes and household knives were secured, either. Granted, these days, they are one e-mail away from putting security tags on the candy bars...
Chris, there are other superstores in the US, but not as well known as Walmart. Most will also have small stores (separate businesses that rent the space), etc spanning inside the front of the store. Usually a few or several of the following: a bank, the optomitrist (get your eyes examined and purchase glasses/contacts), hair salon, nail salon, cell phone store, fast food restaurant (even some big chains, such as Subway), etc.
The superstore chain, Meijer, also has a couple of unique new mini store options along that entry wall: a post office (some stores) and kiosks where you can get your car registration renewed.
Other departments that most Walmart superstores have, which were not shown here: automotive (which includes not only supplies to purchase, but also car services, such as changing the oil, getting new tires put on your car), and garden (includes furniture, plants, landscape, etc), regular furniture (desks, small sofas, shelves, lights etc), bedding, kitchen appliances/dishes, shoes, cards/party supplies, jewelry, baby needs (including car seats etc), camping (including tents etc), pet supplies .... oh the list goes on!
One feature that Walmart doesn't have that other superstore chains tend to have: gas stations.
There are many Americans who dont want to navigate all of that and like to keep it more simple. I moved to a small community and am starting to really like the smaller local shops. We also like your Aldi stores. Lol.
The reason sales tax isn't included is because the amount varies from state to state and sometimes even from county to county; also, some items are taxed differently, such as clothing or alcohol, so it's really not possible to add the sales tax to the price unless the store does it themselves and with a store this big that would be hell for the workers. Realistically, only small stores add sales tax into the price into the US.
It absolutely is possible to price the items, they scan them with their scanner to print out price tags all the time, there is zero reason not to include tax other than to make the item look cheaper than it is.
@@ThatDamnPandaKaiIn a lot of places it is actually illegal to include the tax in the price. It makes it easier to cheat the government out of the sales tax collected.
@@ThatDamnPandaKai hiding it is a good way for the government to hide how much they are taxing us. You think it's the cost of the item from the store, but it's not. People don't object to taxes as much when they don't see how much it is. Gas tax is a perfect example of that. If people had that added on after, they'd go nuts.
Also because tax rates are often voted upon and can change, rendering a lot of prices invalid. Best to just not include the taxes in the price and just include about 10% extra in your calculations.
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I've been studying German for over two years with no German speakers nearby lol like allot of Americans I have a good bit of German ancestry. Kudos on your channel I'll be watching...tchuss!
Walmart almost singlehandedly changed the landscape of the USA. Most of the small mom and pop shops could not compete and have gone out.of business. No more small electronic stores, clothing stores, small grocery stores, and the list goes on and on. There are 5300 colleges and universities in the United States. Lol. Bear in mind we're a country of 350 million people .
5,300 colleges
According to someone on this thread
@@PurpleObscuration That is correct. Thank you.
Walmart was in Germany for almost 10 years and they had absolutely no chance against the competition. When I think back, I don't know anyone who enjoyed shopping at a Walmart store, no matter how big the store was - the American business model simply doesn't work in Germany.
@visiondoctor2020 And when searching on Amazon, it's tough to differentiate between true product reviews and the fake ones
@@coreverwirrt Congratulations
Walmart started in competition to another department discount store chains in the US. One around here that Walmart has almost totally wiped out is called K-mart. Years later Walmart added the grocery store and pharmacy departments and renamed those locations "Super Walmarts". That is the kind they visited in the video. That puts them in direct competition with many grocery stores and pharmacies. Since almost all of Walmart locations have now been upgraded like that they went back to calling most of the stores just Walmart again. There are a lot of Walmarts in the US now. To give you an idea of how many, I live within 4 miles of three different (Super) Walmarts. We also have other similar stores like: Target, Publics and Kohls too, but overall Walmart usually has the largest stores (and parking lots).
They have an auto service center, they sell tires and batteries... you can get your oil changed. They have a hardware section where you buy tools. They also have a garden center.
Yes, yes, yes. And a full servic e drug center where you can get flu, covid, pneumonia, etc., shots and all prescriptions. Clothes for any age, toys, books, music, appliances, kitchenware, hardware of all kinds. pet supplies and food, appliances from little coffee makers and phones to huge television sets.
We are SO lucky!
@3:45 they are bb guns they shoot metal pellets
usually they are meant for teenager's to train with to handle actual guns later on in life, it teaches them to be safe while still providing minimal casualty [meaning you won't die if shot from one, but you might lose a eye or a finger.]
its basically a really op toy for older kids, it will make you bleed if you are unsafe with it, but you won't die.
@4:28 NOW those are real, but they are for hunting wild animals.
like boar or coyotes [both of which are invasive and can kill a human.]
they aren't great for self-defense.
@11:26 tax depends on where you live its usually around 1 to 2 us dollars.
it just depends for me its 1 dollar but for my brother who lives like right over a bridge but counts as another county its 2.
it would be around 6 dollars us. [give or take some change]
@17:18 its just cheetos but in ball form, they are good if you like cheese puffs.
@18:09 i have a few friends who will die on this hill, but to me white castle isn't that good.
it just depends on who you ask, some people LOVE it and say its better then any other fast food, and then people like me will say "is it though?"
it just depends on your taste buds.
I'm an older American, and as a child Christmas shopping and Christmas anything only started the day after Thanksgiving (last Thursday in November). Now Christmas merchandise and big store Christmas promotion shopping starts at the beginning of October. I find it annoying, because it's so commercial and profit driven to buy, buy, buy. We're inundated by TV and advertising for Christmas shopping months ahead of Christmas Day. The last 3 months of the year, and the following January as well, account for the largest percentage of annual sales for the American economy. For some companies, it's more than 60% of total annual sales.
I live in San Francisco, California and big superstores like Walmart are not permitted in the city limits. One reason is San Francisco is very compact geographically (7 miles by 7 miles) and population dense, so superstores would dwarf everything else here, cause tremendous traffic problems, and put many local stores and businesses out of business. All the big superstores are 25 or more miles away. San Francisco is also politically negative about superstores, because they pay their employees the lowest wages and provide them with NO benefits of any kind.
Walmart would never want to locate in San Francisco. Too much shoplifting and vandalism.
I gave up celebrating all holidays years ago (including my birthday) because of how commercialized, monetized and over-stimulating it all is. I didn't even like it as a kid when they were only putting stuff out after Thanksgiving. For me, and my family "Christmas" was December 17th to Jan 2nd. Full stop. Now, Christmas is 3-4 months long (1/3rd of the year) and the novelty and specialness that the holiday used to have gets old, really quick and I got sick of it. Holidays are just seizure triggers for me.
I’m an American and I love going to Walmart. I get excited too
In my state of Nevada, there is no tax on groceries/food. Food prepared/served at a restaurant is taxed. Fast food is taxed. You need to go to Costco next. Walmarts pretty much have very similar stock from one to another. Different parts of a state or country may offer different items depending on what customers want or need. They tried smaller stores here and there a few years back, but they did not do well. Customers then preferred their own, familiar stores with familiar, fewer items they were used to. You can order pretty much anything online from your local store to have it delivered to your home. Some items have to be shipped from a separate warehouse. Employees do your shopping for you. You can also order online, drive to the store, and they will load up your car for you. These options are available at many different stores.
What they didn't show, there's usually always a barber shop in the front of the store. Theres also a bank and an optometrist who will sell you eye glasses. The deli usually is preparing warm food but have some deli condiments and stuff too. Typically there maybe a fast food place in Walmart. They used to be McDonald's but most of those got turned into a Subway sandwich shop. Theres also a place towards the back of Walmart where you can get new tires or have your oil changed in your car. They also have an aquarium section with pet fish to buy. This is becoming more rare to see though. The electronics and video games were kinda skipped but the electronics section sell phones, video games, and headphones and sound systems and even vinyl records. When your a kid, the only place you wanna go to is their 5 or more aisles dedicated to children's toys. One aisle is specifically girly toys, the other more men, the next aisle is neutral and usually sell classic novelty items and the last two are dedicated to bikes and outdoor play. The Christmas section is usually the garden center most of the time throughout the year, and they'll sell you seed, fertilizer, potted plants, pesticide, farm tools, mulch and whatever else you need to make a garden. Walmarts game plan for business is to make everywhere else obsolete and you wouldn't have to go anywhere else. Now you don't even have to go anywhere. They even do your shopping for you and will deliver to your house that same day. Walmart is pretty cool come to think of it. This is something I didn't know you didn't have. I figured every country had a similiar super center store but it went by other names. I guess Europe's not big enough for Walmart. The parking lots alone could fill the whole country up.
HELPFUL HINT my friend... For the most part in the state where I live (Michigan) sales tax is 6%.... HOWEVER, almost all food is NOT taxed at the stores. The only time we pay tax is if food is prepared FOR US (Like in a restaurant)... Other than that, beer and liquor are taxed, as well as household items, soap, etc. But packaged food is NOT taxed (Again, that's in my state of Michigan).
same in Ohio
Lol. In the small town in Germany i stayed with my stepmoms family for the summers. They had the town store. It was a room on the bottom floor across from their living room and kitchen. Lol. The whole family that would come were a bit overwhelmed when they visited here.
When I was stationed in Germany they had 2 Walmart stores that I know of. One was near Mannheim. They didn’t last there at all, I think they were gone in less than 3 years. It was between 1998-2003 if I’m not mistaken.
There were around 75 stores in Germany until 2006
@@LoveHideForever2 Walmart had to give-up operating in Germany and most of Europe because they kept violating labor laws and kept getting huge fines and were finally ordered to either obey the various laws or go.
The size of the Walmart can depend on where it’s at. I’m in upstate New York and the Walmarts are not as big as this one. I actually live near one that that doesn’t have the full grocery section. It doesn’t even have an auto service center.
Where I grew up out in Kansas the Walmarts are huge like the one in this video. I went to eastern Tennessee last year and theirs are huge also. My oldest son lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and theirs are huge and they also have Fleet Farms which are almost as big as the Walmarts.
I hope you get an opportunity to explore the US someday. I think you’d really enjoy it based on your reactions to the videos of things in America. I really enjoy your videos. You’re such a nice and positive young man. Thank you for sharing.
I just don't really like a lot of his point of view sometime, but I do watch their channel.Keep up the good work. Much love from Lawton Fort Sill Oklahoma. Ps I do speak fluent German lol . (Bad Kreuzach Rhineland-Palatinate) *** THE GERBLAXICAN ***
I actually work as a greeter at Walmart and I find it really fun to see how people react to it
Most Walmarts are similar in size to this one in the video. Walmart says the average super center is 182,000 square feet, or 17,000 square meters. Most have a bank branch, a hair salon, an optometrist, and a Subway restaurant. There are also Mega Walmarts that are nearly twice the size of this one. You saw the guns and ammo, there’s also house paint, hardware, plumbing and bathroom parts, limited furniture, vacuums, pots and pans, glassware, silverware, and on and on. My favorite section is the camping aisle, where you can get tents, sleeping bags, camp stoves, water jugs, camp cookware, propane and so forth. You asked about games. There’s usually a whole aisle dedicated to gaming systems and games. In the same area, you have laptops, computers, monitors, cell phones, ad nauseam. There are so many more sections I’ve not mentioned such that it boggles the mind. However, too many Americans take it for granted.
Sales tax is generally a combination of city, county, and state taxes. Think of it like VAT, but unlike VAT which is standard for the entire country, our states and counties set slightly different rates.
Taking Oreos as an example, every Walmart in America will charge the same base price for Oreos, but the sales tax will be different in a New York Walmart than in a California or Arizona Walmart. VAT is the same everywhere, so it can easily be included in the price on the Oreo packets in Eurozone countries, but in the US (where we don't have a VAT), the Oreos might have an 8.3% sales tax in one county and a 9.2% sales tax in the next county over. This makes it much more difficult for the products to have tax added on the label.
Sales tax can vary between 5% and 10% typically, and it can easily be looked up for your location so that every customer knows what the added percentage will be if it's important to them for budgeting reasons. I used to calculate my sales tax as I shopped. It's something we're used to here.
Essentially, this is just one more way things are different in a country as physically large and economically diverse as the United States, especially given that each of our states has a completely separate government that operates independently of the others and has a different budget along with different tax rates for everything (not just retail sales).
Groceries are usually not taxed in most states. When I lived in Louisiana, they taxed groceries which was a shock to me.
Georgia also charges tax for groceries. Tax is between 7-10%
Actually, groceries are taxed in a lot of states.
Florida taxes most groceries, some are exempt but they often show a sign somewhere on which types are exempt... if they don't, you'll notice a letter code besides the item on the receipt. Then around things like school starting there are tax free weeks for school supply items.
Arkansas used to charge tax on groceries, then they started to charge only half the normal tax amount, and later they changed to no tax on groceries. It might have changed again though, I have not been back there in over a decade.
Yeah sales tax is 7.5% where i am at, but non-hot food items are 3%
It is a department store. Clothes, pharamacy, food, deli, bakery, office supplies, craft and art supplies, camping gear, fishing gear, sports and recreation gear, automotive care, hardware, garden, housewares, luggage, jewlery, watches, toys, books and magazines. Most of them also have a hair salon, a nail salon, Optometrist, some kind of fast food resturant like Mc Donald's or Subway, and Automotive Service Center. The majority of Walmarts are this size. In large metro areas we also have Walmart Neighborhood stores which are a much smaller scale and mostly carry groceries.
I live in Oregon, we don't have any sales tax ❤
I live in Oregon and Moved here from New Hampshire which also has no sales tax. Growing up in Maine I hated calculating tax. Sales tax is so regressive anyhow...good riddance
I am a new subscriber and I love your reactions! I am binge watching your videos
14:40 - In the US they use recyclable plastic now, but only when people are willing to rinse them.
You can’t recycle most plastic though. I think its over 70%. Like liquid soap for laundry, those containers can’t be recycled because the liquid gets absorbed in the plastic.
@@chelcybryant225 Yeah, it's a problem. I buy eco-friendly laundry detergent that comes in better packaging, but most people don't.
Something he briefly mentioned but didnt really show is that you can take your car to be serviced at Walmart as well. They do oil/tire changes mostly.
There are over 6000 Colleges and Universities in the US, and of that like 4000-ish are degree granting ones.
For reference, the current ratio is $1.08 Dollars per Euro. So, the price he quoted is 5.05 Euros.
Sales tax varies by state. Cities can add their own tax, and it varies by category of product. You can buy different things at the same store, and have multiple tax rates applied to your purchase, because they each attach to the different products you bought.
I haven't gone into a Walmart often, but there have been times I am so thankful it exists. Many years ago, my mom and I needed to live for a while in another state, after my grandmother passed away. We rented an apartment near where she lived, and went to Walmart for some of the things we needed. I remember we both got inflatable mattresses from there, and that was just what we needed. They weren't as good as a real mattress, of course, but much better than sleeping on a mat, or the floor. I think we also got some disposable dishware, and a toaster oven for warming things up/cooking. It helped us a lot to be able to get these things in one place.
Walmart is not a just a super market. They sell everything. Its one stop shopping.
Walmart was in Germany for almost 10 years and they had absolutely no chance against the competition. When I think back, I don't know anyone who enjoyed shopping at a Walmart store, no matter how big the store was - the American business model simply doesn't work in Germany.
@@coreverwirrt I know you posted this a month ago but stop copy pasting your comment in every reply
Tax varies alot depending on where you are. Sales taxes are largely set by each state individually and can even change depending on the city or county you are in.
There are about 4000 accredited colleges and universities in the USA. There are also hundreds of nonaccredited schools to serve religious or niche markets.
Yes we have very big parking lots. Also: Wal Mart is a "discount department store" meaning they sell a big variety of items. Some do sell groceries but its usually a bit of a smaller selection than a regular supermarket.
One stop shopping is king in the U.S. People want to get what they need and move on. No time to waste.
Some Walmarts have an autoshop for oil changes, battery service, and tire service. I happen to work in one.
The cheapest frozen chicken where i live is 3lbs for $10. This might be because of inflation, I'm not sure when this video is from. Thank you for the great reaction video 😻
Former Walmart employee here: Yes, all those departments make it huge. Walmart stores are at least the size of a city block or so ( size verifies with individual Walmart), so we had several older people that would come in regularly to "walk around the block" for their "daily walks" because it was safer (other people around to help if the seniors fall/slip) than doing it outside/elsewhere. A lot of Walmarts even have benches so you can rest on your "walks"/shopping.
I used to work in Electronics. I always loved when ppl brought stuff back bc I could walk to the front and get a change in scenery. lol 😂
@@chelcybryant225 that feels familiar
In Michigan we don't pay tax on food, on other things that are not food, it is six cents on the dollar!
same in ky. unless it's considered candy or soda. or a hot meal.
@@livingcancer5772 Even hot meals in the deli are not taxed here, as long as it can be eaten it won't be taxed! Even candy and soda are not taxed! Yet! Thank you for your reply!
@@debbers oh wow. good to know next time I'm out Michigan way~
@@livingcancer5772 You betcha'! I love Kentucky, I've visited there a few times! I'll have to remember about the sodas and hot food! Thanks again for your reply!
11:34 Presuming they are in South Carolina (which is where Clemson and USC are), tax on non-food items is 6%. Food items aren't taxed (except things that are cooked and ready to eat, like rotisserie chicken, and things like sodas and alcoholic beverages). The oreos (as they are a food item) probably won't be taxed. The "crooked" prices also encode information in them (such as discontinued items, whose price may end in a certain digit).
I helped set up and open a new Walmart. On Monday, we walked into a completely empty store. You could see from one end to the other. By Friday we had set up every section. There were 50 of us split into small crews and assigned departments to complete. My crew set up the shoe department and sporting goods. The next week we were assigned the department we would work in when the store opened. That's when merchandise started arriving and we had to start stocking. I went to work in the bakery as part of the donut crew. We trained for 3 weeks to properly make the donuts. During training we worked from 9 pm to 1 pm the next day with no days off. That was before the store was open. Once we opened my shift was 3 am to 1 pm. After training for 3 weeks doing 16 hour shifts I was exhausted but well paid for that time and was able to pay cash for an engagement ring. So it was well worth it.
the parking lots usually fill up a lot around holidays or big shopping days like black friday. as for the candy, those bags are meant to be given out to trick-or-treaters and are seasonal items otherwise not found at other times of the year.
it speaks volumes about your culture that walmart ended up leaving the german market bc they didn't want to respect german culture and regulations. its nice to see a country stand up for their people against bully corporations.
Exactly!! Walmart is a terrible company that doesn’t treat its employees well (talking large-scale here, don’t come for me with an individual story about how your boss is nice lol), and creates a “race to the bottom,” putting the squeeze on manufacturers of different goods, with their mega huge buying power, to reduce prices so much it sometimes creates the need for layoffs on their end.
Additionally, a lot of Walmarts are poorly-staffed, so you can’t find help or it takes forever to check out… I try really hard not to spend a dime at Walmart if I can help it, but every now and then I have to go in there for an item I can’t find elsewhere and don’t have time to wait for a delivery, and I always dread it. I can tell you that the last two times I went in the one near me, (the only two times this year, though they were both last month for gardening/patio stuff): Once I ended up leaving after three different people couldn’t find the one person who supposedly had a key to get in a case for an item I wanted… and it did not take a short time to find any of those three people by the way, I was probably in there for a good 30 minutes before giving up); and the other time I picked up the one item I needed, which was a very long walk to the far side of the store, got to the registers, and realized they had only ONE register working, with probably about twenty people in line, many with full carts… I put the item down, walked away, and decided I could wait a couple days for it to come from Amazon.
@@vespista1971My best friend’s been working at Walmart the last ten years or more and says the problem is with the younger workers not wanting to work and quit or get fired is why there’s such a high turnover rate. The older workers don’t have a problem working and stay much longer, most retire.
He also said problems at HQ is due mostly to young executives always changing things up and the young department heads, section leads, and managers at individual stores don’t have management or leadership skills or experience that compounds the problems.
So it’s not just a one size fits all problem with Walmart.
12:16 I believe the reason tax isn’t included in price is because the online price is the same no matter where you are, but different states, cities, counties, etc. all have different tax amounts for items, so they can’t just give you the actual price, because something that’s “$10.99” could come out to $11.87 in one city, and $11.65 in another city.
You can buy cold beer or warm beer. No one drinks warm beer, but some people buy the beer while it's warm and then throw it in their fridge at home
I bought some German beer at a grocery store once and found out the hard way that it wasn’t meant to be chilled.
😂😂 as someone who does not have a wallyworld in town, I get so l stoked when I get to go!!
Walmart has some cons: The money spent at Walmart does not necessarily stay in the community, but goes away to Walmart headquarters. Food sold at Walmart is GMO. GMO food can cause genetic anomolies aka changes to the DNA. The only longitudinal study on GMO food showed that baby rats had hair growing around their teeth. Walmart may have inexpensive prices, but in small communities, there are no longer mom and pop stores because Walmart has eliminated competition.
CAPITALISM BABY
They're also very anti-labor. There used to be butchers in the super centers, but the butchers at one store started talking about getting organized so now there are no butchers at all.
I worked at walmart 20 years ago and their anti-union training videos were longer than any of their other videos like workplace safety or sexual harassment
That is why they failed in Germany (closed all 75 shops in 2006).
I'm a Walmart employee and you would be surprised on how much stuff is actually there. The store I work at is pretty small but it's basically a pharmacy, automotive store, clothing store, outdoors store, hardware store, craft store, grocery store, electronics store, pet store, and beer store all in one😂
That was not all that you can find in Walmart Superstores. Some stores have optician offices and you can order a pair of prescription glasses while you’re there. Others have restaurants in them like Subway or McDonald’s and still, others have small arcades or even beauty shops in them.. Also the garden department in a Walmart store has an outdoor section with garden furniture, plants and other decorative items. You can also find gardening tools there, although they do rotate the stock out during the winter to put all those Christmas trees in that section. my sister used to work in the jewelry department at our local Walmart and I worked in the shoe department so there’s even more sections that they didn’t even show you in this video. Most of the superstores also have an automotive department where you can get tires put on or an oil change done while you shop. There are smaller stores called Walmart neighborhood markets that are just groceries and personal care items along with a pharmacy, a bakery, and a deli.
Also redneck is a term for someone who lives a simple, rural life like a farmer who doesn’t come to the city much and are therefore unaware of social etiquette. The term literally refers to the fact that the person’s neck and arms would most likely be sunburned from being out working in the fields, hunting, or fishing.. It’s sort of a less than complementary term for someone who is not considered to be cultured or who is thought of as naive, uneducated, or uncouth. Fortunately, most of the people that redneck refers to are aware of what other people think and honestly don’t care. They enjoy their lives just the way they are. In Tennessee, where I live., redneck lifestyle is pretty common. Rednecks are independent and hard-working and they like to drink and have fun. For some context, you can look up Jeff Foxworthy videos- he makes a lot of jokes about rednecks and their lifestyle.
7:19 about 7000, and about 4000 of those are four-year colleges
1:15 the average walmart (in my experience) is always big enough to have at LEAST 200 cars.
and to get from one end of a walmart to another its usually a good minute or 2 walk. thats just whats open to the public.
also no most walmarts dont have guns. my local walmart does. but its for hunting so shotguns and rifles.
Walmart isn’t a supermarket. It’s a department store that sells groceries.
You can buy beer warm, but we don’t drink it warm. If it’s cold at the store you don’t have to wait for them to get cold. And it’s advertising. 😂
Self checkout lowers the workforce. I won’t use them.
Sales Taxes are different everywhere.
That's not true. I'm guessing it's your state. Walmart sells warm beer, cold beer, wine and hard liquor in my state
@@Wolf-vc4wj what’s not true? The beer comment?
@@storminight lol I didn't expand to show more on your comment. That's my bad. I apologize
@@Wolf-vc4wj it’s fine… but starting out with that’s not true … hits hard. I wasn’t implying they didn’t have other liquor, I was just commenting on him saying cold beer is that advertising. And in my state they do sell other things, I just didn’t seem relevant, but I guess it is! He doesn’t know. 🤷♀️
Thanks for your response!
@@storminight again sorry for that it was my fault. Completely misread it. I know some states don't allow the sell of alcohol at places like Walmart or grocery stores. And I was just trying to say it's not all states but that was just me not reading the whole thing
0:32 hello again always find your videos quite interesting, your culture shock amazes me. Walmart is not really a grocery store as you say, it is an all-purpose general merchandise store that just happens to have groceries as well as everything else. Imagine a Harrods that sold food, clothing, hardware, electronics and even cars depending where you are. It was founded in 1962.
Hi !Most states do not tax food. In Michigan we do not tax food.
Michigan charges tax on cooked/prepared food. Thats only at grocery stores. Source: wanna see my Rally’s receipt from this afternoon?
Minnesota doesn't tax food or clothing.
@@MarkMaciag-dz9gb but your paying for service of the food.
I’m in Illinois where everything is taxed.
I've never heard of that, and I've been to about half the states. So it's not most, maybe some. Food taxes are between 2%-8% depending on what category it is, in all the states I've been to.
Chris, Walmart is the largest retailer globally. They sell twice as much as Amazon, and almost 5 times as much as Aldi. What you saw there was a "Super Center". It is not a supermarket, but it has a supermarket inside of it, as part of it. Most of the super centers are as big as each other, with some exceptions. They also have what they call "neighborhood markets" which are much smaller, but also large, but they are like supermarkets. The neighborhood markets carry only groceries. In one city, there may be several super centers and several neighborhood markets. in the city where i live, there are probably 5 or 6 super centers within 20 minutes of my house.
Cheese balls are cheese puffs in a ball shape. Like "Cheetos" cheese puffs, but round. It is an extruded snack. Also, please don't confuse volume with quality. Walmart sells things which are cheap and cheaply made, as well as discounted national brands. They constantly press their suppliers for lower prices, and find the cheapest goods on the planet. Walmart has created an open sluice from China, where China dumps in its cheapest garbage, and it ends up on the shelves of Walmart in our local neighborhoods. Walmart has done more than any other business to lower the standard of living for Americans. In order to be cheapest, they lower the prices by pennies. That is why you see those prices which seem odd. They shave pennies off the price. Americans will switch stores to save a penny, and to get more goods.
There's almost 4000 universities in the USA.
Chris: "100, 200 perhaps?"😂
When I see a Christmas section in any shop in September or October it feels like a violent forcefield is repelling me from that area of the store. 😂
Most states have no taxes on food
Yup, food as groceries; prepared (ready-to-eat) foods are typically taxable, though.
@miammissophiapetrillo actually a lot of states don't tax cold prepared ready to eat but tax hot prepared ready to eat. The idea being that cold you can take home and put in fridge like regular groceries but hot you have to eat in your car or right when you get home so it's more like a takeout restaurant.
Oklahoma has taxes on all food. But then, super low property taxes. The state is going to get their money one way or another!!!