Would you shop in such a supermarket? And do you have similar supermarkets in your countries? (btw made a mistake in the video - Chinese HAVAL cars are assembled in Russia. I confused it with GEELY which is produced in Belarus.)
Yes I would shop here. They have plenty of your daily essentials and as long as you're not picky over the brands you can get a lot there. I often shop at a place called grocery outlet which is a very similar to this
@@IThelpTeamlidl and aldi.are good thogh same quality produce as expensive. All europe has them i think they are german..i dont see them where i live in uk but seen them in greece and other places
Normally I do not like the shopping videos in Russia, But I really enjoyed this one. If I lived in Russia, I would go to this store once a month for sure.
You are getting really good at creating videos, this is one of the best videos I have watched. I will make another food bank video and highlight the prices on the products that have prices. Here in USA, you can not film in stores without permission. That is a freedom we do not have. 👍
@@CrazyRussianSergey In general, in US they have prices without tax mentioned and also wages are mentioned at brutto values. Retail price of fuel where Tucker Carlson lives (San Francisco county of California) seems to be about $1.5 for both gasoline/diesel Now, of course that is different in different counties even of the same state... then in different states is further also different. That could be half the price somewhere in Texas Base price + Fed Tax + State Tax... + potentionally Local Tax + Tip + ...
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yes in all states taxes are added at the register. In Texas it is 8.25% sales tax where I live. Fuel taxes are calculated in the pump price.
The prices are so cheap! Much cheaper than Turkey. I wonder about the quality. The shampoo looked like coloured water :) maybe you can do a follow-up video about how you found the quality of the items you purchased; it would be interesting to know your thoughts.
As a low-income senior lady with only my US Social Security retirement, a tiny pension and food stamps, we have warehouse stores for lower income people. The deals are comparable, but we are still poor. 😊
@@CrazyRussianSergey you talking about my old channel? It got shadowbannnnnned so I set them to private. This is my new channel. Same name but "memoirs" instead of "memoir." Same life, same everything, but with a little less smoking "you-know-what". I'm getting less reported now. Will try to do some shopping stuff. 🙂 My villagers are weird and don't like being filmed unfortunately.
@@PaulieBonyenne haha yes. I confused the channels. I subscribed to both! Yes. If you go somewhere far - film it. I also wouldn’t film in some area everyone would know me!
@@CrazyRussianSergey one time I was trying to film in our cheap grocery store called "Sav-a-lot" and a local pig farmer recognized me and yelled "Yo Paulie do we gotta take pictures of our food now before we can buy it?! WTF you doing?!" Everyone in the store stared at me. I wanted to die. No one vlogs around here in small towns; some don't even know what vlogging is. I think I need a hidden spy camera for when I film in public. I don't go to other towns often but maybe someday soon I'll try.
@@PaulieBonyenne I completly understand you! I didn't film in the village for example as well with people. But yeah, when you go to some big town film it in big supermarket and ou can do voiceover later for example.
I would shop at that store. There are stores similar to that store here. I always check the expiration date on products when I shop at a deep discount store. It is an adventure shopping at those stores.
@@CrazyRussianSergey The US used to have expiration dates, but the government cracked down on companies who were making the expiration dates far too short, leading to people just throwing out and buying more, when what they had was still good. Most things last beyond the expiration date, but it depends on what's in it. Anything with dairy I'm cautious about. Of course any meat. They mark it down for quick sale as the expiration date nears. I still wouldn't buy it.
These shops kinda reminds me of discount stores here that are in big spaces, but usually they are reselling the stuff regular stores could not sell, but these seem to be new stuff and off brand items, also Kruschev's fascination with corn is funny...if he was impressed with American corn he should have seen Mexico! They are the masters of corn, also tamales (the food) uses a corn husk to cook the food!
I bet the food is fine, Most of it is canned, frozen, dried, or pickled. Food like this can last for years and the way it is prepared, It kills all the stuff that could make you sick.
We have Svetofor in my town in Serbia and its in the same road s Lidl and another big market chain. Cheap peanuts and seeds and 6 pack 2L bottles of lemonade. 👍
What are food safety regulations like in Russia? Do they monitor products for carcinogenic ingredients or contamination, pesticide and hormone levels (to make animals grow bigger)? Are there a lot of agricultural fields in Russia that are affected by past radioactive contamination?
Russian (Светофор) has better offer compared to one in Serbia, also here most of the products come from Serbia. Some are from Russia and Belarus although not many. And yes every Светофор магазин is outside of the city, probably because of low rent. Btw. Thanks for filming this, maybe i'm the one who gave you idea to go there. Take care👍🚥
Well, maybe that is how their model looks like, like about half of the products to be from domestic country, while half from elsewhere Or instead of half, to let say partial. At beginning, it was quite the same, but now after couple years... yeah, it changed with some products. Anyhow, yeah, not all products currently available are exactly the same ones. Just partially are the same 😊 It likely changed with products in Russia too, over the years... but yeah, that is how market working. There are probably some differences also between Peter and some Svetofor in Siberia... well, there are always some particular percentage of differences Maybe something is currently different in Belgrade Svetofor than elsewhere in Serbia too, ha, ha... but then, let say in a month, it might not be so
Can you buy private healthcare in Russia what is the cost. I have read that you can get insurance for 45k Rubles a year. Sadly, moving to Russia is not an option unless you speak Russian then you can apply and may get a residency. Then the issues of geopolitical conflicts make such a move today less than ideal. A person on social security could live there well in some areas and even afford to buy their own health care. Working in Russia pays little and the prices reflect incomes, basic economics. The average wage is below the poverty line in the USA at around $15,000.00.
So, generally it looks like in ordinary stores in the USA there is less variety and prices are roughly five or six times more. This is an economy store in an industrial park, but I would really love to go there! We call this "warehouse" style store, lots of the goods are in the shipping package, in cases on a pallet. This would be such an event for me, I like to cook! I think if you went from this Russian economy store to the equivalent place in America you'd be very disappointed and also it would seem tremendously expensive.
Much of the agricultural land in the USA grows corn or soybean as much as 90%. They are commodity crops and typically grown on large commercial farms. Russia is all about wheat and the conflict has anything related inflated in prices. Khrushchev wanted to add corn however it needs a bit longer of a growing season, they do grow it though and been increasing annually in production. They import allot from Hungary and France as well as other countries. If one thinks that such a commodity is sanctioned, they would be incorrect. However, the conflict did drive wheat commodity up. The market is global and the conflict is to control or have greater influence over it…
Я хотел бы посетить эту прекрасную страну, которую вы нам показываете. сожалению, я не думаю, что это сработает в ближайшие несколько лет, поскольку я родом из враждебной зарубежной страны. It's so sad verything .... about 20 years ago they thougt about visa free visits of each other - Horrible and bloody times at the moment - Thank you to giving us a window in your world by uploading such videos -thank you!
@@boretbeme You are very right - there was so much hope at the beginning of 2000 and I thought everything would be fine and the history of our fathers and grandfathers would not repeat itself - unfortunately I was so wrong about that.
@@boretbeme Lately I've been thinking that it's not a matter of if, but how humanity kills itself May I ask which country you are writing from. Greetings from Berlin
In Serbia there are like 30+ Svetofor and about 20+ MERE locations Today, everybody here knows of this, as they are available in like nearly every medium sized plus city.
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yep, their locations are usually like off city a bit at outskirts somewhere I have Svetofor 2km of me. and Lidl is like 1km away from me. So at least for me, it is not too far away at all, i can walk away to both Well, i am probably not so typical to comment on this, because i also have 0.5 km away domestic pijaca And many else smaller grocery stores are also nearby. Then, 4km away i have dacha, where i can grow some goods for me on my own... So, kind of i am only not sure how much they are able to sell here, but whatever - it exists
@@CrazyRussianSergey BTW, at begining like 1-2 year ago, it looked similar with products just like this one in Peter... but nowdays it seems to me is more diverse..Svetofor looked like this year ago in Serbia, but nowdays they seems to sell also a lot more of serbian and around countries products there too... so, it seems to me it is not exactly the same with products really anymore 😊 Particulary food, not sure, maybe now it is sort of half the same, then half some else producers.
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yeah, i guess they are still figuring out market and opening them more and at different locations in Serbia... It is not definitive number of locations, they were opened like about 55 so far, but expecting more than 100 Couple locations they were changing and AFAIR one was even burned up there in the north in the town of Subotica
'Is butterfly fish good to eat? The flesh of the reef butterflyfish is not toxic, but they are generally not harvested for food. They are, however, taken for the aquarium trade. '. From the Veb. Maybe eat it vis lots ov butter..
THRIFTY people! Here, poor people don't HAVE big grocery stores, we say "Food Deserts". You might be able to get a limited selection of foods at small local markets, poor people here pay MORE for everything! I would go to this store constantly if it was available here. The limited inferior versions of this we DO have are busy and are where I get most of my groceries.
Quite a grim location for a supermarket Sergey. I have never visited one but believe a cash and carry is like this business. No Marmite 😢 Poison appears to be popular as a dietary supplement.
Food poisining is incoming 🤮 But my udmurt mother in law is buying groceries always in such shops 😂 In germany we have also shops like this. One is called Thomas Phillips for example. Also with food but they dont advertise it.
Находясь в Лаосе,где цены в супермаркетах нифига недешевые(как любят вешать лапшу на уши всякие говноблоггеры), я б не отказался телепортироваться в такой Светофор и купить сыра, колбасы, соленых огурцов по таким дармовым ценам)
Я в Лаосе с ногой больной в хостеле проторчал 3 недели. И там может и не так дорого, но наесться сложнее. Мяса меньше в порциях. А в супермаркетах да, там же привозное наверное в основном.
@@knopkaplay0507 How can you ask this basic questions? You should already know that Russia is now almost identical to North Korea in every possible way. The political system, the gulags, the propaganda media, the brainwashing of children, no human rights, no gay rights, mad dictators, the buildings. Everything is now same. I haven't been to russia after the big WAR of 2022 because it's extremely dangerous now.
Would you shop in such a supermarket? And do you have similar supermarkets in your countries?
(btw made a mistake in the video - Chinese HAVAL cars are assembled in Russia. I confused it with GEELY which is produced in Belarus.)
here in us 🇺🇸 we have bargain centers in some towns that sell expired products
we have lidl and aldi
Yes I would shop here. They have plenty of your daily essentials and as long as you're not picky over the brands you can get a lot there. I often shop at a place called grocery outlet which is a very similar to this
@@mustardo420 Bargain Hunt! I still remember this stinky smell from there...
@@IThelpTeamlidl and aldi.are good thogh same quality produce as expensive. All europe has them i think they are german..i dont see them where i live in uk but seen them in greece and other places
Normally I do not like the shopping videos in Russia, But I really enjoyed this one. If I lived in Russia, I would go to this store once a month for sure.
i love it when you talk with your 'normal' voice
There is Svetofor in Serbia as well, also Russian market called Mere... They are very cheap and have some good products.
You are getting really good at creating videos, this is one of the best videos I have watched. I will make another food bank video and highlight the prices on the products that have prices. Here in USA, you can not film in stores without permission. That is a freedom we do not have. 👍
Ohh. But do you have the additional tax in Texas like the price tags have one price, but then in the end the cashier add some tax?
@@CrazyRussianSergey In general, in US they have prices without tax mentioned and also wages are mentioned at brutto values.
Retail price of fuel where Tucker Carlson lives (San Francisco county of California) seems to be about $1.5 for both gasoline/diesel Now, of course that is different in different counties even of the same state... then in different states is further also different.
That could be half the price somewhere in Texas
Base price + Fed Tax + State Tax... + potentionally Local Tax + Tip + ...
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yes in all states taxes are added at the register. In Texas it is 8.25% sales tax where I live. Fuel taxes are calculated in the pump price.
The prices are so cheap! Much cheaper than Turkey. I wonder about the quality. The shampoo looked like coloured water :)
maybe you can do a follow-up video about how you found the quality of
the items you purchased; it would be interesting to know your thoughts.
As a low-income senior lady with only my US Social Security retirement, a tiny pension and food stamps, we have warehouse stores for lower income people. The deals are comparable, but we are still poor. 😊
Yoooooo its been awhile bro! I somehow missed this amazing video. As always, hoping you are alive and well. I push likes.
Ohh Paulie! Thanks! Would be interesting if you film something similar in American supermarket! But now I see you hide many videos?
@@CrazyRussianSergey you talking about my old channel? It got shadowbannnnnned so I set them to private. This is my new channel. Same name but "memoirs" instead of "memoir." Same life, same everything, but with a little less smoking "you-know-what". I'm getting less reported now. Will try to do some shopping stuff. 🙂 My villagers are weird and don't like being filmed unfortunately.
@@PaulieBonyenne haha yes. I confused the channels. I subscribed to both! Yes. If you go somewhere far - film it. I also wouldn’t film in some area everyone would know me!
@@CrazyRussianSergey one time I was trying to film in our cheap grocery store called "Sav-a-lot" and a local pig farmer recognized me and yelled "Yo Paulie do we gotta take pictures of our food now before we can buy it?! WTF you doing?!" Everyone in the store stared at me. I wanted to die. No one vlogs around here in small towns; some don't even know what vlogging is. I think I need a hidden spy camera for when I film in public. I don't go to other towns often but maybe someday soon I'll try.
@@PaulieBonyenne I completly understand you! I didn't film in the village for example as well with people. But yeah, when you go to some big town film it in big supermarket and ou can do voiceover later for example.
I would shop at that store. There are stores similar to that store here. I always check the expiration date on products when I shop at a deep discount store. It is an adventure shopping at those stores.
Sometimes I also see abroad “BEST BEFORE”. Makes me confused. Like you can still eat it, but just it won’t be as best? “Exp date” sound more trastable
@@CrazyRussianSergey The US used to have expiration dates, but the government cracked down on companies who were making the expiration dates far too short, leading to people just throwing out and buying more, when what they had was still good. Most things last beyond the expiration date, but it depends on what's in it. Anything with dairy I'm cautious about. Of course any meat. They mark it down for quick sale as the expiration date nears. I still wouldn't buy it.
I like to see how it is in grocery stores in other countries. Thank you for this video
Unique content
These shops kinda reminds me of discount stores here that are in big spaces, but usually they are reselling the stuff regular stores could not sell, but these seem to be new stuff and off brand items, also Kruschev's fascination with corn is funny...if he was impressed with American corn he should have seen Mexico! They are the masters of corn, also tamales (the food) uses a corn husk to cook the food!
U should be a travel guide for people who want to visit Russia….
Very interesting video about the cheapest supermarket,but probably the quality is not so safe to eat,well have to be careful
nice stream😊
I bet the food is fine, Most of it is canned, frozen, dried, or pickled. Food like this can last for years and the way it is prepared, It kills all the stuff that could make you sick.
We have Svetofor in my town in Serbia and its in the same road s Lidl and another big market chain.
Cheap peanuts and seeds and 6 pack 2L bottles of lemonade. 👍
Nice Video
What are food safety regulations like in Russia? Do they monitor products for carcinogenic ingredients or contamination, pesticide and hormone levels (to make animals grow bigger)? Are there a lot of agricultural fields in Russia that are affected by past radioactive contamination?
You show that where made
Russian (Светофор) has better offer compared to one in Serbia, also here most of the products come from Serbia. Some are from Russia and Belarus although not many. And yes every Светофор магазин is outside of the city, probably because of low rent.
Btw. Thanks for filming this, maybe i'm the one who gave you idea to go there. Take care👍🚥
Well, maybe that is how their model looks like, like about half of the products to be from domestic country, while half from elsewhere Or instead of half, to let say partial.
At beginning, it was quite the same, but now after couple years... yeah, it changed with some products.
Anyhow, yeah, not all products currently available are exactly the same ones. Just partially are the same 😊 It likely changed with products in Russia too, over the years... but yeah, that is how market working.
There are probably some differences also between Peter and some Svetofor in Siberia... well, there are always some particular percentage of differences
Maybe something is currently different in Belgrade Svetofor than elsewhere in Serbia too, ha, ha... but then, let say in a month, it might not be so
Can you buy private healthcare in Russia what is the cost. I have read that you can get insurance for 45k Rubles a year. Sadly, moving to Russia is not an option unless you speak Russian then you can apply and may get a residency. Then the issues of geopolitical conflicts make such a move today less than ideal. A person on social security could live there well in some areas and even afford to buy their own health care. Working in Russia pays little and the prices reflect incomes, basic economics. The average wage is below the poverty line in the USA at around $15,000.00.
So, generally it looks like in ordinary stores in the USA there is less variety and prices are roughly five or six times more. This is an economy store in an industrial park, but I would really love to go there! We call this "warehouse" style store, lots of the goods are in the shipping package, in cases on a pallet. This would be such an event for me, I like to cook! I think if you went from this Russian economy store to the equivalent place in America you'd be very disappointed and also it would seem tremendously expensive.
Never visited this supermarket though a lot of them in Moscow too - maybe I should try ))
I pay I think five dollars for a bag of oatmeal
in Northern BC Canada
I love those pickled cucumbers with dill
Much of the agricultural land in the USA grows corn or soybean as much as 90%. They are commodity crops and typically grown on large commercial farms. Russia is all about wheat and the conflict has anything related inflated in prices. Khrushchev wanted to add corn however it needs a bit longer of a growing season, they do grow it though and been increasing annually in production. They import allot from Hungary and France as well as other countries. If one thinks that such a commodity is sanctioned, they would be incorrect. However, the conflict did drive wheat commodity up. The market is global and the conflict is to control or have greater influence over it…
All those soaps looked really watery, like they were diluting it.
Я хотел бы посетить эту прекрасную страну, которую вы нам показываете. сожалению, я не думаю, что это сработает в ближайшие несколько лет, поскольку я родом из враждебной зарубежной страны. It's so sad verything .... about 20 years ago they thougt about visa free visits of each other - Horrible and bloody times at the moment -
Thank you to giving us a window in your world by uploading such videos -thank you!
@@boretbeme You are very right - there was so much hope at the beginning of 2000 and I thought everything would be fine and the history of our fathers and grandfathers would not repeat itself - unfortunately I was so wrong about that.
@@boretbeme Lately I've been thinking that it's not a matter of if, but how humanity kills itself
May I ask which country you are writing from. Greetings from Berlin
In Serbia there are like 30+ Svetofor and about 20+ MERE locations Today, everybody here knows of this, as they are available in like nearly every medium sized plus city.
But are they also located in some weird outskirts areas in Serbia?
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yep, their locations are usually like off city a bit at outskirts somewhere
I have Svetofor 2km of me. and Lidl is like 1km away from me. So at least for me, it is not too far away at all, i can walk away to both
Well, i am probably not so typical to comment on this, because i also have 0.5 km away domestic pijaca And many else smaller grocery stores are also nearby. Then, 4km away i have dacha, where i can grow some goods for me on my own...
So, kind of i am only not sure how much they are able to sell here, but whatever - it exists
@@CrazyRussianSergey BTW, at begining like 1-2 year ago, it looked similar with products just like this one in Peter... but nowdays it seems to me is more diverse..Svetofor looked like this year ago in Serbia, but nowdays they seems to sell also a lot more of serbian and around countries products there too... so, it seems to me it is not exactly the same with products really anymore 😊 Particulary food, not sure, maybe now it is sort of half the same, then half some else producers.
@milankostic5401 yeah, maybe took time to find the local suppliers
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yeah, i guess they are still figuring out market and opening them more and at different locations in Serbia... It is not definitive number of locations, they were opened like about 55 so far, but expecting more than 100
Couple locations they were changing and AFAIR one was even burned up there in the north in the town of Subotica
And Amanda, thank you very much for $10!
'Is butterfly fish good to eat?
The flesh of the reef butterflyfish is not toxic, but they are generally not harvested for food. They are, however, taken for the aquarium trade. '. From the Veb. Maybe eat it vis lots ov butter..
Hi! It was ode fish 🐟. Simple river fish. But the way it was cut was named butterfly 🦋 style. Just my English is limited to explain well hehe
THRIFTY people! Here, poor people don't HAVE big grocery stores, we say "Food Deserts". You might be able to get a limited selection of foods at small local markets, poor people here pay MORE for everything! I would go to this store constantly if it was available here. The limited inferior versions of this we DO have are busy and are where I get most of my groceries.
That toilet paper looks rough. That's Joe Stalin toilet paper.... only use if you are a Man of Steel!
🤣😆That was funny and I am sure he is.
yep that be me going there because am old an a cheapskate sometimes
Quite a grim location for a supermarket Sergey. I have never visited one but believe a cash and carry is like this business. No Marmite 😢 Poison appears to be popular as a dietary supplement.
Yes. The location is like from stereotypical grim Russia from Hollywood movies about Russia. (Well, such places really exist though 😅)
You got a real bargain on food.
I noticed the lady was picking out your produce. Couldn’t you select the items yourself and bag them?
Do you mean with the vegetables? I think I could, but I didn’t have the bag. So I trusted her.
@@CrazyRussianSergey Yes it was. I was just wondering if you were not permitted to do that. 😊
And the Z sign on the car in the parking lot… in your face😮
Food poisining is incoming 🤮 But my udmurt mother in law is buying groceries always in such shops 😂 In germany we have also shops like this. One is called Thomas Phillips for example. Also with food but they dont advertise it.
The owner of Svetofor chain shops has a position in forbes list.
Cheap and low quality food for poor people can make you rich person.
Ohh, didn't know about it!
God,I just love russian infrastructure
Lots of bad roads.
😅not like in propaganda yeah
In south america we dont even have roads 😂. Just gravel ones.
They would break my old city car 🚗 😅
I feel like l would never go hungry if l lived in Russia 😂.
please do a video on how to join Wagner
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I just Love you! You are so Adorable! Amy in NC USA
Находясь в Лаосе,где цены в супермаркетах нифига недешевые(как любят вешать лапшу на уши всякие говноблоггеры), я б не отказался телепортироваться в такой Светофор и купить сыра, колбасы, соленых огурцов по таким дармовым ценам)
Я в Лаосе с ногой больной в хостеле проторчал 3 недели. И там может и не так дорого, но наесться сложнее. Мяса меньше в порциях. А в супермаркетах да, там же привозное наверное в основном.
The girl on the oatmeal package is hot.
wow, russia reminds me so much of North Korea
Does it really? In what way?
@@knopkaplay0507 In every possible way, especially after the big War of 2022
@@Lara__ okay. Anything more specific, though? Also, how recent are your experiences in either country?
@@knopkaplay0507 How can you ask this basic questions? You should already know that Russia is now almost identical to North Korea in every possible way. The political system, the gulags, the propaganda media, the brainwashing of children, no human rights, no gay rights, mad dictators, the buildings. Everything is now same. I haven't been to russia after the big WAR of 2022 because it's extremely dangerous now.
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