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I hate that people are too damn lazy to return their trolleys to the trolley bay.. they leave them in the car parks.. then have the hide to call me a fat lazy prick lol. I loved how everything in the states seemed to be in bulk.. especially the junk foods.. And I dislike self serve checkouts. I like to interact with people when I make the effort to go into town.. and here in Australia they make you pay 15c for a grocery bag.. but they are the ones that introduced the plastic bags.. we used to always get brown paper bags which we would use at home for heaps of things like covering school books or garbage bags etc..
My favorite thing here in the Netherlands are the portable barcode scanners (one chain also has a smartphone app for wireless scanning) so you can scan every item as you get them and check out immediately when done.
In Germany it is very comfortable to get extra money cash if You pay by Credit or Ec-card over 10€ worth articles in the supermarket. The check out personal gives You maximum 200€ cash if You want. These extra money will be taken with Your receipt from Your bank.
I confess, I put down the dividing bar immediately behind my stuff as a signal to the next customer, that I am fished and she/he can put his stuff on the belt now.
When I say "excuse me" when passing in front of a person that is looking at the items on a shelf. I do this because I momentarily interrupted the items that they were perusing on the shelf. I don't do it because I thought I might bump into them or their cart.
One thing I noticed about German stores is that they trap you inside until you're done buying. They have the automatic gates at the front of the store and you can't leave until you go through the check out. It was just really awkward when I went into the store, decided I didn't want anything and had to wait in line at a checkout just to leave without anything.
Aldi USA did that with their stores in the 70's to late 90's. What we had were a slot to push the cart through. Then people had to go through a turnstile. Then the only way to get out was through the checkout lines. Older Aldi stores have separate entrance and exits, and the doors only open one way. Aldi USA eventually abandoned that method of the turnstiles and a gate slot for the carts, because as merchandise selection increased, it got in the way. Also, they figured that the way the separate doors already served that purpose. In recent years, Aldi USA has decided to open up the store more, as they're trying to attract more higher income shoppers, and not look as much like a poor person's store, like they were when I was growing up. I've been to Aldi USA for 42 years now, since going there with my mom as a 5 year old (wasn't 6 yet at the time), when the first local Aldi opened by me in 1979. I'm near Chicago, over on the Indiana side, and we git our first Aldi 3 years after they opened their first store in Iowa (despite being headquartered in Batavia Illinois, a far westernsuburb ofChicago).
4:30 As a child I returned the cart. But before the cart garage I encountered a bad old lady who asked me if she can have the cart thus stealing 1 Mark (our old currency) from a little boy. When I returned without the Mark to my parent's car my father was furious. We searched the lady and got the deposit back. Shame on her 😂
Durch Zufall mal ein Video entdeckt und geschaut.... absolut sympathisches Paar seit ihr 👍 ich wünsche ihr das sie bald so gut Deutsch drauf hat wie du Englisch Phil! Wünsche euch alles gute und macht weiter so 🙏
Ich würde sehr zweifeln, dass ein erwachsene Amerikanerin, die nie eine Fremdsprache gemeistert had, je eine Sprach wie Deutsch lernen kann. Glücklicher weise ist heute Englisch Weltsprach und Phil spricht ein sehr gutes amerikanisches Englisch. Amerika ist immer noch -- trotz unseres beilaufigen Präsidenten -- das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten. Das Paar soll ihr Zuhause in den USA machen.
@@jbcumming So? Ich kenne einen Amerikaner, der wegen des derzeitigen Präsidenten nach Deutschland ausgewandert ist. Und was das Lernen der Sprache angeht: Wenn man in einem fremden Land wohnt, dann schnappt man das irgendwann auf. Und das ist auch, was ich von Leuten erwarte, die dauerhaft irgendwo leben: dass sie die Landessprache beherrschen. Deswegen habe ich mit meinen ausländischen Kollegen ab einem bestimten Punkt auch nur noch deutsch gesprochen. Sie sprachen englisch, ich habe auf deutsch geantwortet, sie haben alles verstanden.
@@jbcumming Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten? Vor hundert Jahren vielleicht... Das Gesundheitssystem und das Sozialsystem sind grauenvoll. Soviel Armut, Ghettos, Obdachlose, Kriminelle, unbehandelte Kranke etc. - DAS hat die USA unbegrenzt. Warum sollten die beiden dort permanent leben wollen, wenn sie in Deutschland rundherum viel besser abgesichert sind?
In the UK, in big supermarkets we have huge parking lots as well or in shopping centres, but in smaller shops the parking lot is smaller. And similar to in the US in the UK there is like all shopping trolleys in the front of the shop or by the entrance inside of the shop too. Then sometimes there are shopping trollies around parking lot, but we have return places for them dotted around the parking lot and you are supposed to put them in there. In the UK most big supermarkets have a bakery section as well and a separate cake section! My favourite is the M&S bakery, it is so good. Sometimes we even have them in smaller shops.
"The average size of the parking lots is littel bigger bevcause the cars are a littel bigger" ... no they are not a little bigger.. they are much bigger.... it like comparing tanks with matchbox cars.
No no no no, the rule is, you put a devider behind your stuff. The person infront of you then already put down a devider, so thats best system. And if people dont put a devider after them selves, you agressively put it down for them, while starring angrily at them while shaking your head. Thats the rules :P at least in Denmark.
Same with Texas! I grew up in the northern US and we only put the divider in front. But in Texas most people put the divider at the back and sometimes they'll even apologize if they have not done it yet when you arrive after them. It's great!
One thing I immediately noticed when visiting German grocery stores is the recycling returns in the store lobbies. People would bring their empty containers and insert them into slots and get money back. I’ve never seen that here in the US. I do feel like most people use the dividers on the conveyor belts, but typically, it’s up to the next person in line to put a divider down behind the person in front of them. Here in Maryland, we have no alcohol for sale in grocery stores. Everything is sold through separate privately-owned liquor stores, but they are open 7 days a week, and often have late hours on Fridays and Saturdays - some stay open until 2am.
I found it really interesting that the description of the German grocery stores actually describe my American grocery stores in New York City far more accurately than the description of the American grocery stores in your video. There are definitely big regional variations in the USA.
But the nice thing is that when you're waiting in the line and you only have one item to buy, they would let you go first. It's not a rule but it's a nice thing to do if you have lots of groceries and the person behind you just one.
When I lived in the US the grocery stores had special cash registers for customers with "5 items or less"! I wish we had something like that in Germany. So many times I waste my time waiting (with two or three items in my hands, sometimes just the "Pfandbon") behind someone with a FULL shopping cart who wouldn't let me go before them!
@@angelafriedemannnecef6984 It used to be a thing. Disappeared by about the mid-nineties or so, IIRC. People tried to get through with carts piled high anyway.
While the person putting your stuff in bags for you might seem convenient I always feel it‘s just too wasteful, They usually end up giving me like twenty bags because they only put a small amount of things in one bag and i just feel like it‘s not environmental friendly 😂 might just be my German „öko“ mindset though 😂
As an American, I agreed that in mostly cases, baggers don't put enough in the bags, thar you do have more bags than necessary. When I get to my car, I will sometimes rebag my groceries, because I don't always like how stuff is bagged. I sometimes found any type of liquid soap in with meat or produce. It bothers me.
@@davenwin1973 I think the reason they do it, is if you put too much in one bag, it might rip and the contents will fall to the floor. And they overcompensate for that, being "rather safe than sorry".
For Germany I like the parking lots to be small as we have about 1/29 of the U.S. land size and the "Versiegelung" (fruitful land that is concreted) is a big issue.
Well, why wouldn't you put down the divider after your last item? the person checking you out have no way of knowing who is with who, and who buys what. People go shopping with friends, parents, kids, grandparents, grandkids, colleagues etc. The divider simply says, "I have no more items and you can now tell me the total so we can complete the transaction". Not putting it down is saying "I have no regard for others, and am so self absorbed I expect others to know what I buy even if I don't tell them"
At least 4 times at Aldi, I would get these cashiers who try to clear the checkout lines as fast as possible, I literally had to yell at a couple of them to stop, because they'd bypass the divider (which was visible), and scan the next customer's items. One time, the cashier still didn't stop that the next customer groceries were in my cart, expected me to pay for them. I had to have a manager come to my line, so the extra items could be voided out. Since that time, I try to avoid cashiers that are that careless. Excessive voids do go against Aldi employees, as well as being slow. At the same time, I hate when they're so fast, that something gets damaged. I understand the need for speed, but they need to be not so fast that something gets damaged.
10:55, referring to the U.S. Deana said, "shtate"--so cute. I'm surprised you two find in-store bakeries scarce in America. In the past 40 years I've never been in any good sized supermarket that didn't have one.
Perhaps its the quality of the bakery? I won't eat bakery from most US bakeries. Aldi has an amazing fresh bakery. I go to the free standing independent bakery.
@@mslilialis as of right now, you won't see a bakery in US Aldi stores. It's currently not their thing. Plus US Aldi stores are still slightly smaller than the European stores, and I wouldn't be able if US Aldi stores (owned by Aldi Süd) are smaller than Aldi Nord stores in Europe. Aldi Nord has Trader Joe's in the US, but it's nowhere near what Aldi is, regardless of whether it's Aldi Nord or Süd.
Texan here. No liquor in supermarkets (have to go to a liquor store) and yes we can’t buy alcohol before noon on Sunday. Well that’s beer and wine. Liquor stores are closed .
Part of the problem with American food in general, most of our food has ingredients in them, that are regulated, or outright banned in most of Europe. Since food is a bit more in its natural state in Europe, Europeans also tend to feel fuller, faster, and longer, than with American food.
Eggs: In most European grocery stores eggs are not refrigerated. They are on the shelf next to the bread. In the US all eggs are found in the refrigerated section.
I got so excited when I recognized the Walmart on Woodruff Rd! I just moved back to Greenville from France and I still get hype when I hear about SC cause it was so rare to come across someone who knows of my state.
The coin-cart thing works really well. Aldi’s here (United States) have the thing where you put the coin in (in our case, a quarter) and carts are never left out in the lot. Other stores should use it.
In the Netherlands you can scan your grocery's with a hand scanner on forehand and put it in your shopping/grocery bag and when you have everything you need you place your own little scanner in a wall made for those scanners you hold your member card fore a card/ barcode scanner and your total shows on a screen, you pay with card only...your receipt gets printed put it in front of the laser ...the gate opens and your good to go.. So easy, quick and convenient ...I love it.
Alice M Here in the Midwest (Ohio) if you shop at Aldi, you bring your own bags anyway, plus, you rent a cart for a quarter, and get it back when you return the cart/trolly.
It depends on your county/city. I live 5 miles from Portland (arg worth the current state of things it’s not Portland anymore). Literally my zip code comes up with Portland or three different other cities since they are all stuffed together. But I’m somehow in a different county than Portland and not in a city at all. If I go in the middle of my street I’m in a city and multiple others under a mile in other directions. In my county there are plastic and paper bags with no charge. So when I shop in neighboring counties it’s so oddly foreign.
i wish some of that politnes would kome here to the peoples mind too especially because the walk ways are a lot tighter. especially elder people are wild animals while shopping (here in germany) even if you are polite and say "excuseme coult i quickly grab the item i want" i mean they stay there dont decide and they stay so close in front of the shelve that noone else can grap an item and then they get mad when you asked them. Once i was super careful manovering my shopping card around and a child big enought that the eye was right at the corner of the cart run into my card i was so slow i nearly was standing and still. and i felt so bad and told the father i was sorry and then 2 minutes later in an other ile the kind nearly ran into my card again i then suggested in a friendly way he should test his son for hyperactivity syndrom. the child only was pared that time because i pulled the card back quickly it nearly hit an old lady because of that. but somehow i feel like even in a wider walkway the child would have found the card so i am not shure if that had helped.
Pennsylvania just started allowing alcohol to be sold in grocery stores in 2019. It can't be purchased at regular registers and very strict hours. None on Sunday. I put a divider before mine when the person in front of me finishes and doesn't think to put a divider after their stuff, then I put one after mine for the next person.
Being from Florida, I approve of your Publix commentary. I was 'Package Help' waaaay back in high school, which was so long ago my other position was 'Bottles,' where the job was sorting the returned glass bottles and stocking the beverage aisle.
@@DeanaandPhil At that point Publix only had stores in Florida, now they're in 6 or 7 states. It's really grown. It's usually ranked the number 1 or 2 supermarket in the U.S. along with Wegman's. Also, Total Wine & More, like Deana mentioned, is a supermarket sized liquor store. It's about 1/3 wine and the rest is booze & beer.
War at the german check out...so true....and not finding your car in the parking lot in the US...especially when you take a different exit at the mall.....😂🤣😂🤣 love watching you 2 so funny
Parking lots where you have to pay can be bad also. My mom and a friend were in Key West and they parked. They went out and came back 4 hours later their car was gone. They looked in the area that they parked. They gave up grabbed a taxi and went to the hotel. Next morning they grabbed a taxi to the parking lot. Their car was right there. What happened is they thought they parked in the end spot closest to the street. Well they didnt. They had 40 cars parked next to them. They only looked 10 cars in.
Jessica Ely bad..same thing happens here at some „private „ parking at airports... So don’t ever give anyone your car keys unless you love some extra mileage
I was on the phone when parking my car at Walmart and didn't park where I normally do and didn't take notice where I parked. When I came out I couldn't find my car and thought it was stolen. It took me 10 minutes to find my car. LOL
A lot of supermarkets in Canada also have carts that you have to put a dollar coin in to release it and you also get the coin back when you return it! I like the practice because there are a lot less carts that haven't been returned and are strewn throughout the parking lot!!
The funniest thing to ever happen to me at a self checkout was at a Target in Oklahoma City. I bought a bottle of Club Soda sparkling water, and when scanning it, the machine displayed "An Employee is coming to check your ID". The young woman that approached me said it's ridiculous, as it is only water, but she insisted in seeing my ID. No idea what went wrong there, as this message should only pop up with alcoholic beverages to ensure the person buying it is 21 years or older. The supermarket I ho to here in Germany (Globus) has introduced the coolest self checkout I have ever seen. When scanning your loyalty card at the entrance, you get a handheld scanner, scan the items when taking them off the shelf and putting them into your cart, and when you done, you simply return the scanner and pay for what you have bought. No need to take it out of the cart again until you load it in your car. This system is much better than the ones I have seen in some places in Germany or many places in the US and other countries.
I now live in MN where you can only purchase liquor and full alcohol content beer in stand alone liquor stores, and it’s not sold on Sundays. When you find beer in a gas station or grocery store it is 3.2 beer - MN is the last state to still sell 3.2 beer 🤨 This was a hard concept for me to wrap my head around when I first moved here from AZ, where I was used to full liquor departments in grocery stores and even Walgreens, and the only liquor store that I remember is the one that would let me buy cigarettes when I was 12 (I’m obviously dating myself because it’s been a lifetime since that would fly with anyone, 😂)!!!
The Aldi and the Lidl here in the US have the same shopping carts as well - you need a coin to use it and when you return it, you get a coin back. For bakeries, places like Wegman’s and the big wholesale places like Sam’s Club and Costco have bakeries inside. You can pick up cakes and even order for special occasions like birthdays. They’ll take your order and you can specify the date and time of pick up when you need the cake.
I definitely prefer the self-checkout lanes in the bigger stores, whenever possible. I bag my own stuff, anyways, so it's just as easy for me to also ring it all up myself. My biggest pet peeve is the cart in the parking lot thing. It's so annoying. Unless the person is handicap, there's no reason for them to be leaving their cart right by their parked car. That's just lazy.
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When my Mom came to visit me here in the US for the first time, the bagger at the checkout totally freaked her out at first. She thought it was another customer. :) I agree with the "Excuse Me" situation. A lot of shoppers here will say something when they have to "get into your bubble". I am so used to it now that I did it when I went to a store in Germany. Man, that confused some people...
Back the when i lived in Ireland, there was a third, often used option for the checkout (besides the "weird" self checkout and the one with the conveyor). I carried all of my groceries to the checkout area, the took it from the basket, scanned it and put it in a shopping bag or my rucksack. At the beginning it felt a bit weird for me but actually I liked it because it is always a good cheance for a little chat. The self checkout (which Lidl Ireland had as well) is also super nice and i wish they would use it regularily in Germany too.
The cheese bread things you were talking about are a traditional food for Bulgaria and it is called banitsа (баница in Bulgarian). There is similar food in Turkey that is called börek. Traditionally they are made of filled filo pastry with mixture of eggs, yogurt and cheese. I think this type of food is common for most countries in Eastern Europe. I just found your channel and I really enjoy your videos! Good luck, you are a lovely couple!
In Bielefeld we have self-service checkouts in the bigger supermarkets and yes the car parks are not the size of ten football fields but they don't need to be - in fact one supermarket has just got a new tram stop right by the supermarket and that is great for me as I don't have a car. An interesting downside of German supermarkets is the cashiers generally not talking to you - I remember being in a queue and the man in front had a problem with his customer card and the cashier never asked him a question or explain to anyone what was going on and tried to solve it - eventually after TWO supervisers visited they gerry-rigged the system - but no word was spoken to anyone about the problem. No "I am sorry for the delay".
I shop at Aldi here in Wisconsin so I am accustomed to using a coin for the shopping cart but I've noticed that in very cold weather people will still abandon their carts in the parking lot and leave their coins. the carts here in the US only use a quarter the German ones use a 50 cent Euro coin, more than twice as much.
I'm in Indiana, and it's the same here with Aldi carts. I find it's usually those who otherwise are too lazy to return the carts to the corrals at other stores. The Save-A-Lot by me tried the quarter locks, but they removed them, because the customers literally broke the locks on them, that it costed more to replace the locks, than it was worth it. So they were forced to go back to retrieving carts. A Save-A-Lot In the nexr County had more success with the quarter locks, but this store is in a better neighborhood. Save-A-Lot is usually found in small towns from my experience, as they usually have trouble competing with the traditional grocery stores in most of suburban America.
When she was talking about bag boy/girl. I remember they asked do you need help loading this in your vehicle. It happens still where I lived, but sometimes you now need to ask for help loading it.
Globus hat auch self check out. Es nennt sich scan and go und man hat direkt so einen Scanner bei sich und gähnt während dem Einkaufen schon. Ist wirklich sehr sehr praktisch.
The booze thing in grocery stores is very different by states. I’ve been to Kroger’s in the Midwest that have a liquor store right inside. And with the “Excuse me” that’s something that’ll happen in the south and the middle of the country but hardly ever in the north east or north west
Pennsylvania just started to add beer and wine a few year ago to the supermarket. They are however still funny about it. You have to pay in that section of the store for your alcohol and show ID. You can't check out with it at the regular casher stands.
Walmart's bakery everything comes in frozen and the only things that is reheated is the french bread and doughnuts case.
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There are parking lots big like that. The parking lot of what for a time was a Walmart store here in Karlsruhe, that was about as big as the one you showed.
Germany’s food is probably better I’m guessing? I haven’t viewed yet,but you two are becoming two of my favorite ppl on RUclips. Very wholesome ,grounded and kind. The best to you both.
There are definitely some awesome items at the grocery stores in Germany! 😍 Knödel is so good! 🤤 Thank you for being such an awesome support!!! You da best! 🤗💜
In my opinion fruit, vegetables, and meat is better in the US. I'm talking about the fruit and vegetables that can't be grown in Germany (oranges, some kind of avocado, basically food grown in warm places). The best avocado you will fine is from Florida.
Ich bin zufällig auf eure Videos gestoßen und freue mich jeden Tag aufs Neue wenn ein neues hochgeladen wird. Besonders die Unterschiede zwischen USA und Deutschland sind sehr interessant. Das mit den Steuern nachträglich beim einkaufen würde mich verrückt machen wie aber auch kein abvendskalender in den Staaten 😀 Ich wünsche euch beiden noch viel Erfolg und viel Spaß 😉
I live in NM. They relaxed the Sunday law, but you still can't buy alcohol until noon on Sundays, and not at all on Christmas day. Also, we have to pay for bags at the grocery store too, and plastic bags are not allowed. I agree, I think that's a good thing.
Some parking lots you show in the vid have a lot of landscaping. Little islands with vegetation. On some of those I get disoriented where to enter which lot for which store. Therefore the Walmart kind of plain concrete I find easier to navigate. While German lots are oftentimes way too small.
The no alcohol on Sundays is called the "Blue Laws". We still have those in Minnesota. We also require most alcohol to be sold in separated buildings or a separate "room" in store, except for things like 3.2 beet and wine coolers. Also, every store I go to has checkout dividers and we always use them. It usually acts as a signal to the person behind that they can start loading behind your items.
This year I used the self checkout the first time in the US. When I had some problems with punching in the banana price because all the other items were scannable an employee came over to help me. Perhaps not much different than in Germany where you have to print your price tags at the produce/fruit section if it is not done at the cashier. What I find strnage is the the bag person doesn't get a tip. In restaurants you _have_ to tip the waiter but for a similar job at the grocery store you don't. I know it is related to payment scheme. OTOH waiters can influence people's experience while that would be hard to do for a bag person.
Bags boys get $7.50 an hour minimum. I was a bag boy and made $9.00 an hour. The lowest waiter/waitress can get $2.50 an hour. The highest for a normal restaurant (not high end) gets $4.50 an hour. Bags boys is more than double of what a waiter/waitress makes sometimes.
The cart thing!!! I’m in Canada and using the carts at ikea are a nightmare for me 😂 it’s so interesting to hear someone say they find “American” carts hard to use!
I love the self checkout lane. I only use them cause I hate the way cashier bags my stuff. I want cold stuff with other cold stuff so it's easier to unpack when I get home. Plus they always smash the bread.
Another thing is how you were talking about no alcohol on Sundays and that you would have to buy any alcoholic beverages the day before and the whole time I thought: There is no alcohol on Sundays in Germany either, because our supermarkets aren't even open on Sundays. Maybe this is different in big cities, but where I live in Germany none of the stores are open on a Sunday.
I've being to a Rewe in Berlin and there they have this self-checkout. And I don't know if it's just in bayern, but there the cashiers were super fast, if you pay before packing your groceries they will start throwing the next costumer groceries on top of yours, you have to be super fast, it was a bit stressful haha
It's the same in lidl where I live. They are so fast. I hate it. It's so stressful. Especially now with the 2m distance. And the next person can't come anywhere near me but their groceries are already being scanned while mine aren't in the shopping cart yet. Wow I hope that made sense 😂😂
Baggers are used because it clears the register area faster and gets people through line quicker. Food is being bagged while customers are putting food on counter belt. Parking lots are large to accommodate cars during holiday, snow/hurricane related shopping, areas for snow piles and so customers do not turn away due to no parking spaces. Also large lots are necessary to avoid long lines of backup into streets and roads causing traffic tie ups. Store aisle are wide to accommodate shopping carts traveling in opposite directions, handicap carts, baby strollers. Narrower aisles cause backup in stores. The object is to get as many people in and out as quickly as possible. Volume is money, it’s where profit is made.
Loved Lidl in Europe when we were overseas a few years ago. Especially the fresh bakery in the morning. Some fresh baguettes, croissants and smoked salmon, and presto! Breakfast. Lidl in the US is not bad but you still have to self-bag, like Aldi. Strangely, Lidl US doesn't have a shelving area where you can bag your things just prior to checkout like Aldi does. So you need to be quick and get your stuff off the conveyer belt. Although half the time I go to Aldi I just use one of their empty boxes. I love the custom coin/token idea. It helps corral stray carts. Love the videos, folks.
You guys forgot to mention the grocery pickup at like Walmart. Where you shop online and you drive to the store and they literally put everything packed in your car 😁 I think they even ship it to your house 🤔 Or does silly strollers /scooters - shopping carts for people who can’t walk. In Indiana in a Walmart or Kroger you can buy all kinds of alcohol even hard liquor. But I agree guys I totally miss the german bakery section in the supermarkets😪😩 And idk if it’s different in like north Germany but in the south (Baden-Württemberg) after 22 uhr (I think 🤔) they don’t sell any alcohol no more.
Ahhh, yes! I completely forgot about the grocery pick-up options. They have them at a lot of grocery stores in the US! Are they in Germany too? We've never used them, but I know a decent amount of people who do.
@@DeanaandPhil Several months ago I had a broken shoulder and was pretty much homebound (I live alone). The online shopping was a godsend! I just chose everything I wanted online and chose a pickup time. My brother picked it up and dropped it off to me on his way home from work. He'd get to the supermarket, text to let them know he was there in one of the parking spots saved for pickup, and they'd have it all bagged and checked out and packed it in his car. The service charge was $5, which isn't much when you consider the labor involved if you're doing a large grocery order. And it would be free if you bought like $20 worth of a particular brand of merchandise or something. They also do home delivery for an additional charge, but I don't know how much that cost. I normally do all my own shopping, but it's a great service if you can't get to the store, don't have time, or just hate shopping!
V 100 for real? Down south in Baden-Württemberg we have Store like Kaufland or Rewe they Open Till midnight (some stores not all of them) all the other stores a closed by 20-21 uhr.
I`ve made some tours in the US and found it quite nice, that you can buy freshly prepared and packed fruits/fruitsalads and sandwiches. At the most hotels you will not get a breakfast - only some poptarts, maybe some fruits or packed cereals. That is a good alternative for me as a tourist. Parking lots - look closer! There are lots marked with "compact car only". Another thing: a lot of "disabled parking lot" in front of the entrance and the electric wheel chairs for free inside.
Wegmans is a grocery store in the eastern part of the US. You should check it out online. I LOATHE Wallyworld. You wanna talk about bakeries in a store, Wegmans is the bomb!
@AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVER , I don’t find Wegmans to be expensive. They’re cheaper than our other local grocery chain, Tops. Unless of course you’re comparing Wegmans to an Aldis or Save a Lot, then you will see the difference. I just don’t care for Save A Lot or Aldis. I find those two stores to have less than favorable produce and they offer a lot of frozen crap that I do not buy.
My biggest issue in Germany is parking - as a German friend mentioned, over time, cars have gotten bigger, but regulations for parking spot sizes haven't changed. The spots in the cities are always so tight, and make me extremely nervous trying to park rental cars! LOVE driving in Germany, HATE parking in Germany! American "blue laws" (our various alcohol laws) are so fascinating to me. They vary state by state (and sometimes city by city). In Illinois, they can sell anything in the grocery store, though we still have separate liquor stores (that would usually have a bigger selection than they would have in a grocery store). In NY (where I grew up), you could buy beer in the grocery store, but anything else had to be sold in a liquor store (which - at the time - weren't allowed to be open on Sundays at all), and you couldn't sell any alcohol at all between something like 3am and noon on Sunday. (I think some of these laws have changed since). I also lived in Connecticut for a time, which had similar to NY laws, except they prohibited any alcohol sales on Sunday (thankfully, I lived near the CT/NY border, so if necessary, I could drive just a bit further to get beer on Sunday if necessary!)
UK supermarkets have now gone even further with self scan in supermarkets. You scan your items on a handheld device or on your phone as you walk around and then pay at the kiosk as you leave.
In North Carolina, beer and wine can be purchased at most grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. But hard liquor is sold at the Annie Bell College aka ABC stores, which are run by the state.
My uncle is in the u.s. he drives from one store to the other in the same mall. Something that is newly annoying to me is people calling Walmart and Target grocery stores. They are not grocery stores. Grocery stores do not sell clothes.
The current Walmart stores are actually called superstores or hypermarts, depending on what part of the US you're from. The earliest Walmart stores with a full grocery section had the word, Supercenter attached to the Walmart name, to distinguish it from the earlier Walmart stores, which were on average 100,000ft² (9290m²), and sold mostly snack food. Walmart superstores (hypermarts) are anywhere from 155,000 ft² (14400m²) to 200,000 ft² (18581m²). Superstores (hypermarts) are like what Walmart and Meijer are, a general merchandise store with a full grocery section in their stores. The typical Target is not anywhere close to being a grocery store. They're just a discount department store, with a limited amount of groceries. With Walmart, they also have in select areas, Walmart Neighborhood Market, which is essentially a grocery store only with a pharmacy. These are primarily in urban areas where land is scarce, but have occasionally been found in rural areas too. They tried an express version of their stores, which were to compete with pharmacies Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy, but it flopped for Walmart.
Not everything from Publix is premade. Their key lime pie, ordered birthday cakes, cookies, some bread, and some pastries are made in Publix. It was my job to make the key lime pies a.d birthday cake orders.
Many years ago I have been in Switzerland. I don't know if it's still like that, but back then you were not allowed to drive on the highway, if you have alcohol in your car. Not even, if the bottles are closed and sealed.
Who in their right mind would get triggered or offended over you parking further away from the doors? They recommend parking far away to get more movement in.
In San Diego, Wal-Marts and Targets might have a second floor, so you can take the elevator or, you can use an escalator. There's one for the shopper and next to it is the escalator for your shopping cart.
Re: the bakery observation, larger stores are more likely to have mass produced goods. If you visit grocery store chains that are smaller and regional, you'll see a lot more done in house. I lived in MI for a very long time and one of the local and still existent store chains had a lot of fabulous fresh baked goods that reflect the large Middle Eastern population (Arab, Persian, etc). I will not find what I found in that store anywhere near the part of CA I live, but there are again local store brands that make fresh baked goods that reflect the local populations here. One local store had it's own locally made ice cream but their local manufacturers just retired, as one example, so I think now they only have mass produced brands. Yes there are differences but the US is so big that we of course have a lot of regional differences and the average American doesn't live that far from home, so people's perspectives reflect that.
We have bag boys at the grocery store right across the street from me. They are usually high schoolers that just work a couple hours after school to earn some cash. That and McDonalds are the only ones around here that hire people under 18, so it's basically tradition by now. 'Oh you have a job?' 'Yeah, I work at the store/McDonalds.'
You two (Deana and Phil) have been to Leipzig already. Did you know that if you went to where the "Leipziger Messe"(=Lepziger trade fair) area is, there is a very large shopping mall nearby, dominated by a huge grocery store by the name of "Globus"? Malls like that in Germany also seem to have quite big parking lots or vacinities.
Yes! Here in New Jersey, supermarkets aren't allowed to sell alcohol. We have to go to a liquor store. Also, I try to NEVER go to the self checkout because that's taking away a job from someone.
Something to consider also is that many truckers and people going on trips stay in Walmart or Meijer parking lots over night! I'm not sure how it works in Germany or anywhere else but I think some of the excessive space serves its purpose.
Total Wine is next to the Target. Lived in PA for 25 years and you got 6 pack of beer at tavern for $$$$, cases of beer at beverage store and Hard liquor and wine at the State Store. Blue laws were not just in the South, RI, MA & PA no Sunday sales.
I think in Maryland, one of the states in the USA, consumers cannot purchase alcohol from grocery stores. I think there’s also a law that servers and bartenders have to be at least 21 to serve spirits. I’m not sure if they allow adults 18 to 20 (under 21) to serve beer, wine, cocktails, etc.
Great video! I worked in a grocery store way back in my high school / gymnasium days. Bagging a customer’s groceries, taking them out to and putting them into their car was standard customer service. You don’t see that level of service these days.
For stand alone liquor stores go to systembolaget in sweden. They only sell up to 3% (if i remember correctly) alcholic beverages in supermarkets in Sweden. I've recently had a new checkout experience. I got my products scanned by a cachier, and had to pay by scanning the bare codes in a different area of the store.
It seems like Australia is very similar to Germany in shopping experience. We too have the trolleys with the money slots like Aldi in about half of your shopping centres. And the thing with the dividers - They are in all supermarkets, but in Aldi people are more OCD about putting the dividers down because the conveyor belts are twice as long as other supermarkets. Oh - and Aldi is the only place where we have to pack our own groceries. The person who scans the item usually puts it straight into a bag. It has been like that since the 80's
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Anyways, what's your favorite/most annoying thing about your supermarket?
I'll let y'all 2 both, know. When I get finished seeing the video?!?
I hate that people are too damn lazy to return their trolleys to the trolley bay.. they leave them in the car parks.. then have the hide to call me a fat lazy prick lol. I loved how everything in the states seemed to be in bulk.. especially the junk foods..
And I dislike self serve checkouts. I like to interact with people when I make the effort to go into town.. and here in Australia they make you pay 15c for a grocery bag.. but they are the ones that introduced the plastic bags.. we used to always get brown paper bags which we would use at home for heaps of things like covering school books or garbage bags etc..
My favorite thing here in the Netherlands are the portable barcode scanners (one chain also has a smartphone app for wireless scanning) so you can scan every item as you get them and check out immediately when done.
The calories!!
In Germany it is very comfortable to get extra money cash if You pay by Credit or Ec-card over 10€ worth articles in the supermarket. The check out personal gives You maximum 200€ cash if You want. These extra money will be taken with Your receipt from Your bank.
I confess, I put down the dividing bar immediately behind my stuff as a signal to the next customer, that I am fished and she/he can put his stuff on the belt now.
Phil looks like the love child of Jeremy Renner and James McAvoy.
SilvanaDil hahaha he does
He totally reminded me of James Mcavoy, but I think you're spot on with that comparison
You’re right! He does!
When I say "excuse me" when passing in front of a person that is looking at the items on a shelf. I do this because I momentarily interrupted the items that they were perusing on the shelf. I don't do it because I thought I might bump into them or their cart.
Yes!! That's why I, Deana, do it too! I sometimes get weird reactions though depending on the city or country I'm in.
Sometimes they think that you want to start a conversation with them!!
One thing I noticed about German stores is that they trap you inside until you're done buying. They have the automatic gates at the front of the store and you can't leave until you go through the check out. It was just really awkward when I went into the store, decided I didn't want anything and had to wait in line at a checkout just to leave without anything.
You can pass by with a gentle "excuse me", if this is not destroying your bubble ;-)
Aldi USA did that with their stores in the 70's to late 90's. What we had were a slot to push the cart through. Then people had to go through a turnstile. Then the only way to get out was through the checkout lines. Older Aldi stores have separate entrance and exits, and the doors only open one way. Aldi USA eventually abandoned that method of the turnstiles and a gate slot for the carts, because as merchandise selection increased, it got in the way. Also, they figured that the way the separate doors already served that purpose. In recent years, Aldi USA has decided to open up the store more, as they're trying to attract more higher income shoppers, and not look as much like a poor person's store, like they were when I was growing up. I've been to Aldi USA for 42 years now, since going there with my mom as a 5 year old (wasn't 6 yet at the time), when the first local Aldi opened by me in 1979. I'm near Chicago, over on the Indiana side, and we git our first Aldi 3 years after they opened their first store in Iowa (despite being headquartered in Batavia Illinois, a far westernsuburb ofChicago).
4:30 As a child I returned the cart. But before the cart garage I encountered a bad old lady who asked me if she can have the cart thus stealing 1 Mark (our old currency) from a little boy.
When I returned without the Mark to my parent's car my father was furious. We searched the lady and got the deposit back.
Shame on her 😂
Durch Zufall mal ein Video entdeckt und geschaut.... absolut sympathisches Paar seit ihr 👍 ich wünsche ihr das sie bald so gut Deutsch drauf hat wie du Englisch Phil! Wünsche euch alles gute und macht weiter so 🙏
Thanks for the nice words! =)
Ich würde sehr zweifeln, dass ein erwachsene Amerikanerin, die nie eine Fremdsprache gemeistert had, je eine Sprach wie Deutsch lernen kann. Glücklicher weise ist heute Englisch
Weltsprach und Phil spricht ein sehr gutes amerikanisches Englisch. Amerika ist immer noch -- trotz unseres beilaufigen Präsidenten -- das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten. Das Paar soll ihr Zuhause in den USA machen.
@@jbcumming So? Ich kenne einen Amerikaner, der wegen des derzeitigen Präsidenten nach Deutschland ausgewandert ist. Und was das Lernen der Sprache angeht: Wenn man in einem fremden Land wohnt, dann schnappt man das irgendwann auf. Und das ist auch, was ich von Leuten erwarte, die dauerhaft irgendwo leben: dass sie die Landessprache beherrschen. Deswegen habe ich mit meinen ausländischen Kollegen ab einem bestimten Punkt auch nur noch deutsch gesprochen. Sie sprachen englisch, ich habe auf deutsch geantwortet, sie haben alles verstanden.
@@jbcumming
Das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten?
Vor hundert Jahren vielleicht...
Das Gesundheitssystem und das Sozialsystem sind grauenvoll.
Soviel Armut, Ghettos, Obdachlose, Kriminelle, unbehandelte Kranke etc. - DAS hat die USA unbegrenzt.
Warum sollten die beiden dort permanent leben wollen, wenn sie in Deutschland rundherum viel besser abgesichert sind?
In the UK, in big supermarkets we have huge parking lots as well or in shopping centres, but in smaller shops the parking lot is smaller. And similar to in the US in the UK there is like all shopping trolleys in the front of the shop or by the entrance inside of the shop too. Then sometimes there are shopping trollies around parking lot, but we have return places for them dotted around the parking lot and you are supposed to put them in there. In the UK most big supermarkets have a bakery section as well and a separate cake section! My favourite is the M&S bakery, it is so good. Sometimes we even have them in smaller shops.
"The average size of the parking lots is littel bigger bevcause the cars are a littel bigger" ... no they are not a little bigger.. they are much bigger.... it like comparing tanks with matchbox cars.
No no no no, the rule is, you put a devider behind your stuff. The person infront of you then already put down a devider, so thats best system. And if people dont put a devider after them selves, you agressively put it down for them, while starring angrily at them while shaking your head. Thats the rules :P at least in Denmark.
Ja helt enig :) ;)
Same with Texas! I grew up in the northern US and we only put the divider in front. But in Texas most people put the divider at the back and sometimes they'll even apologize if they have not done it yet when you arrive after them. It's great!
One thing I immediately noticed when visiting German grocery stores is the recycling returns in the store lobbies. People would bring their empty containers and insert them into slots and get money back. I’ve never seen that here in the US. I do feel like most people use the dividers on the conveyor belts, but typically, it’s up to the next person in line to put a divider down behind the person in front of them. Here in Maryland, we have no alcohol for sale in grocery stores. Everything is sold through separate privately-owned liquor stores, but they are open 7 days a week, and often have late hours on Fridays and Saturdays - some stay open until 2am.
I found it really interesting that the description of the German grocery stores actually describe my American grocery stores in New York City far more accurately than the description of the American grocery stores in your video. There are definitely big regional variations in the USA.
well, NYC is kind of a unicorn in the US , isn't it? :)
In the south we say “pardon my reach”. It’s just good manners. In NV, you can get hard liquor everywhere, even in Walmart.
there are a lot of self check outs in germany too tho especially in big cities
Self checkouts in the US is an invitation for people to shop lift.
Self checkout is pretty common everywhere
@@dutchgamer842 im from Germany and I have Never actually see a Self checkout before
But the nice thing is that when you're waiting in the line and you only have one item to buy, they would let you go first. It's not a rule but it's a nice thing to do if you have lots of groceries and the person behind you just one.
When I lived in the US the grocery stores had special cash registers for customers with "5 items or less"!
I wish we had something like that in Germany.
So many times I waste my time waiting (with two or three items in my hands, sometimes just the "Pfandbon") behind someone with a FULL shopping cart who wouldn't let me go before them!
@@angelafriedemannnecef6984 It used to be a thing. Disappeared by about the mid-nineties or so, IIRC. People tried to get through with carts piled high anyway.
The editing on this video is really enjoyable ...have a nice and successful 2020 both of you
As a native South Carolinian, it made me giggle when I recognized several of the shopping centers you were visiting in the US. Love your content!
While the person putting your stuff in bags for you might seem convenient I always feel it‘s just too wasteful, They usually end up giving me like twenty bags because they only put a small amount of things in one bag and i just feel like it‘s not environmental friendly 😂 might just be my German „öko“ mindset though 😂
Also, _somebody_ has to pay for that service. And that somebody is _you_ because it's most likely one of the reasons why food costs more in the USA.
LovelyDray but in Germany you have to bring your own bags, and you should here too - when this virus thing is over
They only good thing about the plastic bags is they are good for garbage
As an American, I agreed that in mostly cases, baggers don't put enough in the bags, thar you do have more bags than necessary. When I get to my car, I will sometimes rebag my groceries, because I don't always like how stuff is bagged. I sometimes found any type of liquid soap in with meat or produce. It bothers me.
@@davenwin1973 I think the reason they do it, is if you put too much in one bag, it might rip and the contents will fall to the floor. And they overcompensate for that, being "rather safe than sorry".
In some Lidls you can get bagels (Sesame) in the freshly baked section. Also in the American items section they appear occasionally.
For Germany I like the parking lots to be small as we have about 1/29 of the U.S. land size and the "Versiegelung" (fruitful land that is concreted) is a big issue.
Parkung lot? Which parking lot? There is room for maybe 3 or 4 cars in front of my local grocery store.
You need more lebensraum. ;-)
@@Smokeless1167 You need more hobbies ;)
Maryland is a state where you can’t buy alcohol in the grocery. We have lidl and aldi.
I want to see Phil in a total wine!
Well, why wouldn't you put down the divider after your last item? the person checking you out have no way of knowing who is with who, and who buys what. People go shopping with friends, parents, kids, grandparents, grandkids, colleagues etc. The divider simply says, "I have no more items and you can now tell me the total so we can complete the transaction". Not putting it down is saying "I have no regard for others, and am so self absorbed I expect others to know what I buy even if I don't tell them"
At least 4 times at Aldi, I would get these cashiers who try to clear the checkout lines as fast as possible, I literally had to yell at a couple of them to stop, because they'd bypass the divider (which was visible), and scan the next customer's items. One time, the cashier still didn't stop that the next customer groceries were in my cart, expected me to pay for them. I had to have a manager come to my line, so the extra items could be voided out. Since that time, I try to avoid cashiers that are that careless. Excessive voids do go against Aldi employees, as well as being slow. At the same time, I hate when they're so fast, that something gets damaged. I understand the need for speed, but they need to be not so fast that something gets damaged.
10:55, referring to the U.S. Deana said, "shtate"--so cute.
I'm surprised you two find in-store bakeries scarce in America. In the past 40 years I've never been in any good sized supermarket that didn't have one.
Perhaps its the quality of the bakery? I won't eat bakery from most US bakeries. Aldi has an amazing fresh bakery. I go to the free standing independent bakery.
@@mslilialis as of right now, you won't see a bakery in US Aldi stores. It's currently not their thing. Plus US Aldi stores are still slightly smaller than the European stores, and I wouldn't be able if US Aldi stores (owned by Aldi Süd) are smaller than Aldi Nord stores in Europe. Aldi Nord has Trader Joe's in the US, but it's nowhere near what Aldi is, regardless of whether it's Aldi Nord or Süd.
Texan here. No liquor in supermarkets (have to go to a liquor store) and yes we can’t buy alcohol before noon on Sunday. Well that’s beer and wine. Liquor stores are closed .
Baking goods and bread in America tastes artificially disgusting! Europeans know their breads!
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Oh yeah, at least us Americans know how to take care of our teeth!
@@Mudvillereacts yes you know ,with your tons of sugar
Part of the problem with American food in general, most of our food has ingredients in them, that are regulated, or outright banned in most of Europe. Since food is a bit more in its natural state in Europe, Europeans also tend to feel fuller, faster, and longer, than with American food.
Eggs: In most European grocery stores eggs are not refrigerated. They are on the shelf next to the bread. In the US all eggs are found in the refrigerated section.
Over here most grocery stores don't have it next to the dairy not next to the bread
I got so excited when I recognized the Walmart on Woodruff Rd! I just moved back to Greenville from France and I still get hype when I hear about SC cause it was so rare to come across someone who knows of my state.
There has been some pushback on self checkouts because it eliminates jobs however I don’t mind using it.
The coin-cart thing works really well. Aldi’s here (United States) have the thing where you put the coin in (in our case, a quarter) and carts are never left out in the lot. Other stores should use it.
Could be because Aldi is German
In the Netherlands you can scan your grocery's with a hand scanner on forehand and put it in your shopping/grocery bag and when you have everything you need you place your own little scanner in a wall made for those scanners you hold your member card fore a card/ barcode scanner and your total shows on a screen, you pay with card only...your receipt gets printed put it in front of the laser ...the gate opens and your good to go..
So easy, quick and convenient ...I love it.
No free bags in the state of Oregon starting on January 1st. Bring your own bag or pay for a paper bag.
No free bags since 2018 in Germany.
Stores in Germany will no longer be allowed to sell plastic bags from 2020.
@@CycloTourist The thin plastic bags for fruit and vegetables ("Hemdchenbeutel") are still free.
Alice M Here in the Midwest (Ohio) if you shop at Aldi, you bring your own bags anyway, plus, you rent a cart for a quarter, and get it back when you return the cart/trolly.
It depends on your county/city. I live 5 miles from Portland (arg worth the current state of things it’s not Portland anymore). Literally my zip code comes up with Portland or three different other cities since they are all stuffed together. But I’m somehow in a different county than Portland and not in a city at all. If I go in the middle of my street I’m in a city and multiple others under a mile in other directions. In my county there are plastic and paper bags with no charge. So when I shop in neighboring counties it’s so oddly foreign.
i wish some of that politnes would kome here to the peoples mind too
especially because the walk ways are a lot tighter.
especially
elder people are wild animals while shopping (here in germany) even
if you are polite and say "excuseme coult i quickly grab the item i
want" i mean they stay there dont decide and they stay so close in
front of the shelve that noone else can grap an item and then they get
mad when you asked them.
Once i was super careful manovering my shopping card around and a child big enought that the eye was right at the corner of the cart run into my card i was so slow i nearly was standing and still. and i felt so bad and told the father i was sorry and then 2 minutes later in an other ile the kind nearly ran into my card again i then suggested in a friendly way he should test his son for hyperactivity syndrom. the child only was pared that time because i pulled the card back quickly it nearly hit an old lady because of that.
but somehow i feel like even in a wider walkway the child would have found the card so i am not shure if that had helped.
Pennsylvania just started allowing alcohol to be sold in grocery stores in 2019. It can't be purchased at regular registers and very strict hours. None on Sunday. I put a divider before mine when the person in front of me finishes and doesn't think to put a divider after their stuff, then I put one after mine for the next person.
Being from Florida, I approve of your Publix commentary. I was 'Package Help' waaaay back in high school, which was so long ago my other position was 'Bottles,' where the job was sorting the returned glass bottles and stocking the beverage aisle.
How did you like it?
@@DeanaandPhil At that point Publix only had stores in Florida, now they're in 6 or 7 states. It's really grown. It's usually ranked the number 1 or 2 supermarket in the U.S. along with Wegman's. Also, Total Wine & More, like Deana mentioned, is a supermarket sized liquor store. It's about 1/3 wine and the rest is booze & beer.
@@DeanaandPhil Isn't the reason for that to speed up passing through cash register?
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War at the german check out...so true....and not finding your car in the parking lot in the US...especially when you take a different exit at the mall.....😂🤣😂🤣 love watching you 2 so funny
🤣🤣🤣 YES!!! The struggle of finding your car in a giant parking lot! Malls and amusement parks are the worst!
Parking lots where you have to pay can be bad also. My mom and a friend were in Key West and they parked. They went out and came back 4 hours later their car was gone. They looked in the area that they parked. They gave up grabbed a taxi and went to the hotel. Next morning they grabbed a taxi to the parking lot. Their car was right there. What happened is they thought they parked in the end spot closest to the street. Well they didnt. They had 40 cars parked next to them. They only looked 10 cars in.
Jessica Ely bad..same thing happens here at some „private „ parking at airports...
So don’t ever give anyone your car keys unless you love some extra mileage
I was on the phone when parking my car at Walmart and didn't park where I normally do and didn't take notice where I parked. When I came out I couldn't find my car and thought it was stolen. It took me 10 minutes to find my car. LOL
A lot of supermarkets in Canada also have carts that you have to put a dollar coin in to release it and you also get the coin back when you return it! I like the practice because there are a lot less carts that haven't been returned and are strewn throughout the parking lot!!
The funniest thing to ever happen to me at a self checkout was at a Target in Oklahoma City. I bought a bottle of Club Soda sparkling water, and when scanning it, the machine displayed "An Employee is coming to check your ID". The young woman that approached me said it's ridiculous, as it is only water, but she insisted in seeing my ID. No idea what went wrong there, as this message should only pop up with alcoholic beverages to ensure the person buying it is 21 years or older.
The supermarket I ho to here in Germany (Globus) has introduced the coolest self checkout I have ever seen. When scanning your loyalty card at the entrance, you get a handheld scanner, scan the items when taking them off the shelf and putting them into your cart, and when you done, you simply return the scanner and pay for what you have bought. No need to take it out of the cart again until you load it in your car. This system is much better than the ones I have seen in some places in Germany or many places in the US and other countries.
I now live in MN where you can only purchase liquor and full alcohol content beer in stand alone liquor stores, and it’s not sold on Sundays. When you find beer in a gas station or grocery store it is 3.2 beer - MN is the last state to still sell 3.2 beer 🤨 This was a hard concept for me to wrap my head around when I first moved here from AZ, where I was used to full liquor departments in grocery stores and even Walgreens, and the only liquor store that I remember is the one that would let me buy cigarettes when I was 12 (I’m obviously dating myself because it’s been a lifetime since that would fly with anyone, 😂)!!!
The Aldi and the Lidl here in the US have the same shopping carts as well - you need a coin to use it and when you return it, you get a coin back. For bakeries, places like Wegman’s and the big wholesale places like Sam’s Club and Costco have bakeries inside. You can pick up cakes and even order for special occasions like birthdays. They’ll take your order and you can specify the date and time of pick up when you need the cake.
I definitely prefer the self-checkout lanes in the bigger stores, whenever possible. I bag my own stuff, anyways, so it's just as easy for me to also ring it all up myself. My biggest pet peeve is the cart in the parking lot thing. It's so annoying. Unless the person is handicap, there's no reason for them to be leaving their cart right by their parked car. That's just lazy.
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When my Mom came to visit me here in the US for the first time, the bagger at the checkout totally freaked her out at first. She thought it was another customer. :) I agree with the "Excuse Me" situation. A lot of shoppers here will say something when they have to "get into your bubble". I am so used to it now that I did it when I went to a store in Germany. Man, that confused some people...
😂😂 Your poor Mom!
Back the when i lived in Ireland, there was a third, often used option for the checkout (besides the "weird" self checkout and the one with the conveyor). I carried all of my groceries to the checkout area, the took it from the basket, scanned it and put it in a shopping bag or my rucksack. At the beginning it felt a bit weird for me but actually I liked it because it is always a good cheance for a little chat. The self checkout (which Lidl Ireland had as well) is also super nice and i wish they would use it regularily in Germany too.
The cheese bread things you were talking about are a traditional food for Bulgaria and it is called banitsа (баница in Bulgarian). There is similar food in Turkey that is called börek. Traditionally they are made of filled filo pastry with mixture of eggs, yogurt and cheese. I think this type of food is common for most countries in Eastern Europe.
I just found your channel and I really enjoy your videos! Good luck, you are a lovely couple!
Till the late 90's shops also closed between 12pm up to 3pm.
And stores always closed at 6pm.
In saturdays stores generally closed at 2:30pm.
Wow thats so cool that you're from Greenville, SC! That's my hometown💕 glad to have stumbled upon this chanel😁
In Bielefeld we have self-service checkouts in the bigger supermarkets and yes the car parks are not the size of ten football fields but they don't need to be - in fact one supermarket has just got a new tram stop right by the supermarket and that is great for me as I don't have a car.
An interesting downside of German supermarkets is the cashiers generally not talking to you - I remember being in a queue and the man in front had a problem with his customer card and the cashier never asked him a question or explain to anyone what was going on and tried to solve it - eventually after TWO supervisers visited they gerry-rigged the system - but no word was spoken to anyone about the problem. No "I am sorry for the delay".
I shop at Aldi here in Wisconsin so I am accustomed to using a coin for the shopping cart but I've noticed that in very cold weather people will still abandon their carts in the parking lot and leave their coins. the carts here in the US only use a quarter the German ones use a 50 cent Euro coin, more than twice as much.
I'm in Indiana, and it's the same here with Aldi carts. I find it's usually those who otherwise are too lazy to return the carts to the corrals at other stores. The Save-A-Lot by me tried the quarter locks, but they removed them, because the customers literally broke the locks on them, that it costed more to replace the locks, than it was worth it. So they were forced to go back to retrieving carts. A Save-A-Lot In the nexr County had more success with the quarter locks, but this store is in a better neighborhood. Save-A-Lot is usually found in small towns from my experience, as they usually have trouble competing with the traditional grocery stores in most of suburban America.
When she was talking about bag boy/girl. I remember they asked do you need help loading this in your vehicle. It happens still where I lived, but sometimes you now need to ask for help loading it.
Globus hat auch self check out.
Es nennt sich scan and go und man hat direkt so einen Scanner bei sich und gähnt während dem Einkaufen schon. Ist wirklich sehr sehr praktisch.
The booze thing in grocery stores is very different by states. I’ve been to Kroger’s in the Midwest that have a liquor store right inside.
And with the “Excuse me” that’s something that’ll happen in the south and the middle of the country but hardly ever in the north east or north west
Thomas Johnson not where I live
Pennsylvania just started to add beer and wine a few year ago to the supermarket. They are however still funny about it. You have to pay in that section of the store for your alcohol and show ID. You can't check out with it at the regular casher stands.
Walmart's bakery everything comes in frozen and the only things that is reheated is the french bread and doughnuts case.
There are parking lots big like that. The parking lot of what for a time was a Walmart store here in Karlsruhe, that was about as big as the one you showed.
Germany’s food is probably better I’m guessing? I haven’t viewed yet,but you two are becoming two of my favorite ppl on RUclips. Very wholesome ,grounded and kind. The best to you both.
There are definitely some awesome items at the grocery stores in Germany! 😍 Knödel is so good! 🤤 Thank you for being such an awesome support!!! You da best! 🤗💜
In my opinion fruit, vegetables, and meat is better in the US. I'm talking about the fruit and vegetables that can't be grown in Germany (oranges, some kind of avocado, basically food grown in warm places). The best avocado you will fine is from Florida.
Jessica ElyHawaii has the best fruit produce to me. But you guys have the best citrus - hands down in Florida.
Ich bin zufällig auf eure Videos gestoßen und freue mich jeden Tag aufs Neue wenn ein neues hochgeladen wird. Besonders die Unterschiede zwischen USA und Deutschland sind sehr interessant. Das mit den Steuern nachträglich beim einkaufen würde mich verrückt machen wie aber auch kein abvendskalender in den Staaten 😀
Ich wünsche euch beiden noch viel Erfolg und viel Spaß 😉
Thanks a lot! =)
I live in NM. They relaxed the Sunday law, but you still can't buy alcohol until noon on Sundays, and not at all on Christmas day. Also, we have to pay for bags at the grocery store too, and plastic bags are not allowed. I agree, I think that's a good thing.
Some parking lots you show in the vid have a lot of landscaping. Little islands with vegetation. On some of those I get disoriented where to enter which lot for which store. Therefore the Walmart kind of plain concrete I find easier to navigate. While German lots are oftentimes way too small.
The no alcohol on Sundays is called the "Blue Laws". We still have those in Minnesota. We also require most alcohol to be sold in separated buildings or a separate "room" in store, except for things like 3.2 beet and wine coolers. Also, every store I go to has checkout dividers and we always use them. It usually acts as a signal to the person behind that they can start loading behind your items.
This year I used the self checkout the first time in the US. When I had some problems with punching in the banana price because all the other items were scannable an employee came over to help me. Perhaps not much different than in Germany where you have to print your price tags at the produce/fruit section if it is not done at the cashier. What I find strnage is the the bag person doesn't get a tip. In restaurants you _have_ to tip the waiter but for a similar job at the grocery store you don't. I know it is related to payment scheme. OTOH waiters can influence people's experience while that would be hard to do for a bag person.
Bags boys get $7.50 an hour minimum. I was a bag boy and made $9.00 an hour. The lowest waiter/waitress can get $2.50 an hour. The highest for a normal restaurant (not high end) gets $4.50 an hour. Bags boys is more than double of what a waiter/waitress makes sometimes.
The cart thing!!! I’m in Canada and using the carts at ikea are a nightmare for me 😂 it’s so interesting to hear someone say they find “American” carts hard to use!
I love the self checkout lane. I only use them cause I hate the way cashier bags my stuff. I want cold stuff with other cold stuff so it's easier to unpack when I get home. Plus they always smash the bread.
I am waching You for some time and I have to say that, it seems to me, Deana loves You (Phil) more and more! Thumbs up! :)
I love her too more and more :)
Another thing is how you were talking about no alcohol on Sundays and that you would have to buy any alcoholic beverages the day before and the whole time I thought: There is no alcohol on Sundays in Germany either, because our supermarkets aren't even open on Sundays. Maybe this is different in big cities, but where I live in Germany none of the stores are open on a Sunday.
It's all over Germany like this. An exception are in some cities supermarkets that are within train stations, they are also open on Sundays.
I've being to a Rewe in Berlin and there they have this self-checkout.
And I don't know if it's just in bayern, but there the cashiers were super fast, if you pay before packing your groceries they will start throwing the next costumer groceries on top of yours, you have to be super fast, it was a bit stressful haha
Where im from noone throws food
Yes seid checkout ist also here (Cologne)
It's the same in lidl where I live. They are so fast. I hate it. It's so stressful. Especially now with the 2m distance. And the next person can't come anywhere near me but their groceries are already being scanned while mine aren't in the shopping cart yet. Wow I hope that made sense 😂😂
Self-checkout
Baggers are used because it clears the register area faster and gets people through line quicker. Food is being bagged while customers are putting food on counter belt. Parking lots are large to accommodate cars during holiday, snow/hurricane related shopping, areas for snow piles and so customers do not turn away due to no parking spaces. Also large lots are necessary to avoid long lines of backup into streets and roads causing traffic tie ups. Store aisle are wide to accommodate shopping carts traveling in opposite directions, handicap carts, baby strollers. Narrower aisles cause backup in stores. The object is to get as many people in and out as quickly as possible. Volume is money, it’s where profit is made.
I am from Texas and we can buy beer and wine on Sunday after 11. Liquor stores are closed on Sunday.
Angela Collins why?
Loved Lidl in Europe when we were overseas a few years ago. Especially the fresh bakery in the morning. Some fresh baguettes, croissants and smoked salmon, and presto! Breakfast. Lidl in the US is not bad but you still have to self-bag, like Aldi. Strangely, Lidl US doesn't have a shelving area where you can bag your things just prior to checkout like Aldi does. So you need to be quick and get your stuff off the conveyer belt. Although half the time I go to Aldi I just use one of their empty boxes. I love the custom coin/token idea. It helps corral stray carts. Love the videos, folks.
Next time you're in South Carolina, stop by Lowe's Foods in Greer. You can sip a craft beer or wine while you shop.
I have been to both countries and the content made/presented here is absolutely true from my experience also.
You guys forgot to mention the grocery pickup at like Walmart. Where you shop online and you drive to the store and they literally put everything packed in your car 😁 I think they even ship it to your house 🤔
Or does silly strollers /scooters - shopping carts for people who can’t walk.
In Indiana in a Walmart or Kroger you can buy all kinds of alcohol even hard liquor.
But I agree guys I totally miss the german bakery section in the supermarkets😪😩
And idk if it’s different in like north Germany but in the south (Baden-Württemberg) after 22 uhr (I think 🤔) they don’t sell any alcohol no more.
Ahhh, yes! I completely forgot about the grocery pick-up options. They have them at a lot of grocery stores in the US! Are they in Germany too? We've never used them, but I know a decent amount of people who do.
In northern Germany (down to Bonn) I never saw a store open after 22:00. So that is a moot point there.
@@DeanaandPhil Several months ago I had a broken shoulder and was pretty much homebound (I live alone). The online shopping was a godsend! I just chose everything I wanted online and chose a pickup time. My brother picked it up and dropped it off to me on his way home from work. He'd get to the supermarket, text to let them know he was there in one of the parking spots saved for pickup, and they'd have it all bagged and checked out and packed it in his car. The service charge was $5, which isn't much when you consider the labor involved if you're doing a large grocery order. And it would be free if you bought like $20 worth of a particular brand of merchandise or something. They also do home delivery for an additional charge, but I don't know how much that cost. I normally do all my own shopping, but it's a great service if you can't get to the store, don't have time, or just hate shopping!
V 100 for real?
Down south in Baden-Württemberg we have Store like Kaufland or Rewe they Open Till midnight (some stores not all of them) all the other stores a closed by 20-21 uhr.
I`ve made some tours in the US and found it quite nice, that you can buy freshly prepared and packed fruits/fruitsalads and sandwiches. At the most hotels you will not get a breakfast - only some poptarts, maybe some fruits or packed cereals. That is a good alternative for me as a tourist. Parking lots - look closer! There are lots marked with "compact car only". Another thing: a lot of "disabled parking lot" in front of the entrance and the electric wheel chairs for free inside.
Wegmans is a grocery store in the eastern part of the US. You should check it out online. I LOATHE Wallyworld.
You wanna talk about bakeries in a store, Wegmans is the bomb!
Grocery executives from all over the world come to western New York to study Wegmans
@@cnowakwittmann , doesn’t surprise me one bit.
@AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVER , I don’t find Wegmans to be expensive. They’re cheaper than our other local grocery chain, Tops. Unless of course you’re comparing Wegmans to an Aldis or Save a Lot, then you will see the difference. I just don’t care for Save A Lot or Aldis. I find those two stores to have less than favorable produce and they offer a lot of frozen crap that I do not buy.
My biggest issue in Germany is parking - as a German friend mentioned, over time, cars have gotten bigger, but regulations for parking spot sizes haven't changed. The spots in the cities are always so tight, and make me extremely nervous trying to park rental cars! LOVE driving in Germany, HATE parking in Germany!
American "blue laws" (our various alcohol laws) are so fascinating to me. They vary state by state (and sometimes city by city). In Illinois, they can sell anything in the grocery store, though we still have separate liquor stores (that would usually have a bigger selection than they would have in a grocery store). In NY (where I grew up), you could buy beer in the grocery store, but anything else had to be sold in a liquor store (which - at the time - weren't allowed to be open on Sundays at all), and you couldn't sell any alcohol at all between something like 3am and noon on Sunday. (I think some of these laws have changed since). I also lived in Connecticut for a time, which had similar to NY laws, except they prohibited any alcohol sales on Sunday (thankfully, I lived near the CT/NY border, so if necessary, I could drive just a bit further to get beer on Sunday if necessary!)
UK supermarkets have now gone even further with self scan in supermarkets. You scan your items on a handheld device or on your phone as you walk around and then pay at the kiosk as you leave.
In North Carolina, beer and wine can be purchased at most grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. But hard liquor is sold at the Annie Bell College aka ABC stores, which are run by the state.
(As a Canadian) our shopping carts is same with German shopping carts. We deposit 1 dollar and 25 cents as well.
Most of supermarkets HerE in Denmark have self check out counters. But you can only use it if you bought around 12 or 15 products.
My uncle is in the u.s. he drives from one store to the other in the same mall.
Something that is newly annoying to me is people calling Walmart and Target grocery stores. They are not grocery stores. Grocery stores do not sell clothes.
The current Walmart stores are actually called superstores or hypermarts, depending on what part of the US you're from. The earliest Walmart stores with a full grocery section had the word, Supercenter attached to the Walmart name, to distinguish it from the earlier Walmart stores, which were on average 100,000ft² (9290m²), and sold mostly snack food. Walmart superstores (hypermarts) are anywhere from 155,000 ft² (14400m²) to 200,000 ft² (18581m²). Superstores (hypermarts) are like what Walmart and Meijer are, a general merchandise store with a full grocery section in their stores. The typical Target is not anywhere close to being a grocery store. They're just a discount department store, with a limited amount of groceries. With Walmart, they also have in select areas, Walmart Neighborhood Market, which is essentially a grocery store only with a pharmacy. These are primarily in urban areas where land is scarce, but have occasionally been found in rural areas too. They tried an express version of their stores, which were to compete with pharmacies Walgreens and CVS Pharmacy, but it flopped for Walmart.
Not everything from Publix is premade. Their key lime pie, ordered birthday cakes, cookies, some bread, and some pastries are made in Publix. It was my job to make the key lime pies a.d birthday cake orders.
Remember the aisles at Schlecker Market back in the 90s. 🤣 2 people couldn't pass each other in one aisle.
Many years ago I have been in Switzerland. I don't know if it's still like that, but back then you were not allowed to drive on the highway, if you have alcohol in your car. Not even, if the bottles are closed and sealed.
Who in their right mind would get triggered or offended over you parking further away from the doors? They recommend parking far away to get more movement in.
I wasn’t going to say it, but you did👍🏻 My family lives in Greenville, SC too and I recognized some of the places y’all were❤️
I remember the Albertson's grocery store would pump the aroma of fresh baked bread throughout the store. SMELL THE BREAD-SALIVATE- BUY BREAD
ITS JOE ALBERTSONS SUPERNARKET, BUT THE MEAT DEPARTMENT IS MINE!
More and more American super markets have shopping carts where you need to insert a quarter to get it. Aldi and Save a lot are two of them.
TheClaudia1961 Indeed! 🙃
In San Diego, Wal-Marts and Targets might have a second floor, so you can take the elevator or, you can use an escalator. There's one for the shopper and next to it is the escalator for your shopping cart.
Re: the bakery observation, larger stores are more likely to have mass produced goods. If you visit grocery store chains that are smaller and regional, you'll see a lot more done in house. I lived in MI for a very long time and one of the local and still existent store chains had a lot of fabulous fresh baked goods that reflect the large Middle Eastern population (Arab, Persian, etc). I will not find what I found in that store anywhere near the part of CA I live, but there are again local store brands that make fresh baked goods that reflect the local populations here. One local store had it's own locally made ice cream but their local manufacturers just retired, as one example, so I think now they only have mass produced brands. Yes there are differences but the US is so big that we of course have a lot of regional differences and the average American doesn't live that far from home, so people's perspectives reflect that.
We have bag boys at the grocery store right across the street from me. They are usually high schoolers that just work a couple hours after school to earn some cash. That and McDonalds are the only ones around here that hire people under 18, so it's basically tradition by now. 'Oh you have a job?' 'Yeah, I work at the store/McDonalds.'
You even can get less cute 1-3L bottles of Wodka nearby where you can get peanuts. Just to make sure, weekend is running well. :)
You two (Deana and Phil) have been to Leipzig already. Did you know that if you went to where the "Leipziger Messe"(=Lepziger trade fair) area is, there is a very large shopping mall nearby, dominated by a huge grocery store by the name of "Globus"? Malls like that in Germany also seem to have quite big parking lots or vacinities.
Yes! Here in New Jersey, supermarkets aren't allowed to sell alcohol. We have to go to a liquor store. Also, I try to NEVER go to the self checkout because that's taking away a job from someone.
Something to consider also is that many truckers and people going on trips stay in Walmart or Meijer parking lots over night! I'm not sure how it works in Germany or anywhere else but I think some of the excessive space serves its purpose.
By me, this much more common with Walmart than with Meijer.
Total Wine is next to the Target. Lived in PA for 25 years and you got 6 pack of beer at tavern for $$$$, cases of beer at beverage store and Hard liquor and wine at the State Store. Blue laws were not just in the South, RI, MA & PA no Sunday sales.
I think in Maryland, one of the states in the USA, consumers cannot purchase alcohol from grocery stores. I think there’s also a law that servers and bartenders have to be at least 21 to serve spirits. I’m not sure if they allow adults 18 to 20 (under 21) to serve beer, wine, cocktails, etc.
Great video!
I worked in a grocery store way back in my high school / gymnasium days. Bagging a customer’s groceries, taking them out to and putting them into their car was standard customer service. You don’t see that level of service these days.
I have been told that that bagels were once quite popular in Germany, but fell out of favor in the 1930's and 40's.
love watching you guys phil is very german european and deana is super girly and american keep up the great videos guys
For stand alone liquor stores go to systembolaget in sweden. They only sell up to 3% (if i remember correctly) alcholic beverages in supermarkets in Sweden. I've recently had a new checkout experience. I got my products scanned by a cachier, and had to pay by scanning the bare codes in a different area of the store.
It seems like Australia is very similar to Germany in shopping experience. We too have the trolleys with the money slots like Aldi in about half of your shopping centres. And the thing with the dividers - They are in all supermarkets, but in Aldi people are more OCD about putting the dividers down because the conveyor belts are twice as long as other supermarkets. Oh - and Aldi is the only place where we have to pack our own groceries. The person who scans the item usually puts it straight into a bag. It has been like that since the 80's