European Reacts to 5 Ways British and American Grocery Stores Are Very Different - Lost in the Pond
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You can park by the auto section at all Walmarts. They are just off to the side or at the back.they have an entrance and exit. You can get an oil change or just have them mount and balance the tire you just bought.
I live in the States. I do not refrigerate eggs. The only scientific information I offer is - still alive!
If the eggs are unwashed, they can remain unrefrigerated
Milk 1,000% needs to be in a fridge
Some cheeses do not need refrigeration at all. People keep them in a closet
Butter needs no refrigeration of any kind... Even in the USA where they say nothing should sit out for more than 2 hours... Butter is allowed to sit out for 30 days straight at room temperature with no problems
@@inthedarkanonymous5625 are they unwashed eggs. Are they from your own chickens?
Grocery stores wash the natural protective oils off of eggs and once those are gone they must be refrigerated
Btw, there is walmart and then there is the super walmarts. The difference is from when they started to increase store sizes. Some stores didn't get the upgrade.
Eggs in the states are refrigerated because they are washed, which removes the natural coating from the egg. If you don't wash them, they don't need to be refrigerated.
Ah ok
because nobody want to find feathers or chicken poop on their eggs!
Dang, so there eggshells haven’t been cleaned. I like that they last longer in the fridge.
@@richardmccarley281 Plus you place the unwashed eggs on your counter.
Exactly. that’s why when you get eggs outside the United States eggs will look “dirty.” U.S. grocery stores most only stock product that looks perfect. If it doesn’t it gets tossed bc people won’t buy it so it’ll get tossed anyway. It’s sad
Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard when you said, "What type of psychopath, does not put the eggs close to the milk?"
Also the part about the chips “so this is British doing weird stuff..” 😂😂😂
One good reason we don’t include tax on the displayed price, is that we DON’T have a unified national sales tax. Every state and even many cities within the same state have a different level of sales tax. In Texas there is no tax on groceries for example. Companies often want to be able to market things at certain price across the whole nation, they couldn’t do that if that price accounted for a thousand different sales tax rates. So all the accounting and advertising is based on allowing for that flexibility. The other key point is, so what? It’s just a different convention, like how we do dates, there’s not a right or wrong way, whatever you’re used to is the normal way.
America does not have a national Value Added Tax, just state, county, city sales taxes levied individually by the state, county, and city governments. The feds have tariffs, excise, and income taxes... Businesses are able to deduct sales taxes from their income taxes as a cost of doing business, and therefore their accountants do desire sales receipts to accumulate what sales taxes they paid...
Washington also has sales tax but not on food, unless it was deemed unhealthy, like soda. Oregon has no sales tax, but they will add a 10cent deposit on beverage bottles and cans except iced tea. It would be easier if the price shown was the final priced paid. Having lived my whole life knowing tax will be added, makes it second nature to do the math in my head.
@@mairamanwaring9419 Minnesota is the same as Washington. No tax on food goods but tax on soda, chip, snacks, etc.
In the UK Depending on what is being sold. There can be 3 DIFFERENT rates of tax. In ONE SHOP. 0% 5% or 20%. Alcohol has Alcohol Duty in addition to tax that is dependent on the alcoholic strengh. So using the excuse of different tax rates in the USA. Just comes across as bullshit.
"In Texas there is no tax on groceries for example." Actually, some grocery items are food stamp* eligible, but taxable. For example, soft drinks.
*Old-school nomenclature
A supermarket was given that name because it is literally a super-sized market with enormous selections of just about everything.
Also because they consolidated butchers and bakeries with the groceries.
During your videos, every time you say "Nobody is watching right now." - It's me. I'm nobody. LOL
Sorry but, MILKY WAY is the ORIGINAL name of the candy bar created in 1923 by Frank C. Mars in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
MARS BAR is the name of the version first produced in 1932 by a British company started by Frank Mars' son, Forrest Mars.
As far as taxes are concerned - it's primarily a transparency issue since there are not just federal and state taxes but local and municipal sales taxes associated with various items or categories of goods. The idea is for the consumer to see how much they are being taxed. Though there are some logistical aspects too since keeping track of all those taxes across multiple jurisdictions would give the marketing office of even a mid-sized retail chain a headache.
“My wife tells me that all the time, size is….” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Putting Eggs with Beans is one of the greatest crimes! ... unless you are making breakfast burritos!!!!
True ❤️
I didn't know this! What is the problem with this?
Or if you are Mexican, we can make beans go well with everything, trust me our beans in toast is great..... unlike the UK beans in toast.
@@PeterG34 i'm a firm believer that enough spice can make anything edible.
I mean they're British they put beans on everything so it makes since. Joking aside I have heard beans are a breakfast staple in Britain.
AXE has different name in some countries because the name 'axe' is owned and trademark registered by some other company in those countries and cannot be used but Unilever there. This is true with many brand products.
Marketing is one of the reasons (not the only one) why sales tax isn't automatically calculated on the list price. Stores can advertise the product as $1.99 +tax, which sounds cheaper than $2.23 even if it ends up being the same price in the end.
In Europe most of the milk is made shelf stable by ultra high heating. That's not the case in the US.
You will be hard pressed to find milk in the US that isn't pasteurized.
Shelf stable milk is just ultra-high temperature pasteurization.
Its called pasteurization. Most milk is pasteurized, and homogenized in the USA. You can get raw milk however. I always refrigerate milk. It tastes better. cold.
@@garycamara9955 Just because milk has been pasteurized doesn't mean that it is shelf stable. If you leave pasteurized milk outside of the refrigerator and try drinking it after 3-4 months you'll see that. I keep a few quarts of shelf stable milk and rotate them, putting one in the fridge a couple of days before I drink it...
@@douglascampbell9809 Technically Raw Milk is illegal to sell in most states. Pasteurized milk will last at most a couple of weeks even refrigerated. UHT milk 3-4 months without refrigeration.
Shelf stable milk is sold in the US. I buy a European brand called Parmalat. I first bought it when my daughter was in college and didn't have a fridge in her dorm, so she could have milk with her cereal without having to go to the dining hall. You can buy it in little individual size multi-packs (which I bought for her to keep in her dorm) or 32 ounce cartons. I started buying the 32 ounce cartons occasionally during the pandemic when there were lots of shortages and also in case I got sick and couldn't go to the store. I keep a carton in my cabinet in case I run out of fresh milk and don't feel like going to the store or am making something and don't have enough. I watch the expiration date to use it before time's up. Once open, you keep in in the fridge.
Eggs in the US are washed and sanitized so the protective cuticle is removed. In Europe the eggs are not washed and sanitized thus keeping the protective cuticle which keeps the eggs fresh
Your comment on Walmart being bigger than the Portuguese government, was spot on. According to Google, 2021 Portugal GDP - 293.7 Billion. 2021 Walmart Revenue 559.15 Billion.
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Jesus…😂
jfc--I did not know this. It hurts my chest a little.
In many states, food isn’t taxed. The rates range between 6% and 10% but food isn’t taxed.
Food is not taxed in Michigan.
Depends on what type of food. Staples like egg's and milk won't be taxed like chips and such.
3:30 That visceral reaction to eggs not being in the dairy section warms my heart a little bit.
There are specific economic reasons why the US has not, at any significant level, instituted a value-added tax system(VAT). VATs usually result in higher overall costs, increased government spending, and higher inflation; they tend to be a slow drag on an economy. Although the IMF is a proponent of VATs in developing economies, it would be disastrous for the US economy. Despite the inconvenience, I believe it is better to shine a light on exactly how much tax is being applied by the government. Politicians love nothing more than having things hidden...
@@philmakris8507imagine living in a state with sales tax.
Haha.
Losers.
The eggs are a thing that many people dont understand. It's more complicated than at first glance.
1. The vast majority of eggs in European countries are produced within miles of your cities. Hundreds of small egg producing farms. Each country does its own thing. Many countries will vaccinate the entire flock of egg laying hens as a prophylactic, essentially protecting the eggs against salmonella. European way to handle eggs: smaller farms located closer to consumer, vaccinated with antibiotics. Eggs are shelf stable.
2. US/Canadian eggs are handled differently for geographical and medical reasons. Eggs are produced in the middle of the country in the state of Iowa. They are produced, cleaned, and shipped thousands of kilometers via refrigerator trucks. They are shipped to massive warehouses hundreds of miles from the local market. Then, when the supermarket needs eggs, they are trucked from the warehouses to the distribution center, then trucked to the local store. All of those eggs mixed together, trucked together, warehoused together, combined with other eggs, gathered and delivered to the local store shelves. One bad batch of eggs with salmonella would infect thousands and thousands of eggs along the way. Hundreds and hundreds of consumers could get sick or die.
So why doesn't the US/Canada vaccinate all of the hens like they do in Europe? Because we choose to reduce the use of antibiotics in our food supply. We were finding trace amounts of antibiotics all over our food. This allowed for bacteria, like staphylococcus, to become resistant to antibiotics and develop into MRSA. In the 1990s, we discovered that we were running out of new means of antibiotic production. The fear is that the current arsenal of antibiotics would be useless if we didn't do anything about it. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) passed new rules regarding the food supply. To keep antibiotics out of the food supply, beef, lamb, and pork could not receive antibiotics as prophylactic. A veterinarian is the only one who can prescribe and administer antibiotics--but only if a specific animal needs it for a specified purpose.
Poultry and egg layers were now completely forbidden from receiving any antibiotics. No antibiotics could be used period. If a hen got salmonella or a virus like the avian flu, then the entire flock had to be euthanized.
3. For eggs, this meant that the egg had to be cleaned at the source, sanitized at the first production facility. This washes off the bloom. Without the bloom, eggs need to he refrigerated.
4. There is no right way or wrong way for the selling of eggs. Each country does what it needs to deliver enough eggs to meet consumer demand while keeping their population safe from food illnesses. The US/Canada prefers to control the spread of food borne differently than our European brethren. On the plus side, chicken excrement isnt being placed in my shopping cart or in my home. The eggs still need to have their shells washed before cracking. I just prefer the shells to be washed at the farm in Iowa instead of my home.
All eggs are produced in Iowa?! Nonsense.😂
Yes. The US extensive washes our eggs to help with contamination, which washes off the cuticle, so they need to be refrigerated. Also the process with the refrigeration they last twice as long.
There is a technique where you wipe a thin coating of mineral oil on eggs where they 15 weeks, a heck of a lot longer than the fridge.
That's not correct. Washing eggs doesn't make them have to be refrigerated, putting them in the refrigerator makes them have to be refrigerated.
@@cp368productions2 sure, jan.
No sales tax on food in my state, unless at a restaurant or fast food. It is considered a necessity. We also don't have different sales tax in different towns, our state is only 47 miles x 37miles., with a lot of that being water.
When I was living in the uk, I missed the coffee selection we have in the us. When I moved back to the states, I really missed the selection of tea they have in the uk. Then, I moved back to washington state and now I have both, all the local coffee roasters, and the full selection of Stash teas😊
I'll touch on the brands part a little more:
In most stores you can find either Name Brand or Store (generic) brand items. They are typically very similar, but the store brand costs less - these items are the "knock-off" versions of the original. For Mountain Dew, the WalMart store brand would be Mountain Lightning, and for Dr. Pepper there's Dr. Thunder. You'll see a lot of these if you ever walk through an American supermarket.
🤪The crime is not refrigerating your eggs 🤣
It amazes me when people in other Countries think we only have one word for something in the U. S. We have several different words we may use for different items, especially dependent on where you are located within the states. Usually you will find the word supermarket used when the store sells more then groceries sold there (like a Walmart).
Yeah, its like jelly vs jam vs preserves. A supermarket sells more than just groceries, whereas a grocery store sells only groceries.
Similarly, jelly has the peels and seeds strained out, jam is typically the unstrained berries, and preserves are typically the unstrained larger fruits. (Strained meaning filtered in this context)
Supermarket pretty much meant a large grocery store. When they began combining a grocery store with a discount department store they were referred to as hypermarkets (though this term hasn't caught on with the public).
"A hypermarket (sometimes called a hyperstore, supercentre, or superstore) is a big-box store combining a supermarket and a department store."
I've always just added 10% because no state is more than that and some food items aren't taxed anyway. Also the store owner doesn't pay tax until it's sold
Washington state does not tax food unless it is from the deli or a restaurant. Also, I just started a job at Walmart and our store is huge and isn't even considered a superstore.
There are over 200 national, regional and local grocery chains in operation in the US and that total does not include small, independent stores, specialty shops and other smaller grocery providers.
We are one country with 50 state governments who tax, counties tax and cities tax. The store owner doesn't really put the price on. Because the sales tax can change from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. So, you could buy something at one store for $5 and then 45 cents for tax. The store may have another location down the road and the sales tax for that jurisdiction could be just 35 cents. It's easier to tack it on at the end. I prefer to know what the sales tax was because it's an indication of what the government is up to. Then again, you can move to a non-sales tax state, like I did. 😊
As an American citizen, our milk is also refrigerated because it is homogenized & pasteurized which removes the heavy cream.
Yes, eggs in the US do need to be refrigerated. In the US we want to know exactly how much tax we pay. Prices can be inclusive with tax but rarely are.
The US is 50 countries in a trench coat posing as one. Local restaurants and stores _caaan_ add the tax in their prices, but national and local chains can _not_ since taxes changes from state to state, county to county, and city to city.
Supermarkets putting items like fruit/veg at the opening, the things like milk, meats, eggs, cheeses around the perimeters actually helps you shop in a more healthy manner. Its the stuff on the aisles filled with preservatives, salt, sugar, carbs, and on and on. If you just perimeter shop, you'll stay healthier.
A big important thing about Sales Tax in the USA is that it not only changes from state to state, but also county to county and city to city within those counties. (So total of state, county and city sales tax rates are what you pay at checkout.)
Each state implements a percentage of sales tax, then each county puts their bit on.. then each city puts theirs on.
Because of this the amount you pay in each city and town within the same state can change depending on what the people there voted for.
You see. A city or town can decide they want to update their local animal shelter. So they can put out a “Bond” to increase sales tax for their city/town to fund the project without impacting surrounding cities/towns. (Same thing for counties.)
This can change yearly depending on how the community voted. Pending Bonds, etc. so it’s very difficult for stores to calculate the prices pre-sales. 😒
Wrong. Some states - Oregon, for one - don’t have a sales tax at all. That includes local jurisdictions within the state, as well.
@@pacmanc8103 There are only five states without sales tax. They have the right to implement a sales tax if they choose to, but they haven't, and good for them. Sales tax is regressive. The commenter is not "wrong," They were speaking in broad strokes.
@@pinkonesie Broad statements which imply that sales taxes exist universally in the US, albeit it at different rates between states as well as local jurisdictions. That is, indeed, ‘wrong’. As is the notion that ‘bonds are put out to increase sales tax’. A ‘bond’ is, in simplest terms, a financial obligation issued by a government (in this context) that is paid back to bond holders over a period of time with interest (generally). The money raised by governments to pay it back is raised in any number of ways, one of which may be through sales taxes where they exist. So yes, the poster is wrong in more than one point.
@@pacmanc8103 You really have a problem with the notion of a broad overview, don't you?
@@pinkonesie Only when an overview is misleading - imagine that novelty. Move on, Karen.
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I love my brothers and sisters in UK, but as an
American, I find many British customs and habits to be
rather quaint. In USA "grocery store" often denotes a
smaller family-owned store (often in cities)
"Super market" (super = big/bigger/biggest) often
denotes a larger store, with a much larger selection
that is often found in strip-malls with a parking lot in
front of the store.
Different names for similar or identical products has to do with copyrights, licensing, patents in different countries.
As a general rule, food is not taxed in the USA; unless
it is ready to eat (prepared). Toilet paper is often not
taxed. However, paper towels, "feminine hygiene
products", baby diapers and "adult 'protective'/
'security' products" (adult diapers/pads for people with
incontinence problems) are taxed. There are periodic
discussions about if these products should be taxed
Most governments prefer to keep the tax.........
Taxes goes down to the county. Sometimes even the cities will have separate taxes. It's not efficient to add the sales tax to an item since it could be shipped and purchased at any random location.
Most items have the price tag printed in some central facility that then sends the items out all over the country. Different states have different sales tax rates, as do different cities and counties within a state. Since the businesses have to pay sales tax, it would be difficult for even a small store not to separate the item price from sales tax amount, in order to keep up with exactly what comes in.
Laurence mentions tires at Walmart. Maybe a lot of young people and people in other countries don’t realize, Walmart didn’t sell groceries for the 1st 30 years of its life, it was strictly a “dry goods” store, it’s where you bought all your stuff. Walmart only made a push into groceries starting around 1990 or so.
In America the Americans call the grocery stores grocers or grocery stores. The owners called them supermarkets. There’s just separate words that mean the same thing.
Walmart is NOT a grocery store. It’s a big box store or a mega store that happens to sell groceries. It’s sells all kinds of other things from tires to clothing.
In my part of Oregon Wal-Mart has grocery stores.
@@ellinganderson5434 They do in a lot of states too, but they are called neighborhood markets. They are considered different from just regular Walmart's.
I have come back to read many of the comments regarding egg washing or why the US does not include the tax in the item. All the answers are valid. My question is why do Europeans think that
what they do is correct and America is wrong when all European countries don't do the same thing.
the main problems with sale tax comes in with chain stores. they run sales like $17 for something so if that $17 that was in the advertised will not be the same because the sales tax changes from store to store.
Not store to store, the tax depends on the location of the store,ie city, county, state.
Andre, the federal government in the US doesn't put sales tax on purchases. They live off our income taxes and fees from other sources. All sales tax is done at the local state level and below. Some states have both sales and state income tax. Others have just sales tax, others have just income tax. You really don't think about it because in the back of your mind you are thinking "well, the tax is going to be 10 percent". Which none I've seen to date are that high. To us, 23% tax on all purchases is obscene.
Walmart generated over $572 billion in revenue in 2022 and over $13.6 billion in net profits in the same year. In 2022, the government revenue in Portugal amounted to around 106.14 billion euros, while government spending came to around 107.08 billion euros.
I did some research on eggs and found that in America as in many countries eggs are washed sized and placed in cartons which are refrigerated. In England, eggs are not washed which leaves a natural barrier against germs so they don't have to be refrigerated. Eggs are eggs, either way is healthy. It's just weird to people from the other country.
Andre, you have to check out The Fat Electrician's look at The Best Supermarkets On The World. They are called, Aldi or Trader Joe's, as each chain is owned by a different brother and in the US, you can't have two businesses with the same name.
By the way, here in Oregon there is ZERO sales tax, even buying a car.
There are also different Walmart -
There’s the Walmart that everyone knows.
Then there’s Walmart Neighborhood Market which is just groceries.
And there’s Walmart Supercenter which is just a larger Walmart
There’s also Sams Club which is, essentially, Walmart’s version of Costco.
In the USA eggs are washed and weighed before packaging. My father grew up on a farm. They didnt wash eggs so they didn't need to refrigerate them. Natural eggs freshly laid can last in a cool area much longer than " washed" eggs which will go bad if not refrigerated. Its part of a liquid layer on newly laid eggs. FDA forces them to be sanitized to be saleable. The outer ring of stores are essentials... and then candy is next to soda and potato chips or crisps. Then toilet paper. And aluminum foil and disposable goods. Children goods are on lower shelves. Cheaper varities are on top shelves out of reach.😢 so you end up going up and down every one of 14 aisles.😅
Sales taxes vary from state to state, and in some places there are also local sales taxes. Many items have their prices printed on the package at the point of manufacture. Just consider how complicated it would be to print different packages for 50 states... never mind having to add the many places that also add local sales taxes.
The price on the price tag is exactly what you pay in Oregon. There is no sales tax - state or local.
In Washington and Oregon, there is no sales tax on food items.
Oregon doesn't have any sales tax at all....
@katiebwheeler I live in Oregon, I should have more clear and thorough. Oregon has a state income tax, but Washington only has sales tax.
In Walmart, the wine has its own aisle.....hard liquor does too. The freezer section is 2 full aisles. But it has TV's and music, and bedding items, and pots/pans, paint, videogames, clothes and medicines/vitamins.......
Also, most food is non-taxable as is medicine.
Milky Way IS NOT A 3 MUSKETEER NOR is a Mars Bar the same as a Milky Way bar.
A 3 Musketeer is a chocolate fluff covered in chocolate. A Milky Way candy bar is nougat with a caramel and peanut top covered in chocolate. A Mars Bar is like a Milky Way bar but has no peanuts.
Milky Way just has nougat and caramel, Snickers has the nougat, caramel and peanuts. 🙂
In some states Wal Mart might have a separate building for hard liquor and some states Wal Mart don’t sale hard liquor. I live in GA and seen a Walmart sale hard liquor. Was surprised to see FL with liquor
Indiana and Michigan walmarts have hard liquor inside.@@darrelladams4188
"Oh! that's a crime !" 🤣😂 Love your reactions and facial expressions!
The bloom is the moist protective coating on a freshly laid egg that partially seals the pores of the eggshell to prevent penetration by bacteria. Also called the cuticle. In America the eggs are washed thoroughly which removes this bloom and allows bacteria to grow and penetrate the egg which can cause spoilage. Therefore we refrigerate them. If you lightly rinse them keeping the bloom on, they can be left sitting out for some time and safe to eat.
Or you may not find wine in your supermarket at all--liquor laws vary from state to state. In some states, alcohol sales may be limited to state-run stores and certain hours. In others, you can purchase wine and beer in the supermarket, but have to go to a separate store for hard liquor. I just spent a few years in a state where you can by any type of alcohol in the grocery store. At home in Alaska, the liquor store may be in a separate section in the same store, or an independent store that just sells liquor.
Andre: "Walkers" that's a sneakers 👟 name. 😂 This only one of the reasons of many, I love to watch your channel. Those out of nowhere funny comments you can come up with. Keep me laughing to myself all day. Thanks for that. And keep that "shoot from the hip" humor coming. Simply the best. Blessings to you.
❤ from the Great State of Texas.🇺🇸
In America the store is laid out to lead you around the outer edges of the store with the vegetables/produce to the meat section, to the milk eggs and cheese to the bread section. All of the other stuff is in the middle of the store. I rarely go into the middle aisles because that is where the processed foods are. We don't have sales taxes in Oregon.
We have sales tax in New Jersey but only on 'luxury items" we do not pay tax on clothes or food but you would pay tax on gourmet chocolate or high end fashion because they are not necessities.
Don't forget the beer section.
Hahaha, Andre has jokes on this one. I couldn’t stop grinning.
The reason we don't is it could differ from store to store depending on location because there can be higher taxes in one county or city over the next and lots of our stores are chains so they want to be able to stock the shelves with the item throughout all their stores without hassle
America would never agree to a vat tax as it is not transparent. We know exactly how much the product is and how much the state tax or city tax is applicable. This way the government could never sneak in taxes that were not aware of. Plus it helps teach our children math at a very young age. In my city the tax is 7.0%. much cheaper than any place I've been in Europe. Our Goods are generally much cheaper too.
Looked through many of the comments, didn't see this addressed - Walker's crisps were a brand in the UK which was acquired by the US company Frito-Lay. Lay's retained the Walker's brand to provide continuity with UK customers, but changed the packaging design to be consistent with the (now) parent company.
6:16 Yo, this makes me laugh so loud that I ECHOED in the house. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In America we keep most eggs and dairy items cool (below 45F) to retard bacterial growth. It also allows for such to last longer. any eggs found with beans is that someone took them out of their cart and could not be bothered to put them back in the coolers.
Now, that's funny. True though. I've been guilty of that myself but I would never do it with an item that needs to be refrigerated. If I was going to be that lazy I would hand the item over to the cashier at checkout so an employee could return it to the proper cooler. lol.
The brand thing is true even between some of the states. When I moved across the country I found some of my favorite brands had different names.
Hellman's and Best Foods mayo. Carl's Jr and Hardee's fast food.
For the us taxes can vary per state per city and per county line and per district within said county its easy to calculate the taxes with a machine its harder to print out labels for something that could change ever other year and that's not even the same in every part of the state
Walmart is not just a supermarket. The supermarket part is on one end of Walmart. The middle is a department store for clothing, housewares,electronics, pets, paint, and much more. Like get your eyes examined and buy glasses, have your hair done, etc. The other end is usually a garden store to buy trees, other plants, animal feed, soils, fencing. A few even have a garage to buy auto supplies, tires, get inspected, oil change, etc.
Taxes, sales taxes always screw up out of USers. Part of it is that we do have different taxes in different states. When i lived in NJ, New Yorkers would come to buy certain items, clothing was one..no tax in New Jersey, high taxes in NYC.
VAT is very different than Sales tax. So VAT it a tax a business pays and passes through in it's prices. Sales Tax is a tax at the point of purchase, so businesses do not have to pay taxes on the products in advanced
Yes, our eggs have to be refrigerated because we "process" or wash everyone before packaging which removes some type of protective cover and a lot of dirt . . .so we do refridgerate our eggs BUT our eggs will last for weeks!! I don't think I could eat an unrefrigerated dirty egg.....ugh
****Most states, food purchased at the grocery store is NOT taxed .. what you are taxed on of items in your grocery cart are like toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning products, etc. but if it is edible there is no tax!! I guess a few states do tax grocery store food . . but I've never seen it....
Illinois food has 1% tax. Prepared food and non food taxed higher.
In Minnesota the taxes on food is a little complicated. Basic groceries such as milk, bread, produce are not taxed. When it gets weird is they separate basic food from others. So saltine crackers are basic and not taxed but snack crackers such as Chicken in a Biskit are taxed, fruit juices are not taxed but fruit flavored drinks with very little juice in them are taxed.
The washing requires refrigeration of eggs is an absolute lie.
Walmart sells everything from tires, shoes, housewares, clothes, food and pharmacy and hair salon. Other grocery stores is food and a pharmacy and located on main streets. Smaller grocery stores can be located in neighborhoods.
We do not have taxes on food items and restaurants are taxed on what you order because it’s not a necessity to go out. The bigger places, counties or cities have higher tax base. We are in southeast corner of Washington state, out tax base is 8.7.
The other thing you have to keep track of in the grocery store is that not everything is actually taxed. For example in Florida basic food items like fruit & vegetables, meat, seafood and so on do not have sales tax attached. But things like snacks & soda or prepared food ready to eat are taxable.
We've never had sales tax in Oregon. Lays Potato chips are the best. Love the Baked ones.
There's a door at the Auto Center in Walmart, but if you buy something like a tire, the store employee will take it to your car
Most of the time when you buy a tire at the Wal-Mart auto center you hare going to have them mount and balance the tire and bolt it to your car. I have bought plenty of tires at Wal-Mart, and not once did I have to worry about rolling the tire thru the store, and for that matter there are doors at the auto portion of the store. I have bought car batteries at Wal-Mart that were not meant for the vehicle I drove up in, and yes you cart them out the door at the auto center after paying for them at the check out register at the auto center. If you are old or weak, they will assist you in getting them into your vehicle. Heck if you buy a large Television, they will assist you thru the store and out into the parking lot and load it into your vehicle too.
And you usually have it installed on your car.
As far as taxes go, it all depends on the state. For example, I'm from Arizona, and we do not charge tax on groceries.
Varieties here have gotten out of hand. Yesterday 3 of us (strangers) stood in front of the Tums shelves in the drugstore overwhelmed by the choices. Tablets, chewies. Flavors. Sizes. Strengths. With or without f'n melatonin!
Some American supermarkets are truly SUPER markets. One that I shop at occasionally takes up 80,000 square feet [that's 3/4 of a hectare]. However, that is by no means the largest in the US. The largest ONLY groceries store [i.e. not a Walmart] covers 200,000 square feet [1.85 hectares].
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Walmart does sell everything even tires. But normally it's where t service center to put them on, and yes you have to pay them
*tires
The price does not include tax because there is different tax everywhere on different things.
Town 1) 4% state tax, 1% town food tax, 2% town tax, 3% town motel tax.
Town 2) 4% state tax, 0.5 town food tax, 1% town tax, 4.5% town motel tax.
All tax goes into your computerized register so you can keep track of what amount of tax go to which place at the end of the period you have set up with the town and state.
“This is British doing weird stuff.” As always! 😂
Refrigerated eggs also last a lot longer. Eggs can be refrigerated and last 3 - 4 months, and be just fine to use. Sales taxes vary not only state-by-state; but also county-by-county, and also can be something different in cities; Also, some foods are taxed, other foods are not taxed, some foods have higher taxes because they contain a lot of sugar.
4 reasons for the tax not being the shelf price.
1) not everything is taxed. Non prepared food, certain nececitas and fruit drinks over a certain % of real fruit are not taxed.
2) not all items are taxed equally, food, gas, tobacco, alcohol, etc. have different tax rates.
3) we have to file yearly taxes, and taxes can be itemized, which means we need documents to show tax vs cost.
4) Companies think people are too stupid to realize something isn't actually that cheap.
All the candy bars he talks about we have here in America, but for some reason the British think that 3 Musketeers and milky way are the same bars!
3 Musketeers is chocolate nougat and doesn't have any caramel.
This is why we suck at math. Different taxes, then tipping, it's a nightmare. I've accepted defeat and resigned myself to sticker shock. This might account for our high Xanax use. Lol
Non Americans, you NEED to refrigerate your eggs in America. Eggs in America are washed for aesthetic reasons but it also washes off the natural protection which means it is actually dangerous not to refrigerate them. The rest of the world does not wash their eggs and therefore does not need to but if you visit/move here, please make sure to refrigerate them so you dont get sick and have to deal with American healthcare... We kinda did our own thing with that too.
In North America eggs must be refrigerated, because between being hatched and arriving at a store, they must be washed, before being crated for sale. In Europe the eggs remain unwashed and therefore do not require refrigeration. 5:15
Being born and raised in northern Utah, I really enjoy watching your reactions. It is so interesting to hear how much, or how little other places in the world have in common with each other. Thank you for sharing
America is big enough that you will often have the same product, made by the same company, branded differently in different parts of the country due to historical reasons. Some examples include Best Foods / Helman's, Dreyer's / Edy's, Arnold's / Orowheat / Brownberry, and Carl's Jr / Hardee's
They are all American food companies that name their items different in the UK for various reasons
That Mars bar looks like a Snickers bar.
In my opinion Milky Way is Snickers without nuts.
I love your reactions to these videos and I am a big fan of yours. Your humor is so infectious. I loved it when you started to say that your wife made that comment and you were so funny when you realized it. I was laughing so hard I spit coffee everywhere. Great 👍 reactions. ❤
12:18 each state, and even different areas in states, can have different sales taxes
So you can't really put the price on a product because you'd have to have so many different prices printed on the outside depending on which store it was going to go to
Our wine aisle is in the same section as the diapers....I found that hilarious, then I had a child and fully understood
Do keep in mind that Portugal may transport its perishable foods at most a couple hundred Kilometers, where as in the US we may have to transport it a few thousand kilometers. Cold temperatures slow bacterial growth and keeps most foods fresher; longer.
The name changes are due to ownership of the names in different countries or copyright. Both the US and the UK have pretty stringent copyright laws and someone else already owned the "Lays" name when Lays wanted to introduce their brand. So Lays is "Walkers" in the UK. No biggie. Except the candy bars... I have no idea why the mix up there.
trademark law, not copyright law
@@sirmoonslosthismind Fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
Our eggs are refrigerated because the "bloom" has been washed off. The bloom seals the pores of the eggs to prevent moisture loss and prevents the development of bacteria.
Some things depend on which state you are in. For example, in certain states, grocery stores are not allowed to sell any alcoholic beverages. In other states, grocery stores may sell beer and wine, but not hard liquors..
We refrigerate eggs because they last longer that way. A lot of refrigerators have egg holders built in to the door shelves so the eggs have a dedicated spot. I do a lot of baking and use eggs frequently so I buy them in cartons of 18 eggs at a time. Buying in bulk saves money. We typically have large refrigerator/freezers here so we have room inside them to do this. We store a lot more in the fridge than dairy tho. We keep lunch meats in the fridge, leftovers, some pies like coconut creme which would spoil if left out very quickly. And while it isn't necessary we also store a lot of ancillary things like condiments such as catsup, mustard, hot sauce, worcestershire sauce, steak sauce, soy sauce, etc in the fridge as well, also pickles, relishes, jams, jellies, etc. Now personally, I leave my catsup, mustard and jams and jellies out of the fridge as the fruit spreads easier at room temperature and the sauces flow easier.
So one of the reasons we don't just include the tax in the price is because like you said each state is allowed to do whatever percentage for their sales tax. When you have a big company like Walmart where you can go on their website and see pricing, it can be very confusing if every single item has different prices depending on where you look at it. So what they do is they have one base price that is the same thing no matter where you go for example the $15 for the ukulele, and then we add the sales tax afterwards based on what state. It's just to avoid confusion for the most part but I can see for someone who's not from the country how it can add confusion haha
Regarding sales tax in the US (VAT in Europe), it can be a bit more complicated with additional layers. In the USA there can be (or not) a state tax. Depending on the location within the state, there can also be an additional County tax and/or an additional City tax on that sale. Two nearby stores can be in different tax districts, making that Axe product 2 cents more expensive than the store across the street.
You have it right, when I was growing up in Indiana on the farm before refrigeration (Little House on The Prairie) in the 1940s--1950s, one of the things that my grandmother always did was go get her eggs daily from her chickens and they would set on the counter for a week or two at a time. This was not unusual. Eggs do keep for awhile without refrigeration.
😂 my wife says size doesn't matter 😂.
Love how he stopped himself.
can i give you one example mos staes have sales tax, but here in neveada unless the food is prepaired there is tax but other groceries there is no sales tax. a couple states do this
There would be those that would b3 bitching if they combined the sales tax and price. Transparency is super important here. They like to know what they’re paying for what. It also keeps business from misleading customers on the actual cost of an item or inflating cost.
I usually say "grocery store" talking to Americans and "market" when I talk to people in other countries