@@urbangeishawhat is a whitetail? The only thing that comes up when I google it is a certain type of deer, but I can not imagine Australians having to deal with deer when going for a poop.
The best part of the ‘no alcohol in the supermarket’ is that the bottle shop is always right next door and usually attached to the supermarket by an internal door. Like at this point they’re just taking the piss.
It used to be that in Australia, the liquor licensing laws meant that it just wasn't worth trying to license a supermarket (the laws simply weren't set up for it). Now some states have amended the licensing laws to allow for wine to be sold within the supermarket itself (although you'll often still need to go to one of the marked "alcohol" checkouts which are staffed by a licensed person), while in other states they're still stuck with the "separate (but not really)" bottle shop. The folks taking the piss are the lawmakers, not the supermarket chains.
@@kaileymoyeah, I was wondering where she was moving from, because it's like that in my state in the US, Connecticut. We call it the package store (or packie) because the alcohol needs to be wrapped up in "packages" (or these days, bags) to leave the shop. And like in Finland apparently, the package store can't stay open past 9pm (used to be 8pm) or on Sundays. It's often connected or right next door to the grocery store, though.
In Florida in the US we have wine in the supermarket but hard liquor is in the store attached to the supermarket, often heated and cooled by the same air conditioners with a chain link wall. I guess alcohol over a certain percentage goes next door 🤷♂️
@@swedishvegetables5984Really? I live in the eastern burbs of Melbourne and get snakes in my backyard every summer ( sometimes a red bellied black, sometimes an eastern brown. Only once a Tiger tg, they are aggressive buggers) We back onto a creek so they love it around here. We also have kangaroos along our back fence, an echidna lives under the hedge and we feed a family of kookas. All that and I'm a 7 min drive to the freeway and just 35 mins from the CBD.😊
@@abigailjh93where I live you can get alcohol at the grocery stores, but other places you can get wine at the regular grocery store but have to go to state run places for liquor, other places *cough* Utah *cough* you have to go to special stores for anything and the ABV is also lower than other states (never been to Utah, just word of mouth so I could be very wrong). Truly mind boggling trying to figure it out when I’m in a different state
@@Samantha-zu3qein Las Vegas they don’t have a cutoff for serving time either. I’m in Texas and we can get wine and beer but no hard liquor unless it’s at a liquor store and the liquor stores can’t be open on sundays 🙄 the US is so different from state to state so it’s interesting to know that Australia is no different! 🤣
I work as at a grocery store in Canada that’s close to the border, and during the summer I can’t tell you how often people coming through from the states who look for alcohol are shocked when I tell them we don’t sell alcohol in the grocery store. 😂
Not even low-alcohol beer. In my province the majority of liquor is sold through government stores, although you can buy wine and beer at a few private shops...and local spirits like gin and vodka at the farmer's market.
If you are gonna be scared of spiders, it's the small and colourful ones to be wary of. Keep the big ones around, they oddly help a lot with spider control
Honestly the snake thing depends on where you are, I always put the lid down after because they can come up the toilet from outside that and tree frogs in the toilet can be a real problem😂
Only in mating season and if you live in an area where magpies are mating, which isn't every where. I have lived in this country for over 55 years and travelled literally ALL over it. There's not been one time a magpie has swooped at my head lol The spider thing yeh that's true but you rarely see them, well I haven't, and im not legally blind or anything lol If you leave them alone they will do the same for you.
Here’s another one for you: you can’t sleep peacefully at night if your camping or anything because of a type of bird that sound like a child wailing in the distance. Edit: this is literally the most likes I have ever gotten on a comment 🤌. Thx
@@t1me4tea Yep, we have white tails in our house constantly and eghhhhh yuck. Depending on where you live just be thankful you don't have snakes coming out of the toilet hahah
Im in the US and in my state you have to go to a liquor store to buy hard alcohol (whiskey, vodka, gin). You can buy beer and wine with lower alcohol percentages at a grocery store.
Not only alcohol in grocery stores. Also in drugstores, gas stations, minimarkets and so on.. Basically around the clock at every corner near. Hehe (germany)
Here in Missouri you are allowed to have open containers in the car, but i think you hsve to have a passenger with you and it must be theirs. But yeah, here in Missouri it is 100% legal for you to drink alcohol in the car while you're a passenger. So basically you can drive around while all your passengers are drinking. I didn't even realize we were allowed to do it until last year. All this time and years I have been thinking open containers were illegal because of me watching COPS(TV show) or Live PD from other states and I just assumed Missouri also had no open container laws. When I found out we were allowed to drink alcohol in the car I alwasy cracked open a few beers when my friend and I were driven home from work from our co worker. We car pooled to save money, so it was a lot of fun, we would switch who would drive throughout the week and the drive home from work just ended up being its own version of a afterwork party or hangout session since it was a 40min drive home.
@@nicklibby3784 I'm on the border of MO and KS so it's really fun when I forget which side of state line I'm on because KS can't sell alcohol above 6% in grocery stores, liquor stores can't sell anything other than alcohol and close at 10pm. Plus no liquor sales on holidays.
I grew up in Massachusetts where the grocery store is a different store from the liquor store. When I moved to Los Angeles and saw an alcohol section in the grocery store it seemed so weird.
@@Geozuki554Are you saying that bc of a derogatory/ racial slur or does it have another offensive meaning I'm unaware of? I love learning about what's offensive/ normal/ has a different meaning from one place to the next. Ex: learned that "fanny" in Scotland is different from your backside here in the US. As kids we used to think think those in England's use of a certain word that could mean a cigarette or bundle of sticks was "funny" (we were young for those that want to have a fit over it. It doesn't mean we used the word, bc we knew it was offensive & not okay). I had no clue until my 20's or so that "snogging" was even a word. It sounded so disgusting and I was surprised to discover it wasn't something awful like it sounded. Another one that gets me is when I hear ppl in the UK say that someone "fell pregnant". 🤭 It comes across to me like "Oopsie. Someone accidentally became pregnant/ it happened TO them." Then there's more simple things like saying "hospital" versus "the hospital". "Holiday" versus "vacation". Gotta love how interesting, and diverse things in this world are. 😅
Just remember that the spiders with the really long lanky legs that have tint bodies are our besties and if you see them just leave em be cuz they eats that bad ones but are to small to eat you.
Yeah those are probably the only ones I'd recognize as being harmless as well. All the ones I've never seen before in my life I'll be wary of when I see them the first time.
Alcohol laws are similar here in the United States. In Texas, you can buy wine and beer in the supermarket but not liquor. You’ll have to go to a separate liquor store like Spec’s or Total Wine
Had a similar shock as you when I traveled to Ireland last year. In the Czech Republic you can literally buy alcohol anywhere, anytime, basically no restrictions (except for the age limit), there's beer to buy even at gas stations. Imagine my surprise when I tried to buy some local cider at the supermarket at 9:30. When I was puzzled and asked I felt like a full alcoholic. 🤦🏼♀️
Supposedly in Mexico we have age restriction to buy alcohol but we really can but anywhere, and in small towns they don't even care if you're 14-15, they'll sell you alcohol anyways, lol.
In romania you can buy anything anywhere at any hour 😂 If they sell alcohol, they’ll sell you alcohol. Nobody cares what time or day it is. The only restriction is if the supermarket is near a football stadium and there is a game on. They won’t sell because of all the violence it causes (its happened way too many times and way too bad)
Love all the people pointing out that the bottle shop is usually attached to the supermarket, like that makes separating the businesses pointless, when keeping you from buying alcohol while out shopping isn't the point. Emplyees in most of the country need an RSA (or state equivalent) certification to be allowed to sell alcohol, so keeping the businesses separate is easier than requiring all supermarket employees to have this certificate.
The wine thing is true in the US, too. In some states you have to go to a specific store licensed to sell liquor to get beer or wine, but in other states that's only the case for hard liquor, and beer and wine can be bought in the supermarket. It depends on where you are in the country.
Beer and wine sales in grocery stores has been very slowly introduced over the past maybe 10-15 years or so. It’s only been available in the grocery stores in my specific area since maybe 2019. Prior to that, you had to buy wine and liquor at a Wine and Spirits store, and had to purchase beer at a beer distributor.
@@maggsmick Yeah. I remember when alcohol started showing up in grocery stores. It was *weird.* Pretty sure most gas stations always had an alcohol section, or at least were attached to a liquor store, though. Can get everything from hard seltzer to vodka, too.
This is so weird to me because in my state you can get any kind of alcohol you want at gocery stores, gas stations, liquor stores, or straight from the distilleries and bars. Its been that way for at least the past 30 years, probably more. They absolutely refuse to legalize weed here, though! Go figure. 🙄
It's like that in canada and we have soo much selection. I'd rather it than having it in the grocery store and being forced to get whatever they decide to stock
@@surlespasdondineHit by cars or do they smash our cars. And i'm not joking, it happened to my family twice. We stopped for the kangaroo to pass but it came back around and smashed our car. Second time it happened to my cousin and he stopped to fix his gps and the kangaroo came out of no where and messed his car up. Thankfully both times we could escape but if we didn't the kangaroo would've really injured us.
A law recently allowed supermarkets in Colorado to sell more types of alcohol, so it's not that unusual. It's to allow liquor stores to have less competition...or more.
Bro I had that last one within my own country 😂 grew up in the southwest(USA) and was used to having beer wine and liquor in not only grocery stores but also gas station convenience stores, moved to the Midwest and wanted to grab some beer while at the grocery store only to be dumbfounded by the fact I had to make a separate trip down the road two miles to the liquor store for a damn 6 pack 😩
Until a couple years ago, that was totally normal in Colorado. When that changed, I remember being very upset that I had to relearn the damn store just to find where they’d moved the rice! …I used to get 5lb bags of rice. Now I just go to any of 3 nearby Asian (mostly Vietnamese) shops with my rice container. The ladies love that I remember to bring it in. They often offer me duck feet for my cats
I live in Wisconsin. Some of our big box stores like Walmart and Target don't have alcohol but most of our grocery stores and convenience stores have beer & wine. Some hard alcohol too. Depends on the store. Chicago is Midwestern. Plenty of booze at grocery stores and gas stations. All really depends on where you are!
As a Finn it's always a culture shock abroad when you *can* get wine and/or hard liquor from a supermarket 😂 Here you only get mild things like cider and beer and long drink, and even those only between 9am and 9pm (they will not sell it to you before or after and there are very strict rules about it, they usually even lock the fridges and might, in some places, also bar up the alcohol shelves). Everything else you have to buy either glass by glass from a bar or the only alcohol retailer, Alko xD
Seriously? I thought you Scandinavians weren't that strict, was it like that all of the time or is this a newer law? Here in Croatia you can buy hard liquor from a supermarket as late as 10 PM (they usually don't work later unless it's on the seaside in the middle of the tourist season) and even in small kiosks that work late. They also usually have small bottles like half a deciliter (or maybe 1,not sure) even next to registers because a lot of our older generation drinks 1 or more in the morning or before lunch.
@@libra1807 Oh yeah, Alko closes around those times for sure. Markets still sell the light stuff a bit later. Alko isn't even open at all on Sundays, either xD
@@Thersyl Yeah it's been like that for a long time. Alcohol is also taxed harshly. It's mainly because my country unfortunately has a bit of a problem with how widespread alcoholism is here, the government is strict about limiting these certain things to try and control that problem. We still have a lot of people with drinking problems, even with the limitations, though. It's quite unfortunate 😬
@@elieli2893 Well, it's a good thing the government is trying to help, although I'm sure some people don't like them interfering so much. Ours just doesn't do anything because drinking is a social activity and I don't think anyone would blink an eye if you drank beer or a glass of wine every single day. I think there would be a huge protest if they raised taxes on alcohol and cigarettes 😂
@@Thersyl Yeah, personally I think it's good to do something about it, but I'm not sure how much it really helps in reality 😅 People just go over to Estonia (the ferry is pretty cheap) to buy cheap alcohol. And it's usually not like "I'll have a beer every day" here, the culture is more "I'll get wasted every weekend" 😅 Obviously not everyone does it, but it's quite normal to only drink with the purpose of getting drunk, we don't really do the whole "a beer with a meal" thing unless it's at a restaurant. You can probably imagine what uni culture is like, here 😅 Luckily people around me are reasonable with drinking, we only have parties like those maybe once every three or four months :'D
Lots of states and counties don’t allow alcohol to be sold in supermarkets either. Mine doesn’t. Whenever I go to another state, I marvel at how convenience stores, gas stations, and supermarkets have alcohol.
Colorado does it to support small businesses! The big companies own most of the grocery and gas stations but the majority of liquor stores in Colorado are smaller chains or family owned. If they allowed bottles in grocery stores or gas stations it would put a lot of the mom and pop places out of business so we keep voting it down.
I went to the UK last March to see my partner and I was so confused about alcohol being in the supermarket. It was also the only aisle to get to the check out. At first I thought they were all non-alcoholic because you can sell those in supermarkets in Australia, until then I saw some I recognised. It was so weird to me lol
We have drive up bars in many Southern states in the US. Pull up to the window and order a cocktail or beer served to you in the drivers seat of your vehicle (it’s illegal to drink it while driving of course)
Woolies and Coles both have a bottle shop that’s connected and part of the brand. It’s only a seperate store so that there are tighter restrictions on whose even allowed near the alcohol
Are you in NSW or Vic? I was surprised by that the first time I went down there. Here in QLD they are completely seperate from Coles and Woolies and highly restricted in where the are located. Every bottle shop has to be "run"/affiliated with a pub where the keys are dropped back to every night, and each pub can only have up to 5 bottle shops (max 1 can be a drive through) affiliated with it, which must be within 5km. That's why there are so many ALH Group (Woolies) pubs these days and Coles has some weird "joint venture" deal going to skirt the rules. That's also why there's so few independent bottlos up here.
I was so glad the Woolies I worked near had a bottle shop inside near the entrance, so much easier than tracking down a red bottle with lots of groceries in hand 😅
@@AC........ Not sure where you're from but here in Australia, "Alko" is an old slang word for, "Alcoholic". Not really sure if this word it's used much these days?
It's how it is in Wyoming, too. _Technically_ you can sell alcohol in grocery/convenience stores, but there has to be a lockable door between the main section and the alcohol, and the alcohol has to be bought at a separate counter. Theoretically, it stops kids from going into grocery stores unassumingly and stealing alcohol, and maybe that would work, if I had literally ever been to a single liquor store in this state that IDs. I have watched preteens in middle school spirit hoodies buy alcohol.
Same in NJ. Very few supermarkets sell wine/beer and that’s not the whole chain, but one or two who pay for the ridiculous liquor license. You need to go to liquor stores for alcohol.
That second reaction is something that I have to deal a lot with working as a liquor store clerk in Alaska. You can't get liquor, wine, or beer in the grocery stores; it has to be acquired at a package store. It trips a lot of Southerners from out-of-state up when they visit our state.
Its either vic or nsw where aldis sells wine, lol Love being aussie, and yes, the brids are real, they really do this, dont get close to the trees in spring or nesting season, other times youll be fine
vic does sell it in aldi...kind of a little section on the side close to the registers. But literally every other supermarket has a liquor store attached regardless.
Grocery stores usually don't allow alcohol sales because its easier for minors to access it, either on purpose or by accident. A lot of the larger stores remedy this by having an alcohol store/Bottle shop near the door of the actual grocery store thats owned by the same company.
Hyvee will do this depending on the size of the store. You have to go through a separate set of doors and they have their own clerks. Kinda like how they do summer garden shops. However most stores just have the dedicated space that's a diffrent color than the rest of the store and most items are in a color or behind glass. And the really expensive stuff is behind the customer service desk. There to even get to lookat prices you have to show ID. If you ever get the chance to come to the US. It's more than obvious. And no cashier is allowed to let a customer buy alcohol without scanning the ID. Yes we scan your legal identification because we have to be sure.
@@lawson6267 you don't have a law where minors can be employed but they can't serve alcohol - need a supervisor to ok the sale? That's how the UK gets round it.
@@owieprone, 18 year olds can sell alcohol in the US if the supervisor is 21+ (21 is our drinking age). Plenty of kids work in grocery stores when 14 though so they would have to call over a supervisor, still.
I find it both frightening and oddly charming that you had what seems to be a persistent and accurate head count of the spiders in your house. Were they paying rent?
i guess they paid rent by eating the mosquitos. the reason why you gotta count everyday.. is what if 6 spiders became 5... where did the other one go.... WHERE?!@@redwitch12
Not Aussie but my bathroom has a nifty guy called John the Centipede. Pops up now and then for a chat, but I’m guessing he keeps my bathroom free of critters, so I’m not complaining….
Some supermarkets (Coles, IGA) have an alcohol isle. ALDI has a section near the checkouts that sells alcohol. But not in Queensland. Because it’s illegal. They miss out on ALDI’s range.
that wine thing is pretty funny. the state i live in allows wine / beer to be sold in grocery stores, but any liquor has to be bought from state owned liquor stores. the bright side is liquor always costing the same price statewide.
@@gnas3390 what do u mean?! Ofc Australia has states! They aren’t the 50 your probably use to but still! other countries have states, counties, Territories, what ever they call them most countries have them! (This is a joke btw a lot of people from other countries don’t know we have states and territories until they come to Australia) They are called: New South Wales Queensland Northern Territory Western Australia Southern Australia Victoria Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Your welcome, Ps: they are easier to remember then Alabama,Alaska,Arizona, Arkansas,California,Colorado,Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaï, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Misschien, Minnesota, Mississippi,Missouri, Montana ect (yes I named 25 of the 50 States I got lazy and yes I had to look up the spelling and every time I did I sang the 50 states song again so I would remember where I was up to it was very time wasting
As somebody from Pennsylvania, the wine thing doesn’t surprise me. Only in 2016 were supermarkets allowed to sell alcohol, and only under a restaurant license, which means wine and beer in a separate department and register only, no hard liquor. We always blame the quakers.
I'm live in Texas and I was visiting my aunt in Maryland. After walking around the supermarket for the third time I asked the cashier where the wine was. He looked at me as if I were crazy 😂
I can confirm as a Marylander that we have to run to the liquor store before 10pm if we want to drink liquor on any given day except Sunday when the liquor stores close even earlier 😂
Certain counties in Maryland you can buy wine and/or beer in the grocery store ( not in mine but in the one next door) Hard liquor only in liquor stores. Lived here all my life. Growing up, the liquor stores were all closed on Sundays so if you wanted any alcohol, you went during the week or on Saturday if you were having a get together on a Sunday.
@@BethanyNash aaaaaallllllll the bugs/critters/whatever start popping out in spring 😮 it’s time to get some spray insecticide and (seriously) spray every.single.access point outside the house. Around the windows and doors, along where the house meets the ground…
And the magpies are out to get you, and the spiders will infiltrate the building anyway, and the birds will hate you, and OH GOD THE MAGPIES ARE BACK.@@shojinryori
@@minimeow4085snake season is next month and lasts until April. Obviously if you live in a city, you’re good on that front. However, I’m sure you will be going to the beach at some point. Those months mentioned above also coincide with “budgy smuggler” season. Not good for your eyes.
For those not sure, the toilet is in its own small room, not the bathroom. The swooping birds are magpies and are very territorial while nesting, and bottle-os are all over the place, drive thru are popular for convenience but think of a liquor store.
When I was little in PA wine was sold only in a shop. Now grown up in NC liquor is only sold at ABC stores. You can buy wine and beer in stores but hard liquor is illegal in stores.
Alcohol is the same thing in Canada, at least it used to be. They JUST started allowing grocery stores to sell liquor in my province but its sold in a separate section where it has to be purchased before you go into the rest of the store.
I can buy alcohol in the supermarket in Ohio, but right across the line my mom in Pennsylvania can't. So she just waits until she goes shopping with me and gets it. What does having to buy it in a whole separate store do for anyone except waste gas and be an inconvenience?
@@roringusanda2837different states have different licensing laws and having it in one store makes it so you don't have to worry about carding at a bigger grocery store Remnants of the tenperance movement i believe
@@laurenblackmore don’t be even if you see spiders most of them aren’t gonna hurt you. Australia is perfectly safe as long as you know what you’re doing and you’re not being an idiot trying to get yourself killed. Just use common sense and you’ll be fine.
@@laurenblackmoreSo long as you stick to the cities and their adjacent areas, there's nothing to be concerned about. Except for maybe druggos, especially in Melbourne and Sydney. That's everywhere around the world, though! NYC would be worse
In Pennsylvania, for a long time, it was illegal to sell wine and liquor in grocery and convenience stores. You could only buy them at the state-owned stores.
@@Sara-mr1hs Nesting season. Magpies, Plovers and Native and Indian Mynas all do it. Cool thing though about Australian magpies ( which are not corvids like European magpies but are in fact from the Butcher bird family). They recognise local humans by facial features and recognise your voice, so do not attack their local 'tribe' of people. They also have the most complex song of all, look them up. I love maggies when they are 'my maggies' but when you are out in nesting season 'stranger' maggies can be terrifying!
The thing that always blows my mind is liquor in grocery stores and gas stations in some states. I live in NC, we have wine and beer in grocery stores but nothing stronger.
@@daniellemartin9896 yeah like that? bonkers to me. if you want ANY booze, even the light stuff, you gotta go to a liquor store, which all have to close by 10 (maybe 11?)
Same for me as a Nordic European (Finland). We always take our shoes off indoors, and growing up we saw Americans on TV wearing shoes inside their homes, seemed crazy 😮😆
That’s like my biggest culture shock moving to the South was you can’t purchase liquor from the grocery store or gas stations, only wine and beer. Gotta go to the liquor store if you want the hard stuff.
You actually couldn’t buy wine in Colorado grocery stores until earlier this year. Before that, it was illegal here too. Had to go to the liquor store if you wanted anything with any kind of alcohol in it. In my home state of Washington, they sell full blown liquor in the grocery store, it’s bizarre 🙃🙃
I live in Minnesota in America. We're the only state where alcohol has to be in basically another building within the supermarket. I was shocked to learn that alcohol isn't sold like this in the rest of my country
Go down to Iowa and alcohol is sold in gas stations,grocery stores and liquor stores, but liquor stores always have the best selections and then some grocery stores are right behind it, gas stations on the other hand usually only have different brands of beer and very limited liquor selections if they even decide to carry liquor at all!
I live in Illinois. Up until about 10 years ago the county next to mine was dry on Sundays, and all the towns outside the county seat and one other were completely dry. They've since gotten rid of the Sunday rule and most of the towns are no longer completely dry, but the formerly dry towns only created 1-2 liquor licenses each and still don't allow the sale of anything over 6%.
Just visited my daughter and son in law in Australia in June, and I get the toilet reference. In so many homes the toilet is in a different room than the sink and/or shower. However the last house I visited did have the toilet in the same room as the sink and bathtub and I was like “ Hallelujah!” But gotta add immediately next to that room was another room with just the toilet.
The alcohol thing is also true in the US depending on state. For example, ND and KS do not sell alcohol in the grocery store. You have to go to a liquor store. Which in ND is attached to the grocery store. So really not shocking.
imagine living in Utah in the USA (where I am) where you have separate state-run liquor stores. Typically hidden in out-of-the-way places and often not close to any other useful store. Now that IS changing with the more recently built ones - mine is 10 minutes away and near a Starbucks and a Walmart. But still....
The alcohol one is the same in America. I recently moved to fl & was so surprised you can’t but liquor in grocery or convince stores. You have to go to a liquor store. I was like whatttt
@@kuro4843it is a Florida thing, they still have like beers and wine and hard drinks in general but the real shit, like liquor is (most of the time) always kept next door
In the US there are similar wine/liquor laws, for example here in New York (the state not the city) where i live, you can get beer and cider in the grocery store, but not wine or liquor, however, in neighboring Massachusetts you can get all of those things even in Target, its so crazy
As a Pennsylvanian in America, I relate to the can't buy wine in supermarkets. We had that for the longest time. The state government finally allowed a few supermarkets to sell wine and beer, but with lots of red tape and a separate check out line.
When I moved to Perth from the uk my daughter got swooped by a magpie and was running screaming 😂😂😂. I was also shocked that people weren’t checking for snakes and spiders …truth is I never saw any until I went up into the hills 😂 - hell no!
Maggie (magpie) dodging is a skill most Australians learn in childhood. Before the bike helmets bristling with zip ties, we used empty icecream containers.
Im from Colorado, and at least in the part where I live, grocery stores didn't sell alcohol when I was growing up. I went to Washington to visit some family and was shocked to see an aisle full of wine and other liquor.
You can in California. It seems every grocery store (big chain ones like Safeway, anyway) has an aisle or two for alcohol. Although you gotta go to a place like Total Wine & More for variety.
