@@VanessaKanbi Listening to your sister's observations and insightful takes on Africa was thought-provoking ...comprehensive, deep, pragmatic, objective, unvarnished and eye-opening. You can tell it's deeply felt and from a place of deep passion for her homeland. ...Even with the telltale scintilla of her struggles/challenges assimilating, the dogma of transitioning are catharsis. Best studies of fundamentals and frameworks of dichotomous orientations are through elective lenses like hers. My observation is that these are underbelly struggles of biracial Africans, their vulnerabilities, suspicions, gullibility, etc. She's epitome of Africa's pride, given devotion by choice and identification. You should know that most Africans are especially proud of your family. Again, warmest cheers.
@@VanessaKanbi; OK. That's superb. But you are half Ghanaian, half Scot right 😁😁😃😃? Am your super number one fan. Love your voice just as I love your vlogs. Please keep them (AFRICAN content) coming.
Damn the content! So good! I think folks in the Diaspora especially, want to see these types of things as I know people are interested in moving to Africa but want to know that their lifestyles wouldn't change too dramatically (in terms of goods and services that are taken for granted in the West)
I would have preferred seeing local products, promoting Ghanian brands and industrials, and not the UK. We need to support made in Africa on the continent and create more jobs.
Hey, Vanessa my name is Antonio Carlos and live in Washington DC USA I’m a Subscriber of your channel on RU-vid I found you because me and my family are moving to Ghana,Accra and I’m let you know I’m very pleased with great videos you put on we have 3 small kids 2,4,6 year old which is very challenging moving from Washington DC to Accra,but anyway Thanks for the hard work you put to your channel and you are helping a lots of people out there take care.
Native born Ghanaian's probably don't eat most of the foods in that supermarket, so they import for those that want it! Dude was eating coconut out of a sandwich bag, or whatever it was, no fancy wrapping, not rice cakes, potato chips or cookies, and he was good with that!
The government has no plans to create factories 🏭 for the manufacturing of our own products but rather relying on foreign imported sugary foods with higher prices. All the factories Nkrumah created are all shut down since his overthrown.
It's very amazing how the owners model this type of grocery store like the Americans. Why all the cleaning products? I didn't know that Ghana 🇬🇭 had a large demand in that area. I learned something new again. Great video! Thanks.
That Duncan Hines cake mix for $5.50 is high; in the US it would be half that around $2.50. It’s full of artificial flavors that give it a weird flavor anyway so it’s actually better to make your cake homemade. Love the videos! 😁
Greetings Vanessa Kanbi, thanks for sharing this video on grocery shopping in Ghana, however I am vegetarian - Vegan. I look forward to your next episode or edition on vegan shopping in Ghana.
Do you realize that the average wages there are about 20x lower than in America. So you need to multiply each product x20 and then you’ll get how expensive everything is for the locals. Like that almond milk was around 3$ that equals to 60 USD!!! Would you be able to afford one milk for such a price?
thanks vanessa, the only way we can keep the youth in africa, is to let them know, africa has more to offer than europe, usa or asia. but ghana is more than accra, tema and kumasi. we need to develop the whole country. by the way, where is your husband and child? are you guys living in ghana? greetings from germany ✊🏿one africa
Yeah same prices, just the average wages are 15x lower…meaning that these products only the wealthiest people in Ghana can afford (it’s basically like buying a new Porsche in the US)
I thought the same. A couple large ones only 10 canadian dollars. Throw about 5 in my luggage should last a while. Or do a barrel and ship a lot of non perishables as I always do. So much cheaper.
I have to say im VERY surprised normally the imported goods are VERY expensive im born in the Caribbean and the imported goods are extortionate! but these prices are no different to the UK supermarkets. Also shocked at the range of recognisable brands also which is great too. Just hope they don't squeeze out the local products/industry. Great video very helpful
@Kimoy there's usually a balance of local and foreign products in every major store these days - locally made chips, essential oils, grains, fresh meat and fish, bread and most veg are always local, but it also depends on where the store is located and who they are catering to. Max Mart is situated between Cantonments, Airport And East Legon which are high income areas and the main areas where expats live so items on the shelves are geared mostly to them.
It would have been really cool if you did a tally of items you buy per week. So like a small family(3 people) and what the cost for everyone eat. Or like a single person and tally all food expenses and cost at the end. Multiply weekly cost by 52.2 to get the annual cost per year. So if you spend 45 dollars a week on food that’s adds up to 2,349 dollars a year on food alone.
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It depends where you buy your food. At the market it’s cheaper and it’s fresh food. The super markets is ‘expensive’ . It’s better to buy things at the market then random small things from super market.
Hi Vanessa! Watching you from France I love your videos😊 I see a lot of imported goods at the food store its crazy. Do they sell and promote local ghanaian brands at these stores? Is it common for local food brands to export outside africa? If so can you please make a video about it?? Many documentaries shows african countries importing goods but rarely exporting finished goods all packed, like cereals, popcorns, or box lunch...🙏🏾
Just hope local Ghanaians won't acquire tast for this product and stick with the local foods. Because these foods would make them sick and out of pocket.
A regular ghanaian wouldent go there. Its foriegners and those wannabe " polish" ghanaians who go there to buy those. chemicals. Most ghanaians will only go there for diapers and other luandry stuff
I’m tired of the rona. I need it to die so i can go to Ghana (or go anywhere tbh) without fear of getting ill. This video made me miss it even more😩 Also LOOOOOL why are they selling Waitrose brand products? I wonder if that means Waitrose are actually shipping their brand to Ghana🤔 that actually explains why I see the Waitrose sign in Accra on that building
You are right she didn't show the most important part if you going to do a video then do a good one people who doesn't live there can have an ideal if they want to move there or not.
Is organic different on African products compared to the US? I use to always buy Organic till I attended a US food and beverage conference. It’s amazing how they get away with openly scamming the public on organic products. They slap that label on, and raise the price. Even though they still use many pesticides and herbicides, many times even more than products without that “organic” label. Which, in the US, simply means that the one applied to meet the USDA's production standards for the term. It’s really screwed up.
Well it just like here in Boston Massachusetts And it expensive and wow no Coupon here in USA 🇺🇸 we have price cut love it (v)anny Boston 🍗🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🇬🇭🇬🇭🇺🇸❤️💔💯💯💯💯
Think the point of her video as she said was to show diasporeans who want to move here, that they can get all the same things they're used to in Ghana as well. She was not trying to showcase made in Ghana products.
Love seeing the Milo, that stuff spread all over the world, although, Nth America has some crappy version that disolves, not the crunchy version found in Australia and Jamaica, which type is it in Ghana?, hopefully the original cruchy one that rises to the top of cold milk!!!
Thanks for sharing hun, thought stuff would be cheaper in Ghana. Alpro £2.30 when we buy it for £1.40. Uncle Ben's Rice 2 packets for £1 in POUNDLAND, hmmm!!!
Is there a local chocolate industry in Ghana, I would hope so? Not good for food kilometres to export the raw materials all the way to Europe then ship the finished product back to Ghana.
Nice to see. What would a local family of four spend on groceries a month, Say parents are both government school teachers and children are under five and they live in Cape Coast. What might be their weekly spend?
Efua why are you being a distractor? The video is just letting people know that whatever is in Europe or North America can also be found in a Ghanaian shop. If your salary is not high enough why go there to shop? What about the expats who work in Ghana, should they always continue to ship their groceries from their home countries? Do you want to see Ghana as a place where no foreign products could be found because they are out of reach for the people you described?
Depends where you shop? Buying imported groceries is always going to be very pricey. However if you go to the markets and do your shopping (or send someone..) you can cut your groceries down. I suspect for family of four, you could easily spend 1000$ a month on imported groceries. Maybe 300$ if you minimize imported stuff and shop at markets.
It’s quite sad to see all the Waitrose goods there it’s one of the most expensive supermarkets in the UK. Does this supermarket specialise in foreign goods.
It carries both local and imported products just like any other supermarket in the world. Obviously Vanessa being from the UK gravitated towards brands she knew.
That same store has a meat section that sells fish, red meat, turkey, chicken and various hams. She only showed 3-4 aisles in the whole store which is actually a 4 storey building. You didn't see even 1/4 of what was available there unfortunately
@@jesusmywholehaschanged not advisable to buy fresh meat at our markets. You can buy fish cos it's caught fresh everyday, but meat - you do so at your own risk. One always buys meat from a proper butcher or grocery store
@@jesusmywholehaschanged OK send me your email address. When I go shopping over the coming weekend, I can take some pics/vid and send them to you (if I'm allowed to). It will be at a different, slightly less expensive grocery chain though.
Most of these food are brought in purposely for the western guests not Ghanaians people my people in royal area don't eat these food. It's fresh food from the farm.
@@mikeprat1 lol there are local American shops here where you can buy in bulk. You can also buy locally made flour and oil. It's not expensive. This is just one grocery store that caters to a high end clientele. You can Google Game or Shoprite for a slightly less expensive grocery chain in Ghana. Also Google Farmers market Accra.
