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Is Aldi cheaper in the US or the UK? Also is it that much cheaper than Sainsbos?
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@bobtheskutterbot
@bobtheskutterbot Год назад
35.10 GBP (Aldi UK shop) is the equivalent of working for 3.7 hours on the National Living Wage in the UK. $77.92 (Aldi US shop) is the equivalent of working for 10.7 hours on the Federal US National Wage. Even using California's minimum wage of $15 it is 5.2 hours of work to buy that "basket".
@830927mjki
@830927mjki Год назад
Thats a really good way of looking at it. Also horrifying
@fanfeck2844
@fanfeck2844 Год назад
This is the information we needed
@charlotteinnocent8752
@charlotteinnocent8752 Год назад
Yeah VERY different state to state. Don't forget no one this side of the Atlantic has to buy health insurance and that is HUGE.
@shirleydanby4123
@shirleydanby4123 Год назад
Now this is that statistic people need to understand. Well done.
@830927mjki
@830927mjki Год назад
@@charlotteinnocent8752 I mean, technically we all pay National Insurance (NI). We treat it as a tax though really since that's pretty much how it works. It also actually works unlike US insurance. The stories I hear about 5+ figure US medical bills or 3-4 figure monthly prescriptions are scary. I pay £108.10 per year for my prescription. Wanna know how much I'd pay for 4 prescriptions? £108.10!
@loveisall5520
@loveisall5520 Год назад
I have an Aldi in my city here in Texas, never set foot in there. My friends tell me that the big chains are a little higher on some things, and have a lot, lot more choice.
@PrezidentHughes
@PrezidentHughes Год назад
I was always a Tesco shill because of Clubcard Points. But since COVID, I've done my main shop at Aldi and then go to Tesco for the fancier extras.
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@nightwish1000
@nightwish1000 Год назад
Honestly, if you think that Pink Lady would be the finest apples, you have never eaten a real apple.
@robhingston
@robhingston Год назад
I love these comparisons, Thanks
@jimrandall1739
@jimrandall1739 Год назад
Why did I watch this, I already shop at Aldi. Because its very entertaining. 😄
@John_259
@John_259 Год назад
Bear in mind that UK prices include VAT wherea US prices probably don't include sales tax. Also, Lidl are very similar to Aldi.
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@danowen79
@danowen79 Год назад
Excellent work. Crazy to realise how cheap the U.K. supermarkets are in general, or how much Americans don’t realise they’re being ripped off.
@dannymarie
@dannymarie Год назад
A lot of people(especially the poor/working class) do realize they're being ripped off, they just feel powerless to do anything about it.
@christywillis1707
@christywillis1707 Год назад
Yeah, if there aren't other options then it doesn't matter if you realize you're being ripped off.
@danapayne2654
@danapayne2654 Год назад
We're aware we're being ripped off but there's not a lot we can do. Our politicians should be required to wear their sponsorships on jackets and our elections are jokes, new candidates very rarely get enough name recognition to get to a general election. So laws and taxes are only for the poor while the rich continue to suck as much profit out of us as they can. We can't leave because that requires money we don't have and visa requirements for Americans are too much for most of us to meet. In the long term it means that eventually the rich are going to have a large angry group that has nothing left to lose. A large generally educated group with nothing left to lose. Eek.
@sunnya4310
@sunnya4310 Год назад
Companies are using inflation as an excuse to mark up prices at a rate higher than they normally would. They know they can get away with it too because of lack of regulation. My grocery cost has gone up by 30% in the last 3 months.
@Kyudos
@Kyudos Год назад
@@danapayne2654 Just need the media to change their terminology. If they consistently changed "lobbying" and "lobbyist" to "bribery" and "briber" and "campaign contribution" to "bribe" I'm sure there would be a groundswell demand for change in how DC runs the show...
@_carrot__cake_
@_carrot__cake_ Год назад
As someone who’s from Ukraine, I’m honestly shocked at how affordable groceries are in UK and Europe. Whenever I’d travel to Europe in recent years the prices never felt that different to those back home. I just made a comparison spreadsheet using Aldi UK prices from this video and Ukrainian items from one of the cheapest stores in the country (“АТБ”). The total came to be 1,15 times MORE EXPENSIVE IN UKRAINE. WOW.
@lorrefl7072
@lorrefl7072 Год назад
Those prices in the Ukraine might be jacked up due the war art the moment. Although the prices of everything have gone up slightly here in Belgium since the Russian invasion I'm guessing your prices have gone up even more. I do hope you're safe where you are.
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
@@lorrefl7072 Nah, I'm from Belgium too and I hate to admit that we're definitely leaning more towards the US pricing for a lot of stuff... I'm a student and thus have to buy my own groceries (I buy off-brand items and always check prices) but it's still so expensive...
@0spidey1
@0spidey1 Год назад
About the same experience comparing prices with those in Hungary...
@lorrefl7072
@lorrefl7072 Год назад
@@myra0224 There must be regional differences then because I did the comp too with where I shop and my prices were comparable to the UK prices.
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
@@lorrefl7072 Nah, it's expensive where I live with my parents, it's expensive where I study (Both at the two opposites of the country in Flanders)
@ConstantSorrow
@ConstantSorrow Год назад
Last year Sainsbury’s increased the price of some of their products to ‘price match’ Aldi. These were things they were selling cheaper and raised the price to the same as Aldi.
@nataliebutler
@nataliebutler Год назад
I'd assumed they lowered the price to match Aldi!
@HF-tj8db
@HF-tj8db Год назад
Do you have any examples? I believe you, but that sounds insane!
@philwill0123
@philwill0123 Год назад
@@HF-tj8db it makes sense. They are losing profit on items by dropping to match Aldi, but raising other prices. I remember a few years ago, Sainsbury's did Thier basics curry sauces for about 7-8p. In those blindfold taste tests newspapers did, the curry sauce got a best bargain buy of 4/5 on the test. Next day, price went up to 26p a jar. Now, that same basics curry is about 44p. They know people assume they are more expensive than Aldi. Deliberately going cheaper means they lose that. additional profit
@helennoble9587
@helennoble9587 Год назад
Raising? I’ve not seen this at all I’ve noticed decrease in Tesco price match a few items to Aldi but not the other
@eattherich9215
@eattherich9215 Год назад
@@helennoble9587: neither Sainsbury's nor Tesco's price match the things I typically buy in the discount stores. Curiously, though, Tesco's price for salmon is better than Aldi and Lidl.
@barnsleymat
@barnsleymat Год назад
We left New Zealand 6 years ago and moved back to the UK. Out there I was horrified at poor wages and crazy high grocery prices. I did a similar comparison when we returned to the UK, a £36 shop here would have cost £92 $NZD
@elizabethnahu3422
@elizabethnahu3422 Год назад
Yeah im from new zealand and amazed by these prices, grocery shopping here is so terrible rn. A block of tasty cheese from countdown is currently $20
@irdairda514
@irdairda514 Год назад
Yeah shopping in NZ is so much worse now compared to 6 years ago.
@sroberts605
@sroberts605 Год назад
@@irdairda514 Any idea why? These things seem so arbitrary. Obviously, smaller population, larger distance for things not grown there perhaps? But it's not that clear.
@fanfeck2844
@fanfeck2844 Год назад
Be interesting to compare NZ lamb prices, as most of ours comes from there
@irdairda514
@irdairda514 Год назад
@@sroberts605 even things grown/made here are expensive. Unlike in Europe, we can't just drive across the border to buy things (my relatives there do that all the time).
@VN2L
@VN2L Год назад
I never paid much attention to how cheap things were in the UK until I moved to Korea and discovered I couldn't buy a mango without taking out a personal loan. The language class I was in ended up arguing with our teacher over whether or not $5 for 5 apples was expensive or cheap. In Korea it's cheap, in China, Vietnam and the UK it's daylight robbery lmao
@starryjeongyeon
@starryjeongyeon Год назад
£1 per apple?! that's crazy...i can buy my usual 6-pack of gala apples for around £1.20
@taegiseoktrash8874
@taegiseoktrash8874 Год назад
I used to live in the UK and moved to HK and some of the groceries here are so freaking expensive, especially all the stuff Europeans like to eat LOL (milk, yoghurt, cheese omg) Also since you mentioned apples, I pay 25 HKD for 4 apples, which is roughly 0.80 usd per apple but these are the really big sweet apples, other type of apples have different prices
@PeterLawrey
@PeterLawrey Год назад
I recently bought the most expensive apples my local fruit store sells. 5 pink lady apples for £2.
@Thetom5000
@Thetom5000 Год назад
you can get 6 apples for like 60p in the UK lol
@cai739
@cai739 Год назад
I think one reason the UK is so cheap is that there are so many supermarkets competing against eachother in such a small area (UK is the size, if not smaller, than many US states). Aldi and Lidl becoming popular in the UK has really cut down prices, as seen by other supermarkets price matching them.
@vorong2ru
@vorong2ru Год назад
nop, as part of the EU or single market even after Brexit - the whole Europe is benefiting from having amazing agricultural wealth and the prices for food are as cheap in the whole Europe as in the UK. Ie prices in Germany or Poland are even cheaper.
@HF-tj8db
@HF-tj8db Год назад
I agree, I used to live in a tiny rural town and we had a sainsburys, Tesco, Iceland, herons and a Lidl. A lot of competition for not very many people.
@cai739
@cai739 Год назад
@@vorong2ru Yes, and those countries also benefit from greater competition.
@chatteyj
@chatteyj Год назад
@@vorong2ru How does the EU explain super cheap prices ? The US is also a huge single market with an abundance of produce from wealthy farms from all four corners of the country so I'm not sure it does explain it. Supermarket competition in the UK is fierce even before aldi got big here so I do think it does explain the extremely low prices to some extent.
@laurie7689
@laurie7689 Год назад
@@chatteyj I live in a small city of 33,000 in the Southern USA. There are a total of 4 places to buy groceries without crossing the border of the city. One of the four is an Aldi. Another is a Super Walmart and its kin, a Neighborhood Walmart. The last one is a Publix. Most of the stores are located in the central part of the city. Since I live on the city edge, I actually do my grocery shopping in the next city which has its stores more spread out and one of the grocery stores which is closer to me than those in my own city. About half of the produce that I buy has labels from other countries than the USA, despite knowing that our farmers grow those same products here.
@han1660
@han1660 Год назад
US prices are absolutely crazy. When I was there 20 years ago, the UK was more expensive. Now it has switched.
@Stephen-Fox
@Stephen-Fox Год назад
Yeah I remember an American on my uni course who commented about how much more expensive everything was in the UK compared to the US (...Except for high-quality candy)
@jameslewis2635
@jameslewis2635 Год назад
20 years ago the pound to dollar ratio was $2 = £1. These days the pound and the dollar are of a very similar value (quite suddenly too).
@han1660
@han1660 Год назад
@@Stephen-Fox the only thing I remember being more expensive in the states back then was vegetables, I was taken aback by the prices of veg but everything else was cheaper
@han1660
@han1660 Год назад
@@jameslewis2635 yes that too, I remember that
@han1660
@han1660 Год назад
I think they are really being ripped off, especially on vegetables
@Chopsyochops
@Chopsyochops Год назад
Yay. So glad you finally tested out Aldi. Sainsburys is super expensive. The craziest part about this comparison is that a year ago, all of these items were at least 50-70% cheaper than they are now. Aldi prices have risen quite a bit.
@micheleosullivan4430
@micheleosullivan4430 Год назад
I returned from the US, and back to the UK yesterday after a three-week visit with family. It's been three years since my last visit. I had sticker shock pre-pandemic. This most recent visit? I was appalled by the price inflation at the grocery store. It's good to be back home in the UK! Thanks for another great video!
@billydonaldson6483
@billydonaldson6483 Год назад
You visit ALDI for your groceries and leave with a car Jack and a chainsaw. 😂😂
@lesleyfoster8406
@lesleyfoster8406 Год назад
If you don't have an ALDI near you, LIDL can also be similarly cheap. The main tradeoff compared to going somewhere like Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's, etc., is that the total product range tends to be smaller in ALDI and LIDL, but there's still plenty of choice there in my opinion usually.
@misterthegeoff9767
@misterthegeoff9767 Год назад
In my town we are lucky enough to have a Lidl and a Sainsburys right next to each other so you can go to Lidl and get the basics then anything you can't find in Lidl pop next door
@idasiek
@idasiek Год назад
​@@misterthegeoff9767 I'd love that, I have Lidl next door, but I can never get my full shop there, it's infuriating. So I go to asdas after work instead and don't have to have 2 trips 🤷🏻‍♀️
@Guttlegob
@Guttlegob Год назад
LiDL bakery is way better than aldi
@patmaurer8541
@patmaurer8541 Год назад
Yes! I'm a label reader. If I can get a pound of roasted peanuts that "Contains: peanuts, salt." I'm happy. Are they fresh, crunchy and delicious? Yes. I'm sold. I don't care what else the label says. 😉
@IceGoddessRukia
@IceGoddessRukia Год назад
LIDL shoppers gang!! WOO!
@bethwilson7901
@bethwilson7901 Год назад
I am very thankful for Aldi in the USA. It may be more expensive here than in the UK, in comparison to other chains in the US, Aldi saves me a ton of money.
@thisorthat7626
@thisorthat7626 Год назад
I find Trader Joe's cheaper than Aldi which honestly surprised me. And overall better quality food at TJs.
@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh
@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh Год назад
@@thisorthat7626 I've only been to a trader Joe's once. I find that they are located only in places with crazy parking lots and cranky people.
@lizcademy4809
@lizcademy4809 Год назад
@@thisorthat7626 I've shopped a lot at both, and ... it depends. TJ's is cheaper and higher quality on prepared foods and fancy things. Aldi is cheaper on basics. For example, take that canned tuna. Aldi's is pretty low cost, but it's also the lowest quality that looks like cat food. Trader Joes sells high quality oil packed tuna at a reasonable price.
@thisorthat7626
@thisorthat7626 Год назад
@@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh Good reasons to not go there. LOL
@enkisdaughter4795
@enkisdaughter4795 Год назад
I’m British but we have a holiday home just outside Orlando. Back in 2019 my sister and her family were visiting and went to a local ALDI, which was about a 10-12 minute drive away. They were chatting as they walked from the car towards the store and an American couple approached them upon hearing their English accents. The American couple wanted to know about ALDI and what the food quality was like; they were surprised that ALDI is also in the UK. My sister explained that ALDI’s foods are of an extremely good quality, as German food laws are so strict. The lady was shocked to discover ALDI was a German company. A week later, the family is at ALDI again and the couple approached them; after the earlier discussion they’d done their first ALDI shop and had made quite a saving. They said from then on they would always do the majority of their food shopping at ALDI and were telling all their family, friends and colleagues to shop at ALDI. BTW, the first ALDI opened in the USA (Iowa) in 1976, whereas the first ALDI opened in the UK in 1990!
@BitsOfBen
@BitsOfBen Год назад
So here is a curious thing I've discovered. A popular normal brand of cereal is called Frosties in the UK or Frosted Flakes in the US (the brand with Tony the Tiger). When I was looking in the cereal section in my local Aldi (in the UK) I came across their own brand version of Frosties which is ironically called Frosted Flakes. I'm now curious to see if the Aldi US version is called Frosties. I doubt it is but it would be hilarious. I've tried looking for this online but can't seem to find it. 😂
@Pure_B
@Pure_B Год назад
It can't be called Frosties as Kelloggs have the patent.
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@BitsOfBen
@BitsOfBen Год назад
And you're saying they don't own the patent for Frosted Flakes in the UK?
@Pure_B
@Pure_B Год назад
@@BitsOfBen No, I'm saying Kelloggs have the patent/ trademark for the name in the UK and the US.
@BitsOfBen
@BitsOfBen Год назад
There you go.
@Alex-cw3rz
@Alex-cw3rz Год назад
I imagine one reason the meats are closer is that the US has lower standards for meat for example chlorinated chicken, which isn't legal in the UK but is in the USA.
@neilboulton9813
@neilboulton9813 Год назад
@Alex that said, they have huge cattle ranches with far lower welfare standards and the beef pumped full of steroids and it still 4 TIMES more expensive.
@Steeler-wg5zo
@Steeler-wg5zo Год назад
Most cattle in the US are literally pumped up, time is money.... cheaper, but often qualitatively crap.
@paladestar9758
@paladestar9758 Год назад
That was one of the things that riled up the UK populous when talk of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US first started. It was reported that as part of any deal we'd have to take their dodgy and tasteless chlorine-washed chicken and steroid/hormone-pumped-beef. The UK public let the government know that this was a red-line being crossed and it wasn't ever going to happen.
@waveymattdavey
@waveymattdavey Год назад
Not a complaint because you're doing what I think is important work to educate people and making great content. But I think the Sainsbury's rice was Basmati, which is more expensive and they do sell a 1kg bag of basic rice for 45p, specifically to match Aldi. Edit: ah man I didn't look far enough, someone's mentioned this already!
@CraigGrannell
@CraigGrannell Год назад
Same with the cheese, which is usually closer to £2.50 than four quid. (Sometimes that’s price matched, but even when it isn’t it’s still close.)
@madisonwaycaster9832
@madisonwaycaster9832 Год назад
The reason is price gauging. Capitalism sucks.
@AuntyProton
@AuntyProton Год назад
I watch a lady from Scotland who does cooking videos and shows what she gets for groceries each week. It always astounds me how low the prices are even for Sainsburys. I'm in the South in the US where you'd think it would be cheaper but no.
@AlanSmithofficial
@AlanSmithofficial Год назад
Not necessarily true…Sainsburys have their own brand items but they also have other brands like Hubbard’s which is comparable to Aldi. Hubbards rice at Sainsburys 45p per kg Aldi rice 45p per kg So if you want to shop cheap you still can at Sainsburys or most of the other supermarkets. The bigger supermarkets also tend to have more offers that don’t really exist in Aldi or lidl.
@beta-draconis
@beta-draconis Год назад
came here to say this. your sainos video has a lot of branded items rather than their cheaper store brand stuff, so not a like for like comparison.
@Alex-cw3rz
@Alex-cw3rz Год назад
Yeah I was going to say this too the sainsburys items were branded unlike Aldi's
@vorong2ru
@vorong2ru Год назад
the problem is - own branded stuff in sainsburys is pure shit quality, ALDI - quality is totally fine. YEs, you get more choice in Tessco or other supermarkets, but you can do the main shop in Aldi and just top it up with extra stuff from Sainsbury's
@jayp_2023
@jayp_2023 Год назад
Don't forget the Clubcard deals at Tesco. You can save here and there by using it to get Clubcard discounted prices.
@fanfeck2844
@fanfeck2844 Год назад
@@jayp_2023 why do they need a Clubcard? Why not just have competitive prices
@poppy9259
@poppy9259 Год назад
When I lived in the north of England and shopped at Aldi I could get over a weeks worth of food for around £10. It really helped me out
@JBG-AjaxzeMedia
@JBG-AjaxzeMedia Год назад
haven't watched the vid yet but i just love seeing other people reviewing the place i work at! its so interesting to see both sides of the coin edit: also to think us store assistants are getting a third pay rise in 12 months really shows how much grocery stores have ripped us off for decades thinking all our stuff is good value for money, and then Aldi come along and show them all up. they can keep price matching us all they want, but we will laugh knowing that you are basically just admitting defeat and kissing our feet!
@minoumcduff5727
@minoumcduff5727 Год назад
I wouldn't eat US meat no matter how cheap it was
@montyollie
@montyollie Год назад
I haven't even watched yet, but I can almost GUARANTEE that the US will be double or triple the price. And I'm Canadian and we're even more expensive than the US. Brits get off SO LUCKY with their price of groceries. I'll never understand it.
@somethingrio
@somethingrio Год назад
even with brexit i dont know how were so cheap, I think though its just down to logistics and how they source products.
@montyollie
@montyollie Год назад
@@LittleMissPyeWacket We are at $1.80 a litre at the moment. Canadian.
@baronvonlimbourgh1716
@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Год назад
@@LittleMissPyeWacket our cars are a lot more fuel efficient, so cost per mile should be close enough. Plus on average people drive less as well. There probabbly is little difference in monthly outlay for fuel on average per person.
@chatteyj
@chatteyj Год назад
@@somethingrio Its down to fierce supermarket competition and screwing the farmers out of existence , its just plain wrong.
@lottie2525
@lottie2525 Год назад
Favourite Evan quote this week, "None of these wanky brands..." 🤣
@y_fam_goeglyd
@y_fam_goeglyd Год назад
Yeah 😂. Btw, for those who are not British, don't use that word here. It's one thing among friends, it's an entirely different matter in public. If younger people stop to think about it, it's extremely rude!
@ProtectEnglandAtAllCosts
@ProtectEnglandAtAllCosts Год назад
@@y_fam_goeglyd lol wanky is nothing lol me and my dad always call eachother a C*** and your guna cry over the word wanky wtf
@stephenlee5929
@stephenlee5929 Год назад
Hi, Given you ae not normally using Aldi (UK), I thought it worth mentioning the price increases even within the last 2/3 weeks, so I think your Aldi/Sainsbury comparison may not be as favourable to Sainsbury's as you think, 'cos I think Sainsbury's is also rising, as is Asda and Tesco. I don't think it alters the basic 'message', trend of what you are saying, just saying our (UK) grocery inflation is high at the moment. And my favourite part of Aldi shopping 'the aisle of random sh*t', so much fun.
@richardpoynton4026
@richardpoynton4026 Год назад
Nothing like getting your weekly groceries and say, a wetsuit, if you so wish…. lol
@travcollier
@travcollier Год назад
Tangentially, I was chatting with a fellow who worked at Aldi in the US. Quite hard work... The employees are always supposed to be doing something so they can keep labor costs and prices low. But he liked it because the company treated them decently. They even worked out a nice transfer for him when he moved. It is a German company, of course.
@emjayay
@emjayay 8 месяцев назад
The Aldi where I shop in Brooklyn NY has mostly different checkers every time I go there, indicating lower than normal wages, bad treatment, or both.
@pd4165
@pd4165 2 месяца назад
UK supermarkets have struggled to keep employees so their wages have risen (from minimum to a bit over minimum) and Aldi and Lidl (essentially the same) both seem to retain staff well, but work them quite hard. They also get to sit down when working checkout! Being German counts for nothing here, European benefits are pretty much the same so the only thing German about Aldi is some of the groceries have a continental European twist, which makes things interesting.
@Angie_King_Bens_Grandma
@Angie_King_Bens_Grandma Год назад
Food here in US is so ridiculous!! I'm very sad seeing how badly we're being screwed!☹️ Edit to add - living in California where a lot of produce is grown, I know that the many years drought has caused many farmers to leave fields fallow because there isn't enough water to grow crops.
@HF-tj8db
@HF-tj8db Год назад
But it’s at the expense of our farmers… sure, it’s great to get a kilo of carrots for 11p, but farmers are being run out of business. Watched clarkson’s farm yesterday and he made £144 after a year. Insane. Still, I can’t complain, since if the veg wasn’t so cheap I couldn’t afford any.
@lynn69jackson
@lynn69jackson Год назад
Probably due to the logistics costs. With the UK being so much smaller they can source produce from far closer than in the US.
@brandonhowell5096
@brandonhowell5096 Год назад
@@lynn69jackson That and in the UK the shelf life for most products is actually far shorter then those in the US meaning the UK has a quicker turn over rate on products meaning there stores make more per day over the course of a month then stores in the US do because shelf life is longer in the US due in part to needing to make things last longer due to the large distances most products have to travel.
@0x2A_
@0x2A_ Год назад
@@brandonhowell5096 I worked in a distribution warehouse for ASDA here in the UK for 5 years and you would be surprised how much of it is actually imported from all over the world and how little is actually UK sourced or even from Europe. It wasn't all the time but certain periods of the year the Iceberg Lettuces were imported from California. The way the stores are stocked here (at least ASDA stores) is by using estimates calculated from a lot data from each individual store to try and stock them with only what they are guaranteed to sell within 1 day of receiving them making a long shelf life for fresh and refrigerated items unnecessary and is in part done because of how long it can actually take some stuff from being picked/made to get to the shelf and not having much life left. Some types of Apples can up to 9 months from being picked off the tree until they are on the shop shelf.
@brandonhowell5096
@brandonhowell5096 Год назад
@@0x2A_ Thanks for correcting me for certain things in my earlier reply, but that wouldn't necessarily negate my point that UK stores have higher turn over rates for products leading to a higher profit margin thus leaning itself to the lower average price range outside of governmental involvment.
@phoenixskyward9972
@phoenixskyward9972 Год назад
To be honest, the UK is one of the cheapest places to by groceries period. I have been to many countries from Turkey, all the way to Morocco, most of Europe etc. Of course there are street foods and markets in he countries that blow the lid out of the UK, like Turkish natural produce markets, and if you wanna go even more crazy, wait until near closing time, you can buy like 5KGs of apple for less than £1 and that's after inflation from the past few years. But back to my point, the UK has a fantastic all rounded quality to price ratio that is still unbeatable in my opinion. I'm not even English just so you don't think I'm being biased.
@dogsnads5634
@dogsnads5634 8 месяцев назад
UK markets are also far cheaper than the supermarkets for fruit and veg. Not for meat, fish or bread though as they tend to be artisan producers, that is unless its a dedicated fish or meat market like you'll get in larger towns and cities.
@lucie4185
@lucie4185 Год назад
Braeburn is the only one true Apple. Pink ladies have that wierd squashy texture.
@indigobunting5041
@indigobunting5041 Год назад
I like Braeburn apples but haven't been able to find them lately.
@liryan
@liryan Год назад
Recently moved to the US from Australia. The grocery price here is absolutely insane.
@blackhole3298
@blackhole3298 Год назад
Aldi is still one of the more affordable in the US compared to target etc
@JamesLMason
@JamesLMason Год назад
You can't beat Cox. Cox, especially at this time of the year are amazing. I really can't get enough of them
@ketmateo
@ketmateo Год назад
Can't beat a big ol' bag of Cox. Just filling your mouth with Cox, chowing down on one after another, catching the juice before it runs down your chin
@y_fam_goeglyd
@y_fam_goeglyd Год назад
Ah yes, especially Cox's particularly delicious orange pippin. One cannot live without Cox, IMHO 😉
@magicweaver2886
@magicweaver2886 Год назад
This video makes me wanna cry. The prices over here in New Zealand are about the same if not worse than in the US (after checking our popular cheapest supermarket), despite the average annual income being less than the UK (noticeably so). Oh and we have been in a "bit" of a housing crisis for a while now. Although I guess we get to live in NZ... :|
@ez3748
@ez3748 Год назад
same in australia except we don't even get to live in nz 😔 brb i'm swimming across the sea
@danowen79
@danowen79 Год назад
It’s a bit more understandable for you guys because of your location and how much needs to be imported, whereas Europe is a large cluster of mostly first world countries with a diverse mix of things being grown and made.
@magicweaver2886
@magicweaver2886 Год назад
@@danowen79 Sure, but there is a lot of things that we do produce, particularly meat, and dairy, that are still really bloody expensive despite the fact that it doesn't really have to go far. Milk in particular. It's often about 30mins (if that) to drive to the nearest dairy farms from the larger cities here and you see a lot of the milk tankers going around, yet the price for milk is roughly $3.79 NZD for 2L of the cheapest store brand of basic ass milk. (That's $2.21 in USD or £1.92) And beef has gotten horrendously expensive. In fact there was a point where you could get venison for much cheaper than beef which is ridiculous. Besides the main issue is that the income here compared to groceries and other costs of living is bad. (Although at the moment the UK is having a really crap time). Oh gosh this kept getting longer. tldr: Our products that we produce are also really expensive and our income isn't comparable to the cost of living which is the issue
@jimmyjohnstone5878
@jimmyjohnstone5878 Год назад
There are scary new laws being proposed in NZ which will seriously infringe free speech. I wouldn't want to live there if these actually come in.
@Guttlegob
@Guttlegob Год назад
Yes NZ is an awesome place
@lynn69jackson
@lynn69jackson Год назад
Aldi isn't always cheaper but on the whole I save around £30 per weekly shop. The business model means that they source their products from as near to the store as possible. This is how they can sell produce cheaper as the logistics cost far less per store.
@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526
Yeah, no matter where you are, you'll save money if you shop around. The area I do my shopping in has a home bargains, a Lidl and an Aldi within a minute's walk of each other. So of course, I'll go into each of them for different items and save a decent bit more. There's also a Sainsbury's nearby, but the only thing that's cheaper there is the instant noodles.
@Alex-cw3rz
@Alex-cw3rz Год назад
The reason Aldi is cheaper is because they have a much smaller selection, this means they can specialise and therefore give cheaper products but much less variety. They also have 1 person on tills when they have 4 tills and the employees have to do every job and that's why spillages are there all day, shelves are stacked poorly and there are constant calls for staff to do a different job, because they don't have an enough employees.
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
@@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526 Just wondering but do you go by car? Because I use public transport and I'd find it so awkward to go into another grocery store with a bag of groceries from the store nearby 😅
@jamesguitar7384
@jamesguitar7384 Год назад
@@Alex-cw3rz I think they have just about enough employees but it's got less since Brexit. Our Aldi has introduced supervised self check out which helps .I often have to queue at Sainsbury's.
@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526
@@myra0224 No, I walk/use public transport. I'll be honest, I don't get what's awkward about that. You're shopping, you have a bag. Who cares where it's from? I guarantee you the shop's employee's don't. Besides, people should reuse shopping bags, to minimise waste. Chances are, that'll mean that sooner or later you'll go into a shop with the 'wrong' bag anyway, it's no big deal. That said, if you do find it awkward, that's easily bypassed by not using their bags at all- bring a backpack with you and put your shopping in that, it's more efficient and easier/more comfortable to carry your shopping in anyway. If you're concerned about running out of space in it, bring a reusable bag or two in your pocket as well, no problem.
@SisterMu
@SisterMu Год назад
I would be interested to know how much money ends up with the original producers, the farmers. I believe a lot of dairy farmers in the UK struggle because the supermarkets push them on price. Does the extra money in the US go to the farmers?
@really-quite-exhausted
@really-quite-exhausted Год назад
During my second year of uni, they built an Aldi across the road from my flat. Before it opened, I had to walk all the way across town to go to Sainsburys as it was the only nearby supermarket (except m&s lmaoooo). I was *ecstatic* when I was able to switch to Aldi - less far to carry heavy bags, and cheaper shopping 🥳 🎊 🎉
@jessv4300
@jessv4300 Год назад
Ugh same, at my school the closest grocery store for any of the on-campus students (and probably 80% of students off-campus) is a very small Target that carries 1/4 of the items at 1.5x the price of any suburban Target. Such a scam, and I really hope the university does something about it.
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
@@jessv4300 What's the university going to do about it? Beg grocery stores to open one on campus?
@grahamroberts2893
@grahamroberts2893 Год назад
You would expect groceries in the UK to be dearer with £ nearly hitting parity with the $
@stewedfishproductions7959
@stewedfishproductions7959 Год назад
Why? It's very expensive to shop in the US. The only thing they are cheaper at is eating out and the portion sizes provided.
@midevilmayhem8334
@midevilmayhem8334 Год назад
UK includes tax in the price i think and the US does not include the tax until you get to the register
@evan
@evan Год назад
No groceries tax in NJ. It’s discussed at length in part 1
@emperor111ming
@emperor111ming Год назад
It would be interesting to see how these price differences are reflected in the wholesale prices paid to farmer/producers? I know for example, the wholesale price paid for milk to farmers in the UK has decreased (when allowing for inflation) in past 20 years.
@yathesearchindex
@yathesearchindex Год назад
I believe milk is a very very low profit margin product. You can notice that by checking milk price across all stores and see it’s more or less the same.
@lizzieburgess674
@lizzieburgess674 Год назад
I don't know about the actual prices, but I have heard that small producers get - or used to get - paid a lot more promptly by both Aldi and Lidl than by most of the 'big boys'. It was somewhat shaming to the big boys, who promised to up their game. I don't know if they did, though - and prompt payment for goods received is usually VERY important to small businesses.
@WMD4929
@WMD4929 Год назад
I read that farmers are really being squeezed by supermarkets on a variety of products. From yesterday's Private Eye: 'while the price of eggs on supermarket shelves has risen by roughly 45p per dozen, only 5-10p of this has filtered down to egg farmers'.
@rakido7388
@rakido7388 Год назад
Given that a lot of US gardens seem to be frickin' huge compared to the UK (having an acreage is much more common), is growing your own veg not a thing?
@WritingsOfQuill
@WritingsOfQuill Год назад
Not as a replacement for everyday groceries. Especially if you factor in the time investment...
@laurie7689
@laurie7689 Год назад
@@WritingsOfQuill Also, time constraints for tending a garden. Generally, both adults (assuming that there is even two) in a household work. We're too tired when we get home in the evening to tend to a garden. My husband's job has him working on weekends, so we aren't together most of the time on our off-days.
@flashyourknits
@flashyourknits Год назад
And then if you shop in Utah just quadruple everything. 😫 I didn’t realize just how expensive our groceries were until I went on a trip to California and the groceries were the same price. 😦 I was in Oxford for the summer and couldn’t believe how cheap the groceries were, especially since the produce is better quality.
@enoughahnaf1
@enoughahnaf1 Год назад
I've pretty much exclusively shopped at Sainsbury's during my time studying in the UK with the occasional visit to a local Tesco. For me the costlier items are justified by the loyalty program (specifically the Nectar and the Avios) as I find the rewards to be worth it just enough. On weeks, where I needed a bit more spending money I definitely did seek out my closest Aldis though
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@user-fb6sx2dm5x Год назад
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@johnthursfield3056
@johnthursfield3056 Год назад
You might like to also take into account that the items sold in the UK are almost certainly less full of unnecesssary crap to make it last longer (unless Aldi use the same produce they sell in Europe), I bet the chicken for instance is far better in the UK. Many US visitors to the UK are shocked that food they buy here doesn't have the shelf life it does in the US because it isn't full of preservatives.
@katiequeen7225
@katiequeen7225 Год назад
Mate the UK is in Europe
@johnthursfield3056
@johnthursfield3056 Год назад
@@katiequeen7225 I didn't say UK wasn't in Europe. I was highlighting that European standards (including the UK) are tighter.
@1983simi
@1983simi Год назад
Americans be like: Lol you Europeans have to pay so much tax! We get to keep our hard-earned cash. Meanwhile, the American food industry is silently chuckling in the background
@johnslayton20
@johnslayton20 Год назад
Food prices in USA are out of control, I don’t know how people are surviving
@brandonhowell5096
@brandonhowell5096 Год назад
Food prices very widely from state to state and region to region what may be expensive in one area my be cheaper in another. Seeing as Evan is only using NJ as his "overall" US pricing zone, which is one of the highest priced to buy groceries in the US, he's not really getting the true average US price for something.
@johnslayton20
@johnslayton20 Год назад
@@brandonhowell5096 I live in flyover country and it’s super expensive
@readay6084
@readay6084 Год назад
Did you do Delivery prices? Most places in the US have much higher delivery prices.
@ckmusicmom
@ckmusicmom Год назад
I checked my Aldi app (I’m in Texas) and they have 10 lbs of potatoes for $5.19 (not 5 lbs). While I see your point, some of those prices are higher than I see at my store. US prices vary widely depending on the state.
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
Isn't that just a tax thingy as well? It's obviously not going to be 100% the same for everyone but to complain because YOU can get one item cheaper is a bit meh 😅
@myra0224
@myra0224 Год назад
@@misslavey WAIT WHAT????
@rberks5
@rberks5 Год назад
In Wisconsin, the 10lb bag is $4.75. If he is looking at instacart or its ilk, the price is 5-10% higher than in store..
@larrysmith8757
@larrysmith8757 Год назад
10 lbs of potatoes in the uk ( 2 bags) would still work out a lot cheaper than the us with the exchange rate it would be about $2.20 for 10lb
@rossg9361
@rossg9361 Год назад
This comparison is absolutely correct. Everything is cheaper in UK grocery stores than the US, except alcohol. The food is also higher in quality. Wake up Americans.
@sophieirwin3497
@sophieirwin3497 Год назад
‘What’s tatters?’ ‘Po-tay-toes! Boil them, mash them, put them in a stew!?’
@gamingbytetv665
@gamingbytetv665 Год назад
B...b..but master is our friend!
@sophieirwin3497
@sophieirwin3497 Год назад
@@gamingbytetv665 😂😂😂
@qaxezzzza1
@qaxezzzza1 Год назад
Working at a regional "low cost" regional grocery store in the US has boggled my mind on the cost of products. I have only seen prices go up, they push low quality product to pump up numbers to outperform other "high cost" stores IN THE SAME COMPANY.
@garethjones6082
@garethjones6082 Год назад
worked in retail supply for over 12 years its all the same regardless of where you buy the same suppliers supply everyone else sometimes using the same batch codes meaning its the same ingrediants
@judithhope8970
@judithhope8970 Год назад
Maybe dig up your yards and make them into gardens and grow your own potatoes and tomatoes. Onions are easy too. Save a fortune.
@laurenhw1988
@laurenhw1988 Год назад
We did a like for like shop 3 times and each time Aldi was significantly cheaper each time. Never looked back. Quality is just as good, if not better and often half the price. Win win.
@Ryan-mm1oj
@Ryan-mm1oj Год назад
As a new university student in the UK, I love my local Aldi lol
@meganmccavanagh826
@meganmccavanagh826 Год назад
Same!
@dingus4077
@dingus4077 Год назад
Mine is a 30 min walk away but tescos is a 2 min walk….it’s always a tough choice
@AdZS848
@AdZS848 Год назад
I nearly had a heart attack when I went to New Jersey last summer. We paid four times as much for our shopping there as we do in Germany. Aldi won when we went to buy bread but we still found a loaf of "bread" was $1.99 when in Germany it was 0.99€
@joeltania2449
@joeltania2449 Год назад
I live in New Zealand and the prices on here make me weep with envy! Obviously there is a conversion to NZD to account for but both the US and UK prices are still much cheaper
@thedarcbird
@thedarcbird Год назад
Ex-cuse ME! Sir.... but Pink Laddies are NOT the finest apples... Cox's Orange Pippin are!!!!!!!
@benjaminsmith3625
@benjaminsmith3625 Год назад
Wow I guess this explains why Walmart ended up giving up on Asda!
@paulbroady4141
@paulbroady4141 Год назад
I save up to £20 on my weekly shop at Aldi compared with other supermarkets. That includes a 10 mile bus trip each way and a couple of beers at lunch time.
@gazza8524
@gazza8524 Год назад
Shopped in Lidl (same thing) for many years, some things are more expensive but across an average for my own personal weekly and monthly shop the two German stores do push ahead in value vs Tesco, Asda, etc. It all very much depends on what you're buying. Their cola for example, 47p per bottle of 2l. Bought 12 recently for just over £5 vs what that would get me in actual brand Coke or even other Brands such as Barrs. Would be around 3-5 bottles depending on pricing.
@aaronmicalowe
@aaronmicalowe Год назад
I think both Lidl and Aldi monitor each others prices and if the other is cheaper they immediately match it.
@ONLYJOKING101
@ONLYJOKING101 Год назад
@@aaronmicalowe Tesco has also started price matching Aldi on some items
@sophstress
@sophstress Год назад
Do people still look at grocery store flyers? I check to see what’s on sale because it dictates what I buy for the week. Of course everything has gotten more expensive but I got a 5lb bag of russet potatoes for $1.99 the other week. Just yesterday I got Persian cucumbers for $.49 lb.,chicken drumsticks $.79 lb., 2 pineapples for $3. And I have never paid more than $1 lb for onions. I think some places are just price gouging but it’s probably a combination of things. The majority of fresh produce is grown in California and it’s the largest dairy producer, so there’s increased transportation costs to get goods across country coupled w/inflation. Plus consolidation of everything, only 3-4 meat processing places, grocers merging. Not everyone has a lot of choices of where they can shop. I have access to all the regular stores, but there are local chains and the ethnic grocery stores where I live outnumber the American ones. I almost never buy fresh tropical fruit like mangoes, jackfruit, mangosteen, lychees and rambutan at the American stores because they jack up the price
@laurie7689
@laurie7689 Год назад
I live in Alabama. My local grocery store (Publix) is currently selling a 5 lb. bag of Russet potatoes for $3.99, not including the sales tax of 9%. Alabama taxes groceries at the full amount. My small city of 33k people has 4 places to shop for groceries: Aldi, Super Walmart, Neighborhood Walmart, and Publix. I think that there is one tiny ethnic grocery store (a Hispanic one) in my city's borders - if it is still in operation since the Pandemic. I haven't checked. I'd say that about half of the fresh produce that I buy actually comes from other countries. Even though California and Florida both grow oranges, the Naval oranges that I bought at the store most recently came from South Africa.
@OLBarbok
@OLBarbok Год назад
The sad irony is the thing that Aldi is probably a lot cheaper in the UK than in Germany currently because every brand in Germany is artificially inflating their prices more than the current inflation crisis would justify. 30% more in fact whereas other countries are 10% inflated.
@johnroutledge9220
@johnroutledge9220 Год назад
I'd be curious how much it costs to run a comparable supermarket in the US and UK. And if it's less expensive in the UK, why it is like that. Is it really because everything is so much closer together? NI Tax lower than US Health Insurance Contributions? Milder weather translating to lower AC bills? Regulations of various sorts?
@shapelessed
@shapelessed Год назад
I can asure you where I live aldi is one of the most expensive stores out there.
@albro666
@albro666 Год назад
But it’s a saver store 😢
@shapelessed
@shapelessed Год назад
@@albro666 Well it for sure ain't here. It's been doing so bad that I've only seen 3 stores in total across the entirity of my travels across the country. Surprising one of them is a few strears next to me, but potatoes cost like $1.5 there compared to around 1$ in pretty mych any other store
@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr
@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr Год назад
Where do you live? Aldi is a discount store so that’s insane. It’s cheaper in my experience here in NE minus specific items that are expensive everywhere.
@Aetheraev
@Aetheraev Год назад
US Cheddar wasn't too much more than UK Cheddar but I would like to say that it is an entirely different cheese over there. I have had US cheddar and it is unrecognisable as cheddar except perhaps for the shape. It's even described as "sharp" which is not a word I think anyone in the UK would associate with the taste of cheddar. Instead we think of Cheddar as being on a scale of mild to mature. Cheddar is a staple in the UK so it is weird to see such a wildly different thing elsewhere in the world sold as cheddar Mainland Europe also has some weird ideas about what cheddar is in my experience. (I've never typed out the word cheddar so many times in my life, it is starting to sound weird)
@101steel4
@101steel4 Год назад
It's not proper cheddar in the US. Their cheese in general is terrible
@LeSquishy
@LeSquishy Год назад
Biggest difference is transportation cost i think
@grahamroberts2893
@grahamroberts2893 Год назад
Have you seen the price of diesel in the UK and Europe. Isn't a lot of Aldi food produce packaged in Germany
@SomeGuyCalledJ
@SomeGuyCalledJ Год назад
Pink lady or not, American apples just don't taste of anything. Source: my American partner, and that customs agent who siezed my uneaten apple saying the USA can't let foods with flavour across the border.
@luckygjv872
@luckygjv872 Год назад
I'm from the US. Been to London twice and I've been to Edinburgh last year. I have to say, British food typically not only cost less, but also tastes significantly better in terms of quality than the stuff we have here. For example, a box of 9 eggs here in Tampa costs $5.60 at my local store. In the UK, while they don't have boxes of 9 eggs usually, a box of 12 can cost as little as £4 for the good kind. We need to work on our pricing.
@emjayay
@emjayay 8 месяцев назад
Egg prices are notoriously unstable because of inflexible demand and all kinds of changes in supply because of some chicken disease or just seasonal variations. I've never seen a 9-pack of eggs anywhere in the US or elsewhere. Three rows of three eggs each? In the US eggs are typically sold by the dozen (12) or sometimes also a half dozen. Eggs in the EU are typically in 10-packs.
@luckygjv872
@luckygjv872 8 месяцев назад
@emjayay seperately, I mean. 61 cents per egg. So 9 costs $5.49. I buy 9 since that's the number of egg holders my fridge has. You're right, of course. Stores don't sell 9 packs of eggs.
@Sousuke48
@Sousuke48 Год назад
Looking through the comments I'm surprised this hasn't come up - EU subsidies are the major reason for the cost difference. A large part of the budget goes to this. In the case of the UK, I believe these may change in roughly 2025 because the Tory gov. is opting out of the subsidies
@kivzzzz
@kivzzzz Год назад
Excellent work, Evan! I hope your research reaches the right people and they start shopping at Aldi.
@deemizzebra2209
@deemizzebra2209 Год назад
I think it's interesting alot of the 4x expensive stuff is usually stuff bought up in large yields by our food ogliopolies or feed for animals. I think it's not surprising because the US' food system is horrifically spread out and specialized. This food is made for animals and McDonalds rather than a grocery store. And if you try to avoid them, there's lots of extra cost because there's no pre existing infrastructure that you would have, had Americans not moved and killed the people who were here prior. Mostly because like alot of people around their world, their community's way of getting food was centered around people's needs not the highest yield.
@davetdowell
@davetdowell Год назад
Thank you for saying it out loud. The "get yourself into debt with us" scam really does my head in. The first supermarket that does a "cost price" week or weekend, every quarter (once they've got their quarterly profit numbers), and which maintains a good competitive price during the rest of the quarter, will literally take control of the marketplace. Why can't their marketing people work that out?
@procrastipractice
@procrastipractice Год назад
Doesn't the tax get added on top of the price at checkout in the US while in the UK taxes are included in the displayed price? In this case, the US would be even more expensive.
@evan
@evan Год назад
no sales tax on groceries in jersey
@kymmhinterberger3856
@kymmhinterberger3856 Год назад
This is one more reason so many Americans are 2 paychecks away from the street.
@0spidey1
@0spidey1 Год назад
Me 5 minutes ago: "Oh look, a fun video comparing US and UK grocery prices" Me after comparing them to my local prices in a country with much lower wages (Hungary): "Oh..."
@sroberts605
@sroberts605 Год назад
What I'd really like to see is a behind-the-scenes look at why the difference exists. Quality of food? What do the farmers get? etc etc. Just looking at the end result begs more questions than answers!
@suigeneris6397
@suigeneris6397 Год назад
Generally the food in the UK is higher quality because they don't allow a lot of the additives and chemicals into the food like the US loves to do.
@sroberts605
@sroberts605 Год назад
@@suigeneris6397 ...and, there's another video! I'm still amazed however at some of the list of ingredients of things here in the UK that I usually avoid, like some sweets etc - a chemistry lesson right there! I associate the move to better ingredients with European influence (because it seemed that all the restrictions on pesticides etc came from the EU), but perhaps not. I remember looking at the ingredients in Lidl some years ago, when trans-fats had largely disappeared from food in Sainsburys etc, and it was all still there... so I never went back.
@phoenix-xu9xj
@phoenix-xu9xj Год назад
If you were here and you could taste the dairy you would realise the quality food here are so much more superior. The cheese is to die for anywhere in Europe. Not to mention bread. Thank you for all the EU bands. Fuck off to all the people who voted for Brexit. 😢
@Felix-qq6sx
@Felix-qq6sx Год назад
Here in Germany, I don't usually go to Aldi. I go to the even cheaper supermarket. And they say Scotsmen are penny pinchers.
@peterpain6625
@peterpain6625 Год назад
Fascinating. Aldi is still pretty ok for the basics it seems. Are the us prices with or without tax?
@evan
@evan Год назад
Without tax as most states have no groceries tax
@jethro4453
@jethro4453 Год назад
Likely without. At least for the store apps I use, the tax is added as a separate line under the subtotal of the sticker price of all the items
@peterpain6625
@peterpain6625 Год назад
@@evan Ah thx. Was trying to compare the prices to the german Aldi Nord over here.
@Mindy14
@Mindy14 Год назад
@@evan I dont believe thats true. most places have local taxes, even on food.
@Micg51
@Micg51 Год назад
@@Mindy14 not true. I could pay $80 on groceries and maybe one item is taxed, leaving me with maybe $0.50 in tax
@willewiking98
@willewiking98 Год назад
i am shocked as a Swedish person, the UK groceries seems to be so much cheaper than anything i can find here. I did not expect that, even in the first video i thought the same thing
@katiequeen7225
@katiequeen7225 Год назад
Same for germany, that ground beef in the first video made my jaw drop as here 500g of ground beef at aldi is easily 50% more expensive than it was in that video
@lifeis4letters
@lifeis4letters Год назад
In the US, we tend to shop multiple stores and rotate what produce we use depending on what's in season and what's on sale. Also buying in bulk helps to average prices to keep it cheaper. However, saying that, I was in Scotland recently and I had sticker shock with how cheap prices were for an individual package of any healthy thing. In the US, to buy anything healthy that is already prepped and ready to be eaten easily costs 4 to 6x more than in the UK. The possibilities of meal prep being so much easier and cheaper made me very tempted to move just for that alone! In order to get cheap prices in the US, they're making you do all the manual labor.
@alwaysamber1
@alwaysamber1 Год назад
Sainburys price match Aldi, you can buy a white 800 gram loaf for 39p carrots 45p just two examples.
@stewedfishproductions7959
@stewedfishproductions7959 Год назад
But they are ONLY doing the 'price match' because Aldi is hurting their margins and they are losing customers..! Why didn't they worry a year or more ago?
@aaronmicalowe
@aaronmicalowe Год назад
That's ok if you only eat white bread and carrots...
@niles8576
@niles8576 Год назад
the US aldis is the same price as going to k-market in Finland, but the biggest difference is that in Finland the worse quality is better then their best quality
@albro666
@albro666 Год назад
If you said second, first or etc. third then u cringe
@ZandTastic33
@ZandTastic33 Год назад
Fourth!
@albro666
@albro666 Год назад
@@ZandTastic33 that still don’t work
@HaybaleMelon
@HaybaleMelon Год назад
Tenth
@davetdowell
@davetdowell Год назад
Who knew, extra processing to add completely unnecessary chemicals increases the price at the shelf. The potato comparison is fascinating, given Francis Drake famously got them for us from North America.
@monaraeisian2915
@monaraeisian2915 Год назад
As someone who lives in Germany, the only reason not to shop in Aldi's is if you have a LIDL near by. 🙂 (but then again we unfortunately only have Aldi Nord in my city)
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@WerewolfLord
@WerewolfLord Год назад
I was in Walmart (Canada) today, and I'm finding those US prices even to be cheap.
@davidbanford8705
@davidbanford8705 Год назад
I hope you have cotton socks on, as I need to bless them :) I haven't watched the vlog yet, but as a Germany supermarket changeling (my local been a lidl) I just know you will be blown away, just try their red wine, a £6.00 plonk will cost you £12.00 anywhere else.... there in just one is a reason :)
@stevecraft00
@stevecraft00 Год назад
You'd think that in America a lot of this stuff would be cheaper - they have so many farms and climate to grow so much!
@marydavis5234
@marydavis5234 Год назад
He is using his home state of New Jersey prices and also using instacart which are always priced higher, New Jersey is one of the most expensive states to live in.
@louisenewson-smith9519
@louisenewson-smith9519 Год назад
I have an aldi, Tesco's, sainsburys and Asda all in walking distance from my home. Makes shopping really easy as if you are on a budget and know when to go, you can get a lot from the reduced sections. Makes shopping even cheaper during the week
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@dvsrn1
@dvsrn1 Год назад
Just back from a recent visit to the UK and I can attest this is true. I was surprised how much cheaper basic food items were in the UK. Of course I appreciate the price of gasoline / petrol here in the states.
@asheharris6642
@asheharris6642 Год назад
I love Aldi! But here in the states Aldi products have comparable pricing to other grocery stories like Wal-Mart. They are just slightly cheaper than those stores, but it's still so worth it to do most of your shopping there. The trick is to go into Aldi and then do a price comparison using other stores' shopping apps. It's the easiest way to see who is cheapest on certain items.
@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr
@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr Год назад
That’s because Walmart and Aldi are both discount stores. Not regular grocery stores. Technically Walmart is a department store and sometimes a super center with a grocery store included. Though walking through my Walmart, I’ve often thought it’s not as cheap as I’ve heard it’s supposed to be. It’s not as cheap as I see other Walmarts in other areas. Probably because my area is a large city (for the Midwest) and growing. It’s probably raising the prices.
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@BookNomming
@BookNomming Год назад
Would love to see comparison with things like eating out, entertainment industry too. Loving this series! I shop Asda (mostly) I don’t shop at Aldi because being coelaic sucks
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@RobWVideo
@RobWVideo Год назад
The only thing that was cheaper at the supermarket when I was visiting the USA was the alcohol.
@DarthDionius
@DarthDionius Год назад
A point with the pink ladies, Evan, they actually are a brand, so that price might be regulated across the countries to be closer.
@evan
@evan Год назад
Why them and not the cornflakes and such tho
@DarthDionius
@DarthDionius Год назад
@@evan I dunno, because it's Aussie and all the blood rushed to their head?
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