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I am a student in China.And I watch your video to learning English.I found a mistake in this video.At the meat counter,pork is displayed instead of beef
In fact, in China, especially in big cities like Shanghai, many young people prefer to shop online. Because logistics and express delivery are very developed in China. You can only see very few young people shopping in supermarkets, while the majority are elderly people who enjoy using coupons. Unfortunately, you can't experience online shopping or Alipay in Shanghai, which is why China is more convenient now.
No, I think supermarkets are still quite popular even among young people, compared to online shopping, they are cheaper, fresher and more convenient, you don't always want to wait till the next day to get your groceries , especially foods.
@@joey3291 You see, what I said about "China" above is not rigorous because China is very large. I live in Shanghai, and the situation I mentioned above can only represent Shanghai. I would like to add my statement.
@@tenchichrono I was in Shenzhen, Sam app ordered cakes, milk and meat, and the delivery was always within 30 minutes, even if it rained, it didn't take more than an hour.
Twenty years ago, these foreign chain supermarkets were very popular. Due to the shift of all shopping environments in China to the internet, traditional supermarkets have declined, and many supermarkets and malls have started to integrate comprehensive leisure. These foreign chain supermarkets have conservative thinking and lack innovation, so few people go there. If you want to visit a supermarket, it's best to go to a local large supermarket, they are even better!
@serriajohn in China，supermarkets（such as Hema）are delivered to their homes in half an hour, and the starting price is less than 40 yuan. Wal Mart is not competitive
Had a great time watching your video! As a Chinese, it was eye-opening as well since I rarely visited a supermarket like you guys. I would like to point out some mistakes or offer some translations, hoping it can help with the understanding for the interested: 8:26 Those chips are respectively sea salt (yellow) and nori (blue) flavour. 8:54 The tag says buy 2 bags, you get a 5 yuan discount. 10:48 It's made of soybean (green package). 11:38 It's actually duck wings (similar hehe). 14:07 The tag says salted meat with skin, but it doesn’t specify which meat it is. 14:44 It's actually pork ^_^ 15:34 It is indeed a mushroom called snow fungus or snow ear (names found on wikipedia). 15:42 It's vermicelli which is made of sweet potatoes. 17:19 It is indeed pomelo. 19:16 It's a very popular Chinese snack called latiao (googleable) which means spicy bars. 22:01 Funny thing, because China has its own shoe size system, but I would say no one uses it. Instead, everyone uses the European system, hence the "EU 42/43".
Huangjiu (Yellow Rice Wine) is one of the oldest alcoholic drinks in the world, (3000 years old). Yeast variety quality determines wine quality. Originated in China, and only in China, and beer, wine and the world's three major ancient wine. Rice wine in the south with glutinous rice, north to millet rice, millet and glutinous rice (north called Jiangrice) as raw materials, the general alcohol content of 14%-20%, belongs to low degree brewing wine.
In fact, only elderly people nowadays prefer to buy groceries face-to-face, but compared to supermarkets, they are more willing to go to traditional vegetable markets distributed in cities. Young people tend to order takeout, while middle-aged people need to cook for themselves. They like to buy groceries through mobile apps (Meituan) and deliver them directly to their homes. Therefore, Chinese supermarkets tend to choose to build amusement parks to attract customers, and there are more snacks available. Almost no one buys clothes in the mall, and major brand clothing is purchased through apps.
It's fascinating to read insights like this. China is so technologically ahead than any other country you can think of, so i imagine their daily habit is also geared to anything that makes life more convenient, aka online-centric. I myself have multiple parcels arriving almost every day, and yes, most are from China, so sometimes i wonder what would their shopping be like since the convenient factor is multiplied for them to shop online. I don't even have appetite for retail shopping anymore despite formerly being somewhat a shopaholic, and the only times i do is when i view anything livestreamed (so, back to online it is, lol!).
@@shinachikudidnthappen..mov9196 The discussion that is commonly heard in other countries around the world about the reduction of jobs due to the Internet is actually an old topic in China more than 20 years ago. Therefore, in terms of civilian technology, I can say that China is 20 years ahead. China has proven that internetization will not reduce or even increase employment, and the income from traditional jobs in the past will also increase significantly.
@@shinachikudidnthappen..mov9196 I will try to explain to you the concept of a powerful IoT park, establishing a large storage warehouse in each province. Members of the website distribute goods to these warehouses, and when customers make purchases online, AI and robots coordinate and package them for unified transportation. The fastest delivery will arrive at the buyer's hands within 6 hours. If the local warehouse does not have it, packages sent thousands of kilometers away will arrive within 48 hours.
In China, various types of supermarkets can be purchased online, and many people place orders online. After placing an order, it usually takes 10-30 minutes to deliver it to their home!
@@PVPmc121 These platforms provide same-day delivery services in any city in China. If it takes more than an hour and it's not delivered, I'll call and complain.
Indeed, people under the age of 50 in China basically don’t go to supermarkets anymore. The transaction volume of e-commerce platforms is more than a hundred times higher than that of supermarkets.
When I visit US and Canada, Walmart is also one of my favorite places to go.... btw, the 5 yuan tip near the Lays chips means if you buy two packs the total price could be 5 yuan less as a kind of promotion.
I live in the US and Walmart is one of my least favorite places to go 😅 but they do have “unbeatable prices” (as their motto states), so I go maybe 2x a month for groceries and other necessities
@@abcdefg-oj5wn I have not gone to a Walmart for over 2 years, even though there's one Walmart a few miles from my house. It makes me angry to shop there because most of the things are locked up. You have to look for a salesperson to open the cabinets/cages for you to pick up a merchandise. I would rather shop online or Costco. There's no freedom to shop.
Usually we don't buy digital products, clothes, shoes etc. in a Chinese supermarket, products under those categories in supermarkets are usually cheap ones with unknown brands. Food and daily necessities would be fine though.
I believe that the models of these Chinese supermarkets and shopping malls have been explored through 20 years of internetization. After being fully internetized abroad, it is worth learning from.
In Chinese supermarkets, it's common for prices to be calculated based on weight, with 500 grams as the standard unit. So, the prices you see on the labels of apples and oranges in the video are calculated per 500 grams.
I’ve been to Walmart in the US, Canada, and Mexico. I’m amazed that English is used on a lot of the products etc in China. In Mexico English was rarely used on products. It was used on the aisle signs with Spanish in Walmart.
In China, most of the shopping in cities is online, and few people go to supermarkets like Wal Mart. Even vegetables are bought online and delivered within an hour
I am Chinese but only been to Shanghai once when I was young. This is very entertaining for me to watch. Feels like I'm travelling with 2 friends. Great videos❤
Chinese supermarkets are usually set up in this way where the groceries are right before the cashiers, because people usually visit supermarket for groceries, and if they put groceries at the entrance, people are more likely to get their groceries and skip everything else.
Westerners think that poor Chinese eat chicken feet and duck feet because they cannot afford meat. In fact, the price of chicken feet and duck feet in China is much higher than that of chicken.
I used to fall as a kid (in Singapore) n d traditional doctor prescribed chicken feet n peanut soup. It worked. But I'm reduced to buying pickled pork skin this 12.12; chicken claws too expensive. Just received today. The beef cubes n little crabs etc already arrived. For most groceries n even meat n vegetables I order from a local cooperative in Singapore weekly.
these overseas big chain groceries are not popular in china anymore, i remember that 25 years ago when Carrefour and METRO AG from france and Germany just entered china in 1998 , they were so popular , i almost did all my shopping in these groceries including even some of my clothing , they were always packed, i even remembered a french guy was helping refill the shelf there because it was too busy, they say he was the manager of the store, then around 5 years ago, I heard Carrefour were all closed in my city, and METOR AG quit my city more than 15 years ago .
Metro is under its Chinese partner WuMart. Carrefour is now under Suning Group. And there’s Auchan, Carrefour’s rival in their native France, is under Alibaba-backed RT Mart Group
every time i see a foreigner coming to china for the first time, i always feel interesting since so many things are completely different. take an example, walmart is not competitive in china now, china’s oww store brand are doing much better in localization, and other industries too.
None of the western businesses in China are competitive enough, the only reason places like McDonald's and Starbucks can survive in China is because of it's novelty and bling appeal as place to be seen in.
@@etow8034 I feel like it’s more because Western fast food tastes different from Chinese fast food. Like take McDonald’s for an example. There’s no junk food item in China that will taste like a McDonald’s hamburger (except a McDonald’s hamburger). I feel like if they opened other junk food places like Taco Bell or Pizza Hut in China, it would be pretty successful (not sure if they already have those restaurants). Last time that I visited China, McD and Starbucks were pretty crowded (especially Starbucks).
@@abcdefg-oj5wn McDonald's, Starbucks and KFC have huge menus in China that cater to the Chinese consumers and palates, the menus there are nothing like the limited menu we have here in North America or Europe. These western fast food chains are still novelty places to be seen in for China's middle class and if you take 69% of 1.4 billion that is a humongous middle class that have yet to try these fast food chains. Believe it or not the next big thing in China is "Red Gold" or aka tomato sauce/paste, China currently produces over 70% of the global tomato paste beating out the US and Italy by a long mile and this is not even beginning to include internal consumption which will grow by leaps and bounds the next two decades as China's youth grow up with western fast foods like pizzas, hot dogs and hamburgers that use tomato paste and ketchup !
@@juzhao Very few western businesses succeed in China because the Chinese ones will always be an improvement and cost less. Stores like Walmart, Costco and Ikea are simply just novelty to Chinese consumers and once they visited they will never return !
As a Chinese, I am really amused, there are so many kinds of food you didn't recognized correctly, I don't know where to start but it's so funny. Those are not mushrooms, but noodles made by rice or sweet potato
My parents are 83 and 85 years old living in China. They do their shopping including grocery shopping online. The delivery service is cheap and convenient.
Walmart is still expensive, we all buy online, such as the 6 cans of Coke, Sprite only cost 9.9 yuan, as long as the purchase of 39 yuan, free delivery within 30 minutes.😂
Rather amazing to see you both browse from one aisle to another showing us stuff sold at that Walmart in China. It's indeed massive ! Thanks for sharing, Steve lvana. Great that your China series is doing very well. Bravo 👍💪
As a chinese who lives in Shenzhen, I really enjoy ur trip and daily videos in China to let more people know about it! And welcome u visit Shenzhen one day! Btw, I am gonna go to Canada to pursue my PhD next year fall, hope I will have a nice adventure in Canada!😀
Hope you enjoy your studies in Canada. Make sure to double check what you can and cannot bring into Canada, many people from Asia get busted for bringing in excessive amounts of cigarettes and prohibited foods.
Alien fingers?! 😂😅It's actually called Latiao (It's like noodles made from wheat flour, and it's usually spicy), which is a very popular snack in China
8:43 that tag is not the price, but the discount info, it reads if you buy a bag of lays chips and another bag of other chips(i think it's on the left of the lays), you can get 5 yuan off
There used to be three levels of Walmart in China. But now it is being squeezed out by Chinese brand supermarkets and e-commerce. Now people use their phones to get things delivered to their doorsteps.
The ketchup should be in the seasoning area, along with the salt and sugar. There are some Chinese products that are of good quality and expensive, and there are also cheap and poor quality products. In the United States, I see a lot of low-quality products because importers choose cheap and low-quality products in order to sell out all their products quickly. This does not mean that the goods produced in China are poor.
Importing things like Lays chips from US to China is about 1/2 the cost of shipping China to US. Basically a lot of empty containers move from US back to China looking for freight. Sea shipping cost per bag is about 1 to 5 cents.
The cheese latte ,not a literal like cheddar cheese flavor it’s more like mascarpone cheese(the one they use to make tiramisu dessert) ,like thick sweet cream
Walmart also has online sales channels/in WeChat, home near (0-5km or something?) a Walmart store can place an order online, soon after will be delivered to the my home for free, the price is the same, and sometimes there is a coupon online. So I usually don't go to Walmart, and I just can open my phone in home and buy the thing online in the Walmart.
watched Korea super market video today, come back to watch this video again, so cheap! minute16.24 apple price is 6Yuan/0.85USD per 500g, orange is 5Yuan/0/7USD per 500g. Normally we use 斤=500g in China for vegetable, meat, fruit
the coconut with the straw, i bought that here in Canada at a Chinese supermarket in Pickering😊. They don't waste any part of the chicken and not only. Anything can be a snack 😮
I am a bit jealous as an American. We do not have that type of selection (look at the lays for example), our prices are higher and there are rarely local alternative options. Clearly Walmart no longer cares about American shoppers.
You really need to go visit an actual chinese wet market.... early in the morning.... huge varieties of fresh fruits and veggies... fruits and veggies you probably wont even recognize.... fresh meats and seafood.... the prices actually gets cheaper as the day goes on because they want to sell everything before the close up. everything is brought in that day... so if you go in late you can get some good deals. 😊
They've always been referred to as wet markets in english even before covid (I live in Hong Kong by the way).... and they pretty much are the same in every district, you got stalls selling fruits and veg, then you got some meat stalls, and fresh seafood stalls.... Not sure what you mean by stereotyping....
@@crimson0119 No, in mainland China, they are just famers' market or morning market or evening/night market. We know the nuances of some of the English words.
@@susan56566 Cool, nice to know. In Hong Kong (I'm Chinese by the way so I do know the nuances of chinese words) we don't refer to them as farmers market or day market, usually the english reference is wet market. I guess some people are sensitive to the term wet market since it has gotten such a bad connotation since covid, where western media has made wet market being synonymous with being dirty and unsanitary.
12:19 for the fresh milk price, Walmart is way more expensive than other local markets even on the same brand, 1L milk usually take 7 to 13 rmb, milk above 14 rmb are usually higher level brands for higher price.
Those single serving snacks actually look like it could be side dish ingredients for when you make instant noodles or just cook some plain rice at home, or if you're making instant noodles or just pack some plain rice with you on the go, and need some food ingredients to eat with it, so that you're not just eating noodles or rice with nothing in it. In Singapore, you can find some of these kinds of single serving foods in convenience stores like 7-Eleven, so you can make some instant cup noodles or bowl noodles, and maybe add an egg or a piece of chicken into it to complete your meal. So it's not snacks or confectionaries like chocolates, candy or cookies, but rather savoury side dishes.
Shanghai consumption is the highest in China. If you see the prices in other cities you will be shocked again. And almost all cities in China have equally good infrastructure and security.
The Shanghai "Whiskey" there is a locally brewed liquor maded from rice and wheat. The first 288RMB one is actually for the whole case which includes 6 bottles displayed on the shelf.
Just visited a local Walmart in Guangzhou, was pretty much empty of people. Was a bit let down because I was hoping to see western products, but I guess it wouldn't be viable that way.
I live in California, although shopping grocery online is expensive here, I've been doing it for three years and rarely visit physical stores. It's just not worth it to spent 2 hours in a store every week when you can click a few buttons on your phone in 15 minutes.
That’s crazy when they are paying less for food over there than we are in the United States for it’s a shame that we really can’t afford to live and feed our own family here! Thanks Biden!
Spicy and exotic flavors of Lay's potato chips are very common in parts of New York City that have Chinese-American communities. I had Spicy Duck Tongue and it was spicy but very nice. The only issue is that they are expensive. The small bags are as much as $2.50.
This has been kinda fun! I feel like I’ve been on a shopping spree while I’m laying on my sofa trying to recuperate from a bad case of bronchitis! It’s taken me away from my misery for a bit and it’s been very interesting! Thx!
I just watched your video on a platform in China. First, welcome to China. Then I will explain it to you. Why is China's Wal-Mart supermarket so special, because we usually buy food, vegetables or meat, usually in the local market, Because the food there will be relatively fresh, and relatively cheaper than the supermarket, Wal-Mart inside the things are still expensive, There are also many supermarkets in Shanghai. Although you see a lot of people in Wal-Mart, most people still don't go there to buy things. As for the layout why so strange, because are in accordance with the Chinese living habits, like you say those coffee or ketchup and so on, We use less, so the area is relatively small, in China, there are many kinds of goods, such as meat, wine, The prices are different, so we usually buy things cheaper than the ones shown in the video
As the review said, we usually some Department Store snacks, clothes and the like can be bought online, because online cheaper, and more variety, But some of the food you eat is still bought in the market, but usually at the local market or the local supermarket. Will not go to foreign large supermarket chains, because it is too expensive, like the price of meat has been changing, pork is about 15 yuan per 500g, Sometimes it's more expensive, sometimes it's cheaper.
WALMART IN CHINA ?? THATS CRAZY...BUT GOTTA LUV THOSE PRICES!! WALMART IN USA IS GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE BY THE DAY AND THEY ARE FULL OF WEIRDOS WONDERING AROUND AIMLESSLY..
You can find a young Chinese person who can speak English as your guide in Shanghai, and your experience will be much better.😂😂😂😂 Hope you have fun in Shanghai
Actually Walmart is offering plenty of coffee beans and bread also much more imported goods at their membership brand Sam‘s Club in Shanghai，it's kind of different marketing strategies.And membership supermarket like Sam’s Club and Costco is getting more and more popular in Shanghai these days.
Consumers in North America think one day shipping is fast, In China is same day shipping and you usually get your merchandise 3-4 hours after you ordered it online. The west is so behind in e-commerce you have no idea !
I don't understand this thought because it is also just as quick in most typical cities in the US. If you are in a suburban area outside of a city, of course that would be different. I live in Atlanta and I can order groceries from any grocery store and have it delivered within 30 minutes. This is not anything new. Lol.
oh, and an add on.... Most any city also has same day delivery with most Amazon products as well. Usually, the longest you would ever wait for an Amazon order would be the next day, and that is only for certain products. If you order something at night, oftentimes products will have overnight delivery so that you have your order delivered before 8 or 9am.
@@TylerMosesUSA Looks like you haven't traveled much ! Can you get take out while on the subway two stations down to the train car you are sitting at ? The US is a 3rd world country stop being ignorant ! ...LoL
@@etow8034 I travel plenty. Traveled China more than most any of my Chinese friends. I lived in Guangdong for over 8 years, throughout South America for a couple of years. I have family in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the US. The US is nowhere near a 3rd world country. 😂
In China, few people go to supermarkets for shopping, mostly older people. In order to get discounts, most people will make purchases through online shopping. Due to the strong logistics network in China, fresh ingredients can be delivered as quickly as 30 minutes, or in the next day or 3 days, depending on the consumer's shopping route. Refunds can also be made without reason due to damage to the goods.
Walmart's supply chain includes some 30,000 Chinese factories, which produce an estimated 70 percent of all of the goods it sells. Walmart's global sourcing headquarters, the nerve center for its international operations, is also located in Shenzhen, a booming city on the southeastern China coast. But recently, Walmart is planing to move it’s sourcing center to Vietnam (or maybe partially, it happened in 11/15’s APEC meeting in San Francisco), guys will certainly see more Vietnam products in the very near future, although Vietnam’s GDP is around $406 billions in 2022, only about 2.25% of China’s GDP, roughly close to 60% of China’s Guangxi Province of $725 billions (a neighboring province from Vietnam border), one of the poorest Chinese 33 provinces with about half of Vietnam’s population of 100 millions.
4:20 Tsing-Tao beer is famous and brewed in Shandong province. Interestingly, beer making in Shandong was influenced heavily by Germans who have had a long history of influence in Shandong. Qing tap in Shandong is the home of Tsing-Tao.
