@@hiimboy8564 it's only theft if you take it out the front, but if you bring it through the register it becomes part of your purchase like everything else.
Tbf I was beyond surprised when I first visited a Walmart in Los Angeles with my father and the cashier said “hello, how are you today?”. Afterwards I deadass asked my father how did he know the lady.
I'd phrase it differently: all those "American in Germany/Russia/England/Japan/the bottom of the Mariana Trench" videos just show how weird America is.
@@reinadelosrizoss ok Karen 🙄, the reason why they charge for bags is simple so ppl stop throwing away plastic bags and stop throwing them on the streets uk has had this law for like a decade. And u bag your own stuff as a cashier I won’t even open the bag for u, unless it someone who needs extra help
Some places have someone to bag them for you and if you ask someone politely their plans it's not a big deal. Let's not ask like Canada or the States are a tiny homogeneous country lol
Come to Ireland buddy! By the time they finish scanning your groceries you will know everything about them and their families, neighbours, and friends! And,if you are nice,they will even help you with the bagging! You still have to pay for the bag though! That's why we all have a bag full of bags in every house! 😂😂
I love Ireland. Was there a few years ago for 2 days. I was told the suniest days in years and everyone was outside. In front of a Spar, there was a woman sitting on the sidewalk, eating an ice. As I walked towards the entrence, she smiled at me and told me to call her if I have any questions or wanna pay. Great visit. 😋
@@MaddogMaddu that's why I love it so much! There are still lots of good people here! And although there is an influence from USA (cause we all love copying them,I don't know why!) most of the people are nice, funny and well mannered! I am delighted you enjoyed your visit but 2 days is just not enough 🤣🤣
Went late March early April to the emerald isle and fell in love with the people and land. Limerick and squatting in a castle (dude taking advantage of a castle that's been rotting and us finding out from the locals at the pub lol) we're the highlights.
@@snorky184 I wouldn’t say lazier, but America is the king of convenience. Smarter not harder ya know? It’s not a lot of effort to bag your own stuff and we do have stores that you do this at. Bagging your own stuff doesn’t make you better 🤣
We get it, Germans are autistics or have Asperger's. Thankfully we're fine with a bagger since it also means a much faster shopping experience since a guy who does it for a living, is faster and better at it than the average shopper.
When i visited New Hampshire a few weeks ago, the person that was packing the groceries looked at me soo confused when I packed them myself for my grandma 😭😭
As someone working as a Cashier in Europe, that sounds impossible for a store to do. It's all smaller budget for the stores to use, whilst being expected to bring in more revenue each year
@@j.rohmann3199 Jumbo supermarket in the Netherlands. Or at least: they announced a few years ago they were introducing 'talky cashiers' for customers who wanted to take it slow and make conversation, but so far I have not really seen these in shops (I like the idea though: please corral all the obnoxious slow old people at their own check-out so everybody else can have a speedy experience)
Every British household has a random cupboard stuffed with old carrier bags. We then forget to bring said bags with us when we go shopping and have to buy more, but out of stubbornness and pride we never throw old bags away so the bag cupboard grows and starts taking over the house.
😂 not even British but this is my problem too. Only, where I live they make the plastics degradable. So each time I do remember the plastic of plastics, I find a mass of disintegrated material. Then I repeat the process.
So many zoomies think their life is special. Everyone has bags. Like, do you think you're unique that you use soap in the shower? "OMG I ALSO BATHE WHAT A COINCIDENCE" Literally subhuman behavior
@@topogigio7031 Zoomies? I think you have deeper issues to address if you think a light hearted relatable comment about shopping bags is "subhuman behaviour". I hope things improve for you.
Bro... theyre so god damn fucking fast. Almost impossible to win. If i see a Young cashier, i avoid the line immediatly, i mean why would i give myself a disadvantage, in this important game.
Can tell you as a German I have no desire talking to the cashier. I just wanna put my stuff in a bag, pay and leave. Simple as that and I don't want to change it
What are they supposed to do while your paying, stand there and stare at you? You bag while they scan, they bag while you pay, and your done as swiftly as possible. I prefer the american system.
@@MrVlogman101 honestly, he’s trashing the American for “not following the culture” but while doing that isn’t nothing to consider the culture of the American where they do bag for you. The original commenter is just dumb
@@MrVlogman101 Nothing, either you pay cash and they need to get the change, or it takes 10s to pay by card, not much time to stare at you 😂 By the time they told me the amount, I'm already finished packing...
Having your own bags is just standard - it's way more comfortable too. Getting paper bags is just emergency stuff when you didn't plan to buy anything.
@@robertharris6092Also, why are you bragging about not bringing your own bag? You're needlessly creating a lot of trash, which impacts our environment negatively and for no reason at all 🤦
As a German, I had to laugh when the cashier said that your own bag was free. I always have my cloth bag with me when I go shopping. That's how it should be. 🤣😁😎
I'm from England and knew someone who moved to Germany for a thew years. She came back because she hated that she couldn't talk to strangers and everyone was really reserved 😂
German cashiers scan quicker than you can bag. My strategy is to always use a shopping cart throw everything back into it and go look for a spot in the bagging area or in the parking lot to do it in peace xD
The key is to prepare before you have to pack at the end! you need to plan you re-packing strategy when you put your stuff on the belt by the latest XD
With good planning you can get everything into the bags and be as fast or faster than the cashier. Especially if you've got stuff that tkes long to scan like baking wares which have to be checked and counted individually. You can save time by putting them in the middle
On one hand, Americans are complaining their "personal bubble" and not enough physical distance - on the other hand they investigate personal private information like plans for the weekend from strangers.
So true! I can’t go to any store without having to make small talk in US! I do live in a small town. Everyone is friendly! At least while wearing mask, I don’t have to smile any more! I still think small talk is nice. You lose nothing by being nice to someone. It is better than being rude. And feel Europeans do come out very rude!
@@bkgksan9798 Smiling is OK, this happens. It needs some training to talk without saying anything. For me this is just exhausting, and I wouldn't be sure the other one is enjoying it. Things like "Isn't the weather nice today". And you have to imagine, cashiers have to have this conversation 20 times per hour. I just remembered, the German "Fräulein" which indicates unmarried women, was kind of abandoned from german language. It's too indiscrete to publish the marital status of people to everyone. Or I remember Wal-Mart, when they tried to open branches in Germany, there was a huge (today we would say shit-) storm. They had people just to greet customers, they said hello to everybody, all day long. Customers where horrified about an employer letting people do such an derrogative uneducated job. It's like telling people "You are too stupid for everything, the only thing you can do is saying hello to people". And employees had to do some morning rituals, shouting out loud some phrases in the morning for "team building". Like "we are great, we are the best", etc. People feel emberassed then forced to lie. Well, wal marts shut down after 5 years.
it's the same in Italy too, maybe the only difference is that the cashier will probably have a small talk with you, if you are in the mood, like about the weather or things like that, but ofc they won't ask you about your weekend plans, that's actually weird from someone you don't know.
Yeah, as a German (even worse where I live: Switzerland) we HATE smalltalk 😂 we always get so awkward even when it would be appropriate to have smalltalk.
Die Kassiere reden schon mit dir. Du musst nur ein Jahr lang mindestens 2mal die Woche dort einkaufen gehen, dann kommst du in den inneren Zirkel und bekommst Antworten. Da kann ja sonst jeder kommen. 😉😅
Aufm Dorf brauchst du nicht mal das, fang einfach mit "Und, läufts heute?" oder "Schönes Wetter haben wir!" an und lächel, dann erinnern sich die Kassierer an dich und bald schon kannst du sie fragen was sie am Wochenende vorhaben und sie erzählen dir über ihren Garten.
Here in Cornwall UK the cashiers are often chatty (except in Lidl). In all our supermarkets now you have to pay for bags. So most people bring their own reusable ones. I have car boot/trunk full of various bags! 😆 We also bag all our shopping, always have.
What's scaring the heck out of me is that - Despite an ever more visibly German identity showing itself in me over time - I still make small-talk with cashiers while I'm being served... 🇬🇧 ...In Lidl. 😳
Im in America but I shop at Aldi so this is just how it is. They have a bagging counter by the door though since most people aren't used to quickly doing it at checkout
And this i dont get, save nture by bringing your own bags, and pack while they scan one by one, lazy americans and unorganized americans. I would not want anyone touch my groceries especially not my fruits.
@@katsu9582 LOL. I am not sure where you get the impression that us lazy, unorganized Americans don't have reusable shopping bags. We definitely do, but disposables are still available. Some folks even reuse those ones. When it comes down to bagging the groceries, the second they start scanning, a second employee rushes to start bagging. Every store is like this. It is just not the custom here and most do not question it because they haven't seen it done differently yet
@Smushrum don't worry, though, the comments gone, reusable bags don't do much to reduce plastic waste. You need to shop every day for the rest of your life to offset any waste lol
@@TheDarkPacific No not really, you can find all kinds of studies claiming different things and its not like you cant just buy reusable thick plastic fiber shopping bag if you think cotton is not worth it. You should be careful about coming to conclusions based on some random study since it can be the same case as when tobbaco companies funded studies to prove that its not unhealthy.
The reduction in use and subsequently of litter since the bag fee in the UK has been genuinely amazing. Even though it's such a small amount it makes people actually think about if they need a bag and care more about throwing it away
The same law which prohibits single-use plastic bags also prohibits plastic straws and mixed McFlurries (because they have to use a wooden spoon, which cannot be inserted into the mixer) and both of these things haunt me every day for the better part of something like 4 years now. Nothing has ever bothered me this much and I stay awake at night, thinking up ways to make the system work against them, so they have to abolish it.
You know whats even more amazing? The reduction in litter from banning plastic straws and replacing them with paper straws that come in plastic containers and add the fun of children chocking on the mulch paper. The city has never been cleaner or quieter
As a cashier in America we hate that too. Especially (but not limited to) things like Labor Day weekends "Enjoy your weekend" Where I HAVE to work full shifts all 3 days, because we are going to be busy as hell, and when I get off I'll down a couple of beers to relax before falling into bed.
This series makes me so nostalgic. I grew up in europe and only moved to the US for university and onwards. I still miss the simple things like not having to talk to the cashier, or the general lack of having to do small talk in general
And they brought that rule to America with Aldi. Seriously, the look on these people's faces when they realize they have to pay for their own bags is priceless. "Why would I pay for this massive tote bag!?" "So you'll have your own *grocery* bag to bring and use for free, next time."
Why would I want to do that... might as well just buy a cow for milk and grow my own wheat for bread too huh your logic is flawed.... put simply we Americans don't want to do things we don't want to do.. we don't want to bring our own bags... THATS STUPID
I work at a convenience store, and I always say we should charge for bags and say it's to help the environment, but in reality, we just want more money.
At least in the area where I’m from in America (New England), you pay for any bags you use. In some states it was legislated as a way to reduce plastic bag usage, but then it just caught on at a wider level and included paper bags and really any type of bag. Also depending on the store, if you bring your own bag, sometimes they take off a couple cents per bag as a discount of sorts :))
They used to, Safeway for example, you'd have the cashier sending your shopping down, then you'd have a bagboy at the bottom of the ramp/counter. Sole purpose was to literally organise your shopping for you
I'm in the States and really it depends on the store. I've been to some higher and lower end stores, and it's always a mix on who bags your stuff and who has you bag your own.
At Aldi in the US, we usually buy multiple cans/bags of food so we take the shipping boxes the products come in and use then to transport our goods home lol.
I was needed a power adapter for a laptop I just for for 25 dollars and I was wondering which thrift stores to go to. Thanks for reminding me an Aldi just opened up and I was gonna check it out.
I swear everybody in the Midwest including my dad literally makes small talk with everybody, in the elevator, in a restaurant, in a store checkout line
Im so happy i live California now so every time I pack my bags myself I get a thank you from the cashier although I’ve been doing this my life being from Germany 😂
We have this in Australia too, paper and plastic cost money but most people take their own if they remember 😂 and if you go to Aldi you have to bag your own groceries too.
@@bigmanmccheez5342 at self serve you bag your own stuff, there are also regular isles where the staff bags your stuff. just depends how you want to pay
You can talk to the cashier in germany and ask for his or her plans IF you know the person or if the cashier knows you as a regular one. Most of the cashiers in the supermarket around the corner knows us quite good and asks how things are and stuff like that because they know us for more than ten years. And likewise we ask how they are in the minute or two we spend there paying for our food. But we don't do that with every cashier there is. But every cashier likes a polite costumer if you know him or her or not😊
ITS A CULTURAL THING. i was raised in america to be friendly to everyone i meet. ESPECIALLY those in the service industry. it's considered rude to not at least say hello how are you doing. if you dont wish to speak just say "good" or "alright and you?" if they dont wish to talk they just "good". now, im not going down the road chasing people down to say hello and ask them how they are. but if you end up in a situation that forces us to cooperate or interact i will not just ignore you. i WILL be friendly because to not be is seen as rude here.
I just recently quit my job at ALDI and that's exactly how 100% of transactions went when it was a customers first time shopping there. This was in Texas by the way and I always preferred when the European folks came through because they knew the procedure and I didn't feel awkward saying nothing at all lol.
Same in Australia. Sometimes the cashier will bag your items although most people do it themselves bc it’s respectful. Also bags cost around 50cents - 1 dollar, unless ofc you bring your own.
Aldi shop assistants will not help pack bags at all. But in my local one to the point of not even helping elderly customers and those with young children, instead just roll their eyes. It is a bit much
@@unoriginalname2050 yeah it’s popular among us with European parents and those who aren’t too stubborn to admit they’re poor and ALDI does everything right 😆
Many years ago I had the opposite experience. Being a German in an American supermarket, I brought my own bags. The packing guy at the cashier was completly confused as I had to tell him several times NOT to put any of the items into a paper bag (leaving him "unemployed"). That was funny as hell.
I live in America and I always put my groceries in the bags (that I paid for btw) because the cashier just jams everything in the bags and then it's impossible to carry them so I just organize it myself 💀
We have a great rule here that if the bag has the logo of the store printed on it then they can't charge you for the bags no matter what material it is made of and if there's no logo then they can charge you for that
Come to asia any country eat a any restaurant and never have to clean up they want you leave it since there are specific workers to clean the table even put in gas in your car so you dont even need to get out I love it
The best feeling is going to a supermarket in the UK when you have that little extra money to splurge and getting one of those fancy reusable bags with the cute patterns
UK viewer here. They _might've_ been originally conceived in the UK (I don't remember seeing them offered in any country before we had them) but they're now available in Germany, France, Spain and many other European countries, too... 😇
All Malaysian households have a bag filled with bags for shopping. We do bag our groceries ourselves as well. Plastic bags are charged, and supermarkets also sell reusable bags as another option.
Bro we have a cloth bag full of other cloth bags, and we have a normal plastic bag full of other normal plastic bags that we use for the trash bin. They somehow never got empty in almost 20 years now lol
This is in EDEKA thats why the cashier is slower than other supermarket. Also if you notice, there’s a bigger space for groceries. Definitely Edeka is for older people who can’t handle the stress in others supermarkets.
No, it's because the so called "Discounters" require their employees to scan as fast as possible. The only thing that counts is profit. They've got very strict targets. Supermarkets don't do that. Discounters would be: Aldi, Lidl, Penny, Netto, Norma Supermarkets would be: Edeka, REWE, Kaufland
I had a newly hired employee at REWE try to bag my groceries for me... I was appalled. Of course I didn't make a scene, but the whole line was stuck in shock
@@lulu111_the_cool you could think so but rather she scanned the bag first, slowly unfolded it, then scanned and immediately bagged one thing at a time
As a midwestern cashier I really wish I didn’t have to be so nice to a-hole customers who come in 5 minutes before close with their $400 order and want me to bag it by myself
@@HAPPYFUNTIMEx2 I’m going to trade school rn so I’ll be certified mechanic before i turn 21. It’s a temp job i got when i was 16 coz no bodyshops would hire a minor with no onpaper experience.
same here in NYC and NJ, no free plastic bag anymore. It’s better this way cuz more eco friendly, but you will just need to remember to bring your reusable bags all the time when grocery shopping
That's not the hard part. In Europe we have this re-useable bag for fruits and vegetables now, and i forget these things all the time. Need to buy these things everytime...
Norway, most large groceries have self-checkout as the first option. Last time I used a cashier for check-out, I wanted to deposit money to my bank, that cannot (of course) not be done with self-service.
To be clear, not in all US grocery stores is the cashier expected to bag your items for free. In California, many stores are self-service, and plastics bags are banned. Maybe the the cashier is down for some small talk, but even that's also hit and miss. Edit: To clarify, single-use bags are banned. "Reusable" bags are allowed but at extra cost.
Plastic bags aren’t banned in cali-every store I’ve been to still uses them as well as paper-but they cost 10¢ each bag. Sometimes. I’ve been to some stores that don’t charge at all still. I also don’t really see many people bringing in bags, or maybe I don’t notice them, ah well.
@@Waddedupnapkin I made a mistake by not stating single-use bags were banned. What most stores have now are "Reusable" bags that are generally at extra cost at the cashier.
We have Aldi in the US, same thing there. Also Sams Club just doesn't have bags, you can grab boxes they don't need on the way out of the store for you to put stuff in at your car 💀
Some places in America are starting to charge for disposable bags, too. It’s become a habit to keep reusable bags in our car for when we go grocery shopping. It’s just not universal across the country yet.
I remember the first time I went grocery shopping in Berlin and the cashier was exactly the same and I had to put all my stuff on the floor because he would not stop scanning everyone else's groceries behind mines and he would not tell me that I had the option to buy a bag until my friend asked....
Lady came to the craft supplies store I work at. Asks for a bag. We only have reusable bags made of recycled plastic, they cost money. Not a lot of money, but not free either. She rolls her eyes and demands a plastic bag. I told her that the bag I'm holding is made of plastic (at that point I start to play dumb foreigner because she was giving me attitude). She says she doesn't want it. I finish scanning her products and she realises she can't hold everything. She demands a free bag. I tell her I don't have any, but a reusable bag is forever. She looks over the counter and again, demands one of the rubbish bags. I hold in a "get the 🦆 out of here" and just tell her no. She leaves trying to balance her stuff. I really hope she dropped them at some point. And that's for people like that murder is illegal. If it wasn't we didn't have nearly as many people as we do.
THATS TRUE, my sister’s girlfriend is from the USA and when we are in the supermarket she talk like the cash men is like her friend BUT THEY DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER 💀💀💀 Edit: my English is really bad, so if I write something wrong, I’m sorry, I just wanted to say a fact :/
We bring our own bags in New York too, as is true in some other additional states. Like here, bags are available to buy at the cashier, but once you have a collection of those you learn to generally keep a bag with you (I have a few fold flat nylon type that can fit in or clip on my handbag without taking much room.)
You missed an important fact. Mostly people put their stuff back in the shooping card and go their cars in the parking area. Because they have their bags in the trunk.
I loved cashiers in the US, they are so nice and friendly, one of them even complimented my wallet (it had a little picture of Barcelona on it) and of course there are rude ones too, but they're very talkative for the most part which I enjoy. In my home country they're mostly like the German ones.
American influnecers are kind of funny... On one hand influencers post how important it is to be eco-friendly and healthy (I don't think Zac does that) and then they buy their healthy and green food wrapped in three coats of plastic... Also bringing your own reusable bags is really no hassle.
