And the kids get to learn how to shop for groceries rather young. I sent my son (9) to the shop with some money or card when I'm cooking and forgot something to buy. It helps them become independent.
@@jolanda.c I grew up in rural Groningen, where the nearest _anything_ was about that distance away. I was also taking my bike out to the nearest shopping centre on my own since I was probably even younger than OP's son. Though, admittedly, it was far enough away that I wouldn't just pop over to pick up some groceries my mom (or dad) forgot to buy.
I live in the NL and literally drive by like 4 grocery stores on my way home from work every day. So it's very easy to just hop in and get what I am in the mood for that day.
I live in Germany...Two discounters and a supermarket in walking distance, along with a shop with Asian products, plus two Pharmacies, multiple bakeries and a weekly market...
@@swanpride depends where you live because if you life in the centrum here you have like 20-30 of them in walking distance haha but I live further from centrum so in walk distance I have like 3 markets 2 bakery’s, and some other small shops.
"Why don't we do that here?" Answer: strict zoning laws. Even if someone wanted to start a small supermarket, butcher, bakery, greengrocer, etc. within a residential area, the authorities would step in. A residential zone is for living and living only. no commercial activities allowed. "Not Just Bikes" has many a video discussing this kind of zoning, with attached video as a good example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bnKIVX968PQ.html
Decentralized grocery shopping is far better in my opinion. You get smaller stores that make your trip in the store much faster. Plus centralized shopping causes extra congestion because everyone needs to go to the same place. I'm not sure why north America hasn't realized their mistake yet.
Vegetable jewelers are usually small business owners and get their fruits and veggies fresh from the auction every morning, class-A stuff, so the most expensive
Or at the farmer around the corner. The small villages are often located in the agricultural area. Fresher than fresh! The farmers who live in our street often offer their wares in front of their own house, where you leave your money in a can! Complete with change.
@@anaguq4651 Yeah we have a local green grocer and they can buy stuff straight from the farms and they like keeping the price really low so you cut out the middle man and get the best produce. When i was living in another city with a couple from here that's what they missed too, yeah you can buy stuff at market day but the supermarket greens were just very old and bad. If you are used to what we get here in our relatively small town. It was my favorite place to shop as a kid too, looking at exotic fruits and the green smell of all the cabbages and things.
@moimoi moi Well between the customer and the farmer yes but the auctioneers are the middle man between them and the farmers that live round the corner. Every step has to make it's own profits and that whole system from getting the produce to the auctioneer in a whole different big city, store it and pay al the people that work those giant halls costs a lot the consumer ends up paying for. At our local green grocers they can sell way below that pricepoint and have it more fresh. Though they also sell a lot of organic and foreign food items at also a really good cost. Their philosophy on having a store is just different, you can't even beat their prices OL. I think that really cuts into the profits they could have made but refuse to. They have been going strong for many decades though, i think they grew out of being a farm themselves.
shop keepers used to protest the removal of cars. I remember one place had 70 car parking spots reduced to 10 or 15 under a lot of protest from the shops. a few years later the shops said to get rid of all the cars, please. foot and bike traffic just spend more on average because of multiple smaller trips.
The channel Not just bikes is very good, the Dutch (but English spoken) channel BicycleDutch is very good too on everything related to cycling. Also you could watch Jovie's home. She's originally from Serbia, lived in the US for a very long time, currently lives in the Netherlands. She gives lots of information about all kinds of things here. So does Dutch Americano
With how the Dutch are the best English speaking county in the world where its not an official language. It's not really a "but" that its in English. Almost every Dutch can listen.
You'd think the car would make it quicker. But it's just that you're able to take more groceries home in one trip. I don't have a car myself, but once a week my dad and I go to a bigger grocery store than there is in my little town by car. That's when I buy a lot of prepacked and heavier items for the week. And in between I get fresh food items at the smaller grocery store on my bike.
Every city and town has most shops within walking or bicycling distance; within 5-10 minutes. You don’t need a car at all. Most city and town centers are car free or low access for cars.
3:50 I'm a Dutchy and have 2 large grocery stores just over a literal stonetoss away. For a while I've switched to making grocery lists instead of doing it by heart. As a result I don't waste food anymore. That's not an exaggeration, btw. Unless it's the product has gone bad before the sell-by date, I don't waste food anymore. It feels great :)
I have like 5 grocery stores about 750m to 1km away. I can go pretty much 3 different directions and hit one in about 700m. It's insane how many grocery stores we have in certain parts of the country. (Especially de randstad where I am from).
Greengrocer-"jewelers" basically have better, fresher, prettier fruit, the food isn't necessarily all polished, but you won't find any marks or spots on the fruit. It's a bit like the difference between a high quality chocolatier and a person selling mars-bars. Both are food, one is more expensive and has a prettier box to carry the food home in.
I'm nearly 29 years old. We never had a car at home. So my dad did the weekly shopping one his bike. There were at some point 7!!! kids at home. Ages 0-19. Can you imagine? 🤣
A big dufference between us and say, Germany, is also the big assortment of pre-cut vegetables. We have rows and rows of those.... 20 different lettices: with or wothout rucola, mixed with say, paprika, carrot, or the luxe ones like with dressing and chicken or shrimps or whatever... all packed in plastic in different sizes; single servings, a large "voordeel"pack (discount), and anything in between... Even packs of cut up apple... Carrots, broccoli, combined packs of vegetables for pasts sauce, or in soup..... It is absurd😂😂.
I buy the packages of mixed vegetables all the time. It's quick and easy after a long day and I have more variety in vegetables than if I bought some pieces myself.
I like the pre-packaged stirfry vegetables, if I have to buy them separately and cut them myself I always end up with too much, and the pre-cut/pre-packaged stuff is just the right amount for one serving, so that works out. I still get stuff from the market too but sometimes it's convenient to just have it ready to go.
The food prices in the "supermarkets" are basicly the same all over the netherlands so thats just kinda true. If you do want the best you need to go to specialist stores and those are cheaper outside amsterdam.
Amsterdam....there is more than Amsterdam. Why do they alway say Amsterdam. It's THE NETHERLANDS. I hate it when people say it's Amsterdam. Amsterdam is not the Netherlands.
Every afternoon, between 2 pm and 4 pm I think "What shall we eat tonight?". Sometimes I think of something and sometimes I don't. I go to the supermarket (on my bike of course) which is 700 meters away from me and I buy what I need. Great not to have to plan a week ahead. I only buy what I need. And a big advantage: You meet someone you know on the street, have a chat, socialize a bit. Just fun!
@@Snowshowslow Yes, sometimes I also walk to the supermarket. But as a result of a CVA I have a right leg that no longer wants to move properly. And when I'm having a bad day, I walk really badly. I prefer cycling.
@@bertkassing8541 Ah fair enough :) Bikes are also nice in that they carry the weight for you. Although if you go every day that might not be too much weight :)
Bying in bulk (for a whole week) also means you need to have a big refrigerator to store al the groceries that neede to kept cold. Bying small amounts of groceries keeps your fridge not all cluttered up.
as a person who bikes, i would love this! i never realized how MASSIVE american parking lots are. I like to shop frequently. when you buy in bulk that's how waste happens.
Most supermarkets here don't have long check out lines. They often have a rule that when there are more than 4 people in the row, number 5 gets his shoppings for free. So they keep an eye on the lines and open the next when necessary. Only when there aren't anymore lines to open, then the rule won't count, but that hardly ever happens.
@@mariadebake5483 nou dat hadden ze hier heel snel afgeschaft bij de jumbo. Ook van 4 in de rij naar 5e in de rij die niet geholpen wordt. Erg sneaky van de winkelketen maar vele trekken ook hun mond niet open. Maar als ik een gespannen sfeer voel bij de kassa omdat het heel druk is en te weinig kassa's open zijn en het personeel reageert niet uit hun zelf dan schreeuw Ik 1x KASSA BIJ!! Dan moet iedereen lachen en is de irritatie ook vaak meteen weg en het supermarkt personeel schrikt en reageren dan wel. Altijd mooi om te zien die reactie🤣👊
A vegetablejeweler or groenteboer (vegetablefarmer) is a remence of earlier times when you would go to the baker for bread. The milkman came for the milk. Meat at the butcher. Since these vegetablejewelers are stand alone enterperneurs and therefor smaller bussinesses, have no big chains attached, they usualy have higher costs witch makes there veggies and fruits a little more expensive. No polishing of the veggies there. ^^
Positive thing about big city supermarkets is that they are open till 10 in the evening evening at Sunday. And why Holland have so much bikes is because mainly the country is flat. Every time I see your videos I wod love to show you around in non touristic places so you get an better idea if what you see in the videos.
I live in the Netherlands in a tiny village (11,000 people) and there are still 4 supermarkets. I also go to the supermarket to buy what I will eat for the day and the necessities what I need and I finished
Beste 'Amerikaanse gozer reageert', Het gaat nog steeds prima! Ik heb net een reclame voor het 'Korps Mariniers' gezien, en terwijl ik het keek, at ik een appel. [2:50] De 'GROENTENIER' heette vroeger 'groenteboer'. Een groenteboer richtte zich op groenten en vruchten (fruit). Ik vond het leuk om de verschillende etenswaren te zien die in Amsterdam aangeboden worden. Mijn aanbeveling voor ene volgende video zou zijn om de titel van de video minder oordelend te schrijven. Echter, ik vond de nauwkeurigheid van de titel leuk, aangezien de video me de 'negatieve' kanten van boodschappen doen in de Verenigde Staten en de 'positieve' kanten van boodschappen doen in Amsterdam liet zien. Met vriendelijke groet, Mark Dumanon
I always get groceries on my bike, and have the big and heavy stuff delivered every couple of days. The only time I take my car if its raining (and not even always then, during the summer some rain can be nice).
We also have an app too good to go with the date for that day or later you pay 4,99 and get food worth 14 euros so that they don’t have to throw it away .bakeries and Lidl also do it.
Well... As long as you live in a city, I suppose it's true how you're always very close to a supermarket. When you're living in more rural places, it's not that close, you definitely need a car to do your weekly groceries.
I live in a small town and there's 3 grocery stores within biking distance and 2 of those are withing walking distance. A town and a half over however, theres plenty of horeca and a sportscomplex, yet no grocery stores (I honestly don't get why, they don't even have a bakery to my knowledge). Some of the house placements there though... people really chose to live in the middle of nowhere, yet close to a city, so I guess in that case it is expected.
I live in a more rural part of the Netherlands, a village with maybe 2,000 people. We have 2 supermarkets in our village, twice a week fresh markets, and 5 more supermarkets within a 20min bike ride.
Oké, I don't want to make this into a competition, but I live in a village of 300 people. There are no shops, our school closed two years ago. There used to be a regular busline, but that's reduced as well. Great for you if you can actually get your weekly grocery shopping on your bike, I can't.
You can only use the handscanners if you have a special 'Bonus Card'. You get those for free from the supermarket and use them for discounts etc. They put out a folder each week with products that are cheaper with this Bonus Card. If you want to use the handscanner, you scan your Bonus Card first. One of the scanners lights up and you take that one. Then you get your groceries, scan the prices yourself and at the end, you scan your Bonus Card again to check out. You need the receipt to leave the store and occasionally they check randomly if you didn't steal anything. Very convenient.
@@1972Sylvester Our local Jumbo has the handscanners too, never used them as I rarely shop there but I think it's the same system with the Bonus card or app. You can also scan the items at the register if you don't have the bonus card or app.
"What do they do, polish your fruit?" Not exactly. But specialist grocery stores (Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers and Greengrocers) tend to have MUCH higher quality produce than supermarkets do. They have to, because otherwise customers just get what they want at the supermarket.I've bought cuts of meat at the butcher that were better than good restaurants make. Melt in your mouth tender meat. Sure, it was more expensive than supermarket cuts, but less than a top restaurant and totally worth it!
I would not be able to survive in the US. I am vehemently anti-car. I live in Amsterdam in de Pijp. There are three supermarkt and the Albert Cuyp market here within walking distance. Note that I lived in parts of the Netherlands where I had to bike a distance to get my groceries. Amsterdam is densely packed. Ok, we do see a bit more homeless people, loud obnoxious drunk american tourists, trash and inner city problems here but that's a rounding error squared against the general convenience. My fridge is 30 meters to the left outside my house.
You ever go to the grocery store and get to the register and not have enough money to pay? Or spend than you planned on and you don't wanna put stuff back cause it embarrassing or it takes to much time. that doesn't happen when you scan all your stuff as you put it in the bag. The hand scanners seem like a great idea
2:47 They're not called 'vegetable jeweler'/'groentejuwelier', ever! They're called 'groenteboer', literally 'vegetable farmer', and that should be translated into 'greengrocer'. Or 'produce shop' or 'produce store' in the USA. They sell vegetables and fruits. And greengrocers don't really hand polish their vegetables. That's just the dry humor of 'Just Not Bikes', which I like. Okay, they may maybe wipe off some dirt or something.
Very true, we have groceries and supermarkets all around the places were you can live. I live in the NL in a smaller place (about 20.000 people) and we have 6 big supermarkets (1 x AH (you saw that in the video), 2 x Jumbo (als big Dutch supermarket), 2 x Lidl, and Dirk (also big and cheap!)). Besides that a weekly market, other shops where you can buy bread, meat (bitchers), bio food, chees and nuts and whatever you need. And that all in several big and small shopping centers in one village. Yes, that is The Netehrlands!
Its very convenient, i always get something before college and then during our lunch breaks a lot of the time the grocery stores are close enough to just get some food during our break and be back in class in time with more than enough time left
America is based on big, they have all the space they need. Especially the further west you go. A lot of space is nice but it comes with a few problems.
It’s justnot in Amsterdam but trough out our country with shopping for food I just go down stairs (we live in a appartement) and go shoppind……we have 3 different supermarkets and also a breadshop……a butcher…….clothes and shoeshop…..and many more shops……in the Netherlands you can use public transportation everywhere if you want to go shop…..you don’t need a car………that’s better for the climate change…..all countries should do this……I think……
America and Canada with its big long roads to pretty much anything and everywhere. I see why they have supermalls and combine as many things in superstores as possible. Because, you are going to have to travel there! Where I life in the Netherlands it almost is insane. We have 5 shopping malls within a not TOO big town.. One of them is really big, then the three others are more sized for their surroundings. One of them is open air even. And around each of those whatever shop you might need for your basics. Some even have some added benefits, like hardware stores, small hardware stores yes, but you can buy some paint or a new set of drill bits! So yeah, if I find that I run out of eggs I can go and get it! If I would life in america or canada... I would have to plan a big trip!
If you're ever planning on visiting the Netherlands let me know... I'm happy to show you around or let you know where to go to experience our country as a tourist but as we do. Ofcourse I'd buy you a few beers or whiskeys hehe 😁
Not all of holland is that bike focussed, i live on the edge of The Hague (Leidschenveen) and we use cars alot more, you can look in on on maps. You will see we do have bigger parking lots, more roads and more space the Amsterdam of The Hague city. The biggest thing about our country is that anyone thinks The Netherlands = Amsterdam however manny Dutch people don't like Amsterdam or don't visit because it's to busy. I think Rotterdam or the Hague is more a typical Dutch city than Amsterdam. I'm 27 and i visited Amsterdam maybe 5 times in my life. It's like the USA is not just New York.
This video is incorrect. Almost every store has a parking place, just not the ones in the center center of a city. So yes not in the center of Amsterdam
Wait wait wait, a QUARTER of food gets thrown away by people in North America? AFTER BUYING IT? I get sad when I have to throw away a single carrot as I live on my own and can't always eat through the whole veggie bag in time.
It's different outside the big city. We have lots of parking spaces near the grocerie shops in the towns surounding us. Never heard off vegetable juwelers I call the vegetable farmer
Although this is true, often grocery store that have a big parking lot will have two entrances. One in front, usually nested between shops along the side walk, with the customary bike parking. And also one in the back, that gets you to the parking lot. This makes shopping by cas a possible without forcing people arriving by foot or bike to cross a large parking lot.
I think people make a big shop once a week and then top things up during the week more these days now but that would be harder in central amsterdam. I heard , probably from that same channel that stores are always outside of town and huge in the U.S so it can take hours to shop, of course them you can't afford to go often. And it looks like you are walking miles, all that extra choice and stock means you can't just breeze through the store like we can at Aldi where you don't have 20 types of peanutbutter with a 1000 jars each. Choice is over rated, just get maybe a few good quality kinds. Fresh food also tastes better, frozen broccoli isn't going to inspire anyone, but fresh is great.
I've been a few times in USA and it always took us at least an hour to do the grocerie shopping 🤷🏻♀️ it's always hard when you don't know the shop, but the choices you have and the amount and length of lanes!!!
@@Erika1965 Yeah I always thought it would be best to bring your rollerblades when looking at those. You'd think they'd all get really skinny from walking that marathon. But then they have the motorized carts. Just give me an Aldi any day. They don't flip the whole sections around all the time either so you can just head right where you get your normal stuff.
i live in amsterdam and yes i dont have to use a car but when i came home from work by car i drop by the supermarket i have two within 700m that have free parking garage for 1 hour i think so i live in amsterdam and do daly trips to the supermarket with my car
Bro stop with The Amsterdam, loads of other places in The Netherlands that have the same or better than Amsterdam. This is a huge thing for us like Reppin your city we al friendly until its a soccer rival. Look it up - we go nuts for our soccer. Example Feyenoord VS Ajax () Rotterdam VS Amsterdam. Sincerly A Dutch Guy. Couldnt see anything about really , so thought like could be a good idea for another video. UK Spain France Belgium Germany Netherlands we al go crazyy for soccer!
On your question why they do it, basically to make more money, let you throw away more, and buy more than you need, just to make you spend more in the long run... Sadly they dont care that much for the environment since its a product of them, they can basically produce more if they want to, exhausting mother earth :/ I like your videos man, glad to see you enjoy the Netherlands :)
@@kellyv4595 i actually dont want to 😂😬 but yeah i can imagine... It should start revolving around bringing a good service instead of wanting to make as much as possible.. Greed is one of the most destructive tendencies we as mankind have
Look up john de witt speech .what made the netherlands . John de witt . Is the guy we eat . I saw you watchs that one how we eat him now look up why i was so big and still is for are history
Have a look at not just bikes ST series 1-6, it might just give you some new insights into your own country as well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y_SXXTBypIg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VVUeqxXwCA0.html or have a look at Dutch art and artists ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YV4YGUAHPJU.html Just keep educating yourself and you’ll be fine.
Had to @ this , Elektric bike are a thing and they go fast ! and dont make any freaking sound. like a sonnic the hedgehog silent as a ninja Who is gonna yell KANKER FLIKKER niet stil staan op het fietspad.
This is just awesome Holland! And again if it comes to technology Germany is far behind! But: why is your food in the streets or restaurants soooo bad??? usually super greasy or just takes like it's bad quality. I have been to Adam several time and not once I was satisfied with the meals (except for toastable, i love you guys!) Maybe someone here can give a good recommendation and no I am not talking about these disgusting fried meatballs u seem to be proud of for no reason. I once heard the bad food in Netherlands has got something to do with the Netherlands being very close to Britain somehow? No offence just saying how it is and i would love to find delicious food in Holland
I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you just pick the wrong restaurant, because I am hardly ever unsatisfied with a meal or restaurant. When I am unsatisfied with a meal I usually just picked the wrong item and it wasn't for me. Also, we don't have disgusting fried meatballs. We have bitterballen, which are filled with ragout, which is so different to meatballs in every possible way. We als have frikandellen, which are totally solid and more like meatballs, but the shape is totally different. 'Proud of for no reason', insulting people and then asking for their help is really no way to go about things. You clearly lack social skills, which is perhaps why you can't distinguish the few shitty cafés from the rest of the cafés and restaurants. No, I have no recommendation for restaurants, because I can literally decide on the spot where to eat and I will like it, where ever I am in the Netherlands. A few tips: If you don't like whats on the menu, don't eat there. If restaurants are buzzing with people, but this one is (near) empty, you should probably skip it. If you don't want to eat simple food, maybe skip the brown café. If you don't like bitterballen, don't eat them. If you want people to help you, don't insult them.
