Ayy legend! Yeah Lost in the Pound has a great channel for UK vs US stuff! And I call it sweets but Candy works too :D

@starrynight1657

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody says candy. Sweets is a good general and true descriptive term anyway.

I prefer to know how much I'm spending BEFORE I get to the till.

@Isleofskye

3 жыл бұрын

In 1979 visiting The USA we got chased down the street by the restaurant staff telling us we had to pay commission as a tip :)

Most of the Supermarkets in the UK sell more than Groceries as well. Asda has a clothing brand called George.

@DaveBartlett

3 жыл бұрын

Larger ASDAs also sell kitchenware, tableware and small domestic appliances under the brand: "George Home" - reasonably priced pots, pans, plates & cutlery and great for a really cheap kettle or toaster. George Home is pretty much first choice for parents to kit out new students before they go off to Uni!

@LMmccallL57

3 жыл бұрын

The "George" brand was once very popular in Walmart in the US, then it died down and vanished from many, if not all of the stores. In the past year, I've noticed that two of the stores near me have started to sell the brand again, but the selection isn't nearly as large as before. They sold some cute items for women that I liked, and I hope they'll bring more back. I liked the quality of their men's t-shirts, too.

@SteveInScotland

3 жыл бұрын

@@LMmccallL57 Walmart made enough from the sale of George items in the US to pay for the purchase of ASDA several times over.

@juliaw151

3 жыл бұрын

And for example TU at Sainsburys, and F&F at Tesco, not forgetting the infamous middle aisles in Aldi.

@mdx7460

3 жыл бұрын

I think he’s forgetting that we have supermarkets and supercenters.. my local Asda is absolutely huge on 2 levels and the top level, being the George and home section, is just as big as the bottom.

Yup I'm an Australian that's never been to America, but I have been to Britain & basically both the UK VAT (Value Added Tax) & Australian GST (Goods & Services Tax) are always included in the price so you don't have any nasty surprises, which is why both countries find the US Sales Tax system so weird. Also in the UK candy/lollies are generally referred to as "sweets"

@isaiahbangura4421

3 жыл бұрын

You pay more taxes though. My sales tax is only 6% and sometimes if you buy one thing they don't tax you.

@grahamsmith9541

3 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahbangura4421 In the UK tax varies depending on what you are buying. Esential items like food, female hygiene products and children's clothes are 0% tax other things are 5% and the majority 20% with sugar tax on top for high sugar drinks. Without tax being included in the price working out how much you are spending, while shopping would be a nightmare.

@isaiahbangura4421

3 жыл бұрын

@@grahamsmith9541 I know that. I'm from Ireland.

@grahamsmith9541

3 жыл бұрын

@@isaiahbangura4421 I must learn to look more closely bat what I am doing. I ment to put it under the main comment.

@randomdumbarse1music

3 жыл бұрын

@@grahamsmith9541 No worries, I saw it anyway :) GST might do the same thing, to be honest I'm not actually sure.

Here's the egg answer - "By 1970, the U.S. had perfected an egg washing system that was easy, effective and produced squeaky-clean eggs. The only catch was that, after washing, these eggs had to be refrigerated. The trade-off for beautifully spotless and bacteria-free eggs is that washing also removes a thin, filmy, protective outer layer called the cuticle. This cuticle is the magical natural shield that keeps bacteria out of an egg while letting oxygen circulate.

@starrynight1657

3 жыл бұрын

It seems more bother than it's worth. Because the eggs don't keep as long many more must be wasted.

@denewst01

3 жыл бұрын

It also allows producers to cover for bad husbandry practices; the egg washing thing is literally banned in UK & the EU which means the animals have to be kept in better conditions since no-one wants eggs that are covered in dirt. Also, it means transport & storage costs are lower & less energy intensive & there's no issue with refrigeration breaking down & allowing contamination - salmonella rates in US are roughly double per 1k of population than in EU & UK too.

@SPbakerhouse

3 жыл бұрын

I keep free-range hens, and an unwashed, unrefrigerated egg will last three weeks or more. They have to. A broody hen will often lay 20 eggs before she starts to incubate them so that they all hatch at the same time. Therefore the first laid must remain as fertile as the last.

@welshbloke6103

3 жыл бұрын

@Darth Wheazius Sorry to say, but there are vaccines against bacteria (speaking as a pharmacist). DTP vaccine given as a child protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), all of which are bacterial infections. Antibiotics treat bacterial infections much the same way as antivirals treat viral infections. The fact we’re able to treat them has nothing to do with vaccines. Any we do vaccinate hens against salmonella. That was the whole point of the Red Lion stamp.

@rayjennings3637

3 жыл бұрын

@TheRenaissanceman65 They are also pasteurised.

We in the UK have a whole aisle dedicated to cereal though we also have stuff like granola bars or cereal bars in the same aisle

@girlsdrinkfeck

2 жыл бұрын

well duh

My mate from St Louis was staying and he asked me to get a bar of Dove at the supermarket. Was not amused when I gave him a bar of Dove soap. If you ask for Dove in the UK you will be given soap, shower gel etc

@Ja-uu9ep

3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I see St Louis I think of that tv show Superstore

@attackpatterndelta8949

3 жыл бұрын

What was your man expecting?

@Westcountrynordic

3 жыл бұрын

@@attackpatterndelta8949 A bar of Dove chocolate

@Scarletcroft

3 жыл бұрын

Funny in the Netherlands both are called Dove. So you'd better be clear on the shopping list if you want chocolate or soap.

@TheClunkingFist

3 жыл бұрын

@@Scarletcroft Or else you'll be forever blowing bubbles....

In the UK, we pay Value Added Tax, on luxury and non essential items. The rate is currently 20%. But as he says, the ticket price is the price you pay.

@thevonya3977

3 жыл бұрын

All prices in the UK, by default, are inclusive of the sales tax (VAT) and by law must state, very clearly, if a price is not inclusive of VAT (commercial cars or vans for example will list a price with +VAT at the end)

@BirthOfAnEmceeTV

3 жыл бұрын

Selco prices don't include vat. It is stated but its not clear n obvious!

@thevonya3977

3 жыл бұрын

@@BirthOfAnEmceeTV Most, if not all, Trade-specific places don't, as their core customer base are Traders, whom claim back any VAT spent anyways (since their own customers ultimately pay the VAT). This allows traders and businesses to work out their annual expenditure more effectively and thus work out their taxes, VAT return claims, etc from there

@BirthOfAnEmceeTV

3 жыл бұрын

@@thevonya3977 Yeah I understand that, Selco the only suppliers I use who don't include it in their prices other than the mill where I get my timber. Swines be charging me extra 20% at the till grrrr 🤣 I'm not vat registered (only started up on my own last October) so it's still all a learning curve for me to be fair.

@CaptainScarlet1961

3 жыл бұрын

The VAT thing is bullshit anyway, try telling a woman the tampons she just got charged VAT on are either a luxury or a non essential item, go on I dare you!

The brand name Dove in the U.K is normally soap and shower gels 🤣

@LMmccallL57

3 жыл бұрын

It's also a brand name for soaps and shower gels in the US.

@pineapplesideways3820

3 жыл бұрын

Same in Australia but we also have dove chocolate

@theronin365

3 жыл бұрын

U.S does a few things better than us Brits....but we win the chocolate war.

@dougbowers1256

3 жыл бұрын

We have Dove soap and soap products in the US too.

Just a recent update: Walmart doesn't own Asda anymore, it was bought by billionaire brothers at the end of 2020

@aminyamumsminge

3 жыл бұрын

Good,Walmart needs to buy poundland instead,considering poundland is more of a uk Walmart if you know what I mean.

@jayjay4spurs

3 жыл бұрын

@@aminyamumsminge not all poundland sells frozen food products, we got 3 poundland shops in brighton & only one sells pep & co clothing

@juliankaye8143

3 жыл бұрын

Walmart still have minority share in ASDA.

@yudokuzonbi9504

3 жыл бұрын

i was just about to comment this.

@AngstRiddenAnnoyance

3 жыл бұрын

@@aminyamumsminge Poundland is nothing like Walmart lmao

Walkers was a long established UK brand that was acquired by US company that makes Lays hence keeping the walkers name.

@Zumakiminato

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it owned by PepsiCo

if you buy a bar of Dove in the U.K. you can wash yourself with it as it is a soap bar :)

We call them sweets. Candy is a subsection relating to hard, sugary, chalky (texture wise) sweets.

The reason for the eggs is in America the protective layer that protects the egg is blasted off with a pressure washer which is why they have to be chilled in the states and are white in colour here in the UK we dont blast the protective layers off and therefore the egg requires no refridgeration.

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

No, the difference in colour comes purely from the breed of hens.

@nedetchells2046

3 жыл бұрын

@@Naeron66 na they just clean their eggs in america, a specific breed of hen isn’t gonna produce pure white eggs 24/7

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

@@nedetchells2046 You know nothing about chickens. Different breeds lay different coloured eggs and a chicken always lays the same colour, its in their DNA. For instance the White Leghorn lays white eggs, Barred Rocks lay light pink eggs.

@felipaantoniella

3 жыл бұрын

@@Naeron66 ooh that is interesting, also I think I read or heard somewhere that feeding the hens different type of coloured(??) foods would change the colour of the egg shell or give it some spots? I can’t say for sure that I remember this info right or not, but would you say it does? (Obviously I know that for white eggshells is more of a breed thing)

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

@@felipaantoniella I don't know much about the fine details, the colouring of the shell is defined by the Chicken's DNA and happens between shell formation and laying. With hybrid breeds you can get 1 chicken laying 1 colour and a 2nd chicken laying another depending on which genes are dominant. I would guess that diet changes could affect the colour in terms of shade and spots but it shouldn't change the basic colour.

I'm in the UK just wanted to say our eggs last about 3 weeks without refrigerating and candy is just called sweets, if anyone was still wondering

Lay's acquired Walkers in 1989, since Walkers was already a popular brand in the UK at the time they decided to keep the Walkers name instead of changing it.

@RoyCousins

3 жыл бұрын

And Lays belongs to PepsiCo.

@Isleofskye

3 жыл бұрын

I did not know that! I wonder if Gary Lineker does ?

I've never tried a Dove bar in the US because I just think of soap and deodorant. And it's sweets in the UK, lollies in Australia and candy in the US.

@acs6785

3 жыл бұрын

Dove is a soap brand in the UK. They make creams etc too mostly aimed at Middle aged women.

@chrisstainsby614

3 жыл бұрын

@@acs6785 Ha yes, the thought of Dove chocolate has me imagining it tastes like soap!

@Rosebud_XD

3 жыл бұрын

Same I just think of shampoo

@Rosebud_XD

3 жыл бұрын

Wait sweeties are called lollies in Australia, but lollies/lollipops are hard boiled sweets on a stick

A lot of supermarkets in the UK have clothes and stuff these days, my local asda has a cafe, clothes, electronics, pharmacy, cds and dvds, and all your normal food, drink, laundry and stuff.

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

And GM (General Merchandise) which is home related plus Entertainment and Electronics.

In Britain we do have taxes on shopping which instead of calling sales tax we call VAT tax (which stands for Value Added Tax) and is almost always included in the final price listed on the shelves of the store (unless you are shopping at wholesale store where for business reasons they will separate the VAT from the cost BUT still list both of them)

@zahidshabir4038

3 жыл бұрын

@Darth Wheazius I am not an expert in this nor do I fully understand what you just said but I just said that from what I have seen in some cases they do list the VAT inclusive price and regular sales prices separately usually I think I have only seen this from wholesalers

@chrisstainsby614

3 жыл бұрын

We also have different rates of VAT on food. Some food is 0% VAT and some is normal 20%. Most natural products and essentials are 0% but then once the product is prepared into some thing else it is then 20%, not always though there are some exceptions such as bread for example. We never think about it though as its just the price it is on the label.

@DaveBartlett

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisstainsby614 Only 'hot' food in stores is VAT applicable. Anything else is zero rated unless it isn't classified as food, (i.e. sweets, biscuits, other confectionery.) Cakes are classed as food, and are hence zero rated, but with chocolate added to them, the chocolate part itself is rated the same as chocolate usually would be. So effectively, a chocolate covered cake's price would a attract a fraction of the VAT that a chocolate biscuit of the same price would attract, and the same cake without the chocolate would attract no VAT at all. This would potentially cause problems with the 'Value Added' part of the calculation, when re-sold, but since it's unlikely that someone would buy something like a chocolate cake, and then re-sell the chocolate and the cake separately, the problem doesn't occur. (The partial VAT on cakes with chocolate, was the reason for the whole 'Jaffa Cake - biscuit or cake?' court case, but that's another story!)

@jamesbedford7327

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveBartlett This isn't exactly correct. Biscuits and cakes are 0% rated. Biscuits with chocolate on them will attract standard rate (20%)

@DaveBartlett

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesbedford7327 Biscuits are classed as confectionery and are thus taxed at standard rate, as is chocolate, cakes are classed as bakery goods, so like bread they're zero-rated.

I get eggs in the UK with feathers stuck to them 😂 so probably not washed, also never put my eggs in the fridge.

@theronin365

3 жыл бұрын

When he said wash an egg my brain started smoking...I thought just crack it and use it mate, lol

Asda sells almost everything, go in for bread and milk come out with a tv, a tin of paint and 23 curtain hooks and forgot the bread and milk 🤣

In UK we have areas in store dedicated to "free from" so no gluten, no dairy, no sugar and vegan food only but of course it costs more.

Frito-Lays bought Walkers crisps in 1989, the British company had been around for 40 years prior to purchase so they kept the branding and started to use it themselves themselves in 2019

@hermanmunster3358

3 жыл бұрын

Who remembers KP Crisps (or chips)? They were bought out by Walkers at some point I think. And now owned by Lays, who gave us the more hunger satisfying "Grab Bags" which I often buy as part of a Tesco Meal Deal.

@KamasTv75

3 жыл бұрын

Walkers bought out Smiths crisps. I used to work in the Walkers factory in my home town it used to be the Smiths crisp factory when I was a kid *they closed it a few years ago and is now a vegan sausage factory xD*

Uk has VAT value added tax on almost every item purchased. And is always included unless your buying like construction materials where it will say £30+vat but the vat is set across the uk 👍

Major difference is that most Brits take their own shopping bags to the Supermarket. In an effort to cut plastic usage the Government forced supermarkets to charge for bags if you use theirs, which I believe has helped to cut plastic usage. Also we pack our own groceries rather than the cashier, although you can ask for help if elderly, disabled etc. As mentioned by someone else VAT ( sort of equivalent to Sales Tax) is not charged on certain items such as basic food items, books, education,, children’s clothes, medical drugs and equipment - there is a long list! So although 20% seems high, we don’t pay it on everything. Also in some Supermarkets you have to have a £1 coin to release your trolley (cart) from the front of the shop, but you get this back when you take it back to the designated trolley parking areas.

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you subsist on Takeaways we pay a very small amount of VAT on our food in total.

Asda was bought by a the Issa brothers from Bury, near Manchester. Walmart only retains a minority share now.

@jazzyb4656

3 жыл бұрын

They were actually born in Blackburn and still live here. They have built 5 or 6 massive new houses in the wooded hills at the top of Blackburn, looking out over a beautiful valley. Just Google issa brothers houses

With Lays and Walkers. They were different companies that make crisps/potato chips at one point (Lays being American and Walkers being British) but they were both bought by PepsiCo and merged together with Walkers being the British “branch” and Lays being the American “branch”.

Burger King in Australia is called Hungry Jacks. It’s because someone was already using the name Burger King prior to the arrival in Australia. It’s the same with walkers.

I LOVE Lost in the Pond!!! It's amazing how many other KZreadrs are doing reaction videos on his content!!

Here in the land of Oz we have the GST (Goods and Services Tax) which included in the price. So the price you see is what you pay.

@sdwill66

3 жыл бұрын

And it's a flat 10%.

Snickers used to be called Marathon in Britain, it annoyed people when it changed. Snickers was apparently named after a race horse, strange name to me. Britain has many varieties of crisps, and over time has created some unusual flavours too. Some famous sweets like Kit Kat were created in Britain.

@craigs71

3 жыл бұрын

Opal Fruits also had their name changed around the same time as the Marathon bar, Opal Fruits became Starburst for some reason.

@neilbuckley1613

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair some of those crisp and allied snacks unusual flavours are awful [marmite crisps yuk ]

Sales tax or as we call it VAT is included in the price of the item you see on the shelf. Though essential food items like milk and bread generally don't have VAT as they're exempt from it.

We have a MASSIVE sales tax called "VAT" (Value Added Tax) - it is 20%! This applies to goods and services as well. But it is usually ALWAYS shown in the price ... So a £2 bag of peanuts, is actually £1.66 + 20% sales tax ... but the price tag ALWAYS says £2. So we never worry about it in the UK - what we see is what we pay!

Two of my favourite KZreadrs in one video

If you count Health Insurance as a tax (just paid to private companies) then taxes are a lot higher in the US (healthcare in UK is paid for through taxation so is included).

I'm subscribed to alot of narrowboat channels over on the british canals and I've learned through them they have Aldi's and Lidl over there too and are quite popular with the narrowboat liveaboards.

British supermarkets do sell clothes, home wear (e.g. towels, decorations, bedding, storage, pillows etc.), toys, stationary, books&magazines, party supplies, toiletries & medications, some electrical’s, video games & DVD’s, seasonal items, kitchen wear. Just in America they have soooooo much more.Sales tax is included in the price on most things. It’s called VAT (value added tax). Uk does have a cereal isle but there isn’t as much choice as USA.

I think the major difference is the fact that we can buy alcohol in a supermarket, like vodka, gin etc. When I lived in the US I had to go to a separate store to buy it which is annoying and weird.

no we dont call it candy in the uk its sweets or chocolates

"Taxation without representation is unfair" America's founding fathers weren't protesting high taxation (as I understand it), they were protesting a lack of representation. So they were saying, if we don't get representation we wont pay taxes. To this the British removed all the taxes except for on tea. So the Americans went like well you know where you can stick your tea. But instead they dumped a load of in Boston harbor. Oh and the American nation anthem was written during the war of 1812, not the American revolutionary war. I guess they were firing rockets in 1812.

Lawrence is from Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire my hometown. In British supermarkets eggs can found in different aisles in each supermarket or convenience store depending which you are shopping in, an important fact British eggs are not washed to protect the outer coating on the egg which is washed off in america. I have worked in a number of British supermarkets Kwik Save the eggs were with the sugar(Kwik Save closed down a number of years ago). Asda (recently bought back into British ownership from Walmart) this is the biggest supermarket here in Grimsby I can’t remember where the eggs were as since I worked there in 1997 the store has expanded in size. Morrisons the eggs are in the baking aisle. Sainsbury’s the eggs are next to the salt, vinegars and dried herbs and spices. Eggs are only refrigerated at home not in store (read my earlier comment). VAT is included no sales tax unlike money grabbers r us (america). We have an aisle with cereal but will defer in size depending on the supermarket or convenience store. We have sweets in Britain the same down under, there is no such thing as candy in Britain though it might appear in the name of a particular item.

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

I have never refrigerated eggs at home, nor did my parents or other family so that covers 55 years.

Ever wondered how to check,visually, how fresh an egg is? The most famous T.V. chef/cook Delia Smith, said put egg in pan and if fresh, they lay horizontally. The staler the egg the more it lifts up to the vertical. The price you see on the shelf for an item is what you pay. Sorry, we call candy "sweets".Although there are some manufacturers whom put the word candy on their product. One other thing, we generally bag our own groceries,so don't just wait for it to be done automatically. There is the option of asking for your groceries to be bagged. A good game we British play, is when in a Queue, guessing which one is likely to move quicker. Do you chance it, and leave the queue you're in, and join the one moving quicker, or stay? Hmmmm.

It might pay to remember that, in birds, the cloaca is a dual purpose outlet. Washing eggs before cracking (and hands after handling) is advisable!

I’m a brit. In stores you rarely if ever see eggs refrigerated. However once we get them home many people do put the eggs in the door of their fridge or at the back of the fridge just to make them last even longer. However you don’t have to put them in the fridge here. If you don’t refrigerate them in the uk they will probably last 1-3 weeks, I’m the fridge eggs will last around 3-5 weeks (sometimes up to 6 weeks)and in the freezer eggs will last around a year.

Sales Tax in the UK is called VAT (Value Added Tax) there's different rates of tax depending on service or goods, so to stop things getting complicated, by law in retail stores, the shelf price IS the price you pay (the price includes all DUTY TAX and VAT) we also have tax upon tax, for example Alcohol & Tobacco have a DUTY TAX and then 20% VAT on top of that. whereas things like most food, drink and childrens clothes have 0% VAT.

V.A.T (Value Added Tax) is what we call our sales tax, it is included in the price that you see on the shelf. V.A.T was initially introduced to fund our membership of the EU!

eggs sold in UK are merely machine brushed and maybe a cold water rinse ,no chemicals etc, shelf life is about a week or 9 days out of the fridge

in my country to have a ticketed price and to then add more on top at the register would just be illegal. you pay whats on the tag and if that price happens to be wrong then the store wears the cost of the stuff up.

UK has VAT (Value Added Tax) Calculated into the sticker price. New Zealand's GST (Goods & Services Tax) is done the same.

Holy shit I never knew Galaxy's were called Dove in America! I knew about the rest axe/lynx/lays/walkers...That has blown my mind, Dove makes me think of soap haha

UK VAT (Value Added Tax) is added to the final price of the product, meaning the price you see on the shelf is exactly what you pay at the till. It might surprise some Americans that while the highest sale tax in America is 9.55% in Tennessee (Based on a quick google search, my information might be a little off), the UK's VAT is a standard 20% across the whole Union.

We have VAT (Value Added Tax) which has different rates depending on different items, some necessities are VAT-free. But no matter what the VAT is, it's always included in the price you see on a label.

What about Snickers? I want my Marathon back!!!

We call Sales Tax VAT (Value Added Tax), which is 20% for most items to which it is applicable, but it is included in the advertised price.

Eggs are either in there own section at the side of an aise or they are with the baking goods.

We have VAT. Tax is applied throughout the production process and at final point of sale. VAT varies on the product. For example ‘healthier’ foods may have 0% VAT whilst sugary ones are subject to the standard 20% as well as the sugar tax. Babies and children clothes also have reduced VAT.

Sales tax is Value Added Tax in the UK, it is included in the price unless you are a VAT registered business, it is stated separately and you get to claim it back every quarter.

In the UK we have VAT (Value Added Tax) and usually this will be incorporated in the price. If you see a price label, You pay that and it already covers the tax. That is unless its a predominantly Business to business sale. Like real builders merchants (Not the DIY merchants), car sales etc etc

VAT i.e Value Added Tax was a European Economic Community (which became the EU) imposition on all member states. Each member state sets it at their own percentage. Britain had Purchase Tax until 1973, a tax that was put on wholesale goods. VATwhich is applied at retail came in in 1973 when we joined the EEC and has been set at variable rates sicne then, between 10 and 20% (currently 20%), but many items deemed necessities are exempt and some are taxed at a much lower rate, say only 5%. Now Britain has left the EU we can abandon some of its rules such as 5% on women's period products. Other member states have VAT rated as high as 27% (Hungary), 25% (Norway, Denmark and Sweden), and 23% (Ireland and Poland). However food on the whole (especially fresh produce and meat) is much cheaper even with VAT in the UK than the US.

In the UK and Ireland, taxes are included in the shelf price. It’s not added at the checkout at the end

VAT (Value added tax) Vat is currently 20% and included in the price. Only business to business prices are shown vat free and vat is added to the final invoice.

UK Supermarket Cashiers have chairs/seats for them. If they want to stand and serve its up to them but a chair is always given from Asda, M&S, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose etc etc. 99% of the time you also pack your own stuff unless you need assistance.

In the UK we don’t wash the eggs, so they don’t need to be refrigerated. As for sales tax we have Value Added Tax (VAT) which is set at 20%. However, some items are exempt from VAT.

Love Laurence! His channel is fantastic. I love your reactions :) new sub!

The eggs are not washed so they keep their protective coating, so you are correct, they do not need chilling.

Given he's talking about Supermarkets, also worth noting that VAT (Value Added Tax) isn't applied to "most" foods/drinks, whilst to some (well alcohol) you pay much higher than the standard 20% VAT rate. You pay VAT on a chocolate biscuit but not on a chocolate cake for example (McVities, who make Jaffa Cakes actually went to court to prove their product was a chocolate cake and not a biscuit for that very reason).

VAT=value added tax, if memory serves. I'm Australian where we have GST, goods and services tax. It's usually included in the ticket price but if not, it must declare 'plus GST' on the ticket or in the quote.

VAT - Value Added Tax, currently rated at 20%. This is levied on luxury foods and electrical items so like chocolate, biscuits, sweets, crisps, TVs, DVD players, etc. We call candy sweets and cookies biscuits(the only exception is chocolate chip cookies for some reason).

@daviniarobbins9298

3 жыл бұрын

Regarding VAT we pay VAT of 5% currently on our Gas/Electric bills. Other items attract 8% VAT but I forget what those items are. When we left the EU VAT was removed entirely on women's sanitary towels.

Sales tax in the UK is called Value Added Tax (VAT), its included in the shelve price, but there is still some auto part shops that dont.

The cleaning of eggs destroys the protective layer on the eggs from bacterial attack and infection. Some businesses that are more specialists have "+VAT" this is on auto industry, labour costs to the customers

Yeh as an I Aussie I did notice the big UK supermarkets like Tesco & Sainsbury’s sell other things than the groceries. You have chains CO OP & Waitrose that are more like a Basic Grocery Store like our Supermarkets in Australia like Coles & Woolworths.

In Europe we call Sales Tax VAT (Value Added Tax). It varies between countries and we have different VAT depending on product category. The only case were you see net price and VAT being separate in the shelf label is in Cash and Carry stores (that's what we call them over here) that have professionals as clients and mostly issue wholesale invoices instead of retail receipts. But again in those stores you have to put all prices in the shelf label i.e. Net value, VAT value, total value as well as all those prices per unit of measure. So if you have, say a 3litre bottle of milk, you get all the prices for the packaging as well as price per litre. Or if you're buying say a package of a dozen eggs, you still get price per unit and so on.

Lollies, aka candy, are known in the UK just as Sweets.

@zahidshabir4038

3 жыл бұрын

Lollies are just lollipops not specifically candy/sweets they are a variety of candy/sweets

@ravenburhenne5444

3 жыл бұрын

@@zahidshabir4038 nah lollies are all of them if you live in New Zealand or Australia

All the Supermarkets near where I live are the giant Tesco Exta, ASDA Walmart store, Morrisons, or Sainsburys extra. You can buy a car in the Tesco Extra near me. It's a bit too big to get around to be honest. The UK has strict rules on the amount of Sugar is in foods. My local Tescos has an entire double aisle just for breakfast cereal.

VAT (Value Added Tax) is an indirect tax with three rates: the standard rate is 20% reduced rate is 5% and zero is well 0%. Its mostly applied to things that are not considered essential i.e. clothing for over 14s, fizzy drinks etc but things like bread, milk, butter etc has no rate and somethings are just exempt completely.

Sales tax in the UK VAT (Value added tax) is applicable to most products with the exception of things like children's clothing and footwear. VAT is charged at 20%

The sales tax in the UK is the value added tax (VAT) and is always included in the prices shown for anything brought both in store and online.

UK has V.A.T (Value Added Tax ) on non essential items but it's always in the price tag, not separate unless you go to a wholesalers like Cost-Co because you will be potentially claiming that VAT back so need it separate. Apart from the ticket price, the only other price we will see was bought in a while ago to stop scummy sales practices where prices have to also be broken down into price/kg or whatever unit is suitable for greater transparency when comparing items. EG: A 200g can of beans will be tagged as 75p (£3.75/kg) and a 150g can of beans will be 55p (£3.67/kg) This was in response to stuff like supermarkets making MULTIBUY packs or Buy X for X Offers that looked like a deal but were actually much more expensive than the individual items etc. Cakes are considered essential so don't have VAT, but biscuits aren't so have VAT added, and that lead to a very interesting court case for McVities Jaffa Cakes :) They won on the basis that Jaffa Cakes are Cakes using science, Biscuits go soft when they get stale, Cakes go hard, and Jaffa Cakes go hard therfore are cakes and don't have to have VAT levied :) As for the eggs, in the UK, our Animal welfare Standards are a lot higher and our chickens are vaccinated and live in much better conditions so we don't have a huge Salmonella issue etc or eggs covered in animal waste. In the USA they have a huge issue with this so eggs MUST be washed, this removes the outer layer of the egg that actually makes it water permeable instead of protective, basically it now ENCOURAGES bacteria and disease to enter the egg, so they have to be refrigerated. Refrigerating an egg has a similar effect (The moisture build up will encourage bacterial ingress) so that's why in the UK and Europe eggs must NOT be refrigerated as they are of a high enough standard that they are safer as they are. Apparently (not tasted an American egg...) British eggs are also a LOT richer and taste better?? That's the only claim i'm not sure on.

The Boston Tea Party tax was less than 2% but it was more about the principle and disparities in how the taxes were applied

In the UK we don’t have cleaned eggs in the same way you do. The membrane isn’t washed off like it is in US processing, and so they don’t need to be (and shouldn’t be) refrigerated.

VAT = Value Added Tax (called Goods & Services Tax in some countries). It is a clear, sophisticated version of sales tax, very good at extracting money from the masses, espcially those on lower wages who pay low income tax. In NZ, it is charged at 15% on anything you can think of except your rent, interest and fines. Even local body rates (local taxes) have GST added. Most other countries have items which are excluded. The UK exempts, for example, fresh foods, books and maybe baby clothing (I can't remember now). VAT/GST exists in most countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_with_VAT.svg

I think we actually pay less tax than you do in the USA now.

@korbermeister1

3 жыл бұрын

VAT in the us is 20%. Sales tax in NJ is 7% (excluding clothing and paper products which aren’t taxed) so not in retail consumer products

@Naeron66

3 жыл бұрын

@@korbermeister1 That is less in total. We also have a lot of foods that have 0 sales tax.

@gc7820

3 жыл бұрын

UK total tax paid per head is much lower than the US. Sorry fellas, you chucked a load of tea off a boat for nothing.

@girlsdrinkfeck

2 жыл бұрын

@@korbermeister1 u cannot compare .because fruit and veg in usa costs MORE than it does in UK, while sales tax is less than VAT ,the companies selling the goods pay higher bussiness taxes so they rake the price of goods higher to the consumer instead

In the UK we have sales tax called value added tax or VAT and it is added to the price so you pay what is advertised unless there is a sale on.

A wee comment regarding our store sizes, up here in Glasgow for example, within a 10 min drive any direction I’ll be at 1 of the main supermarkets, whereas when I was in Texas, the supermarket was a distance away, I think we have far more supermarkets locally compared to the states, plus ours are also 24hr, and all bar 1 of mine are quite large

We don't clean eggs. It strips off all their protection. We do have sales tax (VAT - Value Added Tax), but it is always included in the price.

ASDA, Tesco etc in UK sell clothes, home wear etc too. VAT (sales tax) is included in all supermarkets but not all goods have sales tax on them. VAT in the UK is 20 percent.

we have sales tax (VAT Value Added Tax) on most things, food tends to be exempt, as well as most things for kids. Our taxes are pretty close, because we don't have the state and federal taxes, so while our 'federal' taxes might be higher, their are no state taxes added on. (Apart from a council tax on property to pay for rubbish collection, pavement maintenance, parks etc in your town)

Eggs don't get pre-cleaned in the UK. It's not allowed by law because it damages them, which is why they are stored in fridges in the US, but not in the UK. You can choose to store your eggs in the fridge in the UK after purchase, but you don't buy them in the fridge sections. We also have VAT included in price. You generally don't see the price without VAT, except on your receipt where it says the whole total without VAT in a section on the bottom.

Re brands, I think it's a brand name copyright kind of thing. For example, in Australia, 'Burger King' is known as 'Hungry Jacks'. Same logo, same packaging, different name. Except in airports, where Burger King is allowed to use its global name.

We don't normally say we're going to the supermarket but, instead, we go shopping or to the shops. To confuse you even more, in N.I. and Scotland shopping is called getting/doing the messages. VAT = value added tax. Necessities like food in shops/supermarkets and children's clothes aren't included. Walkers are crisp manufacturers who began in Leicester (Lester) and must have been bought out by a multinational who use a different name in different countries. Candy, lollies, do you mean sweets?

In England we have Value Added Tax, VAT for short. It's about 17.5%, last time I checked. And yes it's always given in the price, some online stores will give 2 prices, before and after the VAT. But it usually, 99.999% be the original said price. For example. If you see a shirt you want to buy and the price says £10 when you add it to your basket the cost is a bit cheaper then the tax is added on a line underneath and the checkout price remains £10. I will also say that I don't know when he started living in the US but our supermarkets, even our small ones, sell a selection of clothes, electronics, and maybe not car parts, but engine oil, windscreen wipers, spark plugs, lights, and other small automotive bits and bobs that you might need in an emergency. Tax in the UK is not the highest in the world be we do get taxed up the arse for everything we do. Basically, if you are self employed, half of what you earn goes to the government. But, in all fairness we get a lot of free shit for that tax. So that's not an issue and most people are happy with that. What annoys us is the other taxes. The taxes when we save, the taxes when we spend, taxes to drive our cars, taxes when we park them. We have a daft fuel tax it's like 80% of all petrol/gas prices are tax. It costs us like $2 a litre.

@mackemsruleFTM

3 жыл бұрын

Vat has been 20% for as long as I remember lol

Yes we have sales tax called VAT (Value Added Tax) which is already calculated into the price of the goods.

The eggs don't go through the same cleaning process in the UK, which is why they can be safely stored on the shelf - they have brown shells rather than white (I think eggs in America are usually white?), I believe that's got something to do with the cleaning.

He was saying about V.A.T which is Value Added Tax which is added to the price before purchase so it’s already added to the price tag

Dove chocolate? Wtf, god help getting Dove in the USA, Dove in the UK is a body hygiene range of soap, shower gel, body lotion etc & chocolate is chocolate, what u call candy we call sweets

From my last time shopping in the States, I would say we have cereal, you have diabetes. But then the bread was them most strikingly sugary. It rivalled some cakes.

@Ja-uu9ep

3 жыл бұрын

My only memory of a US supermarket was my chubby 11 year old self picking up a *giant* xxl nuttela jar off the shelf

In Canada in Newfoundland they include the taxes on the shelf price. So what you see is what you pay. Here in Ontario it’s different. The taxes are added on at the register.

We in the UK have VAT (Value Added Tax) which is 20%, but it's included in the price - so you don't really notice.

One of the growing supermarket brands in the UK is Lidl, a German? company. Nearly all of their stores are laid out with five aisles so that it is always necessary to pass down at least one aisle twice as you dash round the store. The nearest Hypermarket to me is in Cherbourg, a 60 mile ferry trip from Portsmouth, Last time I was there they ran 54 till lanes on a busy day. Do American stores have the self checkout systems , where you scan it yourself as you take from the shelves, or the self service checkout systems where you operate the 'till' yourself? They are becoming widespread in the UK.

Basically we don’t wash our eggs 🥚