Comments by "Старые Тайны Альбиона" (@AlbionTVLondon) on "10 Reasons RUSSIAN Supermarkets are Different" video.

I live in London and I can tell you we don't have anything like this here. Even most expensive and very large supermarkets have fairly limited selections of pre-fabricated breads and other foods all manufactured off site. Yet, we do have small scale bakeries in supermarkets, but these are limited to defrosting pre-fab pastry and finishing off ready-made blobs of buns etc. I've just been to Harrods yesterday where everything costs like gold, but even there everything is brought in and sold at huge mark-up. No fresh bakery. No fresh produce. Strawberries brought from Holland. A small bottle of juice made on site cost me £6.50. I don't know how much this will be in RUB, but I guess you could get entire shelf of juices for this much in Russia.
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@veon_veon Sounds really good. My bottle for £6.50 was very small 150ml. There are cafes in London where they sell fresh juice. They are also very expensive. Same price as I paid in this shop.
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@ethanhuntmp Are you kidding me? Do you think these cookies can replace entire range of baking goods and can satisfy everyone? This is just one type of sweet snack. This is not even British. This is American if I am not mistaken. And it is really bad toxic food. Lots of fat, sugar and carbs. It's ok to have one for a change, but this is not something everyone would want to eat.
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Oh, and I will add that these features such as "coffee by weight" and other grains by weight are only available in extremely expensive exclusive shops like "Planet Organic" where your typical bill will be multiplied by a factor of 10. A few times where I shopped at Planet Organic I was genuinely shocked to see the total at check-out. This was so spectacular that the check-out person even went to double-check the price of mushrooms. So 5 mins later after waiting she simply re-confirmed that the astronomical bill was not a mistake. A rip-off business as usual in London. LOL
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@chthaddhgha9260 Yes, countryside is nice in England, but people cannot pay their electricity and there are homeless people everywhere now. And quality of everything has gone down every year. Transport is really bad. Underground /Metro in London is like a horror movie. If you come to London again you will see lots of closed shops, with wooden boards instead of window displays.
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@ethanhuntmp My understanding that "cookie" type pf biscuit are part of American fast food culture. Maybe this Ben's version is from Oxford, but you can get these things in MacDonalds. And they are also associated with nasty toxic American fast food. I don't want to say that Ben's version is also bad, maybe it is nice. But these things called "cookies" in general are heavy, too sweet, too fat and fairly unpleasant to eat. I tried many of them here in the UK. I tolerate them because there are very limited choices. But given the choice of nice French or Russian baking, I would never ever eat those "cookies".
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@METALUGA125RUS Yes logically this makes sense but in reality in UK bakery has always been a problem.
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@one_step_sideways But it doesn't cost $10 per small 250ml cup, does it?
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@varsam Well, I lived in London for the last 30 years. When I first came here in the 90s, I actually felt that both London and UK were behind times and not quite in the top bracket of leading nations. I was comparing to other countries and even Soviet Union which was in a state of total collapse in the 90s. But even then Soviet Union was more advanced in many areas. During the 30 year period quality of life and standard of living in London/UK deteriorated. Housing is a huge problem in UK. Healthcare is horrific. Even the worst hospital or clinic in old Soviet Union would seem much better in comparison. UK also has private healthcare which is very limited and very expensive. Not affordable. The streets are covered in rubbish everywhere. Prices in shops constantly increasing without any justification. London is a place where you are either an oligarch or a servant. If you do any job even well paid you will live like a farm animal in awful conditions. In fact farm animals enjoy better living conditions than many Londoners working 2 jobs. A coffee and a sandwich is now costing more than several hours of work for many people. And endless scandals of some kind of corruption in the government. Money wasted or embezzled. Living in UK now is worse than living in so called "third world". UK now seems like "fourth world" or "fifth world". There's only a name left which says "great", but reality is not great at all in this kingdom. And the queen died of course too.
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@varsam What do your friends say? London is a horrible place to live, unless you have a lot of money. But even with a lot of money, infrastructure is really bad quality and public services are getting worse. I could not get fast internet for 10 years in London in different locations. Everything seems like such horrific struggle, and often not justified, simply bad management, lack of funding, or misuse of funding that causes many problems.
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@Daemius777 This really depends on which country you are referring to. In some places such as Greece and more rural areas people cook properly and they are visibly healthier, slimmer and happier. In larger more urban cities people are under stress, short of time and don't have the energy left for cooking after work. They end up eating toxic pre-fab food or fast food, end up sick, obese and depressed. When I visited USA I was terrified to see such large numbers of obese people. We are talking clinical obesity here. They look like monsters from horror films. The problem is much more serious in USA, it is visibly horrific there. And the quality of food is very bad. Practically everything in USA is contaminated with poisons such as pesticides and herbicides, and GMO (genetically modified) is also often present without labelling. So it is very bad. In Europe the soil is completely depleted, so growing anything required a lot of fertiliser. Very often vegetables are tasteless.
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@varsam Yes, it's crazy. People work in good jobs in London, like your friend in a law firm and they cannot afford to have their own house, and have to share their flat with other people. This is madness. But this is typical situation for many professionals in London. It is so expensive that people work in good jobs and cannot afford to have a nice home, cannot afford to eat everything they want, and cannot afford to heat their home when they want.
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@veon_veon It is very friendly for our environment. Less packaging means less pollution. :-) And less work and less rubbish at home.
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@veon_veon yes, it is scary. Supermarkets produce so much packaging and so much waste. It is unreal. And they also throw away a lot of good food which reached expiry date. In USA 40% of good food is thrown away daily.
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@Imaginary Unicorn If you don't want to live in Moscow nobody is forcing you to live there. There are thousands of other locations across Russia, Asia, Africa etc. You can live anywhere you want. If you don't like my comments I am not asking you to read them either. You can read any other comments you like. And if you like to shop in Lidl again it is your personal choice. It doesn't mean everyone else can shop there. These shops are not available in central London. So I am not going to take a train just to shop in some awful trashy shop because you like to shop there. But this is not to be understood as personal criticism. Everyone like what works for them. You like Lidl go shop there. But don't expect everyone else to shop there.
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