Whats Inside an American Supermarket

hi everyone today we’re going to be

talking about everyday culture in the US

last time we talked about American

convenience stores and how their unique

this time we’re going to talk about

American supermarkets a supermarket also

known as a grocery store is a one-stop

location where people can purchase foods

drinks and basic household supplies

there are currently over 38,000

supermarkets in the United States fees

range from small family-owned stores to

huge corporate super stores the first

supermarket was a locally owned shop

called Piggly Wiggly that was 100 years

ago these days the supermarket industry

is dominated by big brands like Kroger

Walmart and Costco these stores are

massive the size of an average Costco is

about 145,000 square feet that’s about

the size of three professional soccer

fields because of the size of these

stores a wider variety of goods is

available than an average supermarkets

in other countries in 1975 there was an

average of about 8,000 different items

in the typical supermarket by 2008

however that number had increased to

about 47,000 different items

supermarkets in the US include huge

sections that are hard to find in other

countries these include meats cheeses

cereals and produce many of these

sections are unaffected by any kind of

seasonal limitations and so you can find

these products year-round there are

several key vocabulary words for

supermarkets in the US the dairy section

is where you can find yogurt milk and

cheese in the produce section you can

find fresh fruit and vegetables meat

sections are usually where you can buy

fresh cuts of beef pork and chicken

packaged lunch meats can be purchased in

the deli section there’s also a huge

variety of packaged goods find entire

aisles devoted to things like beans

grains cereals and pasta if you’d like

to try to cook something quickly you can

also find a lot of things in the frozen

food section some supermarkets also have

bakeries where you can buy premade

breads pastries and other items while in

some countries it’s common to find a

huge selection of fish and spices at

supermarkets in the US it’s very common

to find huge selections of cheese and

snack foods processed foods and dairy

are some of the most commonly

just items at supermarkets in the US

despite the huge variety and

availability of out-of-season goods

prices at supermarkets in the US have

remained low a gallon of milk is around

$3 500 grams of cheddar cheese is as

little as two dollars one kilogram of

beef is less than eight dollars and

apples are less than one dollar each

some things are more expensive at

supermarkets in the u.s. a great example

of this is seafood for example in places

which are landlocked or surrounded by

land with no access to the ocean good

quality seafood is hard to find because

of this there’s a limited variety of

seafood and most of it is frozen goods

sold at some supermarkets in the United

States are much larger than goods in

other countries at warehouse Styles

super stores you can buy items in bulk

bulk items are items you can buy a large

amount of at one time these supermarkets

usually offer two ways to checkout or

pay for your items the first way is for

a cashier to take each individual item

from an automatic conveyor belt the

second way is with self checkout

customers take their items to a self

checkout machine scan each item and then

pay at the machine directly at the

machine customers are required to pack

their purchases into bags at the cashier

either a cashier or an attendant will

pack the customers goods into bags these

methods are equally popular and you can

use cash or a credit card to finish your

payment so how do supermarkets in the US

compared to supermarkets in your country

what’s similar what’s different and is

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my two ways two ways to check out

can you see it warehouse style or super

store style store super store style

stores I tried to say that and I was not

good and and is there anything else

you’d like to know about culture

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