Russian TYPICAL Supermarket Tour: Where Do I Shop?
Hello everybody. Welcome to Travelling with Russell and welcome to a new video. Welcome today to Mosow Region. I’ve got a pretty interesting video for you. I thought I’d show you around my local Rusian Typical Supermarket. It’s right behind me.
We’re going to have a brief walk around and we’re going to head on inside the store. We’re going to go and visit is right in front of us here it’s called Fasol. Now the actual literal translation from Russian to English it translate as the word Beans.
I’m not sure where that reference come from at all now it’s actually on the lower ground floor of this apartment building and this is actually where I live in this building now I’m up on level 13 and it’s actually a 14 story building it was actually built about 10 years ago so it’s
Relatively new for this area where I am and I’ve lived here for pretty close to the 10 years right about 9 and a half years is when I first came to Russia and I’ve lived in this building ever
Since and this is my local supermarket just looking around you can see there’s been a lot of snow here in Moscow particularly in the last week we’ve had lots of snow days and this would be the walk that I take to the local bus stop to get the bus into Moscow there’s actually
A few more apartment buildings very close by there is actually two more supermarkets in the next two buildings and this is the road leading around to the entrance of where I live. You can see all the snow. Today is actually Wednesday afternoon.
It’s currently 2:00 p.m. now I just chose to come and film this video in the afternoon now I don’t expect to see anybody in the store maybe one Shopper maybe two and we’re going to let go
On inside now the reason why I chose this video is because a lot of people keep commenting about me filming videos in Moscow and the fact that the shops in Moscow are better stocked there’s more things in them the prices might be better and I want to show you my typical Supermarket
Now they do sometimes have promotions on the board here at the moment they’ve just got a few random posters and we need to go down these steps and we’ll get on inside a lot of the apartment buildings have businesses on the lower ground floor to utilize the space of
The building better rather than putting them up on level one just got to be careful going down these steps now the actual store itself is open every day from 10:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. now this
Is one of the guys that works here giving me a bit of a wave now I thought we’d just try and do an unedited walk around of my local typical Supermarket now I am repeating that a few times
Think it might help out with the algorithm of the video I’m not too sure now when you first walk in they actually have a spot here to put your bag so if you brought something from somewhere else you
Can put them in here it’s not a very busy store this so it’s not normal that you do that you can actually leave them right on the side here where the baskets are the traditional steel baskets
It’s a bit of a throwback there is actually some shopping trollies in here it’s not going to get that busy they need more than a few of them but we’ll actually come back around to the register afterwards here is the gentleman that works here now he’s actually worked here for the entire 10
Years that I’ve been coming to this store and it’s a very nice friendly group of people that work here depending what day you come of course. The store itself is not a full-fledged Supermarket like some of the other videos I’ve made but it literally does have everything you
Need you know literally from cleaning items to personal items to any kind of food first thing we see here is actually baby products and baby food then it goes on over to different canned Meats mostly fish or pork and then probably the least known thing in Russia is how many
Canned items there are and it’s really only corn, peas and beans and sometimes olives. I think there’re a little bit further down and then there’s also lots of pickled vegetables here as well now of course I’m basically showing you what I see in the store you can also see them
On the video as well yourself but it’s very nicely stocked with one of anything so this safe bet when you walk in here you can find literally any single item that you need you can see at the bottom oils vinegars salt flour then coming around here to different pastas and
Different rice and lots of different things if you want to do maybe for breakfast some porridge and oats and then there is actually two sides to the vegetable and fruit section. This back side is all the veggie so they very traditional things like potatoes carrots onions
These are very very typical in Russia now the one thing I want to point out is eggs now this store only has two types of eggs because that’s really all you need they come in a pack of 10
Which is 109 rubles now the interesting thing here is these are actually from a different supermarket chain which is very interesting okay is a Russian branded supermarket chain and then they come also in a pack of 20 so in Russia eggs come in 10 and 20s so 109 rubles is
About $1.30 US dollars for a pack of 10. How does that compare to where you live. I would be interesting to know what you’re paying where you live in the world. Of course a pack of 10 or 12 May fluctuate the price a little bit now here’s the vegetable
Section so this store isn’t expected to have supermarket quantities of things what they typically get is one case delivery of things and then a couple of days from now they get more things delivered so you can see here mandarins which are the seasonal fruit for winter time here
All those bananas apples there’s also kiwis and then over on this side they’ve got some different cabbage there’s even some peppers and garlic right there and then they also have a refrigerated area with a few vegetables as well pretty much the two most known in Russia are tomatoes and cucumbers
They’re always in any store you go to and even on the top here they’ve got PR Simmons and more kiwis and then just looking around here you can see on this left hand side is the refrigerated
Area there’s also a lady that looks after this section if you want want some items now for their meats and poultry this is by the kilo or by 100 grams depending on what you want.
Again you can walk in find one of anything my wife would often come in here and just get a few chicken wings or chicken legs a lot of times people just shop for today or tomorrow they don’t
Necessarily come and Shop here for a whole week of shopping and that’s more than enough this wall here has got all the different sauces if you want to do cooking, also different spices or different things that you can put into a dish. I’am not sure what they call them?
Spices I think that’s the best thing. They come in these paper sachets now there is actually also some frozen fish here not too much but enough of the essential things that everybody likes and then the next refrigerator rated area here’s all of the deli items again
This is by weight so you can just get 100 G 300 g whatever you like they’ll basically cut it and imp portion it for you it’s also a cheaper way to buy food because if you don’t want the whole
Packaging of something there’s about 20 different types of cheese here there’s also some pickled vegetables as well again this store won’t have large amounts on display because it’s really a close to home store where people that would live in the immediate few buildings would come shopping
To here on the right hand side is different mayonnaise plenty of choices of mayonnaise in this store on the bottom there is long life milk so if you want milk that doesn’t have to refrigerated they’ve got it there’s also some coconut milk there and different types of long
Life creams I think or I’m not too sure and then there’s another refrigerated area here with this fridge where the motors just turned on right as we’re filming this has all the normal refrigerated items so butter yogurts there’s also drinkable yogurts up there and then the normal milks and
More yogurts and then if you want some sliced ham there’s some choices there’s also some pastries here as well now of course I’m doing this narrated but you could literally watch this without me talking I think and a lot of things you know speak for themselves there’s a nice selection of cakes
And a lot of the kind of more biscuit and sweet snacks and actually this whole shelf is snacks I didn’t realize they had so many in here now I come in here quite a lot but I normally just come in
In with with what I need in my head I won’t just come in for a wander around this is their breaker section so all these breads would come in Daily and generally every morning at some point before
The shop opened they do also have some social bread here which is made to be lower priced so 53 rubles so just about 60 this larger kind of circular one here 83 Ribble so right about a
Dollar that’s quite a bit of a large loaf of bread that you can slice yourself actually on the bottom there is flour and some biscuits this is one of my mom’s favorites Belita biscuits she loves these
And then over here we’ve got different teas and coffees so again if you’re comparing this to the bigger hypermarkets and traditional supermarkets if we call it that this won’t have that kind of choices but you can walk in here and find 20 different types of teas and there’s 10 different
Types of coffee there’s even four different types of sugar so there is more than enough items and this is essentially the whole store now this is actually called a supermarket and I will always call it that a lot of people maybe consider this a mini mart but actually the pricing is such that
It’s the price of a normal Supermarket so I don’t necessarily have to go you know 30 minutes away to the nearest big super Market or Hypermarket I can walk in here and know that the prices within
A few rubles are the same as they would be at any normal Supermarket or Hypermarket now that kind of proves that with the eggs right there at 109 rubles which is pretty much right on the price you’re going to find them everywhere actually some of the supermarkets have them 120 rubles
And a little bit higher and this is a close to home store I’ve got to walk only about 30 Steps From the exit of my building to come to this shop this is the personal care item and then there’s
Also cleaning products and then there’s also pet food as well so there’s literally everything you need for daily life living in Moscow region now the thing thing is when I do this kind of a video
It in a way debunks the myth that you know go to somewhere more Regional show me somewhere not in the center of Moscow and you know how well this store is stocked and how many choices you’ve got
And this is a few steps from my building exit. This is my normal Cola that I’m buying now. It’s called Chernogolovka. They’ve got a few different types right here. This store has just a small selection of drinks. There’s Lipton ice teas.
I think a lot of people outside Russia would know this brand very well and even 10 different types of water if you want a few choices. This particular store doesn’t really have a alcohol section they never have in all the years it seems to be getting less and less every time
I come to visit it now the thing with that is I can walk another 50 steps and I’ve got an alcohol shop in the same building if you’d like to see a tour of that let me know in the comments and I can
Certainly show you a tour of my Russian typical alcohol store which is about 70 steps from where I live coming around to the register here you can see lots of snacks and treats and then usually on
The cter here they’ve got some sort of packaged item like item of the day and how funny is that they’ve got pineapples when it’s snowing outside there’s also some nice package nuts here as well and then just all of the normal candy and chocolate and they’ve even got some different
Coffees back there as well chewing gum little bit of everything in the back they do also sell tobacco in this store you can see just behind the register there they’ve got a curtain that hides it because that’s the LW in Russia they can’t display tobacco products which is not a problem you know
It’s how it should be everywhere in the world and over here there’s a couple of freezers with a little bit more Frozen stuff there’s actually some frozen chips which I don’t think I’ve seen them in
Here before and then Frozen ice creams do you have to say the word Frozen at the beginning I don’t think so check that out Snickers ice cream oh very nice instead of Maxi Bon it’s now called Maxi Duo
If you know this ice cream at all there’s also potato chips as I make my way out of the store I thought I’d just point out here how this store is stocked now these are actually franchise owned
Stores and the company that supplies all the food is called Metro and Metro is a very big Cash and Carry supermarket chain in Russia. I think you’d almost consider them to be hypermarkets. I’ve actually got a video of me
Visiting one in Moscow might be worth checking out and they supply all of the food that this store would order on a daily basis the staff in there would actually Place orders daily and then a truck
Would deliver them at some point in the early morning or late evening for each day’s trade I really did intend this video to be nice and short and sweet and as few edits as possible I thought
It was quite important to come and make a video at my typical Russian supermarket and show you where I can shop and what I can buy in my local store. Of course my apartment building is right here so
I just need to take the elevator to get home and then the walk to and from my door to the the supermarket is literally a couple of minutes and this is a little bit the point of when I show other Supermarket videos the amount of choices people have in Russia and
Within a 1 kilometer radius of where I’m standing there is seven supermarkets that I can go to. So I’ve got six more that I can visit in less than a 10-minute walk from where I’m standing right here filming the ending of this video. There’s no need for me to go to a hypermarket
In Moscow and buy things when I can buy things just as cheap in my local typical Supermarket how nice are these Christmas trees out the front of my building these have been growing for quite
A lot of years and nobody’s ever took them down or moved them and I just like how it makes it sort of feel so christmy especially with the snow on the ground and that cold weather that makes it
Feel like Christmas time this is the alcohol shop that I talked about it’s called kab or red and white store if you want to see a walk around of that let me know that’s my nearest
Alcohol store Beer Store snack store and then keep in mind I live just here so this is the same building and if if I can’t find it in fol I’m pretty sure I can find it in cnab right here
I just had to stop between takes there because I met a channel subscriber who lives right here in the same building as me here in my town I’ll put that photo up for you right now that was
So fun he actually also recognized me from a old video that I did here in the town when I helped clear the snow with the local Administration and he was like thanking me for that and that was a little while ago that happened. It’s so nice to meet a channel
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What does a Russian Typical Supermarket look like in Moscow, Russia. Take a walkaround a typical supermarket in a regional part of Moscow. How doesit compare with a supermarket in other parts of the world.
🌐Store Name: Fasol Supermarket ( Фасоль )
🌐 Fasol Supermarket Website: https://myfasol.ru/
📍Store Location: ulitsa Tsvetochnaya Alleya, 9, Aprelevka.
📍 Map Location: https://yandex.com/maps/-/CDuDYQl-
⌚ Time of Filming: 3.00 pm (15.00 pm) 24th November 2023.
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How does this store compare to where you live in the world? Do you have a specific local shop that you visit often?
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Oh wow 😮…no clue you've been living in Moscow that long! Then again, I'm relatively new to your channel. How come you chose to relocate out there to start a life? I'm considering it too❤
The table on the right side just after the basket storage – is the table from the old sewing machine, look at it's legs) Alex from Govorovo
Russell. Do a review of the pharmacy to show what they sell.
In Omsk, the Fasol store chain has significantly decreased with the advent and development of the Yarche! store chain. Tough competition, however, in this market!
Yes, this winter is very snowy 😊
Always interesting! We all have to eat, and I like to see where normal people live!❤🇨🇦
Another great video for dinner time! 👏🏾👍🏾 Would love another electronics video!
Hi Russell. A dozen eggs was around $5.40 Australian when I went to Coles last Sunday. It's amazing how cheap eggs are in Russia
Да_ну))) Мосфильм))))))))))))
7m24s is that 22 bucks us for a kilo of red onions?
Это не "супермаркет", это маленький магазинчик в системе "шаровая доступность".
Hi Russell great job wished we had store like that I have a grocery store like a 10 minute walk from my house. How does folks that have a wheelchair or with a handicap get into these stores if they have just steps.
Beautifully organized.
It's quite furnished for a little shop
HELLO GOOD MORNING WATCHING YOU A VERY DAY NICE PLACE WERE YOU LIVE
viva la rossiyaaaaaaaa!
Hi Russell from Victoria. I can't believe how cheap eggs and breads are. Here a dozen egg is around $6 AUD , same for bread !
In Western world this sort of neighbourhoods called Concrete Ghettos
I would love to see a walk through of your liquor store!
The country you are live in occupies neighbours, tries to genocide whole nation and threatens western world with Nuclear weapons. It does not bothers you?
For those quality eggs we pay 2 to 3 times more in the states usually.
That said we have GMO'd up alternatives for about the same price.
Yet again another staged video, someone walks into a shop with a camera speaking nothing but a foreign language and the store assistant just waves and walks away. 2:59 Not very realistic at all.
There seems to be a lot of empty space on the shelves when you look behind the first row of item at the front. Let me point them out for you.
3:48 Pause and look at the shelf on the bottom right.
4:00 There is not much fruit in the fruit baskets.
4:20 You have empty space at the top and look at the 3rd shelf from the bottom, there is a row of tins with nothing behind them, and instead of the bags of pasta being stacked vertically, they have laid them down to make it look more full.
5:23, looks quite empty.
8:21 on the shelves on the right, you can see there is not much stock left behind the packets.
9:56 Once again you can see there is no stock behind the first row of items on the shelves.
10:49 The shelves with the cakes on the right have nothing behind them.
12:10 12:17 More empty space.
13:43 it doesn't look very well stocked when you look past the first row of items.
14:06 on the right you can see there is only one row of juice, there is nothing behind, just empty space.
14:54 Again, looks quite empty.
15:23 and again the shelves look quite barren
Fun exercise, next time anyone is in a shop, pull out your phone and start to recording behind the cash register see what response you get from the staff 3:13
You need a pair of good knees to navigate the perilous steps into that grocery store. 😁
Russel, did you make a video in Гастрогом #1 in the Red Square? That is the central supermarket. I missed it somehow.😊
я нифига не понимаю что он говорит (к сожалению), но чувствую что он хороший и добрый человек) добра тебе!)
I like FASOL, there is one near my home.
The prices are amazing, so much cheaper than the UK. Thanks Russell, take care.
And America have to drive 10 minutes just to go to the supermarket just to buy milk
6:20 "pack of twenty" is a pack of 30 (you can see 5 rows and 6 columns of eggs in the pack) Price tag has "3 десятка" phrase. So 30 eggs for 239 RUB. But the eggs are pretty small (C2) category. There are category of eggs in Russia by weight: С3, C2, C1, C0, CB (see ГОСТ 31654-2012)
You can find packs of: 6, 10 (most popular), 20 and 30.
There are three TYPICAL things in Russia: 1. TYPICAL supermarkets, 2. TYPICAL average pension in the amount of 245 €/month, 3. TYPICAL minimum wage of 9 €/day (it is not a mistake, 9 € per day, not per hour, 195 €/month).