Germany its the same

@@PPfilmemacher American advertising is equally wierd. It would actually discouraged me from thinking about frequenting their shops or services...

Indeed. When you're in shops in the US, and you're greeted with that over-the-top friendliness, it's very off-putting.

@@robertthomson1587 it makes me decide to go elsewhere if unsolicited someone approaches me from the store... They're there to facilitate for me not the other way around... It's the American go make a sale approach that instantly turns off most Europeans...

Pretty much the same here in Oz Whilst it’s fine to politely offer help to customers (usually if they seem lost) the over the top enthusiasm from US style greeters is also seen as quite creepy here lol

That's a new level of stupid.

Haha, that sounds hilarious. Well, that's probably the American optimism or arrogance. Domino's is also in Germany. But they bought a German pizza chain and just renamed it. I think they didn't even change the products. But it's chain Pizza, there are no big differences anyway. And we have a lot of Italian restaurants as well. So better Pizza is available anyways. Although even those were never as good as the ones I had in Italy.

Sounds like the sorry of Dunkin’ Donuts in Poland. Most Poles found it offensive to serve something this bad, call it a doughnut and ask triple the price. They were selling doughnuts that looked like they were made of plastic in the land of amazing local bakeries on every corner. Very bold. American bold.

not only domino 's ,starbucks in italy?the land of real Caffe', epresso is the only real caffe',starbukc try with usa coffe water bullshit in italia ,only the idea is absurd and they try and fail hehehhehehehheheheh,ps usa pizza is a fake pizza,to dick to slap to much oil etc.......

I think they also tried and failed in Sweden. Because Sweden is the country where your typical pizzeria has like 60 different pizzas on their menu, and the pizza menus even in nearby towns can be rather different.

its probably only living of the name brand making people try it once or twice.... i did.... never again... overpriced idiotic garbage

little addition about Uber: in most countries in europe you need a taxi license (or bus license) to transport people for money. And the same applies for Uber drivers. If they don't get a taxi license and register a business they would be doing 2 illegal things. (The taxi licensees are checked regularly for clean cars and their taxes to make sure there is a standard for passengers.) Uber is just so big in the US i think because they lack the public transport infrastructure europe has.

@@nirfz Yeah in my country we have Uber, but my province banned them because it would have killed our licensed taxi businesses and ultimately not lowered prices, just wages for drivers and everyone's general safety. You can't drive taxis without extensive background checks.. I once managed to sign up for Uber without a driver's license, in a city I didn't live in, using an address I found off a real estate website.

@@azarinevil exactely. In the last year i have occasionally seen one Taxi that has the Uber logo on the door near to my workplace, but not really with passengers to be honest. As they have to fulfill the same requirments any other taxi business has to, they have no advantage over the others here either. Interesting to me was that when they first came to europe our media claimed that only our country and neighbouring germany "were so backwards" to not allow them to do taxi business outside of taxi regulations. Here in the comment section i noticed that that wasn't the case, but that almost all of europe acted the same even without any coordination on EU level!

@@nirfz Yeah it was the Mexico, US, and Canada (my country) that just bent over and let Uber move in. My province is one of the rare exceptions to their ability to operate freely in North America.

AND that Australians expect to be treated like humans, and will tell them F U and walk out if the employer behaves like an American slave driver.

Because things are almost two times more expensive. A videogame that cost 60$ can cost 100+ Australian dollars.

It depends on the company because most companies won't pay much for basic wage that's why they get teenage kid's or do apprenticeship's so they can get away with paying F all

​@@JesusProtects Speaking as an Aussie videogame nerd here, the increased prices of video games is something of an outlier compared to most other things (aside from the god awful housing market), and you might be surprised to find that we actually spend less on fresh food and health care (aka 2 of the 3 critical for life things), while still having that far higher minimum wage than the US as well as far more time off and sick days -and free healthcare and many worker protections against abuse or making us work past the bounds of our contracts etc etc- Australia has a strong Union culture (one of our two major political parties was formed by unions) and most Aussies do NOT like the idea of people working full time and still being unable to support themselves no matter what the job is, so our minimum wage goes up a LOT more often than it does in America and how a lot of companies treat their employees in the US would be outright illegal here, whether that be via underpaying them or just how they treat them in general. That's not to say that we don't also have issues with companies still trying to undercut their workers or weaken worker protections in favor of Big Profit culture (we do, and that would be the other major political party naturally ;D) but the prices of stuff being more expensive here having anything to do with our minimum or average wages as opposed to us having a very firm idea of what our work should be worth and trying(*) to actually keep up with the cost of living as opposed to the US's policy of 'hope you get a better job or really lucky with tips' is just... Not right? Overly simple to the point that it screams 'does not know much about Aus's history with workers rights and why we can never shut up about how good we've got it but was probably said earnestly and well intentioned' so. Yeah. 😅 Sorry about all the babble, especially if you really don't care all that much but I figured it would be better to inform on the off chance you didn't know any of this rather than IDK assume any kind of foul play or deliberate misinformation being out there or something, and... Yeah. Hope you have a nice day and that this was helpful in some way to know~ =3 (*) Side note: Trying is a key word there given the current housing/rental crisis going on in Aus but that's arguably less a 'pay needs rising' issue and more a 'we need to fix the laws on this because the ones we currently have suck' kinda issue though I don't understand it all enough to say how much it does/doesn't apply to this topic in general.

You're correct man and all that means that your economy is more robust. Also Australia has a higher corporate tax. This tax is the legitimate tax avoidance system that if you train, equip etc, you set those costs against your tax obligations. This also makes companies stay onshore and discourages takeovers and mergers. Just that it's been lowered there and around the world and with no import restrictions, it can get hard to compete. The rot all really started with Reagan and Thatcher and their hacks.

That's similar to burger king in australia.

the weird thing in both Australia and Benelux.. that would be a good deal long run. A few million can be made up for in a few years if you launch well, those aren't small markets. I am amazed the companies didn't pay up just to ensure they had the trademark and exclusive SEO on the name.

@@azarinevil Can't speak for Australia, but here in the Netherlands, the market for such food chains is really really over-saturated, and very much dominated by locally owned independent fast food places and McDonald's. KFC and Burger King are active here, but together they do not even have close to 50% of the number of restaurants McDonalds has, simply because there is no room for more in that market. Slightly more up-market there is room, but that is not Wendy's market.

McDonalds lost a similar lawsuit in Ireland to the Irish fast food chain Supermac's, which existed there for decades before McDonalds tried to enter the Irish market.

@@jankrusat2150 McDonald's tried to copyright the name 'McDonald' in Scotland of all places trying to bully small local cafes and fish & chip shops. You can guess where the Scottish judge told them to stick it.

Here in germany even german big stores start to fail, since people tend to use the internet or small specific stores, since you can get better advice and tips from a small cosmetics store compared to a big warehouse, people tend to go to the small store even if they could get cosmetics in the big warehouse and for things like household goods people tend to use the internet to get them.

@@Rafaela_S. Yes, the only warehouses that will still be operating are thing like KaDeWe

In the US, it's all about big this and big that. Here in Europe, no one wants to drive for hours to go to the grocery store. We are not car dependent like the people in the US. I can go to the store by foot, a bike, or a car. I have multiple options. And that's what I want.

@@samulivainionpaa9338 This does not sound like car dependence. More like the opposite.

@@88balloonsonthewall70 Well, if my best option is shopping centers outside the city, where i have to use cars to get to, that's how it's car dependent, similar to US, city centers are so shitty that you have to go elsewhere and you need car for that.

And they struggle with the legal regulation. Walmart failed in Germany because of labour and competition laws, which they broke and doing it the lagal way made it unprofitable. Same for Uber. They ignore the fact that for a commercial transport of people you need to follow other rules. You need a taxi license, the car most have the TÜV (MOT) every year and not every 2 years. So you can't call an Uber in Germany Uber offers only a rental car service with driver which is not the same like a taxi. They went actually to the ECJ over that.

@@helloweener2007 Yes, the legal regulations are part of the differences. And a big one - things like paid leave and piad sick days are seen as a luxury in the US, or that you cannot fire people from one day to the next. With Uber it is a complicated subject. True, they are not classed as a Taxi. But I think thats the same in the US, because also there you need a Taxi license to operate a Taxi. So they use tricks to evade that, like having "self employed contractors" with their own cars. All they do is to to run the app and give them the trips, and handle the payment side. And keep a share of the money, of course. May be they try this in Germany as well, but it could easily cause trouble because of "Scheinselbstständigkeit" like in some other businesses. The laws for transporting people are complicated. A "Personenbeförderungsschein" is only needed if the car has more than 9 seats, afaik. About the TÜV rule I don't know, its well possible, and perhaps it needs a different insurance as well.

You just made me think of a company that didn’t event get their foot in the door In Australia. Kaufland folded right in the middle of building warehouses and buying a number of lots. Also Costco exists and ALDI is possibly evading tax by posing as a LLP.

@@jordanferrazza8700 ALDI is very creative with laws. One could say that ALDI is a very big company but on paper they are not. In Germany there are legally lots of smaller companies which contribute the revenue in the foundations that which holds all ALDI stores. So they can avaoid labour laws that would apply for companies that have more than a certain amount of employees. So using all gains in tax laws to avoid paying more fits into their way of doing business.

@@helloweener2007 In Australia, Chemist Warehouse is very big and evades competition laws regarding pharmacies

An American pizza place in the country of said food's origin? Woooow!

I've tried Starbucks here in Australia it's way too sweet

@@nelsondawson9706 Perhaps, but the general opinion is that it's just plain bad coffee and to be avoided.

@Aussie Pom They didn't even try to "dip their toe in" first, they went in "all guns blazing" and tried to put a Starbucks on every corner, which went badly for them.

There's only one starbucks in wellington. They're not really anywhere much. May be in Auckland? In NZ, it's bespoke.

There are NO Starbucks in Western Australia. I guess Chinese and American tourists here may have to stray out of their comfort zone and try real coffee.

As someone who worked in one for a few months before leaving for uni, it would have failed even without expectations. People in charge or ordering did a horrible job and all their projections didn't reflect what people were actually buying. Even worse with seasonal things that would sell out quickly with no way to get more.

If I remember one of the expectations we had when Target came up here was they were going to compete with Walmart... They said no, they were going to try against places like Shoppers... Some of the areas they had stores in didn't make sense either. I'm in Peterborough and the closest Target was in Lindsay, a place that rejected Walmart for years.. We ended up getting a second Walmart in our Zellers..

Its also common for Americans that live in the border area to go north for a day out

The point about employee rights and corporate culture are a big one for all European countries really. With the Walmart in Germany example, Walmart tried to impose strict rules on the employees but they employees just said no. People know their rights more and stand up for them. I don't like to generalise, but European employees are, in general, less submissive to corporations than US employees and US people in general.

In my experience, in the US, the corporations use healthcare and insurance as pressure on their employees. In all European countries, social healthcare is the norm. It doesn't really matter of you have a job or not, you will receive healthcare. Then, generally higher school education, people know their rights and are protected by the state.

So, if I understand the calculator I worked this out on, over the period of 22 years they lost $2 billion in terms of the companies valuation. Usually you would expect the company to become more valuable as you open more stores and invest in the infrastructure.

@@zo7034 The other thing they tried in Germany is the trick they use in America around part time employees. In America they employ a lot of part time workers (about 50% of their employees are part time and most of these are the floor workers) and keep their hours below the threshold where they would have to start paying for benfits (medical, dental, etc...). They thought that they could play that trick in Germany and got a big shock when they were informed that they have to pay for benfits (health, pension, etc...) for ALL employees regardless of amount of hours worked and it ended up costing them more than if they had just heard full time workers.

@@zo7034 I worked for a Dutch company that was taken over by a UK competitor. The new owners tried to impose UK labour law on the Dutch employees, we wouldn't have anything of it (quite apart from them trying to break Dutch labour law, but that gave us the ammo to fight and win quickly).

I need to drive 2 hours one way to nearest starbucks

Starbucks coffee is barely drinkable anyway, so you don't miss out anything.

Stsrbucks taste like gutherwater ...it is typical a ..hipster..thing

You're not missing much. Starbuck's coffee is battery acid in a cup. It's a great example of how marketing trumps quality.

@tomvsas You wouldn't even get real coffee at Starbucks anyway.

And the local café's coffee was cheaper than Starbucks too!

Yeah, Walmarts practice standards are illegal in Australia.

We now have a STARBUCKS here in Delacombe , Victoria, Australia, been in operation about 9 months. Seems to be doing okay with drive thru.

EXACTLY!

@@tomgeorge3726 Some people have NO taste!

Main problem was really the law, because walmart tried to sell items under their own buying price and that is illegal in Germany. It's normal for walmart to do that for a time to ruin the competition. Another main problem was the general price level and the high salaries. Germany was thought to be the starting point to conquer Europe but that didn't work. And at least in the store I knew there were often empty shelves like it was shown in the Target/Canada example. Even in the UK there are now no walmart stores only ASDA. And I believe they had same problem in Asia and had to leave South Korea.

Yeah, we had one in my hometown (of 160,000 inhabitants) for a while. It barely lasted a year. Basically it was doomed from the start. With high prices and no discernible traits from local cafés, pastry shops and even regular lunch restaurants it's no wonder it didn't last. The word of mouth was:"Why pay €3 for a coffee drink at Starbucks when you can get excellent, freshly ground coffee for €2 at most places?"

In Belgium (pop. 11.5 million) there are 20 Starbucks. Of which roughly halve are located in or at the outskirts of Brussels. It's overpriced oversugared drinks with a hint of cheap coffee. The only reason I've been in one is because my wife is American so for her it's a taste of 'home'.

Was like that in nz, but now we have the restaurant ones as well

I remember a Wendy's in Melbourne (Vic) back in the late 80s, it had a sit in restaurant and sold burgers, fries, etc. I can't remember where exactly, but not sure if this was the US one or the Australian one.

@@utha2665 I think there was a vid on {US] Wendy's failing in Australia, might have been that..

@@Goatcha_M Yeah, I actually went to this restaurant when I was in the Army. We had the icreamery version over in WA but had never seen, or heard of the US version back then.

I literally just went through every comment and reported it… Came back in and they were back 🤦🏾‍♂️ Great work KZfaq 🤣

How many people are here for their first day on the internet and what's the chances they understand that there are comments below the video or even that you can scroll down a page? Anyone falling for this kind of thing these days... Well, they probably should have be in a facility where nurses are monitoring them by now.

@@laupstad sadly there are a lot of people that are not "internet savvy" as you are mate… It’s just a nice gesture by Dani to warn people before they get hacked

Bots gonna bot, sadly. Thank for the warning!

@@laupstad HMMM, sounds like someone who fell for a scam and is trying to big note themselves to cover up for their own FUBAR event.

I think that's a big difference between Europe and the US. They expect to be greeted and 'entertained' in the shops and we (I'm German) don't. We want to browse or shop in peace. If we need help, we're after all perfectly capable of asking for it. So, yes, have employees in the store apart from at the checkout. But, no, do not have them make contact with the customer unasked.

Currys PC World is fine for 'White Goods' but their computer parts and staff knowledge are abysmally poor. PC components are overpriced too and tend to be older gen stuff that new builders wouldn't want.

Interesting. Since it's "an American Thing" to pounce on customers when they shop.

Yep, their other stuff is alright but I certainly wouldn't go to starbucks just for coffee, as I can make way better and cheaper coffee for myself at home 👍

AGREED

ok, wtf is starbucks? I thought, it`s a coffe shop(at least they are here).

@@bastion6421 it is that here too but the also pushed Starbucks branded merchandise that was mainly crap. Mugs, coffee plungers stuff like that. Long ago they used to sell a Starbucks branded thermos flask just the right size for one of their smallest hot drinks. It is brilliant and still going strong.

@Phillip Banes flat white, that is what I drink when I am not making it myself. It was both weak as dishwater and bitter as quinine which really shouldn’t be possible.

The US business model of if it does not work make it bigger is a failure in the rest of the world

My husband and I have been woofing in NZ for 1 year and the coffee we were able to get there was the best we ever had. To us it was even better than italian coffee. So it seems ridiculous that Starbucks even tried to get in the market 😂

@@phillipbanes5484 hi! I can’t imagine Starbucks saw themselves as niche when they started expanding. They had to learn by failure that being niche can also be good enough in certain countries

I know there's in the Westfield in Christchurch? It was the easiest place to catch up with a friend because the mall is easy to find and get parking in a town I'm not familiar with lol. It was the first time I'd been to one since the Starbucks closed in Palmy about 13 years ago

Gloria Jeans coffee is actually really good

McDonalds and BK have similar issues in Finland as well. Our local Hesburger is so popular that people tend to ignore these US chains.

Max is opening stores in Poland and i heard they are really good but sadly there are none in my city

@@user-jn5xy3mm9o Max burgers are really good indeed. Once I tried them I never went back to any other burger chain.

@@user-jn5xy3mm9o Max's sauce game is unreal, currently they have 10 varieties and they are all good.

Same thing in the UK a barely warm badly made big Mac is nearly 7 quid, whereas you can get a hot artisan burger that tastes like real food for the same price.

Same in Austria... For a full McDonald's meal, you could as well uust go to a fancy restaurant for that price and get something actually good (but somehow people still eat that stuff) 👍

Uber is on the decline in Australia also because of Price surging. A trip that costs you $12 one minute can cost $60 the next. Popular trips are also expensive. I can now catch a taxi from my house to the airport $20 cheaper than Uber.

@Phillip Banes Been watching Fox News again have you? You seriously don't have a clue about Australia mate!

@Phillip Banes most of us are fine with how the restrictions were handled. How many people in the US died as a result of not taking strong action quickly enough? About a million, wasn't it?

I remember being in Starbucks in Barcelona. You could tell it was aimed at tourists. Most of the conversations overheard there were english so not many locals there.

@@bobbiebob575 Ya I remember when I was in Australia I think I saw a couple in airports and one in Surfer's Paradise so a major tourist destination.

Ive heard rumors of one being in Finland, in the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Im sure they wont make the same mistake with us, as they did with Aussies. We drink a lot of joe, but it has to be certain way. Im deffo going to taste, but lets see.. McD came here in the early 80s and now its everywhere, I think it forced our national competitors, Carrols & Hesburger, to merge. BK is somewhat recent, I dont think it has been even a decade yet. I got my first taste in Spain, it was my first time seeing ashtrays in fast food place, I (smoker) loved it! And I think we just got our first Taco Bells here, very few in the biggest malls.

You forgot Kays catalogue ..and what was the other one from Liverpool. I remember ordering crapload of stuff from them catalogues

@@freelancerxxx Littlewoods or Oxendales probably. Though I think both are owned by the same company. They are still around and you can order online from them. I remember ordering stuff from them years ago, and definitely from Kays, I think they had better stuff at more affordable prices from memory.

@Phillip Banes the uk is certainly not as miserable as the extremely long blank highways you guys have , and we don't get shot every day at school , so stfu you know nothing about Europe

If the fake smiling and “Im your friend now, lets get shopping” thing wasnt huge in UK, I wont even dare to think how we Finns would take it. Like, seeing a greeter on the door would ruin someones day. Small-talking cashier with a forced smile on would be alarming to me, I would spend hours thinking about that poor person, like they were trapped in a bad place and needed urgent rescue. We are used to ask for help if needed, “Hi”, “Thanks” and “Have a nice weekend” is the most interaction most of us want, I know some customers wont say a word. And its completely ok. As a worker, the “go us” company worship feels so alien too. Im loyal, but that feels excessive, I can be loyal without the hype. And yes, catalogues were big here too, I still have my fleece hoodie from Ellos (Swedish co). Its at least 2 decades old, it might be indestructible. I think Ellos may have turned into an online shop. Ive shopped at Jacksons for decades (Im an artist), Im secretly waiting for Breturn, Im still on their mailing list, holding onto hope :)

@@phillipbanes5484 There are two continents called North America and South America. Together they are 'The Americas'. Anyone from any of a couple of dozen countries in those two can call themselves 'American', but that doesn't mean what many think. One of these continents (the Northern one) contains a country called 'The United States of America', which is the southern half of North America, not including Canada, as well as the Central American region, the several countries in that thin bit between North and South American continents. I'm from Britain, and if I were to be called 'Scandinavian', I would be puzzled, as while Europe contains a region called 'scandinavia' among others, Britain is part of a region called The British Isles, islands containing four countries and some self-governing regions of it's own.

@Phillip Banes Vorurteil 100% bestätigt. Gratulation 😅

Right and wrong - Aldi Nord is Trader Joe's and Aldi Süd is Aldi USA.

That's the main reason US companies fail in the UK and across Europe.

Hungry Jacks is awful tasting. I don't like Maccas or KFC either.

Yeah basically the Australian equivalent of home depot is either mitre 10 or Bunnings

@@nelsondawson9706 Indeed.

@Phillip Banes No, none of the ones I have listed are master franchises. Mcdonalds' operates as a licensee as does BurgerKing. The rest, as I have said have no connection to the US company, and neither do U-Haul Aust, no connection at all there either.

@Phillip Banes Sigh, you are either trolling or not reading. Where do I say that McDonalds is not mostly American in presentation and origin? Oh yeah, nowhere. Now that you mention it, however, Mc Cafe is a wholly Australian concept developed in Melbourne. And once again your comprehension appears to be letting you down because the only three companies I mentioned above that have no connection to their US parents at all are Lowes (which is in an entirely different industry, clothing), Wendys and U-Haul and no, none of those three have any connection whatsoever with the US companies of the same name. Lowes (USA) did try to enter the Australian hardware market as a 50% partner in Masters Hardware and lost several hundred million when it failed completely within three years.

People go to local shops to get advice about products and then order the same thing online. Noone can survive like that.

@@ivans.9303 No, they just dropped service. We have Saturn in the city and media markt in the neighbor city and people can order online. We had a few electronic and white ware (washing machines, fridges etc.) stores. The only one of those small stores that still exist and make good money is the one that still has his own technicians, offers free install and delivery even late in the evening and you can call the shop if the machine is defect and they repair it in your home and if they can't offer a replacement for the repair time. They are a little more expensive, but the option to call them even on a weekend if there is a problem like a broken freezer and get a replacement until repaired is it worth. And if you are someone who is poor, they have cheap used and tested items with a year of warranty. Nothing you get online or at Saturn/media markt. But I don't see the advantage buying local if I still have to call the manufacturers service if there is a problem and have to wait 4 weeks until they arrive. I buy local because of the service and if they decide not to have the service their problem that nobody want to buy local. Another thing to buy local is that you need it fast and many of those local shops give you the 'we have to order it' - sorry, but that is something I can do myself and get it delivered to my home without the need to drive into the town.

They operated for 2,5 year, then one of the drivers was hauled to court, and fined around $1000. Count deemed Uber to be a taxi service and not a rideshare. After that, the tax authorities took a look at the 2000 drivers and what if any, amount of what they had declared from their driving. As I remember, one had to pay US $ 12000 in undeclared income tax. The company's spokesperson said at the time they where closed: "Basically we are not a traditional taxi service, we are an app." Well basically courts said you where an taxi service, because you made a profit on moving people around. Rideshare are nonprofit, and only share the expenses on fuel, oil etc.

The same happened in the Netherlands. Taxi companies filed a lawsuit because of unfair competition since a taxi license is pretty expensive and of course none of the uber drivers had one. Uber also tried arguying that they where just a ridesharing app, but they did some research and found that the majority of drivers worked fulltime. They still operate here, but now they are a chauffeur service and as far as I know the drivers have to found a microbusiness with themselves as the only employee before being able to offer rides on the app. (Which arguably puts almost all negative consequences from that lawsuit on the drivers unfortunately)

The German doll was not a children’s toy.

@@katymcdonald5481 it was and the original Barbie was just 100% intellectual theft, since it was just a copy. The face looked identical.

@@kevinblankenburg4816 I’m not saying it wasn’t copied just that the original doll wasn’t made for children.

To be fair, it was a novelty doll, not something mass-produced and sold to a lot of people. Yet, it's true that Bild Lily was first and Ruth Handler simply bought the US rights and changed it into Barbie as we know her today (the first ones looked a lot like Lily). Lily even already had a scooter and a poodle.

@@cayreet5992 yes it sold in such small numbers that they even made movie based on the character... (In the 50s!) 130.000 pieces sold in Germany alone... I hear a lot of excuses, but Germans are used to that the US is raping their child stories and toys back and forth. Aka Walt Disney. Or look up the story of the Teddy bear.

I remember me and my dad buying coffee from Costa's when we were on vacation in the UK. It was the second worst coffee I've ever drank but fortunately we found a nordic coffee shop with great coffee

Ironically when my daughter tried Costa hot chocolate drinks she was ill, even the coffee makes her throw up so I'd love to know what they use other chains don't Not willing to try one myself.

I am extremely happy Walmart is not coming to Australia. I lived in China for a few years where Walmart is popular and to my horror I saw within their supermarkets Chinese Communist Party propaganda placards conspicuously located.

Years ago Dick Smith's was the place for electronic bits and pieces.

@@LynetteMcGrath ah yes! I forgot about Dick Smith! Them too.

I still wonder how Costco is surviving here in Australia. From what I see it does not look like their employees have a lunch room or anything.

Is Wendy's Australia still a thing haven't seen any store or ads for them in years.

@@killzoneisa if you are referring to australian wendys yes they're still going

@@top40researcher31 Good.

That’s crazy and would like to try the Wendy’s icecream when we visit there one day. Thanks for the info :)

I do like Wendy’s ice cream during summer. There’s a Baskin and Robins near me and my nieces and I tried it, just to see the difference I guess. No where near as good as Wendy’s or the local stores lol

Our Target opened in the spring and closed that same fall... never had anything in stock and what there was, was crap! (Today, it's a huge empty room, in our mall)

because people need an extra license to transport people as a business. If uber would be the same here as in the US and I want to drive for them, I first have to get that license.

@@fusssel7178 and you have to register a business.

@@nirfz I love beaucracy (well, it makes sense in certain cases)

I'm glad I read the comments! You just beat me to it 🙂 Good description of Target in Australia however you can add that it's now owned by Wesfarmers which also own Bunnings and K Mart.

@@ballantynemoyes8019 And Wesfarmers have now shut down a lot of the Target stores in Qld, especially in shopping centres where there was a Target and a KMart. In some places the Targets were rebranded as KMart.

@@LynetteMcGrath same in NSW. I live in the country. We had a Country Target in my town and a regular target in the nearest city about 45mins away. They closed ours down and turn the other into a Kmart Hub which is Kmart but without anything useful.

@@esmeraldagreengate4354 Same here, I live in a rural town but the Target closed (now Smart dollar) in Cooma because of the stupid reason the bank did: The outdoor place was trying to buy the whole street. Mind you the bar across the road had the owner rat on the publican.

@@havanadaurcy1321 damn. Small town politics are the worst.

My daughter was the Manager who was in charge of that process - moving some Target staff to K-Mart and retrenching the remainder. Can confirm this was already in place before 2020. Needless to say, she chose to leave after that experience.

London was partly because Uber were using drivers without doing police checks - I think this also happened in other UK cities. Turned out they were employing convicted sexual predators and a number of passengers were attacked. Then they also tried to state that as the drivers were self employed they weren't entitled to holidays and other basic rights, that didn't work either and the courts sided against Uber. I think there was a case in Greece where another unchecked Uber driver picked up a group of girls and the next time they were seen was a bodies, it took a while to solve but eventually they caught the bloke. To say they are unethical is a major understatement, seems they don't care who them employ and certainly don't believe in paying for police background checks, the basics for any taxi driver to be employed. Yet some on this channel still claim Uber are much safer to use than a taxi is (apparently because you can't hail them on the street, they are tracked and have to register if they pick up a passenger [which relies on an honest driver] and credit cards must be genuine and not fake - which applies to taxis as well. I wouldn't trust them and I'm not certain they are that big in Ireland, lots of different taxi companies and you can't flag them down on the streets either [some you can, depends on the licences] and their drivers have to have police checks, display official ID cards in the cabs and if you are at all doubtful of the ID or the driver you simply don't get in and ring the police. Not sure if Uber have official photo IDs in their cars but if you don't have to pass a police background check then I wouldn't trust the ID anyway.

@@joanneburford6364 In the US, Target is popular and K-Mart is all but out of business. I think they only have something like 3 stores left in the USA. They're owned by different companies, too. They're completely separate from each other. I used to work weekends at K-Mart several years ago, until it closed. K-Mart merged with Sears. Now both are mostly defunct. All three companies got their start in the American Midwest, K-Mart and Target in the mid-20th Century and Sears at the end of the 19th Century. All three were retail giants in the USA once upon a time, now Target is the last one standing.

@joannesmith2484 different types of markets between the two countries and possibly the range. We have never had Sears in Australia. It's like your Starbucks failed here due to our taste for real coffee. We did start McCafe in McDonald's (Maccas) in Melbourne though and you also have Bluestone Lane coffee shops there to give you an idea of what our market is for brekkie (breakfast).

@IvliaVespa uber must vary from country to country. Apparently Melbourne is the largest user globally. I've heard our requirements are stricter but that doesn't stop some cowboys. Ubers have basically replaced taxis here as the taxi standard was so bad.

costco is work well in Australia, the only reason there is few stores is the population density as they will only appear in capital citys or larger towns off 200k plus people. Here in Melbourne they are always packed with people.

Pablo was a cheap brand of granulated coffee that was sold in Australia in the 60' s to may be the early 70's. It was awful but often seved at social functions.

The promotional burgers are even more selective. They are regional. For example there was a fish burger in north Germany but you couldn't get it in south Germany.

Funny thing that some things are the same across areas, the thing with what chains stock and even different chains stocking the same thing is also something i have experienced in austria. My problem why i do shop online for maybe 50% of my things is that in the last decades the staff in the chains declined in knowledge to a level that is almost comical. Some time ago i wanted to buy something in an electronics store and had a question abuot a funciton. The answere i got by the guy i asked was "i only work her on saturdays"... I had several enoucnters where the staff that's responsible for items knows less about the stuff they should advise the consumer about than the consumer themself. Small shops who aren't part of huge chains are usually better with that, but for years now i do not even anticipate the person in the shop to be able to answer a question. So i have to research online anyways. As for fast food restaurants: since august 2000 i entered one for a single time, and that was to use the bathroom. I don't drink coffe either, but it's sad that young people and tourists in austria go to starbucks when there is a very long lasting and rich coffe culture in the cities. (All the cafes had 20+ kinds of coffee long before Starbucks, but not because they used different milk replacments....)

@@nirfz We have a number of, ironically, Chinese run small shops that deal with computer supplies, repairs [and mobile phones/repairs] and their owners actually do know what they are talking about. If you want something they will ask what you are intending to use it for and can usually give you a couple of other suggestions so you have a choice. I've been using them for years now [the African owned ones are also incredibly good with knowledgeable and helpful owners as well] and for computer/phone stuff I find they are much better than the larger more dedicated shops. You might need to wait a few days for an order to arrive but you get what you want and the prices are often cheaper because they add on less of a mark-up.

@@musicandbooklover-p2o Interesting! We don't heve these here. What we do have are small mobile phone oriented shops (but mostly second hand mobile phones) run by turkish migrants but i haven't actually visited one. So i can't say anything about their level of expertese.

Well, TBF the Chinese government set up a lot rules and regulations deliberately designed to limit the influx of foreign companies while at the same time doing everything to promote similar Chinese companies. It isn't just a culture issue when it comes to China, but the fact that the government intentionally is making it as difficult as possible for any foreign company to operate with as little help and as many obstacles as they can, while usually having a personal interest (somebody in government will have a financial interest in any major Chinese company) to give the Chinese companies huge local advantages. It is not ever an equal and fair market by design. But then, most of those foreign companies kind of asked to be in that mess, lured in and blinded by the prospects of the size of Chinese market, without doing any research further. So with China, it isn't really a culture issue, or at least it's hard to tell, as it is more obvious that the political obstacles are the primary reason most foreign companies only have a very small impact and share on what should be such a large market. The other is that most of foreign made goods are simply too pricey for the average low-middling income Chinese (most of the population), who will then buy the much cheaper made, lower quality, functional but for a short time product. Cultural differences I would think is only really a less frequent cause of any company failing in China specifically where people that could opts out of buying for that specific reason. Sure it can be the cause, but with China I'd first look closely and make sure to eliminate all other potential causes that there might be and were more likely first. Regardless of what the company claimed as the cause.

🤣 Starbucks produce the worst coffee too and I will say Spain is not known for be the most picky country with our coffee. I only had this one cup of ¿coffee? in USA and I was incapable of drink a quarter of it. And it was the smaller one. Why they drink this bucket of dirty water and call it coffee?

Australians also hate invasive greeter culture..

Yeah, I'm German and when I'm browsing and there are sales persons that ask every 5min if they can help me I leave the shop without buying. If I want help I ask, I'm no toddler that need help. I lived in the US and and shopping there was always creepy. First the greeters, then the permanently exaggerated friendly sales persons, then the cashiers that always wanted to small talk and last the baggers in the grocery shops.

My husband is exactly the same!

Also it's no surprise that Starbucks failed here in Australia. We have a strong coffee culture (started by Italian immigrants after WW2) which is very apparent in Sydney and Melbourne (and other cities as well).

My husband and I visited the US in the late 90s and tried Starbucks coffee for the first (and last!) time... The strong coffee culture (started by Italian immigrants after WW2) that we have in Sydney and Melbourne (and I'm sure other cities as well) is far superior and a much more pleasant experience...

Target in Australia isnt the same as Target in the USA. "The Target story began in 1926 when two men, George Lindsay and Alex McKenzie, opened a drapery store in Geelong, Victoria after signing a partnership the previous year. The store primarily sold dress fabrics, manchester and furnishings. A pioneer of discount retailing, Lindsay's business methodology was 'half the profit, twice the turnover'. After acquiring the original store from Lindsay in 1957, Geoff Betts, John Wade and their team grew Lindsay's original discount retail philosophy from its single store base in Geelong to a statewide multistore business. By 1968, Lindsay & McKenzie Pty Ltd had grown to 14 small stores around Victoria. Myer Emporium Ltd, recognising the potential for growth, bought the business and the company became Lindsay's Target Pty Ltd." Source Target Australia history page.

I wasn't aware they were here either and I'm a PC builder. It's been very rare for me to buy any PC parts over the counter in the UK (over 30 years), as getting it delivered to your door is just easier.

That's what happens when you try to pass horse piss off as coffee

Lol. Also that *you won something * comment is fake, it’s a scam, please don’t engage in it. That’s not IWrocker

Next time you visit a city in your country or other EU-member state: just look around. The smaller non-chain stores/resto's are everywhere. But do not visit the malls: they are the chain's "paradise".

What are you talking about? there are more malls than shops? of course not - there are much more small shop than malls, even if count the shops inside the malls... but the point is that the shops in the malls are always or mostly the same in the whole country, which is so boring.

I had the experience that this is different in Germany. Ebay and amazon are most of the times cheaper and the local stores quality went down the drain. Until a few years ago if you bought something bigger like a washing machine in a local shop you paid a little more than online, but installing, delivery and removing the old one was included and they even came after hours if you got problems because of work. And if there was a service case they sent their own technician to repair the thing. Now it doesn't matter where you buy it, you have to pay for installing, delivery and you have to wait for an external technician if there is a problem - same as if you bought it online, but more expensive. Why should you buy in local stores. Adding to that, the selection of local shops is limited. I can't count how often I got the info 'we have to order that' when I need something - and that is something I can do myself and have it delivered to my home without the need to drive to the shop to get it. Another thing is that the online presence of most German shops are nothing more than v-cards. You can't see what they have, you can't order online. Most of the time there is just a number to call if want something and you still have to drive to the shop to order etc. and if they have a web shop most of the time their prices are even higher than those in their shop. But they are whining they are loosing customers and that is no surprise with the non service policy of many shops. Shops that offer good service or service you don't get anywhere else even if they are a little more expensive are successful.

A tried amazon a few years ago as they had become available in my country (the Netherlands). I decided not to use it because they did not accept the online pay method most popular here (ideal), instead they only accepted credit cards. I didn't even own one of those.

@@tamsel814 Ohhh yeah. Don't like it when websites ask for credit card info. We always have official banks as the mediums for that.

Lol I was wondering what happened to Sizzlers

@@someonerandom8552 It stopped operating in Australia and Taco Bell happened to be re-franchised off to Collins. Sizzler also is estranged from the US chain which also filed for bankruptcy protection a few years ago due to the pandemic. Collins currently owns Sizzler Asia

Burger King was already trademarked in Australia

@@bluedog1052 Burger King did at least briefly exist during the 1990s then attempted to constructively terminate and sue Hungry Jacks in the 2000s

@@jordanferrazza8700 I was of the understanding that an Australian business had already trademarked that name in Australia. I do remember something about what you said but I thought that was Burger King US trying to take over HJs. Either way the burgers are better at Hungry Jacks, amen lol

There are a few Starbucks in the Eastern Australian states. These few stores are mainly for the comfort of Chinese and American tourists.

Most of the pizza huts have closed down in WA now is just Domino's or local stores.

Our Target isn’t the same as the US one, apparently. It’s owned entirely by Aussie company Wesfarmers.

Kmart has just closed their last US store. Kmart here is not affiliated with the US one.

Target is unrelated, Kmart was related, Kmart US is also pretty much dead after about two bankruptcies and constant asset stripping

@@jordanferrazza8700 no Kmart Australia was never affiliated to the US. A lot of regional targets have been changed to kmart

Anywhere Walmart fails is a *good* thing for all of us. It's modern day slavery which shouldn't be allowed anywhere in the developed world.

Clearly they failed to adapt to British culture.... btw here in Australia we also hate intrusive greeter culture (so fake and annoying!)

Curry's staff used to do that too, many years ago but learned to not be so pushy for potential sales.

I think they got like 4 stores. 2 in Stockholm, 1 in Solna and 1 on the Arlanda airport. They failed real bad and got absolutely dominated by independent stores and chains like Espresso house

@@moondaughter1004 And there is not enough money on the planet to make me visit that other chain you mentioned. I kinda like small cafés better.

@@Steffe that's understandable since the coffee usually isn't that good. Actually the espresso house coffee that they serve in Preem petrol stations is better and cheaper. I personally enjoy their Frappucinno's though and their staff is usually very friendly. I love small café's too. There's this small coffee shop I usually go to when I visit Uppsala

@@moondaughter1004 They had one in Västerås. It opened in 2016 at the largest shopping center and lasted until 2019. Apparently that had stores in Gothenburg and Malmö too but Starbucks failed there as well. Tourism is probably the only reason those stores in Stockholm are still around.

@@paulallen8109 you're right they're definitely there due to tourism. One of them is located inside the central station and the other one is close by. There was one near Slussen but it closed down. I think there was one in Uppsala too but it obviously failed there since it's a student city

I don't think so... Big W and Kmart have too big a foot hold!

They’d have to dramatically adjust their business strategy if they tried. Many of their practices violates federal law regarding Australian working rights lol

I wouldn't say failed. For quite some time now I have bought my sneakers from a Poland based shop through Ebay. I am from Germany. So in some way, Ebay still is present in Poland, even if it is not being used by Polish customers. 🙃

Yeah, and allegro (its subsidaries in other eastern european countries are called aukro) is/was subsidary of QXL Ricardo, which itself is/was subsidary of Naspers, a south african media tycoon (Newspapers, etc.). As far as I know they went to stock exchange market and therefore not know the current owner structure of allegro anymore. At the time I had a look at, it was like everywhere Ebay was not present, there was a Naspers company instead... but it has always got another name for national/regional markets and/or bought up national champions like Ricardo in Switzerland which was not rebranded. The UK brand was QXL if I remember right. So just another big fish, probably just a bit smarter in understanding local markets or perhaps hiding itself not to be a recognized as big fish, who knows.

@@njordholm well...allegro was founded in Poznań (poland) in 1999 by Tomasz Dudziak (polish programmer. And then sold to QXL.... Now the company (rather whole Group incl. Other websites like otomoto, Ceneo, bankier) belongs to investment fund Group.

@@Taki_tam_ktos thx for input and -upgrade- update

annoying AF. makes me not want to post. can't youtube do something about them

@@Lupi33z don't think they know how too deal with them or they care.

Taco Bell originally opened here in Australia around 1980. They ended up closing because there was already a restaurant here with the same name, so the US company was sued for misleading and deceptive conduct. It's only in recent years that they've re-entered the Aussie market.

I miss Sizzlers. Taco Bell seems to have replaced all of them.

I don’t blame you lol