A woman from California who now lives in the UK has shared some things she noticed at the supermarket that are different from back home, and they took her a while to get used to
An American woman who has moved to to the UK has opened up about the aspects of British culture she has been shocked by and day-to-day occurrences which are completely different from the US – including one thing in supermarkets.
You may not realise just how used to your native country you are until you go on a long holiday or move abroad and start missing things from back home. An American woman named Gizelle Cade has been opening up about her new life in the UK after moving to Manchester with her partner.
She has been sharing her new life on her TikTok page, @gizellecade – where she boasts over 30,000 followers – and recently ranted about one thing. In the clip, Gizelle picked up a coffee from Black Sheep and then headed to a Tesco supermarket.
In the caption she said: “Where are the UK cashiers? Why are you guys anti-cash?”
Gizelle, who works from home but also studies at university, commented: “One thing about the UK, they are not going to hire people to manage registers I tell you. Everything is do it yourself. You go to the coffee shop, there is registers, do it yourself. Do you take cash? Nope do it yourself.”
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Gizelle, who has also spent time in Liverpool and London, added: “Can you help bag my groceries? Nope do it yourself. You’re going to go to the grocery stores and see exactly what I’m talking about. Everything is do it yourself. Where are the cashiers at the registers?”
One Brit insisted: “Yeah thank god. I don’t want people to help me.” “As someone with social anxiety, I actually love it,” commented another.
Another Brit shared: “To be fair we’ve never had people to bag our shopping or help us take it to car, always had to do it ourselves and as country we’ve never liked idle chit chat, I don’t wanna talk to someone I just want my coffee or meal, also why don’t have a tipping culture because I find waiters/waitresses who leave me alone to be the best ones, in America they kept coming over asking if I wanted water.”
Sharing where Gizelle can get her items bagged for her, one other added: “The only place in the UK that bags your shopping for you is Iceland, but only if you’ve got delivery, they bag it and load it in the van to deliver it to your door so you don’t have to take it home.”
One Brit who recently holidayed in America commented: “Just landed in the US and honestly I felt so uncomfortable watching someone pack my shopping. They also do it so weird, why you giving me only eggs in one bag, fill that bag up girl!”
One other who shares that they missed it, said: “Someone packing my shopping for me is so 90s. We lost that luxury a whole millennium ago.”
One observed: “I’ve lived in both the US and the UK. There is something about the expectation America to be made to feel important that doesn’t exist in other countries.”
In another video, Giselle said she noticed people would park their cars in different directions near a pavement, something ahe insisted you would “never see this in the USA”.
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