What $100 buys at the World's Most Expensive GROCERY STORE

A few years ago I went to the original store on Beverly. The manager followed me OUTSIDE because I left empty-handed. He asked if I found what I was looking for. 🙄 Please. He thought I was stealing. I hope the customer feedback department appreciated the nasty letter I sent.

Wow the rich are getting scammed just for the Aesthetic™ of shopping at a seemingly healthier and seemingly more Luxury™ store. People are not well.

It was very interesting. Could you do a video on the cheapest supermarket you can find and see what you could get for the $100 for a comparison. Thanks I love your videos

The sad part is that the pricing on some of these items are comparable to what we're seeing at regular grocery stores in Canada right now with inflation.

The lion’s mane mushroom is actually a really good meat alternative for vegan meals! It’s insane that it was THAT expensive, though😵‍💫

I worked at that EXACT location for a year and a half during COVID. The employee's don't get free meals, they get 40% off but that means we still couldn't shop there because it was still way more expensive than anywhere else. I did buy some of those amazing Mango's on payday sometimes though.

Whole Foods: whole paycheck Erewhon: whole mortgage I died when you said this 😆

I love this format! There is something fun about trying out more expensive items that are premade ( like the hot bar, peanut butter and broth) rather than just regular groceries. I'd love to see a hot bar try it segment! These types of places cater to people that are there to grab and go so I think their ready to eat foods are always good! ☺️

In the 1970's i lived in Boston. There was a health food store called Erewhon. I wonder if that was the beginning of the store?? Or it was owned by someone else? It was a very small health food store where vegetarians could find seitan and tofu easily. Supermarkets did not sell stuff like that. It was expensive for the time. I would love you to do a haul where you price the same items at a cheaper store. Also I would love you to do a copycat of that smoothie for those of us who can't get to an Erewhon.

Honestly seeing Erowhon as a “specialty” store, wher you go to buy different or in-house items like that peanut butter and smoothie! Or if you want a luxury cut of meat to cook by yourself instead of opting for a fancy restaurant, it makes sense! But not necessarily for regular weekly, or monthly groceries.

Thanks for taking one for the team and trying this out! The peanut butter does seem worth it to me for a special treat, maybe the bone broth that is much as a cocktail at a nice bar per serving is a stretch. I really enjoyed your down to earth insights, but the videos was also good self indulgent entertainment lol

😂😂😂😂😂 guys imagine $100 at Aldi. You would need 2 people to carry that haul

I was born in 1978 and our little local grocery store had a peanut butter grinder and it was AMAZING You’d push a button and get as much as you wanted and it was sold by volume. Same with coffee beans. They also had fresh squeezed orange juice and lemonade. It wasn’t pasteurized so it tasted like you made it at home. That store is still there, you can have an account and they keep a paper ledger, I lived across the street and they let me have my own cart as a kid because I came EVERY DAY. My mom and I never knew what we wanted until that moment so I’d run over, ask them to put it on our account and Bing bang boom grab the BEST food. They sold tons of locally made breads and cheeses. Milk from local farmers where the cream floated to the top. Big logs of fresh made butter they did in the back…they sell honey from local beekeepers who have an apiary across the street at the community garden. Yeah, I never realized how completely awesome this place was. I assumed it was normal, I also can say yes, I grew up in a very wealthy area so folks had no issue paying a bit more bit…it was a well known that organic was better. My mom and I had hens and they’d sell our eggs if we had extra. My great grandparents had a home farm, they sold some foods but mostly farmed to provide for themselves and the family. I got to run a little stand as a kid when I visited and I loved picking the prettiest strawberries and veggies to wash up and package adorably to sell. People always paid me more than we asked because they appreciated the effort. My great grandparents were French, she had been a pianist, he a luthier and over the years as they acclimated to the US they developed a strong distaste for excess, waste and capitalism 😮 They usually traded/bartered for things they didn’t have. Apples for peaches, eggs and cheese for pork and beef. We had frogs and rabbits to eat…they kept their cash in mason jars in the basement 😂 and they were LOADED because they stopped spending money in the 1960s. They bought their farm cash, did all the work themselves, invested in alternative energy in the seventies allowing a solar panel company their back portion as test area in exchange for the power, and they paid for a windmill but ended up getting money back from the electric company. They planted all these native species and soil retaining plants and got rebates. They also had some deal with the government and trees they’d planted. I wish I knew details, they lived to be 100 and 101. My great grandpa got passionate about organic farming in the sixties, years before I was born and if I could talk to him now I’d do anything to ask him to share his knowledge. They lived a quiet, simple life and they lived WELL. No stress, no anxiety. They had greenhouses in case things were too wet/too dry, too cold, too imperfect. I know they were able to trade with the local store as well. They would give goat cheese in exchange for sugar and spices. I’d go in with it. God…I haven’t thought about this for so long :( It’s simple, people should maybe…go full force? I recognize a movement to be self sufficient and whatnot but adherents are so hardcore and competitive it seems. A total black and white all or nothing attitude? Selling all personal possessions to move to a piece of land and just farm farm farm for profit. Artisanal stuff, when in all reality we could do a lot of variety. Forget monoculture.

The way your son devours his slice of pizza. Love how much he enjoys his food! Interesting haul! Seeing the prices, I would’ve probably left the store without getting anything.

It’s so interesting to take a look into this grocery store and see the crazy high price increase on items you can find anywhere else, would love to see more!

As someone who grows their own produce and is an advocate for trying to make or grow things on your own (for a far cheaper price) I’m blown away. A pack of cucumber seeds is about 2 dollars and theoretically you can get 20-25 cucumbers from just a few healthy seeds let alone the whole pack of seeds. 😭

This was very fun and interesting to watch! I would love to see you try the foods from the hot bar! Looks like a fun store to explore and see the fun things they have! Keep up the good work, love this content! 🎉

Expensiveeeee, but sold! Will visit Erewon at least once in my lifetime for the bone broth, PB & seasonal smoothie!😋 Thank you Dzung for another attention keeping, fun video! 👌😍👌

This was so fun! I love to see new grocery stores and what they have to offer! Please make another video about this! I would love to see what you do with $100 if you went back, either trying the hot foods or just being interesting things that your curious to try! Cool looking store, very expensive tho.

I cry deep inside whenever I shop at Whole Foods but then I watched this, I felt a little good relief lol I am obsess with siete wraps and siete chips! I get the almond one then I put shredded cheese with kimchi inside with garlic powder, ginger powder & I also add cilantros! Soooo divine!