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Originally Posted by Vejadu
Here's the average household expenditure for food by country:
USA: 6.6%
UK: 9.1%
Germany: 10.9%
Sweden: 11.5%
Finland: 11.9%
Norway: 12.9%
France: 13.2%
Italy: 14.2%
Greece: 16.5%
Most of Europe spends about twice as much of their household income on food as compared to the Average American household.
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Sorry, but that's nonsense. Such statistics are crap.
- Most Americans don't buy that much food at grocery stores, because most of them dining out several times a week, that's very uncommon in most european countries.
- The "disposal income" in the U.S. is higher than in most european countries, but they also have much higher spendings for child care, education, health care and so on.
Such statistics are nonsense, this statistic is probably the reaseon why so many Americans think that food is cheaper in the U.S. than in Europe.
The Aldi prices in Germany are the normal food prices in Germany. Every other major grocery chain offers at least the 500 most common food products for the exact same price than Aldi. Aldi is also the price leader in the U.S. but most other food retailers in the U.S. are more expensive than Aldi. As the Aldi prices in the U.S. are mostly considerably higher than at Aldi in Germany, it's clear that food is more expensive in the U.S. than in Germany.