I went to a BRAND NEW Russian Supermarket: Chesnok

I went to a BRAND NEW Russian Supermarket: Chesnok

Hello everybody. Welcome to Travelling with Russell.  Welcome to a new video. Welcome to Butovo here in Moscow.  Now right behind me is Viva shopping center.  This is a very typical suburban  shopping center here in Moscow.  But there’s a brand new  supermarket that opened today. 

I thought I’d take you for a walk around and show  you how alive and well retail is here in Russia.  Let’s head on inside and check it out if you are  a subscriber to the channel and you’ve watched  

Some past videos this shopping center might be  familiar it’s where I came and made a video about   a new Russian Ikea that opened it’s actually  on the first floor as we walk in and then on   the lower ground floor is where we want to go  and see Chesnok a Russian discount supermarket  

Now have a look at that sun right there Viva  Shopping Center and it’s actually beautiful   weather today as well so it’s appropriate that  I come on a sunny day to a shopping mall with   a big sun on the outside of the building do  actually have a question for everybody around  

The world who’s watching do they allow pets  in the shopping centers where you live let   me know in the comments in Moscow and in Russia  it’s completely able to be taking pets inside.  You’ll see people sometimes with cats but mostly  dogs but they do actually have a size requirement  

Of how large the dog can be let me know in  the comments if there’s a rule where you live   about bringing pets to the shopping center or the  supermarket walking on inside the shopping center   this is very much a typical Suburban shopping  center here in Moscow there is probably around  

About 100 or more shopping centers in Moscow and  this is very normal and very typical now I just   had pizza here at dodo pizza and basically it’s  the Russian equivalent of Pizza Hut but it’s its   own standalone brand. It’s very nice. 

Oh! I’m actually still dreaming of  that pizza from only 5 minutes ago.  Let’s go and check out this store. All of the food and other retail   shops are all on the lower level. It’s quite interesting that today  

They’ve got the advertising of a couple of the  competing Brands the chesnok this is Chik and   then on the other side is mayak now I’ve actually  got videos on both of those stores also on the   channel and we’re going to have to go down one  of these travel aters that Tucker Carlson had  

Never seen before and I think now every time I  ride one I just think of him and we just have   to go a couple of minutes down the travelator and  around the corner and the supermarket is going to

Appear I had previously come to the shopping  center to make a video here at mayak which is   a warehouse type supermarket and although these  different supermarkets are in the same location   they are drastically different inside and again  I’ve got a long video on this place as well so we  

Want to check that out now doesn’t really look as  good as when I came last time but there’s not much   we can do it’s really up to the management of this  store to sort the look of the place out so where  

We want to go is straight ahead of us here this  purple colored Supermarket called Chesnok and this   is a new company that’s here in Russia. This is actually the 25th location.  So it’s a little bit of a milestone for them and  it’s the first one in Moscow now predominantly  

Most of their locations are outside of Moscow and  in other cities but there’s a ring around Moscow   which is where Moscow is literally and then the  rest would be called Moscow region like where I  

Live so we want to go check out chok now you know  I always mention this about the balloons and the   richest man in Russia is the man that sells  air in a balloon and they always have them at  

Openings of stores that’s always fun to see. So when I was here about a month ago to make   the videos at these other two stores there wasn’t  a person around now of course today is the grand   opening of this store and there’s just life back  in this shopping center and there’s people here  

Now of course this store is completely new to this  region so I would imagine almost all the people   here live immediately where this shopping center  is now the one thing that’s interesting it’s   not particularly close to housing it’s about a  15-minute walk to the nearest apartment building. 

So a lot of people probably drove here or possibly  walked there’s a bus stop nearby there is no   Metro station anywhere nearby here so it’s very  interesting where everybody came from cuz when I   was here a month ago at the other stores there was  hardly anybody shopping in the stores whatsoever  

If you are actually from Russia and you’ve not  heard of chesnok it’s okay there’s only 25 of   these in all of Russia and they’re in I think it  was 16 different cities and they’re not all just  

In one place obviously I live in Moscow and Moscow  region so naturally I want to make videos close   to where I live but that’s a lot of different  cities that they’ve got the stores in and chesnok   if you translate it into English it’s the word  garlic and there is actually a second meaning  

Like Chesock like good quality or good shop. I was trying to get a grasp of the translation   of it so if you are Russian let me know  in the comments what is the actual direct   translation of Chesnok in the Russian language. I like to call all my videos Russian typical  

Supermarkets and this really is a Russian  typical Supermarket it’s very similar to   a few other brands but chn really want to stand  out from everybody else with a few unique things   now we’re going to notice it quite literally as  I walk around now the theme and the coloring of  

The store this purple color there’s no other  Supermarket brand in Russia with this purple   color and th now you can see at the top here  the character or icon of the brand the piece   of garlic there holding the washing detergent and  that’s the mascot of the company and the one thing  

That’s quite noticeable as you walk in is this  bulk packaging display so they’ve got a lot of   things that are just on pallets and on boxes  and this is completely what they’re idea for  

The store is so they cut open boxes they put a  sign on them they put them out on display in the   front here they’ve got a little bit of household  items and perhaps I think this may be a little  

Bit seasonal as well so they probably change  this you know month over month at the moment   it’s coming into spring so there’s a lot of stuff  for gardening and then we have here some kavass.  Which is a very well-known Russian drink that  everybody l loves I might be the only person  

In Russia that doesn’t like it a lot and then  they’ve even got a little meat section here with   some different chicken meat pork so it’s really  interesting the layout of the store and how it   maybe differs from other supermarkets where  you don’t immediately walk in and see fruit  

And vegetables and you know the obvious items  it’s kind of a bit of a mix of things brand or   company is actually from Belarus and their  headquarters for the company is in Belarus.  They also have offices here in  Moscow and other cities as well now. 

This is where I want to point this out a little  bit on the video and I’ll probably do it quite a   few times that they’ve got these different signs  where it says we love belus and the products   themselves are from Belarus now generally on  tags when you go to a Russian Supermarket they’ll  

Actually have the price of course the weight the  barcode and they’ll have the country of origin   right here so this one’s actually from Russia the  one next to it is from Belarus and what they’ve   done is with all of the Belarus made products  they’ve actually got tags or shelf talkers that  

Let you know that they’re Belarus products. Now a lot of people already know a lot of the   brands from Belarus and maybe it’s not new to  them but if you’re coming in here for the first   time and you see all the tags you’ll see here  even on the peas and the pickled vegetables  

There’s a few right here and then anything with  that standard yellow one we’ll just basically   point out where they’re from so different  countries as well but the absolute majority   of things in here are from Belarus or Russia. Actually we’ll see some other items from a few  

Other countries later on in the video and at  the moment the store has 65% of their goods   from Belarus. 65%.  That’s staggering and for a small supermarket  chain I mean 25 stores isn’t a lot if you compare   it to Pytorcheka with 21,000 locations  so it’s a big deal for them to come  

Over to Russia and open up stores. They don’t actually have locations   in Belarus believe it or not. They’re basically a new company   that’s entered the Russian market and they’re  here to mix it up a little bit you’ll also see  

On the stickers here the Belarus flag on the  whole sign of course so you can actually see   where something’s from Belarus and then the  milk right here next to it is from Russia and   have a look at the difference about 9 rubles  cheaper purely because the Belarus company  

Has brought it to Russia for domestic sale. Here and of course there’s quite a lot to   see in the shop but it’s just interesting you  know as you walk around and literally every   catgory of food or products as we see them  there is at least a Belarus version rather  

Than just only Russian products in the store. We can see here I think this is like a coffee   powder I’m not too sure but from Belarus  and then right next to it there from Italy.  So Davide if you’re watching. I might be able to point out a couple  

Of more things if I can find them in the store  there’s some Italian coffee here in Moscow so if   you’re going to come over here you’ll be happy  to know that you can find some local coffee so   the bulk displays continue throughout the store  and it’s pretty noticeable as you walk down the  

Aisles that essentially they get the stock in and  then stack it up like this and then make sure that   they just open that top box for sale and then  make sure there’s a sign on it and that’s all  

You got to do simple as that I mean it’s not a  tough concept to grasp and to do to open a store   there is I think some more Italian coffee right  here it’s interesting now when you actually look  

And see the signs with the the brands on them and  I think the lavat right there so if you are from   Belarus and you’re watching this let me know in  the comments if you notice any products that maybe  

You already know from what I’m showing you walk  on around or if you’re may be a little bit jealous   that I can grab something from Belarus here in  Moscow and just the amount of choices of products   is quite immense I think that’s probably the best  way there’s literally everything you want in the  

Whole store made in Belarus in here. If anybody’s wondering about   Mondelez and if they’re still in Russia. They are, and the Oreos right here from Russia.  So definitely Mondelez has a presence  and this is a brand new store.  It’s not an old shop that’s been  here for a long time oh half  

Kilo of gummy bears and only 200 rubles. Has anyone had Belarus gummy bears before.  What about cheese puffs and giant bags of them. There’s an entire ballet of cheese puffs right   here 60 rubles not even a dollar for a giant bag  of cheese puffs I think the whole idea of course  

To create these lower prices mean bring things in  bulk open the box put it on display and there’s   very little manhandling of the products and very  little work needed to put them out for sale you  

Know simply put a sign on it the price is done now  this is the other place where they can definitely   create lower prices as well rather than having  a whole Bank of refrigerators like any typical  

Supermarket would have they basically got a cool  room and we’ll be able to just walk right in here   and all of the refrigerated items are right here  in the cool room and again we’re going to see the  

Belarus flags on the shelves where they’re made  in Belarus versus made in Russia and fresh milk   from Belarus on the shelf today. Rright here everybody is checking   out all the products. I think there’s a lot of  

People who are probably coming to this brand of  store for for the first time so they’re probably   very curious about finding products that they  probably know from their childhood or from their   parents or grandparents and then they’re able to  get them here now locally in Moscow and just as  

I start walking around a little bit more the fans  have kicked in for the cool room they’re probably   on some kind of a timer every few minutes  they go on and off and I was hoping I could  

Get through this part of the video without them  coming on but you know sometimes can’t avoid it   come around here to all the different hams and  cured meats salamis and it’s really like we’re   Christmas shopping we’re in a shop for the first  time while we’re in here and we’re finding new  

Things that we haven’t seen before and especially  the fact that the Absolut majority of things are   from Belarus rather than Russian produced items  now I need everyone to let me know are you a   fan of the haridat this is this meat in jelly  right here do you enjoy this it’s definitely  

Not my favorite thing but my wife loves it and  she’s trying to convert me and have me enjoy it somebody just pointed out to me there’s  a pate here and you just basically spread   it it on to bread and it’s the Belarus  alternative to having to go to France. 

I’ve not seen this before so it’s quite  interesting to see all of the choices of   items from you know different places wow all the  different hams lots of things and lots of Shoppers   very curious as well let me head on outside the  fridge now sorry and we can have a look a little  

Bit further actually got some cheeses here as well  and some more meat and the idea with the store   here they’ve not got entire butcher shops they’ve  got just simple cuts of meat they have enough  

That go out for one day or two days and that’s  it and then they move on and get something new   and replace it for the next days come outside to  the cookie section and biscuits and there’s also  

Some candy here by weight which is very normal in  all Russian supermarkets but perhaps something a   little bit different that I haven’t seen before  my wife’s normally a fan of these we’ve always got  

A bowl of them on our kitchen table of different  trits to have and we’re at the back of the store   here and it definitely opens up the whole store  how wide it is just just the refrigerate area  

Obviously a little bit smaller but you know  outside of the hours like today where it’s a   newly opened store I’m sure it’s a lot easier  to walk around and check out things also got   plenty of types of water as well and again that  Belarus flag is very prevalent on all the signs. 

I don’t think I’ve even had Belarus water before. I don’t remember having some.  Has anybody else drunk it. Is there some magical river somewhere   that all the water in Belarus comes from. We can see here also there’s some Nestle oats or  

Breakfast oats and again these are actually made  in Russia right there on the label so if anybody’s   curious about the last couple of years and Brands  not been available in Russia or the fact that   they’ve pulled out or left Russia they’re clearly  for sale here in this supermarket and again I’ll  

Just point this out this is the first day this  store opened today you know this is not a store   that’s been here for a year or two and it’s Old  Stock this store literally opened lunchtime today  

I’m here a couple of hours after the opening now  it’s a little bit quieter than when it first open.  More of the Kavss right here. Then a little bit further down here something   quite interesting that I want to point out to you. If you thought that perhaps Pepsi left Russia  

They’re definitely here but this is the Belarus  produced Pepsi from the Pepsi Factory in Belarus   and they’ve got the two different sizes of bottles  there and then we can get the smaller regular ones   Miranda we know of course is the orange and drink  from Pepsi and then the absolute classic bottle  

Right here now it works out at 50 rubles which  is right on 50 cents us and if you’re watching   from America let me know what a bottle of Pepsi  is at the convenience store or Supermarket for   a classic bottle of Pepsi I’m fairly sure that  the bottle that’s come from Belarus to Russia  

Is cheaper than it is coming from the American  Factory to your local store and maybe not but   let me know in the comments what the difference of  price is there’s obviously quite a lot to cover in  

This store so I will walk around and just bypass  a few things but have a look at all the canned   meats and again this whole top row has those  Belarus flags on it so it’s just interesting  

That alternative that we’ve got now coming to the  store here then here we are at the other end with   all of the non Belarus made products without  that flag there is the pilman here or dumplings  

This is by weight so you just scoop what you need  and then pay by the gram it’s nice and easy then   we come around to their little mini Bakery and  they’ve got packaged bread that would come from   a local Bakers somewhere probably here in Moscow  then they’ve actually got a fresh bread section  

We might be able to see the lady back there she’s  preparing the bread there and there’s an oven and   all of the stuff and then this is literally baked  in store so you can get yourself my very favorite  

Garlic loaf right here this one and that’s the  brown bread version this is my favorite thing   oh my gosh I’m going to take one of them home for  sure as a person who works in retail since I was  

14 years old it’s nice to see Shoppers in the  store you know people with baskets with things   in it to see excitement in shopping you know I  think there’s definitely a bit of a different   feeling today as I’m walking around with everybody  and their mood about a new store being in the  

Area that’s opened and you can see also all the  different ketchups now this might be interesting   now in Russia very typically they’re all in these  pouches with a little lid at the top there then  

The Belarus one for 50 rubles is in like a little  bit of a a pouch but there’s no way to open it and   just let me know in your childhood maybe. If you’re from Belarus or Russia if this   is how you bought ketchup. Definitely in Australia we  

Don’t have anything like that we’d have it  just in the normal plastic or glass bottle.  That’s the thing you can get it for 50 cents  you don’t have to spend $2 or $3 for something  

When you can get it so cheaply in more economical  packaging this might be a good yard stick of the   cost of food in Russia generally is the salt right  here and please let me know where you live what  

You’re paying for a bag of of salt or container of  salt because 1 kilo is equivalent to 10 cents for   a kilo of salt and that is just incredibly cheap I  think so but you know let me know is am I missing  

Something am I trying to show you low prices  to throw you off I don’t think so I mean this   is a discount supermarket I mean it is a Russian  typical Supermarket as well in this same building  

There is three other choices of stores that you  can go to that are quite like this but I think   this simpler cleaner nicer looking store is really  where I want to shop to buy things and we got a  

Big wall of La chips right in front of us and over  over here the flower and we’re paying basically 60   cents us for 2 kilos of flour I wonder what that  difference in price is I think I need somebody to  

Go to the stores in America and compare for me 5  kilos of flour is right about $1.70 for a 5 kilo bag really hope you’re enjoying this walk around  of chesnok now I was actually excited to come here  

Purely because it was a brand new store now I do  know this shopping center very well it’s still   about an hour and a half for me to get here to  this particular store but I just wanted to come  

To a new store opening in Russia in 2024 and  show you what’s possible what kind of prices   things are and how cheap things are really now  of course we know Lays perhaps we know Cheetos   as well but the Belarus version or at least the  comparable product to Pringles is Mega chips and  

These are actually in a lot of supermarkets  in Russia not just because of this store and   they’re basically flat wafer chips it’s not  a good example of what they look like but the   entire box as you see it it’s a a thin sheet of  potato chip and you slide it out and whatever  

Flavor that you really want is available now  the small boxes here are about 50 and the big   ones are around about a dollar so there’s no need  for Pringles when you’ve got Belarus Mega chips.  I’ve actually had these for a lot of years  before this store opened I know them very  

Well they’ve actually got the you know we love  Belarus sign again right here proudly supporting   their country and the flag on the products  although I do drink occasionally I’m not you   know a person that has beer probably more than  a couple of times a month literally and it only  

Really if we go to a friend’s house or if we  went to a restaurant or a barbecue somewhere   that we’d have beer so there’s quite a lot of  Brands behind me there of the Belarus beer.  Then here is some imported  ones that are from Germany.  Berliner beer. So what’s happening  

Is they’re coming from Europe to Belarus  and they come over the border to Russia   and that’s how we get German beer in a  Russian Supermarket today essentially.  We’ve got one aisle to walk around and  then we’ll be heading out the exit. 

There is just pallets and pallets of beers. Lots of choices anybody had cherry   flavored before. Cherry Berry.  Maybe this is a cider I  think or maybe an Alcha pop.  I don’t know it personally. But let me know it’s also the  

Washing powder or fabric softener I think this  one really is not even $2 for a 2 L bottle I’ve   actually found my one other Italian product I’m  sure there’s a few more in here and of all things   it’s Finnish dishwashing tablets now from Italy  not from Finland but the brand Finnish and these  

Are from Italy right on € 12 for 110 tablets. So, Davide if you’re watching or anybody else   from Italy for that matter. Let me know.  Or how about an 8 kilo box of washing powder  that is just huge I think these smaller ones  

Are bit more practical these buckets right on $5  for a 5 kilo container of Belarus washing powder   wow these are really big containers actually  here on the other side as well they’ve got the   huge boxes of them and I think maybe this one  is from Germany up here I think it’s very big  

One just basically even the word on the box there  definitely isn’t local so yeah lots of very large   containers of washing powder and then further down  we’ve got some kids products and then toilet roll   and then we’re back at the beginning here with the  different fruits and vegetables and again they’ve  

Got the different countries on them. Azerbaijan, from Russia from Turkey.  Wow that’s interesting all the  different regions that are covered.  Actually it says it right on there turkey on  the box of pomegranates now when you’re shopping   everybody let me know are you conscious of where  they’re coming from if they’re domestically grown  

Or if they’re imported let me know if that’s  a thing that you’re looking for when you’re in supermarkets now I want to point this out because  I made a little bit of a slight miscalculation   about this particular brand in another video. I thought it was Italian because it’s called  

Amalfi and I was sure that it was Italian  when I looked at the brand and then if you   actually look closely it’s from Spain so  it’s got an Italian name but it’s Spanish   shampoo that’s come to Belarus and then  made its way all the way to Moscow this  

Thing travel more than I have Spanish shampoo. I just looked up my statistics of the Channel   and it turns out that 3% of my viewers are  actually from Spain so if you’re watching   let me know in the comments if you know about a  malfie shampoo that we just saw I’m curious now  

After seeing it on the shelf and as I almost get  to the exit of the store where the registers are   right here we can see all the checkouts and then  there is a little bit of beer almost like grab  

And go that you can get yourself a few cans as  you walk out and this is what caught my eye of   course everybody knows I like Coca-Cola and then  this Pepsi in front of us here is Belarus Pepsi. 

It’s even got the new logo on it and this is the  50 c cans of Pepsi and then they’ve got Coca-Cola   here and this particular cocacola is from Poland  so it’s polish Coca-Cola now there’s not just a  

Few cans of it I reckon there’s about a whole  pet of it here on the shelf and there’s also   the Sprite there and then Fanta it’s right on the  bottom shelf but 70 cents roughly US currency for  

A Polish cocacola think I need to try one of them  as well and if anybody’s a fan of Cherry Coke I   don’t really like this personally it’s a little  bit too sweet for me there is lots of it here at

Chesnok now everybody around the world I want  you to take note of the way Russians do their   purchasing now these couple of Staff members  here are to assist people with self checkout   and there’s not a person doing self checkout and  then as I come around to the registers there’s  

Actually people lining up to pay at the normal  registers with the staff where you pay and it   just proves really that people don’t like  self checkouts in Russia and they’re more   than happy to wait to be helped by the cashier  and make their purchase even if you got to wait  

3 or 5 minutes in line it’s probably a little  bit quicker than that but you know people in   Russia don’t like self checkout they’ve got it  introduced they’ve got two staff there helping   people to show them how to do it and people  don’t want to do [Music] it I just realized  

I’ve got to walk back to the bakery section  to get my garlic loaf so I’m going to go back   and grab that and then I’ll do the outro of  the video once I get out the store with my

Shopping so as I head on out of Chesnok I think  my wife is probably going to kill me because   all I’ve got is my garlic bread and my polish  cocacola that’s it I’m going to have to sneak  

Home and climb in the window and then hope  she doesn’t realize that I was here making   this video after she watches it she’s going to  tell me all the things I should have bought and   brought home thanks for watching everybody I  hope you liked this video now if you are a fan  

Of these Supermarket videos. Let me know in the comments.  Please let me know what you you think of them  I mean I really wanted to come here today to   this newly opened store in Russia to let you  know in 2024 that retail is alive and well. 

There are shoppers. There is people coming to   the stores and how cheap some of the things were. I pointed out a few of the prices here and there   but of course if you want to see a standalone  video just showing prices I can do that let  

Me know and perhaps maybe you saw some products  that you recog ni particularly a lot of Belarus   products as well I mean that was the majority of  things in the store there so let me know that also  

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Take a look inside Chenok Supermarket, the newest supermarket in Russia. Opened on 23rd March 2024. This is a Brand New Russian Discount Supermarket. Lets discover together what it looks like inside.

🌐 Supermarket Name: Chesnok ( Супермаркет Чеснок )
🌐 Store Website: https://chesnok-discount.ru/
📍 Street Address: Ulitsa Polyany, 8, Moscow, 117216
📍 Yandex Map Location: https://yandex.com/maps/-/CDRU6EJh
⌚ Time of Filming: 2.00 pm (14.00 pm) 23rd March 2024.

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