The one seen in the video is a fancy store. There were far worse ones that had literally nothing for sale, just empty shelves, with employees sitting on their asses all day long, staring blankly out the window and waiting for their shift to end. Even if you were the Soviet equivalent of an Apple engineer, you still needed a small patch of land somewhere to grow vegetables and barter with others, otherwise you'd starve. An insane level of poverty by Western standards.
Maybe, but I still find it interesting to see a media outlet use this "fancy soviet grocery" as an example. That example is supposed to be a home run in terms of showing american superiority, when in fact it shows how America has declined since 1989.
