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sgtrock21
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Posted: 20 Oct 2012 at 3:39am |
I have found that most "store" brands are often equal and some times superior to name brands. They are 99% of the time priced less than name brands as they do not advertise. WARNING! Just buy one can or package of the store brand and determine if they are OK.
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Thor
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I buy either store or "lesser" brands as much as possible. I've usually found no difference and, for the life of me, don't understand why more people don't go that route.
On my bro and sis-in-law's last visit, we went out to the supermarket to get stuff that they like. When they went to get Splenda, I told them that I already had the WalMart version. It's the same stuff---sucralose and maltodextrin. This wasn't good enough for them. It had to be Splenda. Oh well. Their money, not mine.
I've noticed that breakfast cereals can be kinda sketchy. Some are as good as the brand name stuff. But some are horrible. I recently bought some "lesser" brand of Honey Nut Cheerios. They tasted horrible.
I get a lotta stuff at the Dollar Tree. These would be mostly "lesser" brands. Their clothing detergent is fine. So are all their cleaning supplies, including spot remover for clothing (which also works on carpets). And their garbage bags are fine, too---13 kitchen bags with drawstring for $1.
Their dish detergent might be inferior, but that's only because it's not the "ultra-concentrated" variety.
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Jimbo
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Many store brand cola drinks seem to have deciphered Coke's formula & are selling it under their own name for much cheaper. You can barely, if at all taste the difference. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Coke is bottling their own product & putting generic names on it because sales of name brand soda have dipped as their prices have gone up & they need to make up the lost revenue.
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Tiz
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^^ Pepsi products have gone through the roof also. I remember a 2 liter went for a buck and you could catch them on sale for around 79 cents. Now they cost almost 2 bucks. I get the store brand equivalent of Mt Dew for about 90cents.
All paper(like napkins)and cleaning products I buy are generic. I also mix my own window and bleach cleaning solutions.
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regulus
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While working for a Temp Agency I was sent to a Factory that made Laundry Detergent. I was placed on a line that packaged the detergent as a generic brand. Behind me was another line for a Store Brand (Farmer Jacks) and behind them another line for a National Brand (Purex). ALL THREE LINES CAME FROM THE SAME SOURCE! The Generic brand was $2.00 CHEAPER than Purex, while the store brand was $1.00 Cheaper than Purex. Ever since I learned this "secret" I always buy the generic brand. A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned!
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PaWolf
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^^^Reg - you are correct.
When MissyDWolf and Self wasted our off-hours by working 'day-pay' jobs in Albany (which we did almost every opportunity for YEARS), we ONCE got a Pepsi plant job. We got to see their bottling process in detail as our assignment was to find a single metal spray injector attachment that came loose while filling a 'Pepsi' bottle line (other lines handled the other Pepsi products).
We inspected a bunch of crates, along with a nukmber of others, for about six (6) hours before MissyDWolf herself, grabbed the 'Golden Ring' and produced the 'ready-for-market' bottle.
We tried to buy the bottle on the spot - there was NO way that was going to happen.
The point here is that all these bottles came from ONE line.
Not all of them were PEPSI - some were regional, affordable brands - which were nothing more than Pepsi.
We will readily purchase off-brands of many things, when the opportunity is presented.
However, there are a number of things we will NOT.
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Thor
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Walmart has two kinds of milk---the regional brand (Berkeley Farms) and their own brand (Great Value). The Berkeley Farms stuff is at least 50% more per gallon than the Walmart milk. In fact, I think it's more than that. I always wonder what would possess someone to buy the more expensive milk.
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PaWolf
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Even though I generally refuse to enter the parking lot of a Y'all-Mart, I understand what you are saying - but I have a challenge for you, that should lead you to wonder...have you ever noticed the 'cheap milk' expiration dates can often be MUCH later than that of the 'high-priced' milk? Heck, I'm seen cheap milk that has damned near an expiration date almost a month later than 'regular' milk.
What gives?
What is the magical addititive we don't want to know about?
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Jimbo
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Walmart's "GV" milk is more expensive than Aldi's.
GV is around $3.50 a gallon while Aldi's is $2.99 a gallon. If you drink a lot of milk & have an Aldi's nearby, it would be worth your while to go buy your milk there. |
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Thor
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Nope, no Aldi's.
But wow! I pay about $2.45/gallon for the Great Value stuff. And that's only if I'm not going to the local discount supermarket, where I pay $2.28/gal.
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Most grocery stores around here get about $3.65 a gallon for milk.
Given the apparent price level difference around your area, if there WAS an Aldi's around there, it would probably be around $1.99 a gallon. |
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Thor
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Hmmm...per Wikipedia, Aldi's owns Trader Joe's in the US. We have plenty of those around here. But they're not a discount sort of supermarket.
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regulus
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Another place I worked at as a Temp was Hawaiian Tropic. In additional to their (Grossly) Overpriced Sunscreen Products they make A LOT of Generic Brands, Including CVS, Walgreen, Great Value (Wal-Mart) and Publix, among others. The Difference between them and the "Hawaiian Tropic" Brand? Just an added ingredient that give HT that "Coconut" Smell, and a $5.00 Price Difference!
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PaWolf
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Aldi's is one of our regular haunts.
Just about everything there is as good as anything you can get from anywhere else;..except their 'SALSA'!!! It is made somewhere in central Kansas, I believe - and is the same crap, laced with macaroni and other unnatural products, that we were forced to feed on back in 2nd grade.
It probably is mass-distributed to all grade schools in one-horse, corn-fed, north Americo small towns, to this day.
If *this* is the same introduction to 'ethnic diversity' *we* received as young American chilluns, well - it is wrong, I tell ya! *I* say Aldi's need to pull the macaroni crap and introduce healthy servings of jalepenos. THAT will open out lil'whitey-chilluns eyes to 'the ways of the world'.
There may be some tears, possibly the occasional 'sh*t-storm', but the kids will learn more about 'diversity' and possibly appreciate more at a younger age. Aldi's could become a 'national hero' chain, doncha know.
Maybe they could also introduce the African Dung Beetle as a healthy alternative to the standard flour cookie, next.
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Jimbo
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Their produce isn't very good either.
But for frozen, canned & packaged foods, their stuff is well up to par & noticeably cheaper. |
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JimAyzing
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We mostly buy the store brands or local brands as much as possible. Some things, we will get that are named brand is Pepsi/ Coke Cola. I make my own salsa and everyone loves it. Thought about selling it :).
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I don't drink soda as much as I used to, but I've had the generic Wal-Mart soda at cookouts or various parties. Can't really tell the difference unless you look at the label.
I do buy generic store medicines, and save a good $2-3 in the process. In many cases, it's just as effective as using something like Dayquil. With foods, however, I have to have name brand...there is a noticeable difference there, and it's usually no contest... |
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Thor
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Sometimes, I'll buy the famous brand instead of the store brand if the price difference is only a few cents. At my supermarket, a 12-pack of generic orange soda is $2.88, while Sunkist is only $2.98. I'll buy the Sunkist 'cause the cans are prettier, and buying "the expensive stuff" makes me feel more like a member of the bourgeoisie.
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When it comes to soda, there is a difference, but only in Coke vs everything else. In one of my marketing classes we had a challenge where we blind tasted Coke, Pepsi, RC, and generic cola. No one could get all 4 correct, but nearly everyone was able to pick Coke out of the line up. Generic cola is more generic Pepsi then generic Coke. I thought I could taste the difference but even I was wrong. No one could name RC, Pepsi, or generic correctly out of the line up because they all roughly taste the same.
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Thor
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^ Not that this is necessarily relevant to it, but did people say which ones they preferred? Or was it just a test to determine if they could tell the difference?
I think it's all a matter of what you get used to. I noticed this with cheese puffs (like Cheetos) a long time ago. When I first tried an off-brand version of Cheetos, they tasted wrong. But before long, they started tasting right. I realized the two just tasted different from one another. Neither was what I'd call "better". After that, I just started buying whatever brand was cheaper, fully realizing that whatever brand I bought would probably taste different from the last brand I bought.
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Thor
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Another one is clothing detergent. I've never noticed that any brand got my clothes cleaner than any other. In fact, I'll bet plain water is 90% responsible for getting dirt outta your clothes.
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I dunno about that^^^, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Coke-aholic. I could drink Coca Cola all day everyday & never tire of it & actually was doing so for awhile there. But since the price of a 2 liter bottle went up to almost 2 bucks & the multi-pack cans & bottles did the same, I've started buying (only once a week now) the grocery store brand cola & I gotta tell ya... if it's not EXACTLY the same, it has gotten DAMNED CLOSE. Close enough to satisfy me, anyway. I know just a few years ago, generic cola had a funky taste, but I believe that possibly since then, computer technology has enabled testing labs to very accurately analyze & separate the contents & amount of each to a very accurate degree, so that "secret formulas" just aren't very secret anymore. I think maybe Coke's recipe is now known & is being quietly & unceremoniously copied by generic makers... OR... as I think I opined here recently.... they may even be bottling their own product under various generic names to make up for lost revenue due to their price increases. That's probably not very likely, but then again, you never know... Anyway, here where I live generic Coke is now just as good as "The Real Thing". |
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Well, the water obviously is the main requirement because it dissolves everything. Water is a natural solvent, but there are a few basic & necessary ingredients that all detergents have in common, like alkyloids, phosphates, glycols, boric acid compunds, etc. If you just washed your clothes in plain water they'd come out stiff & still have stains & odors, etc. Especially with all these synthetic fibers they use nowadays. |
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The store I shop at has store brand frozen pizzas that absolutely beat the hell out of Tombstone/Red Baron/DiGiorno, and are bigger for about half the price.
Napkins, paper towels, toilet paper, etc. - I never buy these name brand products either, especially considering how outrageously high some of their prices can be compared to store brand. |
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Most store brand frozen pizzas are OK, but the prices of them have gotten too high. Back when you could get them for $3.49 I used to buy them all the time. Now I can get a Red Baron on sale for cheaper than the store brands. BTW.... if you have a Walmart Super Center nearby, check out Jack's frozen pizza.... Sooooooooo good & only 3 bucks!!!!! |
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