Off Brand vs Name Brand

[Nebulous]

Which do you buy more of?



Is there some products that you just have to have a certain brand of?

 

[Rapunzel]

For food I generally buy brand products simply because own-brand taste like shyte. Take Special K cereal - it's four pounds per box but Asda's (Walmart's) own brand is about $1.20 (I've lost my pound sign which is why I used dollar sign

) So I bought 3 boxes of Asda's stuff, which was hard and tasteless, so chucked all boxes out after one bowl!



I buy own brand if I know it. Sainsburys own-brand spaghetti/ beans/ meatballs ($0.30 per tin) taste much better than Heinz ($1.00 per tin) and the kids prefer the Sains. varieties.



For clothes shopping, I NEVER buy brand names. I buy the kids shoes and trainers from The Shoe Shop which is about $15.00 every 3-6 months depending on how well they last. My nephew insists on $100 Reeboks or Nike, but they still only last for 3-6 months. Why spend so much?

 

[Durandal]

Heinz makes spaghetti and meatballs, lol? Special K - I think that stuff is hard and tasteless even name brand.



As for me, I typically don't buy name brand when it makes sense - sometimes the name brands do squeak in and make things cheaper. I just go by whatever is the cheapest by unit.

 

[StevenF50]

Whatever tastes best

If you try some of the cheaper stuff sometimes you find you like it more than the expensive stuff but not often.

 

[Cranos]

Off brand products are pretty good in the supermarket I go to so I buy more of that.



When it comes to coke and beer I need my own brand though.

 

[Jazzy]

Most often than not, I buy name brand products. I get a lot of coupons in the mail and on websites so the name brand winds up sometimes cheaper than the off brand. I also buy in bulk so I get even more bang for my buck doing that.

 

[The Dragon Master]

I tend to get brand often than not. Especially when I comes to Pepsi Max. I can't drink own brand coke/imposters of Pepsi Max XD

 

[Dennis]

I always get name brand food, because i like the taste of them. The placebo effect would kick in if i bought anything else. Even if it was alright tasting i would find it disgusting.

 

[Evil Eye]

Whatever is cheapest most of the time

 

[Nebulous]

Forget brand loyalty to a particular product, supermarkets are attempting to build store loyalty. By creating high quality store brand products at lower prices, supermarkets are aiming to capture customer loyalty. That is not always the case in every product or at every super market chain, but you'd be surprised.



Also there is a thing called Private labeling. Private label products are manufactured by the brand-name company under another company's brand. Its the same exact food in the can or box, just with a different label, typically the store's brand.

 

[Rapunzel]

Forget brand loyalty to a particular product, supermarkets are attempting to build store loyalty. By creating high quality store brand products at lower prices, supermarkets are aiming to capture customer loyalty. That is not always the case in every product or at every super market chain, but you'd be surprised.



Also there is a thing called Private labeling. Private label products are manufactured by the brand-name company under another company's brand. Its the same exact food in the can or box, just with a different label, typically the store's brand.

Asda (Walmart) used to do that. They'd put well-known brands into Asda tins and boxes and they'd be labelled as the value range, so you had good quality food at very cheap prices. For some reason that changed and they now put disgusting-tasting food in their value range.

Sainsburys have a value range of beans and meatballs etc which have a nice tomatoey-flavour which the kids like, whereas Heinz, I find, have quite a salty flavour. Also, brand meatballs tend to be small and hard, like bullets, and again, salty (which might help preservation of the product, but there is too much salt in preserved food which is not good for people's health). Sainsburys meatballs are larger and softer for kids to chew and they're more flavoursome.



Store loyalty is a big thing. Again with Sainsburys they have wider aisles and when you get to the checkouts the girls are friendly and chatty. I know they're told to but it does make a difference when someone is nice to you. When I lived in London and my kids were very small, the only person who talked to me all day was the girl on the till in Waitrose and even then she only said Hello. For people on their own with no one to talk to, it must be a God-send to have someone who will chat to them, however briefly, just to take away the loneliness.

 

[Durandal]

Speaking of store loyalty...Publix = Awesome.