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My sister in law doesn't believe in buying anything less than the best known brands of everything. She's convinced your meals aren't as good a quality if your ingredients are generic. I tell her she's been brainwashed by the advertisers ROFL. I buy nearly everything in the cheapest possible version which is usually Best Choice or Always Save and only buy known brands when I don't have any choice. I save anyway and I've never had any complaints about my meals or baking.
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I'll buy the cheapest of cheap. Vegetables especially you couldn't wring an extra penny out of me for. A pea is a pea is a pea. I don't care who put it in a can or freezer bag where! There's not much I buy branded apart from deodorant for my husband. The cheap ones aren't very strong after a few hours and are a false economy because he sprays on half a can to compensate.
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The only thing I dislike buying the generic version of is corn flakes. I grew up on Kelloggs and haven't found one that tastes like it. I think the cheaper ones taste stale. Everything else I can live with and I don't think there's that great a difference at all. Your sister in law must be rich LOL.
LOL No such luck. It's silly because she could be saving a small fortune by going for the generics but I think she's scared the neighbors will see inside her kitchen cupboards ROFL. I don't mind the cornflakes but I want Frosties to be the real thing. I forgot about that.
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I'll buy the cheapest of cheap. Vegetables especially you couldn't wring an extra penny out of me for. A pea is a pea is a pea. I don't care who put it in a can or freezer bag where!
Me neither. Today I went grocery shopping and speaking of peas, the difference between a can of generic ones and a named brand was 30 cents! That's shocking when you think of it in percentages. I could have nearly bought two for the price of one.
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I want to have my money lining my own purse not the retailers. Any time I can avoid buying branded goods, I do. Isn't it strange there's almost a certain amount of snobbery associated with whether your can says Del Monte or Always Save? Those ad execs did their jobs right to convince people of that.
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I buy Charmin toilet tissue and that's my only what I'd call "luxury item" that I'd go out of my way to buy. Everything else, I want it on clearance or "buy one get one free". The discounts are never enough to make me buy name brands but if it's an exceptional deal I'll get it.
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Kiplingers had an article on how much more shoppers are buying private-label instead of a brand name in foods. The market share of brand name products has dropped as the store brands nibble away at it.
Store brand sales will jump about 10% in 2009, matching growth in 2008. Meanwhile, sales growth of name brands could end the year down a little. So far this year, unit volume sold for national name brands has fallen close to 4%, while private-label product unit volume sold is already up more than 3% over 2008. In supermarkets alone, private-label products nabbed another percentage point in market share over the past year and now make up 15%-18% of total sales.
http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/frugal_shoppe...
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I want to have my money lining my own purse not the retailers. Any time I can avoid buying branded goods, I do. Isn't it strange there's almost a certain amount of snobbery associated with whether your can says Del Monte or Always Save? Those ad execs did their jobs right to convince people of that.
It is snobbery. My sister will buy generic brands and one can of a named brand. She puts the generic ones behind the named one in case anyone opens her cupboards or sees inside them when she does LOL. I'm not kidding!
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I can almost understand it with products that have a special recipe, like Coke. The private brands need to duplicate it and don't always get it right. Vegetables, I don't at all. Walmart has improved their range of Great Value products. Their new cookies are excellent.
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I can almost understand it with products that have a special recipe, like Coke. The private brands need to duplicate it and don't always get it right. Vegetables, I don't at all. Walmart has improved their range of Great Value products. Their new cookies are excellent.
I tried them Kay and they are. You can tell the quality has been upped. I guess they have to compete harder like every other company in this recession.
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I've noticed most things don't even phase me or my family when purchased generic, although there are a few exceptions:
"Nacho cheese" (doritos) chips, Cornflakes, low-fat peanut butter and specialty flavored potato chips, so pretty much just the processed items.
Oh, and when it comes to diapers, buy the MID-GRADE diapers, rather than the cheapest of the cheap to avoid nasty leaks and spills ;)
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I can never tell, but then again I usually don't do the shopping.
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The only thing I dislike buying the generic version of is corn flakes. I grew up on Kelloggs and haven't found one that tastes like it. I think the cheaper ones taste stale. Everything else I can live with and I don't think there's that great a difference at all. Your sister in law must be rich LOL.