Shopping Habits and Own Brands

loftie said:
GW still exist.

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Ah, I can get to one of those locations! Might pop by on the way back from work. Hope they're still good :)

EDIT: Oh they're on Amazon too... result!
 
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Narj said:
Ah, I can get to one of those locations! Might pop by on the way back from work. Hope they're still good :)

EDIT: Oh they're on Amazon too... result!
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I used to love the spring onion flavour as a kid and then they vanished (parents used to own a sandwich shop). I've not tried to get any though, I feel like they'll have been "new and improved" and it'll ruin my childhood!

jon86 said:
We buy 90% of our groceries from one of several local ALDI stores near us. We get the rest from our local Costco or Walmart store. We only buy a few branded items, like Happy Blue Eggs (from Costco), Kerrygold butter when it's discounted at Costco, Humm kombucha (from Costco), and some toiletry products that we find to be better (shampoo, body wash, toothpaste, etc). I use a particular toothpaste that is made in Singapore that I buy on Amazon, as well as a Celtic sea salt that's also from Amazon.

My parents still live in the UK and when they come to visit, they always remark how different ALDI US stores are to the UK equivalent. Some products sold by ALDI US seem to be better and cheaper than ALDI UK, but some other products are just not available, so it's a mixed bag.
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I was going to say your Aldi might be the other Aldi to the UK one, but apprently it's not! UK and US both have Aldi Sud, Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's though

 
sidimmu said:
Bubblebath....
The big branded ones are basically now either same price or 10p more than own brand stuff. But you get better smells, longer lasting and typically more ML too.

I will buy own brand not because its own brand, but because its generally best price or just where im shopping.
I typically go Asda but got Lidls' aldi's and everything else around, can change it up each week.
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There's only a few posts here mentioning chemical based products, i think they got forgotten as they're extremely relevant. I imagine it's hard to skimp on chemicals and undercut branded goods, and still perform well. Whereas a lot of unbranded foods often have different ingredients to their competition.

I still use Fairy, the big bottle is value for money for me. Same applies for toiletries, except toothpaste, all branded stuff when on sale, and i bulk buy to avoid being caught out with full price.

413x said:
Yes.
So I went milk free a while ago and went to soya milk.
Now, I don't even like dairy milk in my tea. My taste has been changed over time and I actually prefer soya milk!
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Tesco is still 50p for a carton btw (Aldi matching). I only use it on porridge, oat mostly for coffee. Whilst i love cheese and butter, i never went back to milk when i finished my vegan demo run.
 
The_Arbiter said:
There's only a few posts here mentioning chemical based products, i think they got forgotten as they're extremely relevant. I imagine it's hard to skimp on chemicals and undercut branded goods, and still perform well. Whereas a lot of unbranded foods often have different ingredients to their competition.

I still use Fairy, the big bottle is value for money for me. Same applies for toiletries, except toothpaste, all branded stuff when on sale, and i bulk buy to avoid being caught out with full price.



Tesco is still 50p for a carton btw (Aldi matching). I only use it on porridge, oat mostly for coffee. Whilst i love cheese and butter, i never went back to milk when i finished my vegan demo run.
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Yeah I like the unsweetened on my cereal. But I do prefer the alpro sweatened in my tea. But I only buy it when it's on offer!
 
413x said:
Yeah I like the unsweetened on my cereal. But I do prefer the alpro sweatened in my tea. But I only buy it when it's on offer!
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The price of non dairy milk does appear to be getting a joke also. I shudder when i see someone grab a non discounted one. We have almond have milk, but why no peanut milk! Would be much cheaper.
 
Craterloads said:
I think ketchup is one always buy Heinz, tried a few alternatives over the years but not found anything decent.
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I think that used to be the case but I tried some Morrisons own band ketchup the other day and I can't tell the difference on food.

I haven't tried them side by side, but why should I? I have no loyalty to Heinz.

If it needs a blind taste test to tell the difference, then it doesn't matter because the difference can't be that great
 
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buy a lot of own brand stuff. the price of branded is just a plain rip off a lot of the time. the extra money is just going into the companies pockets , certainly not the quality of the product
 
Narj said:
Has anyone who started buying supermarket own-brands in the past couple of years reverted to buying the big brands now that inflation is supposedly dropping?

I found good own-brand alternatives for pretty much everything apart from mayonnaise when prices went crazy and I don't see myself going back what with the cost savings.

I no longer buy anything Heinz because I perceive them as a greedy, profiteering scumbag company now. It's not like I can't afford it - it's just the principle of it. Heinz Tomato soup - £1.70 a can - I mean, what the actual hell? Alternatives between 50-70p are just as good IMO.

I've noticed that even M&S, Co-Op and Waitrose do reasonably priced own brand stuff.

I'd love to see some data on consumer habits when it comes to this - it's definitely being monitored what with all the loyalty scheme cards.

It'd be interesting to see what peoples' best alternatives are for popular items now. I was told that some Polish ketchup (google suggests maybe Pudliszki) is a good shout but need to drag myself to the Polski Sklep to get some. :)
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I remember the supermarket own brand Beans price war in the 90s. Tesco reached 3p a can and I’d swear they were watered down Heinz
 
Tesco value range wasn't good when i worked at the bakery ,they would stack freebees up on the table in the canteen and no offence to them but even the Bulgarians wouldn't take it (they tended to fill their bags up, pretty selfish yeh ? ) as I've said Waitrose was tops followed by Tesco finest we also did some Cadburys under licence .
Basically we were the cheap labour to keep the costs down, they would constantly nibble away at our profit margins with the threat to take business else where , went under in the end
 
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