Clark Howard (radio host who specializes in saving money) has talked about the high quality of store branded goods. I’ve been sampling the major stores in my area and about the only thing I 've been disappointed in is tuna fish.
Yep, Target’s Archer Farms. Also, just Target brand almost anything.
The one Publix thing that I hated was the soy milk–far inferior to Silk brand.
Hey, Snowboarder Bo
I’m guessing you are unfamiliar with Cheerwine? If you can locate it, try it. There was a recent thread here about it.
I love cherry cokes, but not the packaged kind, I can’t stand cherry coke or pepsi. Cheerwine is awesome, it tastes like real fake cherry flavoring, distinct from artificial, chemical-tasting cherry-like additive.
Thanks, Auntie! I had forgotten all about Cheerwine. We don’t have Piggly Wiggly or Hoggly Woggly out here! I’ll look for it. If I can’t find it, our otherwise crappy local newspaper has a column for helping people finding food products.
I get the store knockoff Lucky Charms because there not covered in as much sugar as the name brand.
Is there any way for the consumer to tell who’s making it? Some secret code on the packaging?
Everything branded Marks and Spencer is better than name brand, but that’s almost cheating. Nevertheless, if there’s one thing I miss about the UK, it’s Marks and Spencer.
Many of the Wegmans store brand items are better than name brand. Their Double Stuf knockoff cookies (or “Double Woes” as we call them) are responsible for ruining my diet. To tell you the truth, I’m hard pressed to think of any Wegmans item that’s significantly worse than its name brand counterpart. Damn, now I have to go to Wegmans again.
Kirkland Brand through CostCo is the equivalent to the name brands, literally, yet it is much cheaper.
Wow. Ann Page. I haven’t thought of that brand since I was a kid. My mom used to send me across the highway to the A&P to pick up this or that. Thanks for that memory!!
I was told once that the store brand is often a name brand just re-packaged.
A friend was a manager of a Safeway supermarket and said that you can tell what name brand the store brand actually is by the packaging.
Like the Safeway brand jam is in a jar the exact same shape as the Smuckers jam. It’s actually smuckers jam just labelling it as the store brand. Or the Safeway Select ice cream is actually just Breyers.
I don’t know if its true. Just saying what I was told.
Safeway Organics ketchup is ambrosia, I can drink it straight from the bottle.