Grocery Store Value Brands

[mcurphy]

Many of the store/value brands are just repackaged name brand goods. A friend of mine works for Dean Foods, and they used to make the Great Value yogurt that you find at WalMart. Same Yogurt, different package. Great Value has since moved on, and Dean's no longer produces their yogurt, but I suspect this is the same for almost all of their products. It's not like they have the resources to have their own cheese, pretzel, cereal, sugar, vegetable, etc...factories. They just pay a name brand to put product in their packaging and sell it at a cheaper price.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

another one here that says "evaluate on a per-product basis"

except for q-tips - accept no substitute

also, i find discount paper towels, toilet paper, et cetera horrible, so cough up for brawny pick-a-size, actual zip-loc bags and so forth.

 

[JoeyP]

IMHO, high end stores like Wegmans (northeast) have store brand products that are every bit as good as the national brands, and usually priced a little lower. In fact, Wegmans and Trader Joe's markets some store brand products that are difficult to find as national brand equivalents.

Warehouse clubs have some of the worst store brand bulk products. I bought a monster pack of paper towels from BJ's thinking I was getting a deal...they fell apart with the smallest amount of water. The toilet paper was almost as bad.

 

[techs]

Would you buy the value line condoms?

 

[JoeyP]

Would you buy the value line condoms?

I'd give them a shot 😱

 

[Exterous]

I know at our Kroger for example the "store" brand is usually pretty close to the national brand...the "value" brand, when I have tried it, is markedly inferior.

To us the value canned foods taste fine, at least as long as they are part of a larger dish. We get canned tomatoes, corn, mushrooms, chilies etc from the value line and haven't noticed a marked decrease in quality of the recipe they go into.

except for q-tips - accept no substitute

The Kroger ones aren't too bad. I have had some really bad ones that some how managed the tiny string of cotton + razor sharp stick edges + floppy stick center triad.

 

[waggy]

Costco-Kirkland= awesome, most of the time.

Kirkland TP is by far the best TP i have ever used.

 

[Exterous]

Kirkland TP is by far the best TP i have ever used.

Not the best TP I've ever used but amazing TP for the price

 

[xanis]

Depends on what you're getting. I personally find that I can get away with the "value" brand of things like gravy/sauces, canned vegetables, and disposable goods (napkins, paper plates, etc.).

 

[waggy]

Not the best TP I've ever used but amazing TP for the price

true. for the the price there is nothing better.

IF you wan't to spend far to much for TP you can get better. i just don't see a reason to spend a ton on TP to wipe my ass and throw away. Kirkland does a fine job at it..

it's shitty TP ..after i'm done..😀