http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/03/16/store-brand-vs-name-brand/ Where finance and reality meet Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:34:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/03/16/store-brand-vs-name-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Thomas Johannsen Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:39:39 +0000 http://www.suburbandollar.com/?p=553#comment-392 Hi from Germany! I have read your post and it is interesting to see how deep this "Brand Name" thing is rooted. I know from the german Aldi that 25-30% of their "No Brands" are in the truth "Brand Names"!Why? Because nearly every producer of food or nonfood is interested to be productive to 100%. So they sell their products with little changes in the recipes for a different taste to Aldi, and not only to them. As higher the number of pieces they produce as lower are the costs per piece! Sometimes they founded "new" companys for this kind of products. For example (Germany):Diapers-Aldi name/Cien is from Pampers, Grillsauces- Aldiname/Kim is from Nestle, Kitchenpaper/Toilettpaper is from Kleenex and these are only a few worldwide operating companys. In former years only people with a lower income bought at Aldi. But in the last years it is a kind of a lifestyle to buy things with a good quality for low prices there. Its smart and clever. You have more money left for really important things. Sorry for this long post! ;-)) Hi from Germany!
I have read your post and it is interesting to see how deep this “Brand Name” thing is rooted. I know from the german Aldi that 25-30% of their “No Brands” are in the truth “Brand Names”!Why? Because nearly every producer of food or nonfood is interested to be productive to 100%. So they sell their products with little changes in the recipes for a different taste to Aldi, and not only to them. As higher the number of pieces they produce as lower are the costs per piece! Sometimes they founded “new” companys for this kind of products. For example (Germany):Diapers-Aldi name/Cien is from Pampers, Grillsauces- Aldiname/Kim is from Nestle, Kitchenpaper/Toilettpaper is from Kleenex and these are only a few worldwide operating companys. In former years only people with a lower income bought at Aldi. But in the last years it is a kind of a lifestyle to buy things with a good quality for low prices there. Its smart and clever. You have more money left for really important things.
Sorry for this long post! )

]]> http://www.suburbandollar.com/2009/03/16/store-brand-vs-name-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Aryn Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:16:59 +0000 http://www.suburbandollar.com/?p=553#comment-187 I have another caveat to store brand items - crushed tomatoes if you make your own marinara. I've found that the store brand version has much more water, which results in a watery sauce. Other tomato variations don't seem to have this problem - since you can drain the water out of those! I have another caveat to store brand items – crushed tomatoes if you make your own marinara. I’ve found that the store brand version has much more water, which results in a watery sauce. Other tomato variations don’t seem to have this problem – since you can drain the water out of those!

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