I'm curious what store brand items you have found that are close to or identical to the name brand ones. I know a lot of big stores use name brand manufacturers to make their products (Walmart uses Sara Lee for their breads, etc.) I've heard of Aldi doing this as well as other stores that I'm less familiar wiht. What brands or products have you found to essentially be dupes?
Name Brand versus Store Brand Items
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Nearly all store brand items are fine in my opinion. I think a better question to ask would be, what name brand products are actually worth it.
Kirkland is almost always as good or better, especially on laundry pods, diapers, and dog food.
I like a lot of Members Mark items at Sam’s.
We don’t have a Costco near by, but when we lived somewhere that did I bought lots of Kirkland items.
I used to buy “Meijer” sodas. Here it’s “Lidl” brand.
There’s few “generics” that are that horrendous compared to the ones with the advertising budgets.
Even “No-Ad” sunscreen is a good product.
I’ve even had a little “Husky” tool set for years. As even the “store brand” tools can work pretty well. Ive worked in shops that used the local store brand.
I buy generic products all the time; they have come a long way since they were first introduced. I can only think of one product that I wasn’t happy with and I can’t even remember what it was😂
Aldi brand is often better than the name brand. I haven’t found anything I don’t like
For me I’m a firm believer any Oreo knock off especially vanilla once’s are just superior. Most cereal brands I can’t really tell the difference, except with Cheerios. Chips in general, I feel like chips exist in this weird market where there is not really a main brand outside your Doritos and Cheetos, it may just be I grew up on off brand but honestly I feel like they have just as popular a market and tastes the same if not better