Are grocery chain house brand products better?

[jhummel73]

I like to find ranch and nacho cheese flavored corn chips at leading grocery chains sold in the house brand. They are just as good as doritos and a lot cheaper. Harder to find the scoops in a house brand but from time to time I have seen them.

 

[jujube]

So many of the house brands are exactly the same as the brand name brands. They're made by the same company, with the same ingredients, just packaged differently.

 

[That Lady in PA]

No house brand is like Heinz Ketchup or Hellmanns Mayonnaise.


Aldi girl scout cookie clones are as good as GS cookies.

 

[Jules]

Living on the edge. The house brand All-dressed potato chips were junk compared to the name brand. You can sell me almost anything when it’s on sale. $3 vs $4. Now what I won’t buy are the other store brand products. Fool me once …

(I’m kidding myself if I won’t make the same mistake with some other product later. It’ll take a few months.)

 

[seadoug]

We have Tom Thumb here in TX and I find their Signature (house) brands to be great and less expensive than name brands.

 

[Michael Z]

It depends. Foods made proprietary blends of ingredients can be quite different.

But staples, like sugar, flour, and simple mixes are often the same item packaged in the same place using different labels. I worked in a baking supply factory one summer to see this first hand.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Some of them are a better value and some are not.

I prefer name brand black tea bags like Red Rose over the supermarket brands.

I’ll continue to experiment and buy the products that are best for me and my budget.

Scrimp on the bananas so you can splurge on the oranges.