Comments on: Name Brand or Store Brand?

By: Bard

Bard — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:21:27 +0000

It depends.

Name-brand peanut butter is distinctly better than store brand at my usual store — smoother and less separatey — so I get it. Pasta is the same to my family, so I get the cheaper ones.

Store-brand milk is just as good as other kinds, as far as I can tell. Store-brand lemon juice gets nasty after a while and name-brand doesn’t, so I get the name brand and don’t fret about the preservatives that must be in it.

And so on.

By: Doug\

Doug\ — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:36 +0000

ShopRite espresso — didn’t even know they sold that! It’s incredible how much cheaper the store brand stuff is. Especially when it comes to cereal and stuff you eat all the time. I’ll have to try that salsa.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:39:51 +0000

Oh, and ShopRite espresso, believe it or not. For the price of one barista-made, you get a couple week’s worth and it’s not bad!

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:32:01 +0000

Sometimes I even go out of my way for the store brand — and I’m not talking Trader Joe’s!

Try ShopRite salsa sometime (you find it with the Goya stuff). You get a huge jar for much less than of the price of those tiny name brand ones and I used way too much salsa to worry about mangos and other fancy ingredients.