Own Brand/Shop Brand Products That Are As Good As The Posh Stuff

[Drago]

Tesco carpet cleaner - doesn't foam like Vanish but does an equally excellent job.

 

[Emanresu]

This company makes a lot of them.

https://www.mcbride.co.uk/

 

[Accy cyclist]

Stockwell instant coffee, which is Tesco's 'smart price/budget coffee, to me is far better than those 5 quid a jar fancy ones. It's strong in taste and caffeine which is all I require!! 🧐

 

[Psamathe]

It can be almost a continuum from Branded through own brands to badge engineered.

I regard things as a price/quality balance. For the same item some brands cost more because eg they have QA people in the factory making the product, they specify higher quality materials, they have a reputation to maintain and they will honour warranty more readily and offer better post-sales service.

I'm sometimes very uncertain about own brands though it depends on the brand. Even when product made in same factory, I'd expect a Waitrose <x> to be cost more better quality than an Lidl <x> if only because their target customer base if different and they fulfil a different market sector for price/performance.

Badge engineered product I'll avoid as far as possible. They are all over Amazon, often from Chinese companies and identical product at different price with a different name stuck on the item and you can be sure that 2 days after getting the product it will fail and the supplier will be long gone by then.

Ian

 

[Accy cyclist]

Not only Tesco coffee, but their dark chocolate digestive biscuits, their olive oil spread, their marmite alternative, their weetabix alternative and their bread are all as good as branded names, but it's not just Tesco. I suppose most supermarket own brands are on a par with well known brands.🤔 Maybe they aren't to the growing numbers of live to eat types, but being an eat to live type I'm happy with shops own brands.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Costco own brand Kirkland
Aren't some items produced by top-level brands?
Eg; their batteries are Duracell?

 

[Psamathe]

Not only Tesco coffee, but their ... and their bread are all as good as branded names

Must be a lot of personal taste as I always found Tesco in-store bakery bread very squidgy - too like white sliced bread (regular square slices and in plastic bags., Waitrose in-store bakery bread far better but also Morrison's bin-store bakery bread can be excellent as well.

Very dependent on product and taste. I love Kejap Manis (and have it on far too many meals) but only like the branded version sold in Sainsbury (which is called Kicap Manis). Waitrose, Tesco, etc. own brands are horrible.

Ian

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'd expect a Waitrose <x> to be cost more better quality than an Lidl <x>

The triumph of marketing and branding over reality

 

[Ming the Merciless]

COOP Maple Syrup. Fine stuff

 

[Psamathe]

The triumph of marketing and branding over reality

Depends on taste. I've certainly had similar product from different supermarkets and higher end supermarket product has tasted far better.

You even see similar within a supermarket "own brand" products where they have different "own brands" of different quality and different price and whilst I'm no "foodie" even I can taste the difference.

Ian

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Depends on taste.

It’s subjective and not divorced from your perceptions of what you’d expect. Blind taste testing has repeatedly shown that people really can’t tell which is the leading brand or most expensive in most cases.

 

[cyberknight]

MIL used to work at the biccie factory and confirmed much of the own brand stuff came down the same lines as the branded alternative .

 

[Drago]

Stockwell instant coffee, which is Tesco's 'smart price/budget coffee, to me is far better than those 5 quid a jar fancy ones. It's strong in taste and caffeine which is all I require!! 🧐

Duly noted, I'll give that a go.

The Lidl's gold instant coffee isn't bad either.

 

[Dirk]

ALDI Fruit and Fibre.
Prefer it to the Kellogg version.

 

[Drago]

Waitrose, Tesco, etc. own brands are horrible.

waitrose scotch eggs, paerticularly the posh ones with the runny yolk, are to die for 💌