When you go to the grocery store do you buy name brands or generic brands?

My fil once worked for a factory that canned vegetables. They had several different labels, one name brand and the others were store brand labels. He said it's common practice that the name brand is the same of many store brands. I usually try store brands and if I find something I don't like then I go with a name brand. Many many times the store brand is better. Many many times the store brands have less additives and chemicals, which I find interesting. But maybe that is one of the ingredients that makes name brands to expensive?

i buy all the generic brands or store brands that i can. so far i have been pleased w/most everthing i have bought. if i don't like it i don't buy it anymore. the only thing i can think of that i didn't like was some spaghetti sauce.

I buy generic in most everything. If you compare the ingredients of the generic item to the ingredients of the name brand, you will almost always find that they are exactly the same. I believe that when you buy name brand you are only spending more money to cover the costs of a fancier label or package and the higher cost that name brands spend on advertising. Generic pain killers have the same ingredients and work just as well as name brand. Generic foods often have the same ingredients and taste the same or just as good as the name brand version. I have proved people in my family wrong who say otherwise by putting the generic equivalent of certain products into the name brand containers and I kid you not, no one ever knew the difference. Save your money, buy generic.

when i go to the grocery store it depends weather i get name brand or off brand. if its like cheese or something i have to get kraft. i do not like the off brand cheese it just do not taste right to me. but most everything else i do not really mind. except for when it comes to cereal. i always get the name brand and not the off brand. but other that that i am not to picky.

I think it depends on the food product. I'm sure everyone knows that there are some products that are worth more because they are better, but I don't think anyone wants to pay twice as much for a smaller box of cereal, so when it comes down to it, I think people would buy generic, but you have to think of quality as well as quantity!

I'm the opposite of you in a way. I usually buy name brand medicine that ive used and trusted, but for food i buy generic and if it tastes terrible then ill buy brand. I do this because im paranoid about medication and i could care less about what food gets inside of me. xD

It depends on what I'm getting whether I'll get the store brand or the name brand. Most of the store brands are just as good as the name brand and the only difference is that it costs a whole lot less for it. I do prefer Campbells cream soups over the store brand ones, that's about the only thing where I really notice a huge difference. Other items that I buy name brand only would be Mayo (has to be Hellman's lol) and margarine. If the margarine is for use on bread or cookies, I'll use name brands, but if it's just for using in other baking and stuff, then generic works just as well. I buy more store brand stuff than name brand. It's just not worth it to waste the money on a name brand when the taste is often just as good.

Whenever I go to the grocery store, I would buy things that I am familiar with and have been using regularly. For example, I am using a Darlie toothpaste for brushing my teeth. I would not buy any other brands because I am already comfortable with this brand. I use Laurier sanitary napkins and will never buy any other else. If it is not in the store I went, I would go to another store to find for it. I think many of the stuff that I am loyal is the personal care products. As for other things I think I am not that choosy. For example I will buy whatever cooking oil there are in the store, as long as it is the cheapest in price. Usually I will go to the Tesco Hypermarket because I can get a lot of cheap groceries in there. I think for food there is not much difference in it. The food tastes a bit delicious if the price is higher, I guess. But for personal care products, like soap and detergents it is important for me to get the usual ones because I can know there is a huge difference between the cheap ones and the more expensive ones.

Everytime I buy something especially for foods, I always look at the brand names and buy those product which I know has a nice quality and were tested. I just want to be very careful in buying especially for foods. Have you heard about the melanine in milk issues? Many died and hospitalized because the milk that they bought contained melanine. So we better be careful in buying.

happy mylotting

Usually when my mother does the grocery shopping she buys name brand things on most things,but on other things she buys generic brands because they are just as good as name brands,and we used to buy a lot of Pepsi and other name brand sodas,but now we buy stuff like Cola and Sams Choice because it is just as good as Pepsi only a little cheaper since food prices are so high,and it is good to save money whenever you can.