No Name Products

Over here we have no name products in our stores or store brand. They're cheaper & no difference or not much difference in quality.

I'm not trying to be dumb, just wondering if the UK or other countries have them too.

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When you say "no name" do you mean the product's name or that of the manufacturer ? If the latter I don't think we have those but I have seen tins without labels for sale and you take pot luck what's in them.

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I think Supermarkets here have 'Own Brands' or 'Basic Value' products - not sure.

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As Silver Tabby has stated, usually cheaper and many are just as good but some leave something to be desired. Trial and error is the way. The Main supermarkits had it there own way for a long time, however with discount stores on the rise they are now starting to try and grab back some of the lost trade.

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some of the supermarkets own brand is good, but you have to watch the prices as well, some are not cheaper than brand makes.

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I go to Tescos and they sell non branded tins of peas, beans etc.
They cost say 23p instead of about 50p for Heinz beans. I prefer
the Heinz so pay more for them. I like what I eat and I don't try
and get cheap food, that's something I wont skimp on. You are
what you eat as they say.
So Autumn I think the question you asked is yes we do here in England.

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We have them in spades here. The local supermarkets have their own brands, indeed they have a really cheap one in very plain packaging and a slightly more expensive one in a rip off of a manufacturer's package.

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We've been going over to different makes of some of the basics we buy for years now and at the moment it's mainly from ALDI although we still occasionally use LIDL too.

Some of the big supermarket "Basics" or "Own Brand" types are a bit of a let-down we've found but usually the ones that we do buy in ALDI are excellent and often better than big-name-brands or I should perhaps say, as far as our tastes are concerned; we don't live on tinned foods!

There are a few things where we do still by the big name brands because it is often a question of that taste with us but that's not just tinned foods of course.

Some of the things we see in supermarkets now are quite intriguing and we recently tried African products in a meal which were absolutely lovely as far as I'm concerned, although my wife found it too spicy and we regularly buy Polish / Eastern-European, Spanish and German foodstuffs. stevmk2

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Thanks everyone, you got what I meant so that covers food items. What about items in the pharmacy, hair care, bed sheets, etc etc.

WalMart here has their 'Equate' brand name which covers a number of dry goods products whereas food items are called 'Great Value'.

In the grocery stores, one chain of markets called No Frills which is already cheaper than some fancier grocery stores, has their own trademark 'No Name' products. Their packaging is yellow with black writing.

At No Frills, you pack your own groceries in bags you buy for ¢5 each or bring your own.

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I had a cousin who worked in the factory of a large food concern here and I remember asking her about this, she said the same food went into the brand packets as went into the non brand packets, absolutely no difference except for the price, but they were not supposed to tell anyone about it.