Comments on: Making the switch to store brands

By: Small Town Saver

Small Town Saver — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:01:35 +0000

A lot of times, the store-brand milk is from the exact same factory and exact same supply as the name brand–it is 100% the same milk! Our local store even posts a sign stating such. Name brand milk is marked up about 10% to pay for the marketing cost of promoting the brand. I started using store-brand of most things (yogurt, butter, bread, cereal, canned goods, pasta, etc.) but there are a few things I can’t compromise on-the biggest one being Peanut Butter. I’ll look for coupons, or buy in bulk at Sam’s Club on that one. It’s worth it.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:52:05 +0000

Though there are certain items I will buy store brand, frozen vegetables are not something I am willing to sacrifice (I’m talking about out of season vegetables, not fresh in season). Frozen & even canned, though I seldom buy canned, vegetables that are store brand either have quite bit of stalk, or stange leaves, and other oddities in them. I have tried time & time again and we are just unwilling to give up the quality. I am perfectly fine buying dairy & meat products, but not frozen/canned vegetables.

By: Monroe on a Budget » Sara Noel on trying out store brands

Monroe on a Budget » Sara Noel on trying out store brands — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:36:55 +0000

[...] Sara Noel of Frugal Village focused her column today on how to introduce store brand (generic) products into your household. You’ll find the colunm on page 3E of today’s print and e-editions of The Monroe Evening News and at Sara’s web site. [...]

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By: Sara Noel

Sara Noel — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:13:39 +0000

I shop Aldi sometimes, too. It’s about half an hour away, so I only shop there if I have other errands, so I am not making a special trip. Luckily, there’s a couple of bread outlets and two thrift stores in the same city, so I plan my Aldi trips around when I do a bread and thrift store run.

By: Sherry

Sherry — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:48:57 +0000

We do about 1/3 to 1/2 of our shopping at Aldi and use their brand of products. They have been a lot cheaper and work out great. There has been no complaints from my peanut gallery!!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:01:00 +0000

When my kids were young they got brainwashed by t.v and name brands. I bought them if I had coupons. If not I would buy store brand and put it in the name brand packages. They never noticed the diffrence so I did it all the time after that. To this day I dont think they knew what I was doing. Lol!