[Closed] Supermarket brands?

tescos cornflakes, really cant tell the difference and half the price.

[i]All[/i] own brand cereal tastes the same as branded stuff. It's cereal, not gourmet food!! (Except for Aldi weetabix - tastes weird, I assume that's cos it's made for the European palette or whatever).

friend of the wife works for weetabix, and often deals with invoices to sainsbury and tescos for thier own brand version.

Aldi bunched carrots come from the same farm as Saisbury's bunched carrots. Aldi are half the Sainsbury's price. I also recommend their crisps, biscuits, washing up liquid, dishwasher/laundry detergent, rechargeable batteries, freshly squeezed OJ, free-range chicken, and the white burgundy they do for £5.

Tesco bran flakes are rotten, just for the record.

I'm a big Aldi fan though, their baked beans are second only to Branston (which are often cheaper on promotion anyway) IMO.

One of our ex-clients does the cheap supermarket fizzy drinks, for Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and a couple of others - pretty sure it's identical apart from the label. On a factory tour they went through the costs, think the bottle was 1p (2 litre), drink was 1p, their profit was 1p and transport costs were something like 8p (not sure what supermarkets sell it at). They also did some premium stuff (mostly still supermarket branded though) and the only difference was the contents cost 2-3p.

Aldi's business model of just selling 1 of each product and thus striving to make sure its the best they can source for a competetive price is a far superior way of working.

It still makes me laugh that people think supermarkets own factories that make food. But then its similar in the mountain bike world. Take full face helmets for one, strip off the graphics and there are only so many models being made of which a lot are the same.

I live near a cake factory that makes M&S, GU, Asda, tesco, sainsburys etc cakes (and it has a very cheap factory shop too!)