Generic vs. Brand Name

I like to do my grocery shopping at Meijer and I will say that 95% of the time I will interchange their store brand for a name brand and no one notices the difference.  I am not very brand loyal in most things, I just buy what is cheapest.

It depends on the item for me ... I'm pretty brand loyal but one local store (Superstore) has a house brand called President's Choice that has a lot of really good products ... I especially love their spaghetti sauce   

We use brand name and generic products. We'll try generic and see if we like it. If we do, we'll stick with it. If not, we'll use the brand name.

The only things I am not even willing to even try generic for is: mayonnaise, peanut butter and soups.

Big Y is where I do most of my shopping so their brand will be the ones I use for examples. I like their: butter (it's less salty than Cabot), solid white tuna, the kids will eat the yogurt, deli meats, canned stewed tomatoes, canned peaches, canned mandarins, pasta, jarred garlic & onion pasta sauce, jarred hearty garden style pasta sauce, hamburger and hotdog rolls, bakery breads, generic Oreos, frozen broccoli and frozen cauliflower, paper goods, and bleach. We DON'T LIKE their: mac & cheese, flavored noodles or rice that comes in a pouch like the Knorr brand, plastic zipper bags, plastic wrap, granola bars, bakery muffins, bakery donuts, Pop Tarts, and saltines.

Don't forget to price check because depending on that weeks sales sometimes name brand can be cheaper so be sure to check the prices each time. Also, generic is only good if you like the taste or performance of the product.

It's definitely worth trying things out. If you are brave enough to talk to strangers in the store, when you see someone putting a generic in their carriage consider asking them what makes them like it.

It depends on the products for me too. I like the Meijer Organics, which is a store brand.

Only named brand Coffee Yuban, /Mayo Best foods/ Splenda/light house salad dressing (anytype)

For hygiene supplies we Sauve or equate Medical stuff only Equate my make up ELF/Hard candy

WE get a lot of Sams club bran stuff, Love there cook wear.

Wegmans and Aldi's have great quality items under their brand name. I used to exclusively use Dawn because all other dish soaps were inferior, but surprisingly enough, Wal-Mart's Great Value equivalent is just as good.

We generally get whatever's cheapest, but we always get Premium Saltines. No other saltine cracker will do.

I mostly shop at Kroger and I will buy many of their brand items.

I think we're 50/50. A few brand names that come to mind Tide, Best Foods Mayo, Jif Peanut Butter, Dennisons Chili, Orowheat Bread, Hidden Valley Ranch dressing, breakfast cereal and Hebrew National hot dogs.

I will try the generic brand and see how it is - sometimes I will keep buying or I may try another brand. One thing I stay with brand names is laundry products, have never found a generic that worked as well.

I used to be very brand loyal, because I only remember name products growing up (which is dumb, it's not like we had a ton of money. But maybe generics sucked then? who knows!)

Anyway, now I don't really care on most items. There are some generics I really like.  Especially organic store brands. There's a few things I'm really particular about buying SOME name brand, not a generic - namely: Body Wash (Dove or Bath & Body Works), Heinz ketchup, Saltine crackers, soda, orange juice, U by Kotex Tampons, hair stuff, peanut butter.  Hmm, that might be it? Oh....Velveeta Shells & Cheese.  

I don't really buy that many packaged food items these days, so I think that has really eliminated some of my 'need' (in my head) be brand loyal. Fruits/Veggies/Eggs don't matter to me, rice is rice to me, and who cares what brand my chicken broth is, ya know?

I'm also a meijer shopper. About half is generic, half brand name. Things I use as ingredients are usually generic while some of the stand alone (such as granola bars) are brand name. There are a few things we can tell the difference and others we cannot.