Home Brand vs Named Brand

Posted by: looklively

19th Mar 2013 03:00pm

Are there brands that you used to buy that are no longer in your local supermarket? What do you think of all these 'home brands'? Are they just as good as the named brands, are they cheaper, or are you still hankering after something in particular that just seems to have disappeared from the shelves? Give us your opinion.

Emae

12th Apr 2015 11:00am

I choose only a few home brand items from Coles or Woolworths for specific recipes I use in cooking, as I find these home brand products I choose are ok or equal to other well known brands for the reason I need them.
Other than that, I don't buy home brands for any other reason as I find a large variety of them are awful in taste, quality, colour, ingredients used & being imported which I find difficult to trust due to child labour/environment factors etc in the countries of import due to mass production or chemicals used...

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