Is too much choice an issue and how do you decide what to buy?

Posted by: looklively

22nd Mar 2017 11:05am

Coles and Woolies are following Aldi's lead and cutting the number of product lines they stock as a result of customers finding that too much choice is stressful. So what do you think? - How do you feel about having less choice in the supermarket? What would you do if your usual brand was no longer available? Would you prefer more or fewer brands to choose from? Does having too many brands to choose from make it harder to decide? When you are faced with a wide range of products to choose from, how you make your decision?

jvanes

23rd Mar 2017 12:22pm

Too much choice is not an issue for me. The supermarkets are trying to force us to buy their no name inferior foreign-made products by narrowing the choice and claiming they are helping us by reducing our choices is nonsense. I used to do all my weekly grocery shop at one supermarket, now I split it between Coles, Woolworths, local green grocers, health food stores and IGA to find the brands I want and if that doesn't work I contact the company making the brands and find out where I can buy them or order them online. I make my decision on the ingredients and read all the labels carefully as I am a vegetarian and only eat healthy food. It is particularly frustrating when I find a healthy vegetarian product and it disappears from the shelves and it happens more and more often.

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