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?

Bazz

23rd Mar 2017 08:24pm

Too much choice? Are you kidding me??? Ever been to the USA? The smallest of their supermarkets is bigger than our city supermarkets with Tonnes of Choices that will send all those 'Choice Whingers' into some kind of nervous breakdown, I'm sure. If you are on a diet, have food allergies, will only buy certified organic, certified Halal or any other of a growing number of narrow categories, then you will appreciate having Any choice. You silly people don't need to go out & try every single item in the supermarket & if You don't like it, lobby the supermarket to cut their range. How stupid! I vote we have far more brand names from all over the place & if anything, get rid of supermarket private labels. Most of us can remember a time when we were told, "this is all we have, so you can eat what everyone else does or jolly well leave"! We should support being surrounded with an abundance of goods, which has traditionally been viewed as prosperity & smash the genocidal policy of Austerity before it crushes us all to death.

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