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?

Cheran

24th Mar 2017 08:22am

I think it's just an excuse for them to flog their own brands. I like my normal brands and WILL NOT buy a home brand. I would prefer more Australian-made brands on the shelves of supermarkets not less. I wonder if the supermarkets ever considered that by reducing our choice down to home brands, they are making it easier for us to turn away? If they stopped to consider maybe they'd find it's more cost-effective to have known brands on the shelves rather than pay out all that money on 'home brands'? Not happy with this situation at all. When it gets down to it, the supermarkets and their 'strategies' are the cause of Australian companies going under. Buy Australian brands so we can keep our industries going. When supermarkets introduce more 'home brand' products, like Bells Farms at Woollies, do you realise you are actually supporting DANISH industries? These products are NOT Australian made or owned.

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