Chris Hobson
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
When I was a nipper my mum used to do her big weekly shop at a Spar supermarket in Hornsea. One week she decided to spurn Kellogs and bought the Spar brand cornflakes. These turned out to be similar to the flaked maize that were fed to sheep. That was back in the 1970s, nowadays supermarket brand stuff is as good and often better than branded stuff and usually about half the price. I have worked in a factory where identical products were put into different boxes depending on who was claiming to have made them. I have also had a bizarre conversation with a work colleague who wouldn't buy supermarket brands because he thought that the checkout girl would be judging him for being a cheapskate. I doubt that the checkout girls give a second's thought to the stuff that they are checking out, but if they did they might just as likely be judging him for paying twice as much for his stuff than he had to. There are exceptions. Bath bubbles, the Radox stuff is more expensive but is far more concentrated so it is better value. Being a vegetarian I sometimes buy Quorn products which are unique. Otherwise it is supermarket brands every time.
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