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Originally Posted by epitome
The ironic thing is that generic (aka store brand) products are usually made in the same factories as the brand.
When you're buying brand, you're usually not paying for a better quality product, but the huge marketing budgets national brands have.
Edit: I missed U-Bob's post. Apologies.
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I think we should be careful about generalizing things. For example, my cousin works for the largest company that produces all kinds of oils (like olive oil, sunflower oil etc) in this corner of the EU. They produce a lot of stuff for different supermarkets and some supermarkets sell the exact same products under their label while others order products of a significantly lower quality. So both the high end stuff and the lower quality stuff is produced in the same factories, but there's a big difference in quality.
So some supermarkets actually take advantage of the fact that a lot of people know that their products (sold under their own label) are produced in the same factories as some of the high end brands. So people buy those products thinking they're buying the same quality for a lwoer price while they are actually buying lower quality products.