So you thought you had choices?

[cthulhu_waves]

Guess again.

[shake]

Basically all junk food anyway

[asdasd]

Yes, hugo boss is junk food

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by asdasd

Yes, hugo boss is junk food

way to sharp shoot, very impressive..

he's mostly right.

[Rochard]

How many of those products do you use on a daily basis? LOL.

[loreen]

Originally Posted by Rochard

How many of those products do you use on a daily basis? LOL.

Too many

[Elli]

I knew Nestle was huge, but I didn't know they owned L'oreal!

[Bladewire]

I couldn't read the small image very well so click below for the full size. You'd be surprised how many of those products are made in China or from ingredient imported from China

[bronco67]

I remember reading somewhere that Proctor and Gamble makes almost all of the laundry detergents.

And there is no Pepperidge farm with quaint country people making those great cookies. It's actually just Campbell's, the same people who make the soup.

[Failed]

I'm pretty sure the choices narrow even further than what's shown. My second job was a warehouse worker at Kraft, which was owned by Phillip Morris, the tobacco company. We even had a separate room with an advanced air filtration system so that the smokers could enjoy smoking inside the building, in their own room.

[kal86]

There is always a boss of a boss of a boss n so on.........

[asdasd]

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

way to sharp shoot, very impressive..

he's mostly right.

On that note, those companies own raytheon stock.

[garce]

If its in a box and has a corporate label on it, there's a good chance you shouldn't be buying - or consuming - it.

My mother raised me on boxed food (hence my GFY posts - make the connection!)

I have never once fed my children anything that came out of a box or a bag with a corporate label on it. Christie, Kraft, Monsanto - all the same. Same with personal hygeine products.

My kids are adults now so I don't know what they buy, but I DO know this...

They're fine. I'm nuts. I'll attribute that to growing up on Swanson TV Dinners, Schnieder's Bologna, Shopsy's Hot Dogs, Kraft Dinner and massive amounts of glorious Coca-Cola.

Put me in the ground today and I'll look just as good 100 years from now. I am preserved and pickled because convenience foods defined the late 1960s through the 1970s. I'm a walking chemical minefield.

And that does not always work out well.

[DWB]

Each and every one of those brands would be making at least 207x more money if they just gave it all away for free. Worked well for us. Has to work for them.

Originally Posted by garce

I have never once fed my children anything that came out of a box or a bag with a corporate label on it. Christie, Kraft, Monsanto - all the same. Same with personal hygeine products.

What hygiene products did you use?

[Failed]

Originally Posted by DWB

Each and every one of those brands would be making at least 207x more money if they just gave it all away for free. Worked well for us. Has to work for them.

Just for the sake of argument, I must admit that I've bought several products and continue to buy them after having a free sample offered to me in the grocery store. Otherwise, I would of never known about, nor bought their product to this day.

*Edit: Of course a sample isn't giving it "all" away for free. Just enough to get me hooked.

[DWB]

Coca-Cola's largest individual shareholder is...

Kraft's largest shareholder is...

One of P&Gs largest shareholder is...

Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett)

Talk about almost having a monopoly on foods that are literally killing you.

[DWB]

Originally Posted by Failed

Just for the sake of argument, I must admit that I've bought several products and continue to buy them after having a free sample offered to me in the grocery store. Otherwise, I would of never known about, nor bought their product to this day.

*Edit: Of course a sample isn't giving it "all" away for free. Just enough to get me hooked.

I was just being sarcastic, but those little samples they give away at the super market has led me to buying things too. Usually cookies or chips. But I guess the key word is samples.

[AdultKing]

It's interesting that in Australia the major brands are being completely pushed out by the supermarket chains (we have two big players and two small players), what the big chains are doing here is to replace brands with their own branded products.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/suppl...305-1ueg4.html

[pornmasta]

Originally Posted by shake

Basically all junk food anyway

yes, tampax is junk food...

[DatingFactory]

I don't see ManWin

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

It's interesting that in Australia the major brands are being completely pushed out by the supermarket chains (we have two big players and two small players), what the big chains are doing here is to replace brands with their own branded products.

I don't know how things work in Australia, but over here a lot of the supermarket branded stuff is actually made by the major brands.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

I don't know how things work in Australia, but over here a lot of the supermarket branded stuff is actually made by the major brands.

That used to be the case in Australia with generics, however now we have the duopoly supermarket chains taking over the whole manufacturing and supply process and cutting out the brands entirely.

Heinz recently pulled out of a few supermarket categories because they could no longer sustain the squeeze that the supermarket branded products placed on them.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/heinz...121-1nr1l.html

[Chosen]

Originally Posted by Rochard

How many of those products do you use on a daily basis? LOL.

None

[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.

[epitome]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

It's interesting that in Australia the major brands are being completely pushed out by the supermarket chains (we have two big players and two small players), what the big chains are doing here is to replace brands with their own branded products.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/suppl...305-1ueg4.html

I read an article recently that now you even have to compare the prices for the store brand because sometimes brand name is cheaper with sales, coupons, etc. In this economy, people are increasingly switching to store brand and brands find themselves having to compete when they really didn't have to before.

[martinsc]

Originally Posted by DWB

Coca-Cola's largest individual shareholder is...

Kraft's largest shareholder is...

One of P&Gs largest shareholder is...

Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett)

Talk about almost having a monopoly on foods that are literally killing you.

[videoscribe]

This is interesting. The main brand has sub-brands. Coca Cola has Dasani, Frutopia and other drinks. Kraft has Cadbury, Ritz and other snacks. Kellogg’s has Corn Flakes, Vector and other foods. The product choices are there. However, many products are consolidated for a large company. For better reports, these foods can be separated into sections like Prepared Meats, Bakery Foods and Drinks.

[pornguy]

Nestle is the largest food producer in the world. That graphic is only the tip of what they produce.

[sperbonzo]

Personally I don't buy the vast majority of those products, but I don't see where there is a "lack of choice" here. They are all different products and you have your choice as to which one you wish to purchase. So what if they are all ultimately owned by several large corporations? Those corps run them each as an individual profit center, and allow the profit centers to compete with each other, so as to fill up various market niches. I really don't see the issue here.... No one lacks for choice, and you can choose to not buy any of them if you wish.






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[Choopa_Pardo]

No one should be surprised by this at all.

[u-Bob]

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.

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.

[EddyTheDog]

Ben And Gerrys' = Unilever....

I'm not going to say who I thought owned it - lol