Kirkland signature wine and spirits (and tons of other Kirkland brand stuff). Not necessary better, but it's so much cheaper and so close to quality that it's a bit brainer to buy it over more expensive stuff. Plus,on a lot of instances the Kirkland signature is made by big companies and rebranded as Kirkland.
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Kirkland is at the very least competitive for pretty much everything really.
Kirkland diapers, wipes are an immense value for parents too. And good Lord do I love me some Kirkland branded booze.
I know for spirits, not sure on wine and beer, in many cases it is literally from the same factory that the name brand comes from they get bulk deals and just put their labels on it
Pretty much any store-brand toothpaste is probably going to be a lot cheaper than "branded" products, and will have the required amount of fluoride within it to keep your teeth healthy which is far and away the most important ingredient in any toothpaste. The entire toothpaste industry is mostly all marketing.
I will say that as someone with sensitive teeth, Sensodyne actually is legit though.
I pay the extra bucks for European Sensodyne because it has Novamin in it.
Novamin is like magic, and there is no reason it should have been taken off the shelves in the US (I suspect it's heavy lobbying by the American Dental Association and the Teeth Fae People). Novamin binds and helps remineralize your teeth, very helpful for sensitivity and in conjuction with fluoride can get into the subsurface and helps actually repair the teeth.
Have you not experienced Kerrygold butter? Because there is definitely a difference! Everything else checks out though.
I see you
As a fountain pen user and fan of stationery, I can assure you not all paper is created equal. For me it's 100% worth paying for the good stuff.
Paper goods meaning napkins, paper plates (mostly for food prep), paper towels, etc. agreed 100% on actual paper for writing.
Canned veggies
I feel like the generic branded ones have more nasty looking pieces in them
If you make bread you can tell a difference between brands of flour, and the more expensive stuff is usually noticably better.
Aldi has Frosted Mini-wheats that keep don't get as soggy and hold on to the frosting longer.
Aldi's brand of bagels is better than Thomas for me and are about half the price. There's something that tastes oddly "sugary" about Thomas bagels in comparison.
To be fair, Thomas’ bagels are about as bad as bagels get. It’s not hard to beat one of those.
Open carrying a Thomas’ bagel is actually a crime in the state of New York.
Canned and processed food. Store brand os usually much cheaper and tastes the same if not sometimes better than the big brand names.
One of my old coworkers dads worked at a canning plant. He said his dad was in charge of the labeling and claims that almost all canned food is the same.
He said they’d run x amount of green giant labels, x amount of del monte, x amount of best choice, etc all from the same batch.
Basically anything Kirkland signature branded, including medicines sold over the counter. Compare Kirkland signature ibuprofen count + cost vs brand name in store sometime. The difference is staggering.
Great Value Ranch Corn Chips are superior to Cool Ranch Doritos. Actually, quite a bit of GV stuff is as good if not better than the name brand they are knocking off. Not all of it, though.
Kirkland Hotdogs are superior to Ballpark (but I mean, that's incredibly easy since ballparks suck) and I think are more comparable to a Nathan's or Hebrew National; although those last two are still better than Costco's signature dog.
Clover Valley (Dollar General brand) has the best fig newtons and cake snacks around. Way more flavorful and moist than the name brands Hostess or Little Debbie. Also their pop tarts.
+1 for Kirkland
Kirkland Signature products in general are just as good or better than the name brands because they usually are the name brand stuff.
Their batteries are Duracell, their bagged coffee is roasted by Starbucks, their diapers are Huggies, their canned tuna is Bumblebee, etc.
Kirkland hot dogs are an oddity, though. They used to be Hebrew National, but they got too expensive to be selling for 1.50 at the food court, so Costco bought an old Hebrew National meat plant in California and makes their own hot dogs now.
If you raise the price of the hot dogs I'll fucking kill you.
I love that ideal LoL..
My children will only accept No Name (it's a store brand here in Canada) ranch dressing. I've gotten name brand ones on sale before and they were not impressed.
No Name has some pretty solid stuff. Not necessarily always the top quality, but generally decent value.
Hate to praise them too much because Galen Weston can go f* himself, but you kind of have to pick one billionaire or another when talking about store brands up here.
Galen is evil but PC and No Name have so many good products. It's not fair.
Soda comes to mind. I like generic fudge sticks better than the Keeebler stuff too.
I really like Food Lion's Dr. Perky over Dr. Pepper. I know it's like really strange but the Dr. Perky is quite good. Also, Food Lion's version of Mountain Dew, Mountain Lion, is a lot better.
I love these names. They sound like characters from a low-budget porn spoof of a popular movie.
Kroger Nutter Butters. Aside from just tasting better, the packaging is also way less flimsy. (Plus, resealable!)
There's this white cheddar flavour mac and cheese and the store brand where I am is much better than the Kraft version.
There might be a bit of nostalgia though for me as it was one of the go-to "quick and easy" meals my mom would make for us as a kid.
The 90s Piggly Wiggly brand of cola with the red, orange and yellow stripes on the label.
Aldi hand cream, 70p a bottle, does the same as Neutrogena at £3-4
walmart thick and creamy mac and cheese > kraft all day every day fuck you fight me.
Hashbrowns - McCain is tasteless in comparison
Lidl has two levels of Oreos knockoffs (much cheaper ones, and even cheaper ones) and both are better than proper Oreos.
I always hear about Lidl and Aldi just Google maped a Lidl store. Closest one is over 1300 miles away. Sad days. Aldi is a lot closer though. Only 650 miles to an Aldi. La sigh.
Drumsticks- those chocolate dipped ice cream cones with the nuts on top. The generic in my experience usually has way more nuts, sometimes more ice cream, and more caramel filling.
Family Dollar brand (Kidgets, IIRC?) diapers and baby wipes
Aldi fudge-stripe cookies
Centrella "Magic Stars" rainbow cereal
Kirkland wet wipes.
No name (Superstore brand) hot chocolate. Blows name brand out the water!
You know those Irwin quick clamps that are very popular, blue and yellow quick release clamps. I have a bunch of them and they're fine.
I also have a bunch of "craftright" clamps. Same thing, but the clamping force feels so much higher, the Irwin clamps are what I use if I've run out of my cheap knockoff clamps
If you live in the UK, Lidl's in-house cola brand, Freeway, is better than Pepsi or Coca-Cola, IMHO.
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