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Post by spinno on Dec 1, 2023 21:59:33 GMT
Asda and Sainsbury's do a good weetabix clone, their own ketchup are pants, their own teas and coffees which (though Sainsbury's Red Label is passable)
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Post by dorsetmike on Dec 2, 2023 1:25:21 GMT
"Asda and Sainsbury's do a good weetabix clone"
My sons wife used to work for a company that made clone cereals for a number of supermarket chains
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Post by John Farrell on Dec 2, 2023 1:42:26 GMT
Here, Weetbix (note the spelling) are made by Sanitarium - a company owned by the Seventh Day Adventist church. Back in the 1990s, they refused to make own brand cereals for the supermarkets. A small breakfast cereal manufacturer called Hubbards stepped up to make them, and a goodly amount of money, besides.
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Post by nimbus on Dec 2, 2023 8:36:24 GMT
I buy the cheaper double cream (Creamfields), that is a standardised product that is the same wherever you buy it or what you pay for it. Not strictly true. Yes, all dairy products have to meet a set standard, but the premium products go above and beyond that standard. If you're not fussed about welfare and production values then buy the cheaper one. If you care about how your cream was produced and want the farmer to be paid a fair price then spend a bit more. Quite a number of Tesco normal own brand and economy range products are identical and from the same source, it's only the labelling that's different. Let's be honest about this, by and large we don't know the sourcing anyway and UK animal welfare standards are higher than many, especially outside Western Europe. The only apparent way for a farmer to be paid more is to buy the items that claim to give the producer extra, unfortunately most of those are either in larger packs than I can't use up or are short dated on the shelves as fewer buy them, so again I can't get through them in time. |
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Post by don on Dec 5, 2023 1:02:57 GMT
I used to work for Sterling Roncraft and they made Ronseal varnish the own label stuff was the same
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