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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 8:32:13 PM

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Except for chocolate, Godiva has the name and the quality.

But for someone like me, while I agree that Godiva is better quality in the industry, Hershey's is what makes my tongue sing.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 8:33:29 PM

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Do you mean Swarovski?

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 10:39:50 PM

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i do a lot of comparison-shopping, and have very little brand loyalty (although i'll never buy another goddamned piece-of-shit Panasonic electronic device!!!). Often as not, you find that Brand X and Brand Y are both made by the same factory in China, but one gets an extra $20 worth of marketing thrown in.

Basically, i'm very brand-conscious about tools, vehicles, and vehicle parts, and usually buy from the same few companies
i consider brand reputation in my price-to-value comparisons on electronics
Have certain foods that always have to be a particular brand because i can taste the difference (Diet Pepsi, Golden Grahams, Land O Lakes butter)
Don't have the slightest idea what brand the clothes i buy are

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 10:43:24 PM

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Working where I do, I have learned that the store brands and the named brands often come from the very same place. Just different packaging. The store brand for many things have identical ingredients, identical strengths or scents... just no big name marketing budgets behind the names to bump up the costs. The only brand loyalty I have, now, is Walgreens brand. Ive been very happy with al their generic eqivalents, and since i work ther eand get the discount, I can kill 2 birds with one stone.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 11:35:37 PM

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Im very brand conscious.

..whatevers fucking cheapest..even cheese.
Got sick of the brand-name game long ago. Were I to buy a new car it would likely be american (which are predominantly made in japan now)

Some non-brand name stuff isnt quite as good, but so far, no real complaints.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 11:36:23 PM

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For clothes no, I look for what fits being 6 ft & having a 36 in inseam I usually end up shelling out more money than I want to for european & designer pants and than I want to so I tend to wear skirts and dresses. Same thing with blazers and jackets for work I have long arms and difficult to find a proper fit.

Food- Must haves- Starbucks, Yoplait yogurt, everything else I do not care.

Vehicles- Not picky as long as it is fun-Loved my BMW (Bring Money With -Bring Mechanic With) drove like a dream. Adore my Miata it is a blast!!

Home Electronics- No preference

Make Up, Perfume, Personal products- I have brands that I will never change and will drive as far as need be to get them if I am unable to order online.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/4/2007 11:58:39 PM

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I'm reading this thread and thinking, "I'm a brand snob!" But I don't shop particular brands for status or anything, I just know what I like and prefer to buy it over something I don't like. Some examples:

Coffee - Peets

Meats & Produce - I usually buy mine at Whole Foods

Dairy - Organic Valley

Chocolate - Scharfenberger dark chocolate

Wine - there is a list of particular labels that I will always buy

Kleenex - Cold Care

Toilet Paper - Northern Quilted

Make up, hair and skin products - Aveda

Hand Lotion - Nature's Gate

Kitchen products must be solid stainless steele - I have a set of Wolfgang Puck cookware that works well, and I'm saving up for Cutco knives.

And so on....If I find a brand I like, I'll pay more for the quality. And if I can't afford it, I'll go without until I can. Like that Mercedes I want....it'll just have to wait...lol.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 12:34:23 AM

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I have to spend about 50 dollars per item, and it was gorgiously embroidered and in a week the embroidery was poping out, or the buttons or sequrnce off. Price does not always means last. People are right on that. Yet I have had 9.99 cotton t's last 5 years. they look great too stil.

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Clothes are clothes, I have had the cheap and the high end both fall apart at the seams in a short time. Drea

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 12:49:47 AM

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I am a ranch snob, an apple snob, and a drink snob. Pink lady apples are the only apple I have found to be 100 percent on par EVERY time I ate one, Lighthouse ranch is THE ONLY ranch I will say is so damn good I could and do spoon it on by spoonfulls, except in the case of pizza and lays, then lays is good or hidden valley. I am also a shampoo snob, well somewhat, mom swears by pantien proV It's the only kind she uses, and I use what the house uses, Same with soap, and dishwashing liquid. We tried off brands of liquid soap and it's waterier, don't do a good job and is not a bargain. Same with other soaps. Dove is the only soap we use now. It does so much better than the damn irish spring or dial, and is gentle enough to use on my genitalia, where neither the previous are.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 6:12:43 AM

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It is fascinating how branding and other variables such as price can create the perception of "quality" and manipulate consumers to pay a premium for it. In grad school they introduced us to this notion with Sunkist lemons, and if you can brand a lemon you can brand just about anything. Perdue creates the perception of better quality chicken by feeding theirs marigolds to give it a "yummy" yellow color though it tastes no different than other chicken. Another case involved White Trucks which long ago were perceived as being low quality, so they raised the price and sales increased.

I try to be keenly aware of my own purchases to se if the marketers are manipulating me into being a sucker. The other night at the grocery story I laughed at myself as I avoided the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter because it's "not butter" while I did select another product that claimed it had "buttery taste" . . . even though that wasn't butter either and I knew it . . . and I paid an extra nickle for the priveledge. heh.

So we are just pawns in the hands of marketers - they do experiments and have lots of data to see how we behave like rats in a cage, only for us the cage is the store and they measure how we spend. Sometimes brand quality is simply our perception, other times it is real, and it isn't often we can be sure which is which.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 6:23:40 AM

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I don't care about brands as much as I care about quality...and those are usually tied together.

For instance...there are people that either they can't tell or they don't care that their clothes look cheap. I can tell right away when a piece is of good quality...and I will not wear anything that looks cheap...so I end up buying brand name things.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 7:37:54 AM

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I do not really care about brands, but I care a lot about what I buy.

Animal products like meat, eggs and dairy are usually organic.
Fresh vegetables and fruits have to be of a good quality.
Unprocessed food, like oatmeal or flour and such, I will go with what works. Which may very well be the cheapest available.
With processed foods I read the ingridient list and try to stear clear of most additions.
Other than that, it is just about the taste.

With cosmetics I look at the ingridients, what works for me and my family and at the value I get for my money. Some of the items I use daily in that regard are store brands.

Laundry soap I buy one brand. After a good bit of trial and error, I found one that works best for me, and with that one I stay.

Concerning clothes I look for quality, that will last.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 9:58:32 AM

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I was a Marketing Management major in college, and while I do think there exist brands that are in fact, of higher quality than some others, as far as ingrdients and care taken in construction, etc. - there are as many "generics" that just aren't marketed with as much money or savvy as some brand-names (and they spend much less money marketing them as far as advertising them that way, and maybe that is why they are less expensive).

In some cases (cosmetics come to mind here, although there are exceptions to that as well) - it's mostly marketing that "justifies" the extra cost in a consumer's mind for the product.

But - as far as groceries go - I'm with you - there are actually particular brands I like much better than the generic brand (but it depends on the product) - just because they taste better to me. Whether I am imagining the taste difference, to me, is beside the point, if it tastes better, than I'll spend extra mkoney for it, most of the time.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 10:12:54 AM

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There are some things I won't buy on the cheap: Heinze ketchup, Log Cabin Syrup, charmin toilet paper, Kleenex, name brand vitamins. Beyond that stuff, I'm not too picky. I worked in retail for many years. I know where stuff came from, major brand items made exactly the same as the generics and both arrived on the name brand delivery truck.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 10:24:34 AM

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~Fast Reply~

I'm reading this thread and thinking, "I'm a brand snob!" But I don't shop particular brands for status or anything, I just know what I like and prefer to buy it over something I don't like. Some examples:

Coffee - Peets

Meats & Produce - I usually buy mine at Whole Foods

Dairy - Organic Valley

Chocolate - Scharfenberger dark chocolate

Wine - there is a list of particular labels that I will always buy

Kleenex - Cold Care

Toilet Paper - Northern Quilted

Make up, hair and skin products - Aveda

Hand Lotion - Nature's Gate

Kitchen products must be solid stainless steele - I have a set of Wolfgang Puck cookware that works well, and I'm saving up for Cutco knives.

And so on....If I find a brand I like, I'll pay more for the quality. And if I can't afford it, I'll go without until I can. Like that Mercedes I want....it'll just have to wait...lol.

i am the same way...i would rather go without if i can't have what i consider to be the best quality. this concept is mind-boggling to Daddy though. for instance with the furniture, i prefer only the highest quality furnishings since these are things that are supposed to last a lifetime, and that you will have to live with for years to come. we moved fairly recently and most of the furniture we had before just doesn't match the style of this place at all...we need all new furniture. me, i'd be more than happy to sit on cardboard boxes and use milk crates for coffee tables until we can afford the perfect chairs, perfect tables, perfect sofa, etc. whereas Daddy is more like, "we need furniture now, we'll get quality later"...so he's spent a few hundred bucks on cheapie, impersonal, low-quality furniture just so that we have something to sit and sleep on, but in my mind that few hundred bucks is completely wasted. but he's the Boss...just one of those annoying things you have to accept when you don't control anything lol.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 3:02:26 PM

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Kitchen products must be solid stainless steele - I have a set of Wolfgang Puck cookware that works well

No kidding...I bought a set of them too...aren't they awesome???

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 3:07:02 PM

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Hershey's is what makes my tongue sing.

Makes a note...just in case LA ever stops by...lol (weg). Chocloate, tongue..hmmm (shakes off that visual). Actually..I'm the same way....I have tried all sorts of fancy chocolate and I still prefer a good old fashioned Hershey bar.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 3:25:14 PM

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Makes a note...just in case LA ever stops by...lol (weg). Chocloate, tongue..hmmm (shakes off that visual). Actually..I'm the same way....I have tried all sorts of fancy chocolate and I still prefer a good old fashioned Hershey bar.

LOL as long as it's not on my body or on yours! Ew ew ew torture!

I actually was doing some chocolate molds for the first time last week and let my partner lick some of the chocolate off my feet- that was a HUGE allowance on my part for him. I hope he enjoyed it because it's not happening again anytime soon!

I'll keep the Hershey's stocked here, too.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 4:28:33 PM

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I actually was doing some chocolate molds for the first time last week

Are you using the Wilton molds? When i sold the farm i gave those to my daughters but i used to have all kinds.

I still have some awesome recipes for the ones you fill if you'd like.

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RE: "Brand name" syndrome - 2/5/2007 4:35:30 PM

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I have to say I look for quality and value far more than brand.

Except for chocolate, Godiva has the name and the quality.

I agree Godiva is my all time favorite. Yummy!

I go for quality clothing, especially shoe shopping for youngens, the better they are the longer the wear. My shoes would always have to always be Manolo's or D&G, so I can't afford to be to loyal in that department!

I've really never been too loyal to one product for very long, though I only have always owned American Cars, and think Harleys are better than imports. My one loyal brand in the last 15 years has been Gateway Computers, just got two new ones, even after looking around, and I have had 3 or 4 since my first computer in 1992. Oh yeah, one thing I have stuck with since I was a kid, Cambell's Soup. I still love it today.

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