Brand loyalty has a stronger hold on us than we realize.

raccoon

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:17 AM
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Brand loyalty has a stronger hold on us than we realize.

Yesterday I was shopping for some small plastic containers. Gladware, specifically.

The grocery store where I shop didn't have them. I saw two other brands. I kept looking; I wanted Gladware.

Then I had the insightful thought, What does it matter? I just need some little plastic containers that cost between two and three dollars, and are fairly disposable anyway...

I bought one of the those brands, can't remember the name.

Consumers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!

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Political Tiger

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:22 AM
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1. I almost always buy the store brand

if available. Usually it's cheaper and just as good, if not sometimes better, than the name brand.

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RUMMYisFROSTED

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:47 AM
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4. ...and is often made by the brand name in the first place.

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Warpy

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:51 AM
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5. I'm with you on that

for the few items I use that are processed.

I discovered brand X in the 70s and just never went back.

There are a few things I'll insist on, like Muir Glen canned tomatoes, but other than those very few, I'll stick to the store brand.

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we can do it

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:22 AM
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2. Its Really Not That Hard To Give It Up

Once I figured out Pop-In Fresh wasn't real it was all over for me.

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Bandit

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Fri Jan-30-09 09:27 AM
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3. Isn't Gladware made in America?

Where was your cheap alternative made? :shrug: One thing I learned a long time ago. If you don't support local business you don't have local business..

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Coyote_Bandit

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Fri Jan-30-09 10:09 AM
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6. I know there is at least

one Gladware factory in the US. Been there. Watched them make trashbage.....

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raccoon

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Fri Jan-30-09 10:16 AM
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7. Didn't notice where it was made. But the store didn't have Gladware anyway. nt

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