Think you can choose who gets your money when you go to the grocery store?

[Casper]

[Scruit]

How does that affect your choices?

[swingset]

The peripheral choices are still choices, even if they're under the umbrella of a larger ownership. And, these are only the big store brands. Everywhere I go, even Walmart, there are other options besides these, alternative brands, etc.

Or, you can go to niche markets, pay through the nose and completely escape The Man and his conformist food brands.

It's also worth noting that many of those smaller brands might not even exist if they had been left to their own ability to compete. Being bought or consolidating brands offers the wider distribution and cost-control that a larger corporation brings them.

[TSB67]

How does that affect your choices?

That's what I was thinking. Is it just the big, evil corporation mentality? What I would like to know is who makes the generic store brands.

[jester3681]

Interesting stuff! I know a lot of Kroger's private brand stuff is Campbell's.

[ReconRat]

Generic store brands come from the same places that all other food is produced.

Say it's a canning factory canning green beans that day. At the end of the day of canning for a major name brand, they simply continue with new labels/cans for the little guys. In one way it's leftovers, in another way it's the identical merchandise at a lower price.

[Jst2fst]

Generic store brands come from the same places that all other food is produced.

Say it's a canning factory canning green beans that day. At the end of the day of canning for a major name brand, they simply continue with new labels/cans for the little guys. In one way it's leftovers, in another way it's the identical merchandise at a lower price.

That's how I look at buying store brands. Nothing wrong with them at least most of them anyway.

[MidgetTodd]

I kill my food, I have choices

[YSR_Racer_99]

Watch "Food Inc". Netflix and/or Amazon Prime.

[Casper]

Updated title to reflect my train of thought.

Most about choices of where your money goes.

[Scruit]

Who cares? I buy groceries because I need and/or want them, not as part of some moral voting system.

[RVTPilot]

That's what I was thinking. Is it just the big, evil corporation mentality? What I would like to know is who makes the generic store brands.

Most are still made by the larger manufacturers. For example, Millville - found in Aldi's - is General Mills. There are tons of private label stuff out there, but at the end of the day, only so many folks are really making stuff out there with FDA approval.

[Tomcat0403]

Working as a logistics broker, this is the biggest thing that you find out. There are so many companies out there that are a part of the larger corporations. Even the small companies produce the same stuff for multiple people under different brands.

[CephasGT]

The only thing I saw in that whole graphic that we buy (occasionally) is Vitamin Water.

So yeah, you can choose. You just don't shop at the big chain stores.

[swingset]

The only thing I saw in that whole graphic that we buy (occasionally) is Vitamin Water.

So yeah, you can choose. You just don't shop at the big chain stores.

Little do you know that the little stores are the puppets of the big chain stores!

HA!

[CephasGT]

Haha... Not really.

[swingset]

Haha... Not really.

May all the brands you support someday swell in popularity and become mega-corporations, so you can abandon them for being successful.

I ate Chee-tos back when they were punk.

Screw The Man and his imperialist food stuffs.

[CephasGT]

Lol... I don't abandon anybody for being successful, I just try to buy things that are good for me, and that are made or grown in an ethical and sustainable way.