Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

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Tesco value chocolate mousse is the same as their normal brand and the finest too.

I worked a day in their factory a couple of years back - it was the same tube filling up three different pot types...

moggylover

I asked the question the other day - has anyone tried Tesco Value Biological Washing Powder - but have tried it myself now so thought I would post my findings.

Gave it truly tough test - it was used to wash the 9 shirts from a Sevens Rugby Tournament (for the uninitiated like myself, that is a rugby match with only 7 team members per side!).

Now, to be truthful - a harsher test would have been dealing with 22 shirts in the middle of winter when our under 13's take to the "pitch" in horrible wet weather and LOADS of mud! lol

However, all the shirts had seen some hard tackling - and had been sort of ground into the dry earth of the pitch - so they were complete with ground in dirt and grass stains, and as it was hot at the weekend - a LOT of sweat, and one had quite a nasty blood smear on it due to a nasty high tackle!

The powder did at least as well as my normal Daz - and much better than some brand names I have tried. It does not have much of a smell at all - but the washed items do not smell of the dirt/sweat that was on them prior to washing - just smell clean, but not perfumed and a drop of fabric condition can be used to improve that. Did not use fc this time to see what the powder did on its own. Shirts do not feel stiff or scratchy or anything - just clean and washed. Will let you know if any of the boys finds themselves uncomfortably itchy or anything - but I think this is a perfectly good washing powder without all the media hype that costs so much. Quite probably the same powder that is in a dozen other boxes - without the added blue dye (those little blue bits in so many of them) that is supposed to make our clothes look whiter (lol) and the heavy perfume.

P.S. Now, if I could only get hold of the idiot MAN who decided that red and WHITE bands were a good idea for a team strip in the muckiest game in the World I would be a happy mum!

superstar_shopper

Yorkshire Tea make M&S own brand tea bags....different specification but the quality is the same and the tea is the same stuff from far east

superstar_shopper

Oh, and International Cuisine in Consett make frozen ready meals for Morrisons, Spar and the Co-op. Recipes vary slightly..but ingredients are sourced from same suppliers. If a batch does not meet the spec of one supermarket, then it will be given to the supermarket with a lower spec (as long as it passes that)

I'm a food inspector...got loads of secrets but don't want to lose my job!

toshkininny

please tell us more !

sarah1972.

hi superstar shopper i also work at icl in consett food prep dep.

superstar_shopper wrote: »

Oh, and International Cuisine in Consett make frozen ready meals for Morrisons, Spar and the Co-op. Recipes vary slightly..but ingredients are sourced from same suppliers. If a batch does not meet the spec of one supermarket, then it will be given to the supermarket with a lower spec (as long as it passes that)

I'm a food inspector...got loads of secrets but don't want to lose my job!

jojo_modjo

Long time lurker, first time poster!

A while ago, Specsavers decided to rebrand the contact lenses they sold in an effort to stop people going onto the internet and buying their lenses elsewhere. One month I received my Airoptix lenses, the next month, I was receiving exactly the same lesnses, in a different box and a specsavers branded sticker over the foil blister pack.

After some research, I found out that all the major opticians rebrand their lenses, this website gave me a full list of the various lenses available, and what they were before they were rebranded.

http://www.contactlenses.co.uk/index.php?fuseaction=page.content&pageId=16

(This is not the cheapest site to buy lenses from, I just used this site to check what lenses I was using.)

I was paying £16 a month for my lenses, (£192 a year, with loads of solution) I told my optician that I would no longer be wanting lenses from them directly. I now buy my lenses online from Tesco, they proved to be the most cheapest for my particular lenses. £24 for a 3 month supply, £96 per year. I still buy my solution from specsavers, but I always found that they had always sent far to much solution with the my original lenses, so now I buy a smaller bottle every 3 months or so, which seems to last me just fine. I am saving over £80 a year.

Our Tesco has recently opened an opticians at our store, I will be visiting them instead of Specsavers in the future, who knows, they may be able to reccomend a cheaper lens solution too!

greatbargains

Shock Horror!!!!!!!! A few days ago this week I took our Honda Civic estate to get breaks done at an independent garage. £67.50 all in including supply and replace front disk brakes and pads, labour included-was stunned by the massive saving. They said my Civic uses same brakes system as Rover so they put on Rover ones---braking just fine with new Rover discs and pads.

RoseFairy

Very good thread - took me about month to read it all!!!! though i can see it was started back in 2005!

I wonder if a list could be made at the beginning listing all the 'alike'/umbrella ownerships - so we could see all the info at a glance - just like the brilliant 'harryharp' has done in the 'health & beauty' forum about the cosmetic/beauty stuff alikes. (though judging by how long it took me to read all this - i definitely wont be able to carry out my suggestion!|)

i-luv-free-stuff

RoseFairy wrote: »

Very good thread - took me about month to read it all!!!! though i can see it was started back in 2005!

I wonder if a list could be made at the beginning listing all the 'alike'/umbrella ownerships - so we could see all the info at a glance - just like the brilliant 'harryharp' has done in the 'health & beauty' forum about the cosmetic/beauty stuff alikes. (though judging by how long it took me to read all this - i definitely wont be able to carry out my suggestion!|)

it would be great to have them all together at the start as im strugling to read right through aswell!
if someone had to much time on there hands...maybe?

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