Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

Jillyd10

I used to work at the Kwik Save Head office before the Company closed and know that people were put off by our own brand black and white packaging. What they didn't know that a small tin of baked beans costing just 8p were in fact Heinz beans and it was the same with Weetabix, etc. If people aren't attracted to the packaging they simply won't purchase no matter what's inside. I learnt a valuable lesson from this and always try own brands.

eco

The way to tell if items are made in the same factory is to look at the bbe stamp on items, for example I bought some supermarket own brand tortilla wraps in a kit, they had the same bbe set up as the posh ones in the red box

geordie_joe

Jillyd10 wrote: »

I used to work at the Kwik Save Head office before the Company closed and know that people were put off by our own brand black and white packaging. What they didn't know that a small tin of baked beans costing just 8p were in fact Heinz beans

I remember when Kwik Save brought those beans out. They were 4p per tin and we stocked up with a few tins. We tried one and they were not Heinz, they were inedible, even the dog wouldn't eat them.

The other tins sat in the cupboard for a while and the kids Harvest Festival came round, so we donated the tins to them. On the day we went to the kids festival at the church it was awash with tins of Kwik Save beans. There were thousands of them, and the vicar said they had a lot more stored in the community hall.

Everyone in the town must have bought those beans and not liked them so took the opportunity to get rid of them by donating them.

For months after I would bump into old people and they would say they were given tins of the beans but they were inedible and got chucked out.

The following year the kids brought home the form asking for donations to the Harvest Festival and it specifically said "No Kwik Save Beans Please" after asking for food donations.

Those beans became legendary in the town, for being so bad. Even now,if you mention the Harvest Festival to people who were around at the time they will mention those beans, and how bad they were.

I don't care where you worked, those beans were not Heinz. I know that and I thousands of people who also know that.

System

No Frills!
No Taste more like

MysteryMe

The milk sold in Aldi is definitely not Cravendale.

deely

MysteryMe wrote: »

The milk sold in Aldi is definitely not Cravendale.

a lorry advertising Cravendale delivers to my local aldi, not actually seen it unload anything to see if it's milk

Doc_N

MysteryMe wrote: »

The milk sold in Aldi is definitely not Cravendale.

How can you be so sure, given that the milk supplier varies from store to store?

PenguinOfDeath

deely wrote: »

[STRIKE]a lorry advertising Cravendale [/STRIKE]delivers to my local aldi, not actually seen it unload anything to see if it's milk

*A lorry with a trailer that Cravendale have paid to advertise on

centretap

deely wrote: »

a lorry advertising Cravendale delivers to my local aldi, not actually seen it unload anything to see if it's milk

Cravendale is a premium brand of Arla. Not all Arla milk goes through the Cravendale filtration system, much of it will be bog standard.

It is very possible Arla are supplying Aldi with milk where you live, they are one of the big three UK milk companies.

Down here in the West Country I have seen the SG005 producer code on Aldi milk which would indicate it comes out of the huge Muller Wiseman bottling plant in Somerset. I would not be surprised if elsewhere Aldi were being supplied by Dairy Crest.

MysteryMe

Doc_N wrote: »

How can you be so sure, given that the milk supplier varies from store to store?

Filtered milk is different to any regular milk, not just Aldi's.


Now if the suggestion was that Aldi were selling a filtered milk which was produced by Arla then that would be a different matter but it was regular milk being compared to Cravendale.


Edit
Anyway, if the Aldi milk from some people's local store is lasting for ages it's well worth them buying it. As we've seen with other food stuffs, some Aldi stores have better storage procedures than others