Kirkland signature wine and spirits (and tons of other Kirkland brand stuff). Not necessary better, but it's so much cheaper and so close to quality that it's a bit brainer to buy it over more expensive stuff. Plus,on a lot of instances the Kirkland signature is made by big companies and rebranded as Kirkland.
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Kirkland is at the very least competitive for pretty much everything really.
Kirkland diapers, wipes are an immense value for parents too. And good Lord do I love me some Kirkland branded booze.
Their clothes are great quality too
I know for spirits, not sure on wine and beer, in many cases it is literally from the same factory that the name brand comes from they get bulk deals and just put their labels on it
Their malbec is so good. Sometimes I'll spurge on a sometimes MUCH more expensive bottle and 9/10 I regret not just going to Costco and getting theirs.
Cries in Texan
Fucking forreal I passed through Texas to pick up a friend from DFW and stopped at a few Costco's looking for some vodka, I thought I was just in shitty counties but nope! Chuck Testa!
For the uninitiated, what's wrong with Costco in Texas?
Pretty much any store-brand toothpaste is probably going to be a lot cheaper than "branded" products, and will have the required amount of fluoride within it to keep your teeth healthy which is far and away the most important ingredient in any toothpaste. The entire toothpaste industry is mostly all marketing.
I will say that as someone with sensitive teeth, Sensodyne actually is legit though.
Yeah, there's definitely exceptions for people with special requirements. Toothpastes for sensitive teeth contain ingredients like potassium nitrate that wouldn't be in the generic, store-branded ones.
Have you not experienced Kerrygold butter? Because there is definitely a difference! Everything else checks out though.
I see you
As a fountain pen user and fan of stationery, I can assure you not all paper is created equal. For me it's 100% worth paying for the good stuff.
Paper goods meaning napkins, paper plates (mostly for food prep), paper towels, etc. agreed 100% on actual paper for writing.
Canned veggies
I feel like the generic branded ones have more nasty looking pieces in them
There's also a noticeable difference with some beans. Cheap ones are tough and taste almost stale, while nicer ones are creamier and more flavourful.
If you make bread you can tell a difference between brands of flour, and the more expensive stuff is usually noticably better.
Aldi has Frosted Mini-wheats that keep don't get as soggy and hold on to the frosting longer.
Aldi generics overall tbh
Agreed, Aldi's stuff rarely worse than equivalent products, and some I prefer more than the name brand. Only things I balk at are fake cheese flavored things and canned goods from their German themed store brand.
except baby wipes, theirs are lousy
Canned and processed food. Store brand os usually much cheaper and tastes the same if not sometimes better than the big brand names.
One of my old coworkers dads worked at a canning plant. He said his dad was in charge of the labeling and claims that almost all canned food is the same.
He said they’d run x amount of green giant labels, x amount of del monte, x amount of best choice, etc all from the same batch.
Aldi's brand of bagels is better than Thomas for me and are about half the price. There's something that tastes oddly "sugary" about Thomas bagels in comparison.
To be fair, Thomas’ bagels are about as bad as bagels get. It’s not hard to beat one of those.
Open carrying a Thomas’ bagel is actually a crime in the state of New York.
Calling anything made by Thomas's "bagels" is just plain insulting. It's round bread, at best.
Soda comes to mind. I like generic fudge sticks better than the Keeebler stuff too.
My children will only accept No Name (it's a store brand here in Canada) ranch dressing. I've gotten name brand ones on sale before and they were not impressed.
I really like Food Lion's Dr. Perky over Dr. Pepper. I know it's like really strange but the Dr. Perky is quite good. Also, Food Lion's version of Mountain Dew, Mountain Lion, is a lot better.
I love these names. They sound like characters from a low-budget porn spoof of a popular movie.
HAHAHAHA! I never thought about it that way but it would totally work. 😆
I mainly shop at Giant and their store-brand sodas are almost all undrinkable ("Mr. Bob" is their version of Dr. Pepper), all with this bizarre medicine-y aftertaste. The only good one is their diet grape soda - it's possible that I like this only because there's no brand name version to compare it to.
IMHO, grape soda is awfully hard to screw up. 😜
Great value mac and cheese is better than kraft
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Lidl has two levels of Oreos knockoffs (much cheaper ones, and even cheaper ones) and both are better than proper Oreos.
I always hear about Lidl and Aldi just Google maped a Lidl store. Closest one is over 1300 miles away. Sad days. Aldi is a lot closer though. Only 650 miles to an Aldi. La sigh.
Here in Europe they're everywhere. I have two within 5 minutes walk.
But I've heard the same being said about other Oreo knockoffs, so I believe you'll find some.
Family Dollar brand (Kidgets, IIRC?) diapers and baby wipes
Aldi fudge-stripe cookies
Centrella "Magic Stars" rainbow cereal
Great Value Ranch Corn Chips are superior to Cool Ranch Doritos. Actually, quite a bit of GV stuff is as good if not better than the name brand they are knocking off. Not all of it, though.
Kirkland Hotdogs are superior to Ballpark (but I mean, that's incredibly easy since ballparks suck) and I think are more comparable to a Nathan's or Hebrew National; although those last two are still better than Costco's signature dog.
Clover Valley (Dollar General brand) has the best fig newtons and cake snacks around. Way more flavorful and moist than the name brands Hostess or Little Debbie. Also their pop tarts.
Toast 'em Pop-Ups (a pop tarts generic) had an apple flavor that I miss to this day.
Kirkland wet wipes.
No name (Superstore brand) hot chocolate. Blows name brand out the water!
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