What do you buy?

I almost only ever buy name brand guns, hobby and auto stuff but I usually buy off brand groceries, clothes, ect. Guess I value play more than regular life.

What about you?

I'm kind of the same as you. Depends on the individual product, though.

Depends, I'll try off brand foods but if my life depends on it, it's a trusted brand.

I'll spend the money on name brand items if the value/quality is really there, Charmin for example.

I chose to live life lying to myself that the off brand  "is just as good!"

Durable goods I have been much happier buying second hand  versions of the brand name than the off brand.

Food, who the fuck wants to wake up to Marshmallow Mateys, pass me the Lucky charms!

I generally can't tell much difference when it comes to (at least our) store brand groceries.  If my kids want a name brand, it's no big deal and I'll get it.  But 99% of the time they don't care.

What's an "off brand" gun? Taurus?  Yeah, I'm not buying a Taurus.

Kirkland/Costco brand for a lot of stuff.

It really depends on what it is. On guns I buy what I like or what I think I will like.  I've had most of the common name brand guns. But like someone said no Taurus.  But I just bought a Tisas 1911 B45R very good quality just shot it the first time this weekend.
Great gun for the price maybe most prices. 100 rounds no problem at all.  Shot better than I can shoot it. I hadn't shot a 1911 for a few years.  I liked it so much my USP 9 might get traded for something with a single trigger action. Going from single to double action I didn't like it much after shooting the 1911.




 
 


 

Typically off brand however there are some name brand items which don't remotely compare like quality toilet paper.

Go cheap and you're using 20 transparent thin squares per wipe.

Versus 3-4.

I hate the $1.00 store brand bread and generic cereal. Can't do it.  The cheap bread is so thin and ruins the sandwich and except for a select few of the cereals in the bag (I will eat the shit out of some Marshmallow Mateys though.)  I'll go name brand.  

Meat, dairy, canned food, the cheaper the better.  I can't tell a difference.  I'll do generic coke(Soda for you yankees), except for Dr. Pepper. (The Texan in me)

It depends. If I'm shopping at HEB, I think their brand is better than most name brands. Costco too for some stuff.

Clothes, guns, guitars, etc? Name brand. Why get shit quality or longevity to save a few bucks?

I shop at ALDI.  Name brand items are uncommon.  It's 80-90% off-brand.  Almost everything is as good as the name brand or better.

Same with Publix store brand stuff.  I have rarely preferred the name brand, especially considering the price difference.

Default position is to buy generic for commodity goods, and name brand for durable goods so long as the value is still there.

I'm not spending $4 on a lb of name brand butter when the store brand is $1.75, but I do buy real cheerios since the off-brands taste like the cardboard boxes that they come in.

Some big brands are trash. With food, I look at contents.  

Some labels are meant to be knock off, or store brands made by large manufacturers. The first of which is usually cheaper for a reason. The second of which is literally a label difference.

But let’s say with something I use little of, Ketchup, Heinz is gross and full of corn syrup. I would pay more for a brand that isn’t shit food.

I will usually go for the off brand, unless I have a good reason to choose the name brand.  I'm not that picky on food, so its usually Aldi's, Walmart great value, Dollar general ect.  Sometimes there is a coupon or sale that makes the name brand and off brand comparable.  

On tools and stuff, it really depends, I like Harbor freight , but I will also buy Snap on and other top quality stuff all day long at auctions and garage sales if the price is right.

eta: Just had another thought too that should be mentioned, remember that many off brand things come from the same factories and warehouses as the name brands.  Sometimes there is a reason for the difference, but many times the are exactly the same, just with a different name and put into a different package.

I not sure what off brand guns are, but i am buying more offbrand everything else, as i can't keep track of which brands are woke and such. Assuming that store brands aren't sending checks to social justice orgs.

I will try off brand stuff and if it isn't as good, I will continue to buy name brand.  When the off brand performs just as well, or tastes the same, I will save some money and buy cheap.

Sometimes I buy off brand stuff to avoid outwardly "woke" brands.

Doesn't really matter for guns to me.

Where does Kirkland fall? Name brand or generic, I mean it's kind of a generic name brand I guess???

Also, yes, off brand whatever for cheaper is the way to go.  For food I hit up my grocery outlet before the grocery store too.

Depends on what it is.  Important things= buy once, cry once.

Depends what you term as 'off brand'

Shotguns:  Name Brands were Browning, Ithaca, Remington, and Winchester.
Mossberg was the 'off-brand cheap competitor oh you can't afford a Remington huh'?

NOW, Mossberg is considered name brand.  Maverick is considered the economy option, and the 'off-brands' are now EEA, Escort, Geforce, Retav, Tristar, etc.

Rifles:  Weatherby was on top, Winchester and Remington held a huge amount of ground, and a few other brands like Browning (Steyr, and Sako if you were European) were considered good guns.

Ruger kind of sat out there on it's own between the two camps.

Savage, Stevens, Mossberg - they were all aimed at the guys who couldn't quite afford a Winchester or Remington.  Howa and Tikka joined those lower ranks.

Now, Remington is dead Winchester isn't much different, Savage, Tikka, Howa are all considered recognizable brand names, and the 'off brand' are really economy rifles carrying a name brand - the Savage Axis, Weatherby Synthetic, the Ruger American.  In actuality those are off-brand rifles bought and then absorbed by the big names.  You don't really have any off-brand rifles.

For other goods?  I don't feel compelled to buy 3M brand post-it notes, off brand are fine.  Same with toilet paper or tooth brushes.  Interestingly, I've not seen many 'store brands' invade the toothpaste aisle.  If I'm going to buy a vacuum, the 'name brands' such as Hoover and Dirt Devil, I don't consider that brand name to impart any sort of quality.  I expect all $50 upright vacuums found at walmart to be the same low level product regardless of what brand name it has - be that hoover, black&decker, bissell, dirt devil, shark, whatever.  I expect all $250 vaccuums to preform about the same and be much better, even though it's the same set of brands as listed before.  'off-brands'

For food - store brand milk just as good as Land o Lakes or Kemps.  Store Brand chicken noodle soup just as good as Campbells.  Most 'name brand' food means you are buying boxed and processed stuff, which means you are already buying low quality product so it doesn't really matter which way you go.  As far as fresh fruits, veggies, meats, and spices - there aren't really name brands liked to them in a meaningful way.  I'm looking at what appears to be inside that container of grape tomatoes not what brand is on the plastic.

Some food additives such as olive oil, there is where you'll find a difference in quality, but I can't say any of the good olive oils have any sort of name brand recognition except reading reviews or getting recommendations from chefs, friends, food blogs, etc will make me look for certain brands.  But it's not really the same as brand recognition.

For tools, I tend to buy the mid-range stuff as I don't work em that hard anyways.  Yea, I'm not going to buy the $10 shovel from Fleet Farm, I expect that to break.  But the $20 seems to hold up just fine.

It depends on they TYPE.  Generic 'quilted' and other 'upgraded' versions are going to be just as good as name brand Charmine.

Yes, if you get the absolute cheapest single-ply then yea.  But then you aren't really comparing apples to apples.

Usually off brand. But im a stickler for tires being name brand

Depends on what it is.

Non-name brand ibuprofen or melatonin, sure.

Non-name brand trash bags? No chance in hell

My 9yo made fun of me last night for buying store brand Mac and Cheese. Liquid old, he said.

Most everything name brand. Off brand peanut butter and toilet paper are two things that usually suck.