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From: Ziggy on 28 Aug 2009 22:49
Most people don't realize that they spend hundreds or even thousands of
dollars a year buying the heavily advertised (HA) brand products in the
grocery and department stores. There is nothing in the grocery store that
is rocket science. Many of the less advertised (LA) brands or store brands
are just as good or better as the HA brands. You are paying for the
brainwashing that many HA brand manufacturers put in their advertising
campaigns. It is not difficult to make shampoos, conditioners, cleaning
products and all those other products that can be found in your local
grocery or department store. Why are you paying 4+ dollars for baby shampoo
when you can buy the less advertised brand for half the money? Do you like
wasting money? If the name brand products are better why would companies be
spending billions of dollars in advertising? The answer is that they are
not better. They are trying to convince you that the high price they are
charging is some how justified by a better product. Even over the counter
drugs like aspirin can be bought for half the price of the HA brands. This
is a product that has been around for decades. The LA products are under
the same FDA regulations as the HA brands. Save a lot of money and don't
buy the over priced HA brands.

When you pay the higher price for the HA brands you are paying for the
ridiculous high salaries of the CEO's, private jets, golden parachutes and
for the billions spent on advertising.

Every time you go to the store you can save several dollars. Over time this
can amount to a significant amount of money.
From: Mr.T on 29 Aug 2009 22:31

"Ziggy" <Zig(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9C75E89C85A55Ziggmailcom(a)198.186.190.61...
> When you pay the higher price for the HA brands you are paying for the
> ridiculous high salaries of the CEO's, private jets, golden parachutes and
> for the billions spent on advertising.

Yep, and just the same with all those companies you can't easily avoid, like
power companies, telephone companies etc.


> Every time you go to the store you can save several dollars. Over time
this
> can amount to a significant amount of money.

So true, and the best thing about groceries is it costs little to try the
cheap brands for yourself, some *ARE* definitely inferior, but cost has very
little to do with it IME.

MrT.



From: David Clayton on 2 Sep 2009 06:45
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:49:16 +0000, Ziggy wrote:

> Most people don't realize that they spend hundreds or even thousands of
> dollars a year buying the heavily advertised (HA) brand products in the
> grocery and department stores.

Most people are lazy, soft-headed sheep who can be brainwashed into doing
many (many) things that are obviously not in their best interests - this
is called "Capitalism" a.k.a. "The Free Market", and it is very popular.
...........
>
> When you pay the higher price for the HA brands you are paying for the
> ridiculous high salaries of the CEO's, private jets, golden parachutes
> and for the billions spent on advertising.
>
> Every time you go to the store you can save several dollars. Over time
> this can amount to a significant amount of money.

And if most people didn't have more money than they really know what to do
with, they would spend the time to shop smartly rather than let their
lives be influenced by the "convenience" of having decisions made by their
TV sets for them.

--
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.

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