On Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:20:38 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
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> > My guess is that the house brands are likely made on the same production
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> > I used to buy the big bags of breakfast cereal but these days, the big
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> My guess is that you are right. All those business who spout the party
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> line about free enterprise and the benefits of competition.... they have
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> making those products as there used to be. The last local cannery in
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Building a factory is probably really expensive and it's just cheaper and more flexible to just buy product than make it yourself. It's probably more profitable for the manufacturer to sell product to companies even though they'll use it to directly compete for shelf space. Looks like a win-win situation to me. :-)

The dirty little secret about guitar strings is that most "manufacturers" just repackage strings - at least the plain strings anyway. The plain nylon strings are purchased from in bulk from fishing line factories. In this world, branding has deep psychological affects.

The McCanns oats are regular oats in a very special package. I suppose you could just refill it with bulk health store oats for really cheap. I don't much care for cooking that stuff although they probably could be cooked in an automatic rice cooker very easily.

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> FWIW, the PC frosted flakes that I used to buy at Zhers and No Frills
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> I like steel cut oats once in a while. The lat time I bought McCanns it
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> was $3.99 for a a 14 ox can. PC brand was $1.99 for a one pound
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> container. Then I found steel cut oats for 75 cents per pound. I tried
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> them all and I can't tell the difference.