The reason they said Canada is because we have a brand here called No Name in yellow packaging doing that exact thing. It’s Loblaw’s store brand.
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Mandatory fuck Loblaws and Weston Galen. Fuck Jim Pattison too while we're at it.
YEAH!! WOOHOO!
I was going to say doesn't this already exist in Canada? LoL
Also isn't Loblaw's unbelievably horrible? Like even more evil than Walmart?
I don’t know that they’re more evil than Walmart. I think that’s probably not right but I don’t know enough to say for sure. They’ve just kinda, taken over. I’ll put it this way, I much prefer Atlantic Superstore (Loblaws) to Walmart (which I won’t even set foot in)
The US did this for a while from the later 70s until the mid 80s. White-label packaging, with just the name of the foodstuff or item printed on it, in its own separate aisle. Most of these evolved later on into store brands.
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What is this, the Oldest House?
Thanks of reminding me of the awesome premise of the Oldest House.
"Better not bring any unnecessary cultural artifacts into the reality shifting place, so that whatever is in here doesn't have anything to latch onto."
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Every vending machine in the Federal Bureau of Control.
Man I need to play that game again. Pumped for 2
It's so great. It's like the entire game was conceived on an acid trip by a paranoid old tinfoil hat hippie.
Once upon a time in England we had “No Frills” which was basically exactly that
remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?
When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.
I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp
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Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.
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If you grew up poor in America this is what government issued food stuffs looked like. They realized having this stuff was humiliating to the people that needed it and replaced it completely with snap cards you can use to buy whatever. Government cheese and peanut butter and milk were big staples.
there was also Generic Brand in the 80's which looked exactly likes the pictured image with plain black text on white packaging.
https://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html?m=1
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I can’t seem to find any evidence online but there did used to be a supermarket in the UK in the 80s/90s called ‘No Frills’ and all their products were also just black and white packaging.
The UK never had a No Frills. The No Frills chain started in Toronto, Ontario in 1978 and originally had the black and white packaging before switching to the. yellow and black. No Frills is a major grocery store chain in Canada, though it is owned by the Loblaws who suck balls.
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There's a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
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This is a thing
Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt
In Germany the leading drugstore chain does this with their brand aimed at Men. (See link).
https://www.dm.de/marken/seinz
They also noticed that they don't like walking through the whole store, so they put every product for men in one aisle directly next to the checkout.
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I am still waiting for an online store that can sell me a no brand/ no label high quality tshirt in any of the basic colors and cuts and fabrics
Probably need to post your country/region. Many of the better online stores are regional.
For Germany, grundstoff.net has a good selection. They seem to ship all over Europe, but the webpage is only German...
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would anyone actually like that? how am i supposed to know anything about a product if it's just called "chips"?? what's the flavor, texture, what does it look like?
maybe partially transparent packaging would be nice, though
Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything.......
I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.
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this looks exactly like all products in the movie repo man.
We had this in France in the 80s when big supermarkets started to open.
In Korea there's a brand called No Brand. I like shopping there cause they have a few good deals and western snacks that don't get stocked in normal markets.
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