I agree. But I can’t upvote your comment because I can’t figure our how to do it in Memmy. Swipe left downvotes it. Swipe right to comment. Touching the up and down arrows does nothing. But Kirkland stuff is great.

Kirkland diapers, wipes are an immense value for parents too. And good Lord do I love me some Kirkland branded booze.

Kirkland is at the very least competitive for pretty much everything really.

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

Cries in Texan

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.

I will say that as someone with sensitive teeth, Sensodyne actually is legit though.

Nice try, but I refuse to use any toothpaste that isn't 3D and HD.

I swear by basic “cavity protection” toothpastes. Crest, Colgate, and Aim all have cheap toothpaste that covers your bases with the same fluoride concentration

Have you not experienced Kerrygold butter? Because there is definitely a difference! Everything else checks out though.

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.

If you make bread you can tell a difference between brands of flour, and the more expensive stuff is usually noticably better.

Canned veggies

I feel like the generic branded ones have more nasty looking pieces in them

Aldi generics overall tbh

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.

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.

Trader Joe's employee reporting in: (cries in non-unionized) Aldi's bagels are so much better than ours it ain't even close to a fair fight

Those aren't bagels, they're little circle shaped lies!

+1 for Kirkland

Kirkland Signature products in general are just as good or better than the name brands because they usually are the name brand stuff.

Their batteries are Duracell, their bagged coffee is roasted by Starbucks, their diapers are Huggies, their canned tuna is Bumblebee, etc.

Kirkland hot dogs are an oddity, though. They used to be Hebrew National, but they got too expensive to be selling for 1.50 at the food court, so Costco bought an old Hebrew National meat plant in California and makes their own hot dogs now.

Toast 'em Pop-Ups (a pop tarts generic) had an apple flavor that I miss to this day.

No Name has some pretty solid stuff. Not necessarily always the top quality, but generally decent value.

Hate to praise them too much because Galen Weston can go f* himself, but you kind of have to pick one billionaire or another when talking about store brands up here.

The No Name ice cream wafers are also the best around, and the cheapest to boot!

We were actually surprised that not only were they just as good at like ⅓ the price, they were WAY better.

You can get a giant pack of them for literally the price of a checkout line candy bar.

I love these names. They sound like characters from a low-budget porn spoof of a popular movie.

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.

In Canada, Loblaws has a no name brand kd called deluxe white cheddar that is hands down the best Mac and cheese, Kraft white cheese always comes out bland and watery no matter how little milk I add.

amen hallelujah

Never tried the great value brand, but had Shop Rite's bowl and basket branded Mac and Cheese and it was easily the most disappointing thing I've eaten in a long time. Saved a couple cents and ended up with a bowl of mushy imitation cheese slime.

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.

Superstore brand frozen desserts are so good as well. Back when they had salted toffee chunk chocolate covered cheesecake pops I used to get them all the time.

Also their ice cream is killer. Their version of Oreo ice cream has like triple the cookie chunks of brand name.

Kraft is utter garbage so that one's not really surprising.

Well Food Lion deluxe mac and cheese is absolute garbage. You've been warned.