Re: Save Money!

[Bill Graham]

"Ziggy" <Z...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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. Studies have shown
> that
> many times the most expensive product is the worst product or has no
> better
> performance than most of the median priced products. 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.

This is true. That's why my wife and I buy a lot of stuff from the dollar
store or bent can (Rainbow) stores. they specialize in off brand (non HA)
stuff, and it is just as good and a lot cheaper. We get shampoo for a dollar
a quart and Vaseline for a dollar a pound (which is now 13 ounces, by the
way) Madison avenue has a way of shrinking product size.....