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I wonder if they do the same with their own carrefour branded products? Like for any successful "brand" product, they often sell a clone of their own brand (th

I wonder if they do the same with their own carrefour branded products? Like for any successful "brand" product, they often sell a clone of their own brand (that is usually cheaper or cheaper/gram). I guess these stickers are meant to steer consumers towards their own product first more than to put pressure on the brands distributors. I hope they play it fair and don't shrink their products the same way while only putting stickers on their competition.

DonsDiscountGas 3y ago
I'm curious about that as well, but I suspect for store brands they compensate by shifting to cheaper ingredients, which is even harder to detect. Or maybe just leave it the same and lose a little profit margin, but put up these signs to try and make people more price sensitive and get more sales for the cheaper store brands.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago
  > I suspect for store brands they compensate by shifting to cheaper ingredients Considering that store brands are often just repackaged versions of name brands, off the same production line that cannot be changed much, does this happen? In any event, even name brands shift to cheaper ingredients as much as they possibly can without falling afoul of labelling laws.
- prmoustache 3y ago
  I am pretty sure most come from same factories and have just different QC. They won't throw away as many items that would have cosmetic issues for example. Having said that, I know of one example of store brand where the ingredients are usually different: Migros in Switzerland. And what is particular is that they just put less weird stuff on them. For example they would rely less in taste enhancers, food dyes, and all other stuff most of the industry is adding into processed food to make them feel and look better/fresher. And in the end the Migros products regularly stand on top of the list of the healthier variant of a processed product kind when tested in lab by the local consumer report association.

DonsDiscountGas 3y ago

I'm curious about that as well, but I suspect for store brands they compensate by shifting to cheaper ingredients, which is even harder to detect. Or maybe just leave it the same and lose a little profit margin, but put up these signs to try and make people more price sensitive and get more sales for the cheaper store brands.

OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> I suspect for store brands they compensate by shifting to cheaper ingredients Considering that store brands are often just repackaged versions of name brands, off the same production line that cannot be changed much, does this happen? In any event, even name brands shift to cheaper ingredients as much as they possibly can without falling afoul of labelling laws.
prmoustache 3y ago
I am pretty sure most come from same factories and have just different QC. They won't throw away as many items that would have cosmetic issues for example. Having said that, I know of one example of store brand where the ingredients are usually different: Migros in Switzerland. And what is particular is that they just put less weird stuff on them. For example they would rely less in taste enhancers, food dyes, and all other stuff most of the industry is adding into processed food to make them feel and look better/fresher. And in the end the Migros products regularly stand on top of the list of the healthier variant of a processed product kind when tested in lab by the local consumer report association.