Fun fact!: I used to work for Con-Agra “A company that produces food for multiple companies” and I can confirm they change absolutely nothing about the brand names vs. the generics. Literally the folks in back “cooking” up whatever product don’t even know when the front switches labels. It is 100% the same product.
You should review "original coke" they cut the sugar without telling anyone. No more "classic" coke. When you close your eyes and drink it, it tastes like nothing aka pepsi. @shophocho7798
I've tried a variety of the Great Value chips and they've always been worth the price. My favorite are the Kettle Cooked Jalapeno because they taste better than the Lays version.
Lays does not make any store brand chips. They are busy enough making their own products. There are MANY other companies who do make the store brand chips for Walmart and other stores. The company who makes Kroger chips also makes the chips sold as Members Mark at Sams Club. Barbecue chips at Kroger are the same as the huge bag of barbecue chips at Sam's. Or the little lunchbox bags. Store brand chips at Publix are made by Golden Flake which is owned by Utz. There are dozens of other suppliers across North America. Lays focuses only on their own brands.
Try lays lime chips vs HEB lime chips. The difference is unbelievable. HEB chips are superior in every way. The other flavors are good as well but lime was the most noticeable to me. I loved lime lays chips but once I had the HEB brand I was surprised at how much better they tasted 😂
@@Saint_Jerome Costco “Kirkland” brand are the same thing of a lot of name brand stuff. The clothes, the foods, the alcohol, golf balls exercise equipments, motor oil. They are all the same as the name brand stuff but cheaper
@Saint_Jerome basically they come from the same factory as the name brands. The name brands usually contract out food production to a subcontractor but outline their own quality parameters. These same contract factories make the same Kirkland brand copy of the original with slight variations or distribution so as mlnot to "cannibalize" the premium market for the brand names. It's a way to make sure the factory is not under utilizing capacity to lower per unit costs.
@@Simplyjordann you’d be very surprised how big the industry is considering annual revenue is over $90,000,000,000. You probably have our products in your house right now.
Yea I noticed that too. Maybe the packaging or handling process is different? You get more whole chips with lays, but with Walmart, way more of them are broken.
As a former employee in a lays factory indeed they are same chips. We used same seasoning and same potato’s to make chips and then packaged them into separate bags.
I know this isn’t in the states but in Britain loads of name brands potato “chips” are produced in the same factories as generic store brands. For example there is a brand called kettle chips here and the co-op version of this brand is made in the same factory and whilst they don’t have all the same flavours the ones they do have are identical for basically 1/2 the price.
Would you please consider doing other food comparisons? Yours are so interesting, thank you! One idea is to compare Chili from the Wendy’s fast food restaurant: vs: the Wendy’s canned chili. Could you please also compare and review various bagged Popcorns? Smart Food Vs Skinny Pop vs Costco vs Trader Joe etc, there are so many store brands. it would be so interesting to see your results & know which is best for the price.
Great Value chips and cheese puffs are great. The Great Value line has a lot of great stuff. I shop at Wal-Mart once a month just to buy their Great Value products
What people ignorantly fail to realize is Walmart is a huge Corp with tons of influence and certainly has privileged access to good foods. People assume it's all cheap because its bad quality but it's cheap because its freaking Walmart
Also Lays potato chips have been lowering their quality and the flavor change but the price keeps going up. They did the same with hot Cheetos. In my opinion it is better to buy other options because paying almost $5 for chips is crazy.
I disagree with everything you said. Lay's potato chips are the best their quality has not gone down. Walmart chips any other kind of generic chips are just not the same.
I've been eating Lay's chips for half a century and their quality has definitely declined over the years. So this may not be a case of GV being just as good, but of Lay's being just as mid. Also, a thought is just occurring to me now for some reason, the decline in Lay's chips somewhat follows the rise in popularity of flavored potato chips, which barely existed 40 years ago; in other words, Lay's has been able to cover up the quality drop with flavored powders. The only real way to compare these two brands may be to use plain chips.
A Great Value brand Sour Cream & Onion package. Its labeled as Party Size! and ot weighs 12.5 oz. This may be the old packaging, but Walmarr still may be carrying it in your location.
It’s the same for Candy Bars and they have a good Chicken Sauce “Canes Sauce” at Walmart but I’ve never tried the real sauce since I don’t have a Raining Canes within 3 hours of me.
@@nelysilva5833 I hate Walmart. I go to Kroger instead. Kroger brand stuff has a lot of stuff that's good and at a great price as well. Hell sometimes it's even better than the name brand stuff.
Can you also do a heb version?? I run the meat market and would love to see what you think not only the chips but our American wagyu steaks from our display case. Thanks love the videos. I'm also vegan born and raised go figure lol
I worked for Unilever Best Foods...the margerine we manufactured for various grocers were pretty much the same, the only thing different was the box's labeling...We made Country Crock, ICBIN Butter, Kroger brand, Public brand, off brands, any brand you can think of was made there...in some there were only a few minor ingredients, the other stuff was made from the same formula
If you like wavy chips, ruffles, then try the Kroger brand chips. They taste good and if you're going to use dip then you wont even notice a difference anyways. Otherwise a good Lays like chips are Brims brand if you are in the midsouth. Lays Stax are a good substitute for Pringes and like a dollar or so cheaper a can.
Good video! Along with everything else, snack chips are insane prices for what you get. I don't get snack chips often, but I will remember this one. The question is, why haven't I seen these at my Walmart? Seems like I wouldn't have missed them. I always set store brand stuff in lieu if name brand
I like how you do the price per ounce difference vs how much better or not the more expensive one is to determine value as I’ve always looked at the price per ounce window in the corner of the price tag for prepackaged items at Walmart and that’s a good way of looking at it as is the item that’s 30% cheaper is 2/3 as good it may not be worth it but if it’s close enough to as good then it’s justified
Money is tight right now so the luxury of chips has kind of disappeared, but with the walmart brand coming through we get out little treats again!! I love Walmart!!
Very subtle differences, the texture, the oil used, the seasonings, the additives/chemicals. Even the taste of the bag that imprints onto the chips and the nitrogen used in it tastes different but very slightly.
Food manufacturers sometimes create a batch recipe and just change the packaging for their customer required brands. It's a bit more complex, but that's sometimes what they do. I worked for one a while back.
What I like about your videos is you are teaching me to rate my food choices and pick the better taste versus value. I'm less inclined to grab a $5 starbucks hot chocolate when I can make my own for 50 cents. Starbucks is not 10x better then my homemade.
Probably same facility made them I bet. Cereal factories do this all the time, making cereals for name brands as well as generics in the same facility.
