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[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When a box of Kraft is $1.24 and a box of the store brand stuff is $0.58, I don't care if I was a billionaire, I'm buying the store brand. It's the same product for less than half the price.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

while i am with you on the sentiment, less than half sounds too good to be true. if i see KD at 1.30 then the store brand wiill be 1.15.

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

$0.58 x 2 = $1.16

$1.16 < $1.24

The store brand is less than half the price.

I pulled the prices from the Walmart website, so they are accurate for that store, which most of America has access to. The fact that you call it KD makes me think you're from Canada, so maybe it's not true in Canada.

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[–] NormDeplume@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And honestly I prefer the taste of the thicken creamy Walmart store brand to to the generic Kraft mac and cheese flavor. It's a no-brainer at like a third of the price

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago

We were always a Kraft family. Grew up on it. When I suggested to my wife that we switch to the Great Value version, she was opposed to the idea. So we decided to do a blind taste test. Out of 13 people in our house, 0 could tell any difference. We buy the GV brand now. Kraft is good, but GV is just as good, and I can get 2 boxes for less money than I would spend on one box of Kraft. I'm convinced that the GV is made at the same factory as Kraft, using the same ingredients.

[–] OozingPositron@feddit.cl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's really cheap, I wonder if the ingredient quality is the same.

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No one in my family could tell the difference in a blind taste test.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bro's over here breaking out hand-collected data.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For all we know they had all Covid when they taste-tested this

[–] Watermark710@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

COVID 19 literally did not exit when we did the test. Believe it or not, some folks are more than 6 years old.

[–] texture@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

canadian that doesnt shop at walmart, yep

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

To be fair if I was a billionaire im probably not even eating it. If im making money where I eat it I will always buy the cheaper brand. Especially since at the high end of that Im likely buying cheese to add to it to increase the quality anyway.