Posted on 07/20/2014 11:26:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Store brands are just large brands with a little less quality and a different label.
Sure, but people largely buy whats on the shelves. They spend billions on marketing to tell us what to buy and it mostly works.
If you customers don’t have any money do you really care?
/johnny
Most of them have been coerced by dear leader because he bullies them and food stamps is good for business.
Even giant corporations have to get money from customers. Broke, or dead customers are a bad business plan.
/johnny
If you don;t mind the 3rd world mouth-breather spitting in your food, gringo.
Yeah right. They spend the money to tell you what tastes great and makes all the girls in bars look great.
Why else would anyone drink Budweiser?
On a global level you target the customers with money no those without.
This article misses a VERY important point.
If a “big company” puts product in the store that doesn’t sell they’ll go out of business. That’s because another “big company” wants that shelf space, NOW.
The “big company” isn’t controlling our food. We are. We make choices every time we go to the grocery store that determine what will be there next time. The “big companies” are simply very good at monitoring what we want and delivering it. It’s what they do. They also try to influence us. Buyer beware.
But when it comes to choosing a government, we only get to make a choice every few years instead of every trip to the grocery store. That makes the government less responsive to us, unlike the store where there is real time competition every day, all day. We don’t have two governments competing at the same time. The competition is only allowed every few years and we must live with the results.
Government has control. As to the stuff available in the market, we need to blame ourselves (or our neighbors).
This is of course why one of the few objective measures of American health, life expectancy, continues to increase.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html
Ahh nice straw man argument.
Nothing wrong with naturally occurring glutamate.
But see that is not what we are talking about.
MSG is added to processed foods in levels far above that which occurs naturally say like in a tomato.
The reason is it enhances the flavor of processed foods. BUT like anything one eats or ingests way too much of something is far more harmful than not eating it at all.
When researchers want fat mice they get ones that have been fed high levels of MSG.
Its not rocket science Sparky...
Anyone with an IQ above 70 can figure out that food you grow in your garden is better for you health-wise than the slop that is brewed in some factory that has all manner of crap added to it so it won't spoil or taste bad when it gets to the consumer.
You never bothered to learn much about biology and chemistry, did you? That being a fact, why are you here talking about biology and chemistry when you know absolutely nothing about it? Why is it the people who know the least about something are always the first to pretend like they do?
How is the chemical composition of added glutamate different from naturally occurring glutamate?
Since you ingest 10 times more glutamate from naturally occurring sources than you do from added sources, why are you afraid of it? Your fear makes absolutely no sense if you understand the subject, but you don't so you fear what you don't understand.
Scientists don't feed rodents MSG to make them fat.....unless they happen to be looking for grant money from scientific illiterates. Hmmm, are you in the business of allocating grant money?
/johnny
You may have convinced yourself that your commentary at the end is true. Those of us in the know realize you don’t know what you’re talking about.
GeronL said way more in his post than this article ever does, and then summed it up nicely with his last sentence in #57.
Have yourself a good day
Mostly works? LOL!!
Is that why 90% - 95% of all new product launches fail? How is that possible if they are "telling" us to buy these new products?
Maybe consumers are a lot smarter than you think.
I think that those major corporations do a magnificent job in supplying Americans with an infinate variety of foods and beverages at affardable prices....leave them alone...
You flappin your gums again?
ALL store brands are main line products packaged in private label boxes....they don't even slow down the production line, just change packages...
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