Couple outraged they are paying more in Waitrose than Aldi

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Couple are either outraged, upset or disappointed -depending on which link you read -but do people generally not know that food suppliers/processors/factories make the same food for different supermarkets?

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/christmas/food-drink/aldi-waitrose-label-same-ocado-vegetables-a9208836.html

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7694571/Outraged-couple-Aldi-stickers-covering-Waitrose-Mediterranean-roast-vegetables.html

YABU-I did not know this
YANBU-I already knew this

Sainsbury’s most expensive cherry tomatoes will never been comparable for taste and colour to Waitrose’s normal ones. You can bang on about how smarter you are for not shopping in Waitrose, but the tomatoes in my salad taste of tomatoes.

Ever tried a mozzarella di bufala from Aldi? It just isn’t what’s written on the packaging.

Waitrose pain au chocolate might be made in the same factory of Morrison’s, but the former are big and the chocolate is chunky, the latter are sad.

Also, when I pass by the fish counter in Sainsbury’s it stinks. That’s definitely older fish.

The samei origin ingredients may into into different labels but what tge do with them can differ along with additionally ingredients. M&S Brand chi ken names a farm that doesn't exist to protect identity.

I used to work for a company that made certain own brand things for all the big retailers and this was 20 years ago. I thought everyone knew.

I know someone that works for Aldi earns more than me per hour and I have many more years experience and am in a "management" position. Wouldnt want to work some of their shifts though but they are looked after. Very happy staff in our local Aldi. Not many retailers pay well these days and we no longer get extras for working bank hols and Sundays as just classed as "normal" working day.

Its 2sisters chicken factory that supply m and s and aldi lidl tesco morries etc

They all grown in the same greenhouse. I thought everyone new...

We have this discussion frequently where i work. Some folk genuinely believe different shops have different factories... its bizzare 😂

But it's not the same .. someone said Moy park products are 100% same as M and S.
nope.
The ingredients are differnet on say chicken nuggets etc.
Maybe the chicken used is the same but I disagree.
If it all tasted the same everyone would shop in cheaper shops

My friend paid £30 for a bottle of red wine in her local trendy wine bar - then seen it in Aldi for £6

You will always pay much more for a bottle of wine in a bar than in the shops.

Same with beer.

Or in a restaurant. We went into an Italian restaurant in Tenerife, and the wine on the list was twice the price that it was in the next-door supermarket.

Aldi quality is much better than Waitrose and M&S, cheaper, not pretentious or snobby...overall I find it a much better shopping experience than other supermarkets including the above.

Love an Aldi shop! I’ve started getting loads of my stuff there, not just because the price is better but because the quality is the same, if not better, than the brand name stuff. Plus, it’s the quickest supermarket for me to get to, win win!

These food factories are contracted out to different companies but work to the specs given by each company, therefore a lot of the time the packaging is the same in appearance (keeps costs down). I worked a little for hunters the bakers in team valley Gateshead (now closed) and know the recipes had to be changed for each of the companies. I think it's funny when people get outraged when they find mistakes in there local shops, recently someone found a different brand of sauce or something and instantly comes to the conclusion that its all branding and the product is same with different label, obviously it was an error in packing, they move so fast to pack it probably went in overspill and wasn't collected before new batch for next company started and was collected at end of that batch.

It’s a shame I can’t buy my fruit from Aldi as it’s always bruised to buggery the next day and covered in fur! But then, I watched a documentary about how the staff have to work at 900mph to get the products rammed onto the shelves in time to work the till.

@HowlsMovingBungalow no they do actually come from different factories. M&S come from a dedicated sandwich factory. I know this as used to work at M&S HO in food. A lot of the factories serve multiple retailers but some do come from dedicated factories-bagged salads, sandwiches and some other products

I worked for a paper supplier many years ago. They spent over £25 million on new technology to make a new softer toilet roll. We launched it to the major supermarkets. The first question from the Sainsbury's buyer was 'When can we have it for our own label?' The answer was they couldn't as at first the machine couldn't meet demand for the premium branded product, but they kept on asking. I left a couple of years later, so have no idea if they ever got it.

Wish we had a local Aldi - nearest one seven miles away, that makes it too uneconomical to drive there and back plus needing to get those extra bits closer to home

I don't understand that argument like. A 14 mile round trip costs about £2 in fuel so you'd save that many times over compared to tesco, Sainsburys or Waitrose for a full weeks shop.

And you don't need to go every week, you could go once or twice a month, stock up on non perishables and anything that would last a week or two.