Some supermarket brands are made by the same factories as the original ones, the difference is mostly marketing.
By the way, this is similar to Amazon analyzing the most profitable products from their partner merchants and creating their own “basic” version to take the market. But people don’t seem as scandalized when supermarket do it.
Is it 1985? How am I reading this title right now?
It does sound odd, but I read it as “things used to be cheaper on the internet”.
I’ve never bought groceries on the internet, but a good example is household products
Compare the price of, for example, drain cleaner, coffee machine descaler, dish soap, sponges etc etc
They’re far cheaper to buy in a supermarket than from Amazon or anywhere online now. Online retailers have been jacking up prices for a decade, whereas supermarkets have been trying to keep them down
I’m not sure that you and I read the same article
Is “home brand” an Australian term? I’ve never heard store brands or private labels called that
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