2w ago

I've got No Name for realization

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What is this, the Oldest House?
- YES A CONTROL REFERENCE IN THE WILD HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
  
  Are you more excited for the show or the game sequel?
- Thanks of reminding me of the awesome premise of the Oldest House.
  "Better not bring any unnecessary cultural artifacts into the reality shifting place, so that whatever is in here doesn't have anything to latch onto."
  
  Cut to me bringing in a copy of budokai 3 so the oldest house makes goku real.
- two spots for pistachios is positively scrumptious

The reason they said Canada is because we have a brand here called No Name in yellow packaging doing that exact thing. It’s Loblaw’s store brand.
- And no frills sells mainly that brand
  
  Loblaws does. That includes no frills, Zehrs, Real Canadian super store, Dominion, Maxi, T & T, Wholesale Club and many others.
  You would be hard pressed not to find no name. YAY 3 WAY MONOPOLY ON FOOD!
- Mandatory fuck Loblaws and Weston Galen. Fuck Jim Pattison too while we're at it.
  
  YEAH!! WOOHOO!
- The US did this for a while from the later 70s until the mid 80s. White-label packaging, with just the name of the foodstuff or item printed on it, in its own separate aisle. Most of these evolved later on into store brands.
  
  Even into the 90s! I remember Albertson’s had that stuff back then.
- I was going to say doesn't this already exist in Canada? LoL
  Also isn't Loblaw's unbelievably horrible? Like even more evil than Walmart?
  
  I don’t know that they’re more evil than Walmart. I think that’s probably not right but I don’t know enough to say for sure. They’ve just kinda, taken over. I’ll put it this way, I much prefer Atlantic Superstore (Loblaws) to Walmart (which I won’t even set foot in)
- There was a UK brand that do the same thing although it is black text on a white background and they do have a thin blue line as well, for extra excitement.
  It's incredibly cheap stuff and not quality at all, but I suppose it is good if you want to save money. I do enjoy that a bottle of their vodka is just labelled "alcohol".
- Bob Loblaw?
  
  Oh I love his law blog
  
  Theodore Loblaw

Once upon a time in England we had “No Frills” which was basically exactly that
- remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?
  
  When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.
  
  Now they dress it up with fake farm and deli names. "Creamfields", "Hearty Food Co", "Boswell Farms". I am not fooled!
- Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.
  
  No Frills in Ontario too

If you grew up poor in America this is what government issued food stuffs looked like. They realized having this stuff was humiliating to the people that needed it and replaced it completely with snap cards you can use to buy whatever. Government cheese and peanut butter and milk were big staples.
- there was also Generic Brand in the 80's which looked exactly likes the pictured image with plain black text on white packaging.
  
  https://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html?m=1
  
  black text
  Oh god, oh fuck, this is like the dress again. It seems freaking golden to me

There's a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.
- Pretty sure we've got it in USA too, I think I've seen billboards for it recently.

Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt
- And Japan has Muji.
  
  Side note, Muji 無印 literally means "no brand".
  
  Shocked you're the first ITT to mention 無印良品 - it's probably the most successful unbranded brand in the world nowadays!

In Germany the leading drugstore chain does this with their brand aimed at Men. (See link).
https://www.dm.de/marken/seinz
They also noticed that they don't like walking through the whole store, so they put every product for men in one aisle directly next to the checkout.
- Don't forget "Ja!" https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.zFtYRskRiRhbki-Tbz2qgAAAAA&pid=Api
  
  Yeah actually every grocery chain in Germany has its own noname products which are pretty good quality.

I am still waiting for an online store that can sell me a no brand/ no label high quality tshirt in any of the basic colors and cuts and fabrics
- Probably need to post your country/region. Many of the better online stores are regional.
  For Germany, grundstoff.net has a good selection. They seem to ship all over Europe, but the webpage is only German...
- Just go to any store and buy something from gildan
- Absolutely!
- Uniqlo or American apparel? I go for the former more these days for pretty high quality basics with various colours and materials
  
  Really? I heard such good things about uniglo, but was a little dissapointed when i went in. It seemed to be all shades of white and grey, black, and some greenish earth tones. Not saying i didnt buy a couple things cause they do have some nice stuff, and basics for work or simple wardrobe.
  But you like them for color variety? Ill hafta look around more next time.
- Most of my shirts are solid color crew neck from fresh clean threads. Check them out online.
- I second Gildan.

This is a thing

this looks exactly like all products in the movie repo man.
- Repo man knows the code
  
  Or in real life, today if you want

We had this in France in the 80s when big supermarkets started to open.

I can’t seem to find any evidence online but there did used to be a supermarket in the UK in the 80s/90s called ‘No Frills’ and all their products were also just black and white packaging.
- The UK never had a No Frills. The No Frills chain started in Toronto, Ontario in 1978 and originally had the black and white packaging before switching to the. yellow and black. No Frills is a major grocery store chain in Canada, though it is owned by the Loblaws who suck balls.
  
  In the 1990s, the chain Kwik Save launched a No Frills brand, offering cheaper generic products, an idea that has since been taken up by all of the major supermarket chains
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwik_Save

would anyone actually like that? how am i supposed to know anything about a product if it's just called "chips"?? what's the flavor, texture, what does it look like?
maybe partially transparent packaging would be nice, though
- Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything.......
  
  I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.
  
  Australia has black & gold but it is a generic brand, mixed in with all the others.
- Australia used to have a store called no frills
  
  Hmmm, I would buy the shit out of that aesthetic.
  
  It was called Franklins, No Frills was their home brand

Every vending machine in the Federal Bureau of Control.
- Man I need to play that game again. Pumped for 2
  
  It's so great. It's like the entire game was conceived on an acid trip by a paranoid old tinfoil hat hippie.

Norwegian and Danish grocery store "Rema 1000" has their own store brand that's very minimalistic: https://shop.rema1000.dk/?filters=rema1000
It's just the text saying what it is and a little picture and not much else.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is pretty normal outside USA.
- Sweden had the ”blue white” brand for low price products. There wasn’t even an image on the boxes.
  https://kf.se/en-text-om-blavitt/
- What's the "kolonial" category? Seems kinda sus
  
  It's exactly what you think, it's a word that's stuck around for imported good from "the colonies". But to be fair, if you live in Denmark it doesn't take a lot for something to be exotic.
- They stock really good røkt laks. Used to know someone who worked in Norway and used to bring it sometimes.

If you see stuff like that you're either at a military commissary, or No Frills.
- Kwik Save used to do No Frills…is it still a thing somewhere?

xkcd did it in 2011 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/993:_Brand_Identity

This existed (well the products anyway) in the 80s.
https://youtu.be/_mHEZkBdRkI

USA in the 1970's
- Nice URL

tfw when no speak english (can't tell what those are)

- Now I want pickles

The life of a repo man is always intense.

wow, no LOST references here?
- My wife texted me the above image earlier and, I kid you not, this is my reply:
- I was thinking of all of the stores in the movie Host.
- Dharma branded Peanut Butter 😋
  Literally watching Lost right now 😂

In Korea there's a brand called No Brand. I like shopping there cause they have a few good deals and western snacks that don't get stocked in normal markets.

Who remember the "NoName" floppies and cd roms?
Quite awful quality IIRC.

In Gilead they called it "Fish & Loaves":

I feel like they would end up charging more for this stuff than gets charged for name brand items.

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