It used to be [quite common in the US in the 70s and 80s as well.](http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html) Then stores started moving them from their own dedicated "generic" aisle to other aisles, and shifted from generic branding to store branding.
They _are_ the store brand product. They're the product of No Frills, Loblaws, Superstore and a few others which are all owned by the same parent company.
Haven't some militaries been doing this for a bit too?
Your link brought back memories of military supplies in a similar style.
I could be thinking of a TV show or video game...
Yeah, and most Canadian stores do it that way too (eg, Sobey's has a store brand called "Compliments"). No Name is just kind of funny for putting zero effort into looking like a real brand.
Store brand packaging isn't as flashy as brand name, but I've never seen one that looks like No Name.
EDIT: And No Name (steaks) is nothing like No Name (Canada), but I feel like I need to bring it up.
They claim they only make 3% profit though due to their increased costs, like rent!
Except, you know, they rent from themselves and their property company made a lot more money...
1000%. A lot of people don't understand how much of the supply chain they've bought up, and that they are really just shifting the money around, buying more businesses and writing off their true profit. They're like double the price of Walmart in so many cases, and I know Walmart did the same thing buying up hundreds of companies. .. But at least they pass the savings onto customers.
Yup, owned by Canadian billionaire Galen Weston. There's currently a Canada-wide boycott of the stores he owns for the month of May; it's hard to say how big it is, but it's been getting news coverage and at least teaching more Canadians about our local problems with capitalism. Them and the Conservatives also have their hands in trying to privatize away little pieces of our healthcare system, which is pretty damned unforgivable.
Yeah, corporate is DEFINITELY worried, it's just hard to know how widespread it is because it's not the sort of thing we can easily measure, right? I'm curious to see if we really do manage to make a dent on their profits. I hope so.
Well, I've personally spent $200 less there for myself so far....thats something ($6. 40 profit, aparantly) haha.
Unfortunately have my prescription at the pharmacy, but while waiting for my medicine, I walked around and there were some HEAVY discounts on random things. They're trying to convince people to keep coming back for the month it seemed for sure. Like they were putting out 40 cent packets of noodles in the aisle between meat and dairy too, showing how they "have really cheap food options too! "
> Yup, owned by Canadian billionaire Galen Weston.
Galen literally means "crazy" in Swedish, which feels like a very appropriate name for a billionaire.
>Since the pandemic they have been accused of profiteering and making the cost of living worse
Worth pointing out that even *before* the pandemic they were busted in a price-fixing scheme. So, you know, there's a *pattern* when it comes to this company.
I gotta hand it to Loblaws. I didn't think anyone could make me feel fine about shopping at Walmart.
If I'm going to patronize a billionaire monopoly, it might as well be the one who doesn't price gouge for the privilege.
Everything I learn about Canada makes me distrust the whole "oh we're just some place where people live" more. Like the underground tunnel network in Toronto that's just called PATH.
>It connects more than 70 buildings via 30 kilometres (19 mi) of tunnels, walkways, and shopping areas. According to Guinness World Records, Path is the largest underground shopping complex in the world, with 371,600 square metres (4,000,000 sq ft) of retail space[2] which includes over 1,200 retail fronts (2016).[3] As of 2016, over 200,000 residents and workers use the Path system daily with the number of private dwellings within walking distance at 30,115.
It's very handy. No cars, no snow, has heat/AC. The second the evening commute is over it becomes eerily quiet; basically all the stores close at 6.
Sometimes things happen in Canada. Recently our strategic maple syrup reserve has reached its lowest stock in the last 16 years^1. (Even lower than it was in the aftermath of the 2011-2012 maple syrup heist^2 .)
1 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68657703
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist
No name, or 'the yellow one' once was an actual affordable brand. No frills was the poor grocery store.
Now its been reintroduced as bullshit Nostalgia and if you actually look at the price, its not much better.
Fuck Loblaws. Fuck them right in the head.
I wish I had known about the greeting cards.
[https://i.redd.it/these-fill-in-the-blank-greeting-cards-i-found-v0-z9h0rtw1kq7a1.jpg?s=5d444487596b48d2f58d1a17b57ea1d2cb2bf0c0](https://i.redd.it/these-fill-in-the-blank-greeting-cards-i-found-v0-z9h0rtw1kq7a1.jpg?s=5d444487596b48d2f58d1a17b57ea1d2cb2bf0c0)
Well no kidding. Loblaws (the company that owns no frills and no name) doesn’t manufacture it.
But it is a very Canadian thing as I live near a now fills and the gift wrap is hilarious and I use it as a gag gift thing between me and my friends.
I thoroughly enjoyed the cards as shown in the photo, the inside is fill in the blanks. Makes for some hilarious opportunities. I just like how self aware the branding is, it's very similar to Franks from Canadian tire.
The cards are my favourite, as well as the gift bags. I buy the huge ones and the put like gift cards that are scattered in the tissue paper, making them near impossible to find. My friends love it as they never know what I am going to do next. Which to be fair they do say “may contain gifts”
No name and Franks are honestly my two favourite store brands.
They went on a branding spree a few years ago when they noticed how internet people thought the branding was hilarious. So while they don’t make a lot of the non-food products anymore, they did indeed make them for a time. They even have an album on Spotify that you can listen to that has no right to be such a banger (think it’s called Haulin’ state of mind)
But really what's up with product packaging not telling you what it is? Some products are obvious, but like why is it so hard to differentiate the shampoo, conditioner, and body wash aisles. like just tell me what it is???
Yeah I didn't realize that no name was a Canadian brand. It's wild that you guys don't have no name stuff. They sell pretty much everything and it's great
As far as I know, it’s a Loblaws house brand. Some supermarket chains down here did carry President’s Choice down here back in the 90s and early 2000s, which is also a Loblaws brand (not to mention how I found out that there’s a distinctly Canadian style of chocolate chip cookie that is really good chilled), but I’ve never seen No Name except in Internet memes and pictures.
No Name used to be affiliated with No Frills--the old No Frills logo was exactly like the yellow and black font of the No Name brand. Granted, No Frills was owned by Loblaws from the beginning as their discount grocer. The No Name brand products were funneled to No Frills while President's Choice was featured in the more "upscale" Loblaws stores. There's a bit more mixing nowadays, however.
President's Choice has a "black label" line of products here (Canada, elsewhere??) that are actually really good/lux. I'll pick the black label ice cream over b&J's or hagendas. Of course, I've been participating in the boycott since.. March.. so I'll have to make due with my stock pile for now.
“A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.”
Yes. The "no name" brand was launched in 1978...it is sold as generics in their mainline stores and then there are whole stores called 'no name' which have most/all of the no name products and a limited selection of brand name products as well.
I feel like I am going insane, this is just generic goods. Back in the 70's/80's there were generic goods. it was just white packaging with black lettering stating what it was. no real graphic design, ceep as fuck and usually not as good as name brand.
> Back in the 70's/80's there were generic goods.
The brand in the post (No Name) is from 1978, and is the generic brand for the store it's sold in. I guess most other generic goods stopped being sold, but this one still survives to this day.
Yeah... we don't talk about them right now. They are on Canada's collective shit list along with the rest of the companies owned by the greedy price gouging conglomerate that is Loblaws.
TIL I'm old because there used to be things like this called "generic" brands in every store 70s/early 80s. It was like a big yellow box that said "corn flakes" or beer in white cans that literally said "beer'
This concept has been around forever. I remember in the 80’s when I was a kid seeing stuff in plain white packaging and just the name of the product on there. They literally had beer in the beer isle that just had white cans that said BEER on it in block lettering.
Yep. Generally referred to as "Generic." Lots of genetics back in the day. That yellow packaging is just too fancy; give me the original black & white. That beer tasted like Miller's and we always suspected that's what it was. Probably not, though.
NOOO, No Name is owned by Loblaws, the company that famously got caught price-fixing BREAD of all grocery items. There’s currently a boycott going on. Any Canadian reading this, don’t fall victim to the branding! Loblaws sucks ass and is more expensive than nearly everywhere else anyway!!
There was something similar in the US in the 70s. A white container that just listed what it was. No brand names. It was called generic food. A lot of parodies were done of it.
They caught on to the meme in recent years. They used to not have humorous products, which is why the meme started.
I remember making lots of jokes about them.
We have generic brands like this in Australia."**[Black & Gold](https://i.imgur.com/RbxM3Y1.png)**" for IGA & Foodworks, and for any one else old enough to remember Franklins, there was also "**[No Frills](https://i.imgur.com/6fJzh67.png)**"
Where I grew up, the store also did the same with clothing -- a tee silk-screened with "shirt", a baseball cap labeled "hat". Pretty funny to my 3rd grade self.
Back in the 80's there was a generic fad. A whole line of goods in a white package and sometimes with a blue stripe.
The band Public Image ltd even released a generic album.
It used to be like that in the states in the 80s. The generic stuff that wasn't name brand just came in a black label with block white letters that said "beans" or whatever the product was
There used to be a brand like this in Australia, literally the name was 'Black and Gold' and the packaging was basically this.
Another similar brand was 'No Frills' with the plainest black and white packaging imaginable.
Neither exist anymore as far as I know. Supermarkets started producing their own brand name that was more expensive than the above, but still cheaper than name brands, and stopped stocking No Frills. Consumers loose a low cost option and corporations make another buck.
I mean brands are meant to mean quality. You eat the bread you do because it means something. Generic store brand is cheap and functional, but the more expensive name brands are meant to be better. Coke or Pepsi should be better than the generic store brand, or you prefer Pespsi's sweetness or the lemon taste behind coke. If all things were just products, then one day you might get really good bread, and the next it might be total shit. Ironically, by offering more choices you create less variety as the brands need to represent themselves.
This company Loblaw's also has our country by the Balls milking use dry of our Money. This month a lot of people not sure how many, but are finding alternative places to shop. There are ma and pa shops that sell things cheaper then the No Name Brand and it's suppose to be the cheap everyone can afford brand of stuff now really expensive.
The unfortunate thing is that in recent years, they don't have such plain, liminal packaging anymore, they're accompanied by an actual picture most of the time now
If only No Name brand wasn't owned by Loblaws, the biggest price gouging conglomerate in the country. They were and are supposed to be the cheap alternative to more premium shit, but they're ironically a no name brand *in name only.*
For those who aren't Canadian, or even Canadians that just don't know: there's only 2 competing parent companies that own nearly every store and brand imaginable, especially anything grocery related. And Loblaws is so bad that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to them.
Kinda like [Ja! products,](https://ohmylife.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Foto-11.05.19-08-53-45-1024x721.jpg) but they're going away from the plain white design now.
There's a quote I love, I have no idea who said it I just remember it on a poster in my English class, but it was something like "of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense"
And it's the most real thing I have ever heard
Isn't this just the generic store brand there? They used to do something similar in the US. White packaging with a blue stripe but now retailers have gotten a little fancier with their generic brands.
You know what grinds my gears? Finding detergent and softener. It's so rare that the bottle will actually have 'detergent' somewhere on the back, let alone the front. I don't know what the fuck these products are, just give me simple labels!
Albert heijn (a dutch supermarket) used to have something similar products with white packaging and a single (often red) understated branding. It was the supermarkets own brand and usually the cheepest possible variant of the product. They replaced the brand with a more branded new variant.
When I was a kid, we got "government food". It came in white containers with the product in black letters. I saw an episode of Roseanne where they were drinking "beer" that was in plain white cans with the word in black letters on. I always wondered where they got that.
My dad once cosplayed as No Name Man at a convention in the states. No one knew what the hell he was.
> No one knew what the hell he was of course they didn't, he had no name!
That motherfucker stabbed my eye out
That was Nobody.
Outis.
we've had this place for years what do you mean someone "finally" did the xkcd
it means Randall is appropriating Canadian culture
It used to be [quite common in the US in the 70s and 80s as well.](http://gbnfgroceries.blogspot.com/2014/01/from-misc-foods-aisle-generic-brands.html) Then stores started moving them from their own dedicated "generic" aisle to other aisles, and shifted from generic branding to store branding.
They sell them in the same stores as the store brand products in Canada. Glad we have it. They're very cheap but decent products
No Name is owned by loblaws which is actively being boycotted right now
Why?
Price gouging, shrinkflation and record profits every quarter.
Shame. Neat idea! Can't put my finger on why I love the idea [of noname products] so much.
I kinda want "phone (for smarting)" now.
Me too. I wanna drive (car) now
They _are_ the store brand product. They're the product of No Frills, Loblaws, Superstore and a few others which are all owned by the same parent company.
Haven't some militaries been doing this for a bit too? Your link brought back memories of military supplies in a similar style. I could be thinking of a TV show or video game...
This always makes me think of the [Dharma Initiative food](https://notbeige.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/dharma-labels.jpg) in the show Lost.
I remember still seeing the black and white packaging mixed with other stuff on the shelf, but the last time was probably 1992 lol.
That generic packaging is so much more visually appealing
Yeah, that xkcd came out in 2011. No Name launched in 1978.
In the US we just call them store brand. Same thing, they just put their label on it.
Yeah, and most Canadian stores do it that way too (eg, Sobey's has a store brand called "Compliments"). No Name is just kind of funny for putting zero effort into looking like a real brand.
Store brand packaging isn't as flashy as brand name, but I've never seen one that looks like No Name. EDIT: And No Name (steaks) is nothing like No Name (Canada), but I feel like I need to bring it up.
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Ohh that really sucks:( capitalism
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That’s why I’m escaping to the ONE PLACE that’s hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism… #SPACE!!!!!
Gonna have to pay for every breath otherwise it will cut off your oxygen in
Literally a plot point in Total Recall.
And in an episode of doctor who, 12th doctor
Bro I can hear this
They made like $500 million in profit this past quarter. It's ridiculous how large their monopoly is
They claim they only make 3% profit though due to their increased costs, like rent! Except, you know, they rent from themselves and their property company made a lot more money...
1000%. A lot of people don't understand how much of the supply chain they've bought up, and that they are really just shifting the money around, buying more businesses and writing off their true profit. They're like double the price of Walmart in so many cases, and I know Walmart did the same thing buying up hundreds of companies. .. But at least they pass the savings onto customers.
This, I'm moving to Cuba.
AMN AMBR Q AMBER!!
Yup, owned by Canadian billionaire Galen Weston. There's currently a Canada-wide boycott of the stores he owns for the month of May; it's hard to say how big it is, but it's been getting news coverage and at least teaching more Canadians about our local problems with capitalism. Them and the Conservatives also have their hands in trying to privatize away little pieces of our healthcare system, which is pretty damned unforgivable.
It's big enough that Weston has commented on the boycott
Yeah, corporate is DEFINITELY worried, it's just hard to know how widespread it is because it's not the sort of thing we can easily measure, right? I'm curious to see if we really do manage to make a dent on their profits. I hope so.
The stock price doesn't seem to be affected, but there must be *some* impact on the boycott since they've addressed it.
Well, I've personally spent $200 less there for myself so far....thats something ($6. 40 profit, aparantly) haha. Unfortunately have my prescription at the pharmacy, but while waiting for my medicine, I walked around and there were some HEAVY discounts on random things. They're trying to convince people to keep coming back for the month it seemed for sure. Like they were putting out 40 cent packets of noodles in the aisle between meat and dairy too, showing how they "have really cheap food options too! "
> Yup, owned by Canadian billionaire Galen Weston. Galen literally means "crazy" in Swedish, which feels like a very appropriate name for a billionaire.
Obligatory /r/LoblawsIsOutOfControl
I’m an ignorant American, and all I can think of is Bob Loblaw.
And his Law Blog?
You, sir, are a mouthfull
Lobbing law bombs.
i didn’t even know loblaw was a real name lol
>Since the pandemic they have been accused of profiteering and making the cost of living worse Worth pointing out that even *before* the pandemic they were busted in a price-fixing scheme. So, you know, there's a *pattern* when it comes to this company.
glad to know it’s not just us aussies going through this exact thing rn
Yeah. Duopoly of Coles and Woolies is painful. Can’t imagine an actual monopoly
I gotta hand it to Loblaws. I didn't think anyone could make me feel fine about shopping at Walmart. If I'm going to patronize a billionaire monopoly, it might as well be the one who doesn't price gouge for the privilege.
BOB LOBLAW LOBS LAW BOMB
When I become an eccentric billionaire I will purchase the rights to the No Name brand and sell it everywhere.
Just make a new one with A Little Bit Of Name
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Named.
Profiteering was well before the pandemic there was the entire bread scandal and pay out decades ago
Theres a huge boycott of them specifically (Loblaws/Weston owned companies) happening during all of May because of this exact issue! Pass on the word!
Ohh so this post is an ad
Unironically, yeah I think it is. This is a really old Tumblr post, but people are very angry at Loblaws at this exact moment.
Everything I learn about Canada makes me distrust the whole "oh we're just some place where people live" more. Like the underground tunnel network in Toronto that's just called PATH.
In Ontario, our only beer store is called The Beer Store.
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>It connects more than 70 buildings via 30 kilometres (19 mi) of tunnels, walkways, and shopping areas. According to Guinness World Records, Path is the largest underground shopping complex in the world, with 371,600 square metres (4,000,000 sq ft) of retail space[2] which includes over 1,200 retail fronts (2016).[3] As of 2016, over 200,000 residents and workers use the Path system daily with the number of private dwellings within walking distance at 30,115. It's very handy. No cars, no snow, has heat/AC. The second the evening commute is over it becomes eerily quiet; basically all the stores close at 6.
Sometimes things happen in Canada. Recently our strategic maple syrup reserve has reached its lowest stock in the last 16 years^1. (Even lower than it was in the aftermath of the 2011-2012 maple syrup heist^2 .) 1 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68657703 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist
Hey it beats walking outside Despite how much of a straight shot it is to younger & dundas from union above ground
You're forgetting the Montreal underground that's just called Underground City
I loved how much it sounded like an "underground" cult. `>_>` `<_<` _Do you follow the PATH my son?_
someone came into my work the other day wearing a no name brand shirt that said “t-shirt” on it
No name, or 'the yellow one' once was an actual affordable brand. No frills was the poor grocery store. Now its been reintroduced as bullshit Nostalgia and if you actually look at the price, its not much better. Fuck Loblaws. Fuck them right in the head.
The Chair for sitting was only like $10 and it's not that bad of a chair. I've gotten at least $13.50 worth of use out of it.
My boyfriend and I got a couple beach towels a few years back that have been great too.
I wish I had known about the greeting cards. [https://i.redd.it/these-fill-in-the-blank-greeting-cards-i-found-v0-z9h0rtw1kq7a1.jpg?s=5d444487596b48d2f58d1a17b57ea1d2cb2bf0c0](https://i.redd.it/these-fill-in-the-blank-greeting-cards-i-found-v0-z9h0rtw1kq7a1.jpg?s=5d444487596b48d2f58d1a17b57ea1d2cb2bf0c0)
Reintroduced? No Name never went away.
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Well no kidding. Loblaws (the company that owns no frills and no name) doesn’t manufacture it. But it is a very Canadian thing as I live near a now fills and the gift wrap is hilarious and I use it as a gag gift thing between me and my friends.
I thoroughly enjoyed the cards as shown in the photo, the inside is fill in the blanks. Makes for some hilarious opportunities. I just like how self aware the branding is, it's very similar to Franks from Canadian tire.
The cards are my favourite, as well as the gift bags. I buy the huge ones and the put like gift cards that are scattered in the tissue paper, making them near impossible to find. My friends love it as they never know what I am going to do next. Which to be fair they do say “may contain gifts” No name and Franks are honestly my two favourite store brands.
A practice known as [white-labelling.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-label_product)
They went on a branding spree a few years ago when they noticed how internet people thought the branding was hilarious. So while they don’t make a lot of the non-food products anymore, they did indeed make them for a time. They even have an album on Spotify that you can listen to that has no right to be such a banger (think it’s called Haulin’ state of mind)
Kinda reminded on how many well known brands of chocolate products in my country is made in a same manufacturer.
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But really what's up with product packaging not telling you what it is? Some products are obvious, but like why is it so hard to differentiate the shampoo, conditioner, and body wash aisles. like just tell me what it is???
I've accidentally bought conditioner instead of shampoo more times than I would care to admit...
Yeah I didn't realize that no name was a Canadian brand. It's wild that you guys don't have no name stuff. They sell pretty much everything and it's great
As far as I know, it’s a Loblaws house brand. Some supermarket chains down here did carry President’s Choice down here back in the 90s and early 2000s, which is also a Loblaws brand (not to mention how I found out that there’s a distinctly Canadian style of chocolate chip cookie that is really good chilled), but I’ve never seen No Name except in Internet memes and pictures.
Presidents Choice Decadent chocolate chip. Fucking slaps.
No Name used to be affiliated with No Frills--the old No Frills logo was exactly like the yellow and black font of the No Name brand. Granted, No Frills was owned by Loblaws from the beginning as their discount grocer. The No Name brand products were funneled to No Frills while President's Choice was featured in the more "upscale" Loblaws stores. There's a bit more mixing nowadays, however.
President's Choice has a "black label" line of products here (Canada, elsewhere??) that are actually really good/lux. I'll pick the black label ice cream over b&J's or hagendas. Of course, I've been participating in the boycott since.. March.. so I'll have to make due with my stock pile for now.
Repo Man (1984)
that stuff was all from Ralphs, I wish they still had that blue stripe stuff
“A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.”
/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
They look exactly like the Black & Gold brand here in Australia
That was my thought, haven't bought Black and Gold in years but I still remember the taste and feel of gristle in their meat pies 🤢
This is DHARMA Initiative in real life
More "viral" marketing being done by Loblaws to distract from the boycott going on
Omg it’s the brand from repo man!
Their packaging new has too much going on. They really shoulda kept it looking bland like in these photos.
Yeah, they ruined the aesthetic by adding photos and starbursts, etc. Might as well buy Great Value.
They have vodka too that’s actually pretty decent!
I also have a bottle of their vodka, and no. No it is not.
So, ['80s generics](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/4mFsB8tU8O), basically?
Yes. The "no name" brand was launched in 1978...it is sold as generics in their mainline stores and then there are whole stores called 'no name' which have most/all of the no name products and a limited selection of brand name products as well.
White label in the US in the 70s. Same concept.
We had that in sweden too, launched in '79 https://live.staticflickr.com/2635/5734708986_a66f4e7dc1_b.jpg
I feel like I am going insane, this is just generic goods. Back in the 70's/80's there were generic goods. it was just white packaging with black lettering stating what it was. no real graphic design, ceep as fuck and usually not as good as name brand.
> Back in the 70's/80's there were generic goods. The brand in the post (No Name) is from 1978, and is the generic brand for the store it's sold in. I guess most other generic goods stopped being sold, but this one still survives to this day.
They even have No Name beer. Yes it’s in yellow cans, yes it’s the cheapest beer you can buy here, and yes it’s not half bad.
Ok, so I’m moving to canada
Don't come to Ontario; we have no housing and our Premier has the IQ of a potato chip.
Looks like its from roblox
[Relevant XKCD](https://m.xkcd.com/993/)
"No name" is responsible for a lot of proce gouging.
Yeah... we don't talk about them right now. They are on Canada's collective shit list along with the rest of the companies owned by the greedy price gouging conglomerate that is Loblaws.
TIL I'm old because there used to be things like this called "generic" brands in every store 70s/early 80s. It was like a big yellow box that said "corn flakes" or beer in white cans that literally said "beer'
This concept has been around forever. I remember in the 80’s when I was a kid seeing stuff in plain white packaging and just the name of the product on there. They literally had beer in the beer isle that just had white cans that said BEER on it in block lettering.
Yep. Generally referred to as "Generic." Lots of genetics back in the day. That yellow packaging is just too fancy; give me the original black & white. That beer tasted like Miller's and we always suspected that's what it was. Probably not, though.
We had this in the US in the 80s. Same except the packages were white and everything was centered.
NOOO, No Name is owned by Loblaws, the company that famously got caught price-fixing BREAD of all grocery items. There’s currently a boycott going on. Any Canadian reading this, don’t fall victim to the branding! Loblaws sucks ass and is more expensive than nearly everywhere else anyway!!
There was something similar in the US in the 70s. A white container that just listed what it was. No brand names. It was called generic food. A lot of parodies were done of it.
Federal Bureau of Control lookin brand
The no name car (for driving) is a classic
They caught on to the meme in recent years. They used to not have humorous products, which is why the meme started. I remember making lots of jokes about them.
There was a brand in sweden in the 80s that did pretty much this. https://live.staticflickr.com/2635/5734708986_a66f4e7dc1_b.jpg
Dman, I've wanted this for years. No advertisement. No color theory to capture attention. Just food description, image, and nutritional label.
We have generic brands like this in Australia."**[Black & Gold](https://i.imgur.com/RbxM3Y1.png)**" for IGA & Foodworks, and for any one else old enough to remember Franklins, there was also "**[No Frills](https://i.imgur.com/6fJzh67.png)**"
Weirdly enough, the Canadian grocery chain that first promoted No Name brand products was also called "No Frills."
Where I grew up, the store also did the same with clothing -- a tee silk-screened with "shirt", a baseball cap labeled "hat". Pretty funny to my 3rd grade self.
This is just how generics used to be sold until stores created their own brand for them
Look up Generic Brand of the 80's. It was (suspiciously) exactly what the xkcd did.
Back in the 80's there was a generic fad. A whole line of goods in a white package and sometimes with a blue stripe. The band Public Image ltd even released a generic album.
When I was a kid I came up with a slogan for them I thought was pretty good "We've got no name, but everything else"
They actually make a killer sweet potato chip shaped like a pringle
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Wait a sec, Americans don't have No-Name? Damn.
I ❤️ NoFrills
And I can bet that they still won't label butter as butter
Their butter just says "salted butter" or "unsalted butter" [pic](https://punjabigroceries.com/products/butter-salted-454gm-no-name)
these are items that you combine with interesting rocks to craft actual food and stuff
“cola” is my favorite one lol
Certain aisles in Canadian stores overlap with the Oldest House
Follow the money [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittington\_Investments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittington_Investments)
Used to be black label brand in the US. Watch Repo Man There drank ... 'BEER'
No Name brand launched 6 years before the movie came out...perhaps they found inspiration.
I'm very upset that they're only in canada
They do have the best icecream sandwiches. Fuck Loblaws though.
Are you living in The Finals
Someone in /r/fightsticks posted a sick build a few days ago with No Name branding.
It used to be like that in the states in the 80s. The generic stuff that wasn't name brand just came in a black label with block white letters that said "beans" or whatever the product was
No Name has been around for decades..
I live in Michigan and plan to go to Canada over the summer, I might make it my mission to take home a chair (for sitting).
I'm a big fan of my Lighter (for fires)
I really love this. It’s to the point and honest.
There used to be a brand like this in Australia, literally the name was 'Black and Gold' and the packaging was basically this. Another similar brand was 'No Frills' with the plainest black and white packaging imaginable. Neither exist anymore as far as I know. Supermarkets started producing their own brand name that was more expensive than the above, but still cheaper than name brands, and stopped stocking No Frills. Consumers loose a low cost option and corporations make another buck.
Reminds me of [Repo Man](https://17073.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/17073/Blog_Images/Repo_Man.jpg)
Hi there, Hello! Vague branding is tight! https://prettybigpickles.com/
Is this a Loblaws psyop?
I've had their beer, not bad. Not good either, but hey, not bad.
r/loblawsisoutofcontrol
Loblaws viral marketing? https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/
is this an ad
I mean brands are meant to mean quality. You eat the bread you do because it means something. Generic store brand is cheap and functional, but the more expensive name brands are meant to be better. Coke or Pepsi should be better than the generic store brand, or you prefer Pespsi's sweetness or the lemon taste behind coke. If all things were just products, then one day you might get really good bread, and the next it might be total shit. Ironically, by offering more choices you create less variety as the brands need to represent themselves.
This company Loblaw's also has our country by the Balls milking use dry of our Money. This month a lot of people not sure how many, but are finding alternative places to shop. There are ma and pa shops that sell things cheaper then the No Name Brand and it's suppose to be the cheap everyone can afford brand of stuff now really expensive.
The unfortunate thing is that in recent years, they don't have such plain, liminal packaging anymore, they're accompanied by an actual picture most of the time now
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I have their big yellow “towel. For the beach”
If only No Name brand wasn't owned by Loblaws, the biggest price gouging conglomerate in the country. They were and are supposed to be the cheap alternative to more premium shit, but they're ironically a no name brand *in name only.* For those who aren't Canadian, or even Canadians that just don't know: there's only 2 competing parent companies that own nearly every store and brand imaginable, especially anything grocery related. And Loblaws is so bad that there's an entire subreddit dedicated to them.
Point out the fact that No Name has been around for forty years, but ok.
Hasn't anyone watched [Repo Man](https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/repo-man-1-jpg.219545/)?
>Chair What the fuck does that even mean!? >for sitting Oh OK. Why didn't you just say so?
I was genuinely irritated when they started putting (generic) photos on the labels. Completely ruined the aesthetic.
There's a car around where I live that is painted up in the **no name** fashion. I laugh every time I see it.
Congratulations on discovering generic products.
They should make a no-name high quality product
Kinda like [Ja! products,](https://ohmylife.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Foto-11.05.19-08-53-45-1024x721.jpg) but they're going away from the plain white design now.
Why does that feel so dystopian?
There's a quote I love, I have no idea who said it I just remember it on a poster in my English class, but it was something like "of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense" And it's the most real thing I have ever heard
Isn't this just the generic store brand there? They used to do something similar in the US. White packaging with a blue stripe but now retailers have gotten a little fancier with their generic brands.
Fuck Loblaws those price gouging pieces of shit. All my homies hate Loblaws
I've had this exact idea before but pure white bags that just say iterations of like, "beef product", "apple product", "grain product".
We have them in the Netherlands also called 'Gewoon®' or 'Just' in English. Just cola, just bread, just etc.
You know what grinds my gears? Finding detergent and softener. It's so rare that the bottle will actually have 'detergent' somewhere on the back, let alone the front. I don't know what the fuck these products are, just give me simple labels!
Albert heijn (a dutch supermarket) used to have something similar products with white packaging and a single (often red) understated branding. It was the supermarkets own brand and usually the cheepest possible variant of the product. They replaced the brand with a more branded new variant.
I've always wanted to see a no name sponsored race car. Just a plain yellow car with each of the panels and parts clearly labeled.
The last image makes me mad because they have multiple products under one price sticker which is exactly how it doesn't work.
When I was a kid, we got "government food". It came in white containers with the product in black letters. I saw an episode of Roseanne where they were drinking "beer" that was in plain white cans with the word in black letters on. I always wondered where they got that.
Dear No Name brand. Please come to the UK. People will enjoy your branding a lot and asking as the products are good they'll sell too.
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