People Twitter

What is this, the Oldest House?

collapsed inline media

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.

Once upon a time in England we had “No Frills” which was basically exactly that

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's a beer made in New Zealand, by garage project, called Beer. The cans look very similar to those products.

Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt

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.

this looks exactly like all products in the movie repo man.

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.

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

Every vending machine in the Federal Bureau of Control.

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.

If you see stuff like that you're either at a military commissary, or No Frills.

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

This existed (well the products anyway) in the 80s.

https://youtu.be/_mHEZkBdRkI

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

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

USA in the 1970's

The life of a repo man is always intense.

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.