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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Every vending machine in the Federal Bureau of Control.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Now I want pickles

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

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

https://youtu.be/_mHEZkBdRkI

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Who remember the "NoName" floppies and cd roms?

Quite awful quality IIRC.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is this, the Oldest House?

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago (8 children)

YES A CONTROL REFERENCE IN THE WILD HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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."

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[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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)

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They’ve just kinda, taken over.

That's called a monopoly.

[–] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

😅It is, isn’t it!

Though I will say smaller groceries and type-specific groceries are aliving, thriving, and cheaper here in Nova Scotia

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

And no frills sells mainly that brand

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Now they dress it up with fake farm and deli names. "Creamfields", "Hearty Food Co", "Boswell Farms". I am not fooled!

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When I was poor and unemployed in the distant past, I sustained myself on Tesco value pasta at 13p a bag.

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Canada still has No Frills, at least In British Columbia. They essentially get the leftovers the big-box stores don’t want.

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[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sweden had Konsum/Domus and Blåvitt

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Side note, Muji 無印 literally means "no brand".

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[–] albert180@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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...

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[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

This is a thing

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