Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech

Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by dec0dedab0de on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:16PM (#27476002)

Aldi is similar, which is kind of interesting because Trader Joes is one of the Aldis. I always wonder how they get away with blatant trademark infringement. They come up with similar product design for the purpose of confusing consumers. I assume they have deals with most of the name brand products, or their parent companies.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by arrosenberg on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:29PM (#27476149)

I don't know about Trader Joe's specifically, but a lot of "Store Brands" are made in the same place as the name brand. It's just a giant game of price discrimination.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by rurp on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:44PM (#27476333)

This is very true. I worked at Traders many years ago and at least back then the store brands were often made by the same name brand company.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by Stratoscope on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:38PM (#27479837)

Agreed. I never worked there but have shopped there for many years, along with the other usual places like Whole Foods and Safeway. A game I used to play was "spot the TJ's store brand item under its own name at another store."

One example is TJ's French Village plain nonfat yogurt, which is very obviously Nancy's yogurt from Springfield Creamery in Oregon. Same exact taste and texture in the same packaging. (Nancy's used to come in clear plastic tubs like TJ's. A few years ago they switched to opaque white for their name brand, but it's still the same product.)

Another is some of the frozen Indian foods, which Whole Foods carries under the manufacturer's brand name.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by dreamcompiler on Friday June 11, 2021 @01:49PM (#27476407)

From what I've read, TJ's doesn't infringe. They simply pay the original manufacturer to make a run of the product with TJ's label on it.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by mindslight on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:14PM (#27476720)

Part of the agreement seems to be that the manufacturer goes out of their way to make a worse version for TJ's. Honestly they should be taken to task for flooding the market with fake competition, but that applies to the majority of brands in these days of megaconsolidation.

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Re:Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech by Stratoscope on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:44PM (#27479880)

I don't think that is the case. As I noted in a sibling comment, many of TJ's store brands are identical to the name brand.

Buy a tub of the French Village yogurt I mentioned, and also buy the same Nancy's yogurt at Whole Foods, and you won't find any difference between the two.

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