Brand loyalty 2007

my Adidas and me, close as can be

Vans.

Stubb's BBQ Sauce.

Diet Dr. Pepper.

Heinz ketchup.

Are duracell batteries still 6 times better than their competition?

that was a lie

You're lying about adidas?

Innocent Drinks

None that I can think of. I stopped caring. I do buy some brands, but overall I'm not too fussy about'em. I did buy a Sportsac. Just cause I wanted one. Silly really. But it's a MEGA cool one (manga drawing on it)

no duracell lied. the adidas statement/lyric ripoff stands.

Adidas, San Pellegrino, Berocca, Heinz Ketchup, Alpro Soy Milk, Moleskine.

Taylors of Harrogate, Heinz Ketchup yes big time. Helen Browning Organical Sossidge! Er, *desperately tries to think of something non-food related*

I'm returning to Converse brand loyalty. I tried going elsewhere and it's just not right. (I had a pair of Addidas that kept SQUEAKING once and the brand loyalty fell somewhat).

Er Dr Who is a brand amirite?

HUGGIES. Before I had a baby I would have MOCKED the idea that there were differences between nappies but Pampers just do not stay on (or maybe Lytton has a particularly Huggies-shaped arse).

Diet Coke, I'm loyal though I don't particularly like the fact. (i.e. behavioural loyalty but not emotional loyalty)

TABASCO

Then again: Alpro Soy Milk (flavoured ones) are GREBT.
Clover bamboo needles
Schweppes Tonic

Re nappies: bestest ones are the cheapo ones we get at Kruidvat. Pampers are *shit*.

weren't duracell the first widely available akaline batteries and would beat the others (zinc carbon) hands down. but other manufacturers soon caught on. i remember the duracell bunny test, one that lost it's value when they started using cgi bunnies.

converse trainers. that's about it. robinson's R? (actually, no, i'll drink sainsburys own brand as well, but prefer Robinsons). nad electronics for hifi stuff (not that i've bought anything for about 4 years but my next cd player will match amp, turntable and preamp). can't think of anything else i buy regularly where i care, everything's increasingly generic.

Nike SB, MD 20/20, Irn Bru.

Heinz ketchup, Jif peanut butter, Crest toothpaste, Stouffers frozen dinner.

Oh two more - Tunnocks Caramel Wafers, McVities Jaffa Cakes! Plymouth Gin. HA HA, Microsoft in a real actual sense...

Hellmans.

Clover bamboo needles

OTM

Also, Gutermann thread and Miller Lite (shut-up)

jack jones t shirts, jeans.

Apple and Adobe

Heinz ketchup, Hellmann's mayo, Northern toilet paper

Stubb's BBQ sauce is great. I first bought it because it was the sauce with the least sugar out of any of the ones on the shelf - turns out this also meant it tasted and cooked better.

De-Solv-It household cleaner -- that shit's amazing.

Holsten, Paulaner, Chiltern Railways

evian, lacoste

i guess tropicana and new covent garden though that's not so much "loyalty" as "supermarket default laziness"

pf flyers

Tesco's own bagels are to die for.

Adidas, Heinz, Disaronno, Nutella

Let me tell you about Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser.

San Pellegrino and Vans seconded or whatever. And YSL or Dior make-up. Arbonne products.

Oooh, yes, the magic eraser really is magic!
Heinz ketchup
hellmans mayo
barilla

That Magic Eraser is the bomb.

Also, what the hell is disarrono?

i love that there are billions of mayonnaise lovers here. a toast!

Results 1 - 10 of about 114,000 for disaronno. (0.08 seconds)

http://www.monnik-dranken.nl/downloads/flessen/disaronno.jpg

You all disgust me.

"disaronno on the rocks". Ugh. I can't decide which awful 'spirit' advert bugs me the most, but I think disaronno may have been overtaken by "so co?" "southern comfort". "so co on the rocks"? "so co all roun argghhhhhhhh!!!" (the latter part of the sentence is after I have covered them all in aforementioned "so co" and set them all on fire, the huge giant fucking cockfarmers).

Haha PRIMARK. I often think in town "oh i need a bag" or something but think "wait PRIMARK is the one for me".

Delouis et Fils Mayonnaise

Would you just stop it with the mayonnaise!!! I feel queasy!!!

I mean why would you feel loyal to WHITE GOO?

On saying that I have realised I am loyal to PRITT STICK and Tippex!!

There are brand products I buy regularly but I can't think of any where if it wasn't available I wouldn't just buy a rival version without hesitation.

Fentimans soft drinks spring to mind tho - I want them to be more successful/available but they need to do can versions (they do this for their shandy but not the others yet) and be cheaper.

why do people eat mayonnaise?

this is not mayo

this is mayonnaise, it is so good one can eat it with a spoon (I wonder if one could put it in an ice-cream maker)

I know disarrono is a liquor I want to know what kind. The lady "seductively" sucking on ice cubs tells me nothing.

Also jumping to google with every single pondering would make ILx a far less fun place.

no other pickapeppa sauce is quite as good as Pickapeppa Sauce

I think mayonnaise is something for peons who want to moisten their food and think they are too good for noble honest GRAVY.

I am going to see if there are any jobs going at Bisto.

Oh yes! BISTO!

ed, that is nasty

dont understand gravy either

gravy

Sarah I'd like to see you mix some gravy up with your tinned tuna, I would.

grervi

non rhotic

honestly this stuff is the food of kings, mayonnaise like I would make it if I had spent years honing my skills as a master mayonnaise maker. (I agree that jar mayonnaise is pretty disgusting)

but you carry it in your hip flask

xpost
Martha Stewart has a pretty quick recipe for it.

I want to learn to make yellow mustard.

Stolichnaya.

Tinned tuna is ALSO horrible (but it would be made much nicer with the addition of gravy - I can just tell).

I have a loyalty to tesco mackerel in a tin but I suppose I have to as they are the only people that ever have skinless and boneless mackerel! Sainsburys DID but then they stopped for some reason and hence I shun them.

xpost I have a quick recipe for Martha Stewart= Put in rocket, launch to faraway galaxy. God, that woman is annoying.

Nutella! Yes, of course. Damn.

http://www.eastgatemusic.com/splash/images/electroharmonix.gif

http://www.guitarhq.com/fender/djazzma.jpg

What about loyalty to, like, record labels. Does that count as brand loyalty?

sure!

oak
sycamore
beech
ash
rowan
yew
montezuma cypress
plane
hawthorn
national express

No 696 love for Megabus?

im scared to try it! i get too attached to what i know

Apple, Peets Coffee, Trader Joes, Fender, Vox amps

HP sauce
Old Jamaica ginger beer

Puma
DC Comics
Warp Records

The BBC!

What about loyalty to, like, record labels. Does that count as brand loyalty?

I was going to add Victo, Incus, Tzadik, Okkadisk and Wobbly Rail to my list, but "liking everything I've heard on that label" isn't quite the same thing as "buying everything that they put out just based on the label name." But those are close to brand-loyal names for me.

Also, RIP Barking Pumpkin Records -- total brand loyalty.

Coke

john lewis! i found myself defending the quality of their own-brand goods the other day and wondered what had happened to me

I think you are having turned into 1x PONCE, Tracey Hand!

I don't really have any brand loyalties. There are products I like, but I've never automatically assumed that a new product by a known brand is going to be any better than any other product.

That said, I will not accept any substitute for Scotch tape.

sure!

-- Tracer Hand, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:52 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Me too - Right Guard just doesn't cut the mustard.

Illy.

I have in my time been brand-loyal to Creation, Wiiija, Too Pure, Lazy and Duophonic, though thankfully the Creation part of that didn't last very long at all.

Doesn't brand loyalty imply an exclusion to all other brands? So if you're loyal to a record label would you not buy records from any other labels out of loyalty?

hip flask is for brandy, I have a pouch for mayonnaise

Let me tell you about Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser.

-- Ai Lien, Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:33 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

omg yes! except that even mr clean can get the soap scum off our bath :(

is there such a thing as reverse brand loyalty? like id buy any guitar but a fender?

back to loyalty:

i claim stolichnaya even though i always end up buying smirnoff (cheap!)
M.A.C
Nestle Good Start Supreme
avent
graco
truck flares
colgate total
listerine (amber)
pantene

i claim stolichnaya even though i always end up buying smirnoff (cheap!)

ditto here, also a stupid number of uk shops don't even sell stoli :(

you just reminded me:

sidekick

Hellman's mayonnaise (sorry Sarah!)
Morrisons own-brand nappies
Mam bottles/teats

Nothing else really. Certainly not clothing.

Marks and Spencer

Hendricks gin, Black Label beer (the cheapo USA kind only available in cans), Apple, Fluevog, Electro Harmonix, Camel, Kid Robot. Probably more I can't think of at the moment.

Fluevog

fluevog makes boy shoes?

OHHHH YES, and they are awesome.

Hellmans' Mayonaise, Heinz for ketchup and baked beans, Colemans' English mustard, The BBC, The Guardian, Nylon magazine, HP Sauce, Cypresa for stuffed vine leaves in a can, Camel Lights.

What is USA kind of Black Label beer? Not Carling?

It's Carling, but it's decidedly not the same, and brewed in Milwaukee.

I just didn't want anyone to think that I'd turned fancy all of a sudden.

So says the guy with Fluevog and Hendrick's on his list.

Apple, Budweiser (seriously-especially in summer), Cadillac.

And thumb's up on the Hendricks.

except that even mr clean can get the soap scum off our bath :(

This also brought me sadness. But it did get a Sharpie mark off our leather sofa so it rules.

http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewtareyton11.jpeg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6d/1965tareytonad.jpg/250px-1965tareytonad.jpg

http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewtareyton11.jpeg

I'd so beat up a Tareyton smoker.

Bush's baked beans, Scrubbing Bubbles, Camel cigarettes

creeepy
xpost to smokes ads

- new balance runners for running
- oral b toothbrush + floss
- clinique mascara (have tried so many but always come back)
- dollarstore random 'brand' batteries and weird etc

THOSE TAREYTON ADS ARE TERRIFYING

CAMPARI

Oh yes, The Guardian (that's a bit depressing somehow).

There isa beer I bought recently that's so good - it might be called Innes & Gunn - and I could see myself getting brand loyal.

Raketherake.com for all my rakeback needs.

Crytpologic network poker sites (though they are changing the terms re rakeback so they can go fuck themselves from July 1st).

http://www.innisandgunn.com/index.htm

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/248500/248969DiKH_w.jpg

levi's
converse
american spirits
dickies
wild turkey
hellman's

Man, hellman's is bad gunk

u_u

I thought of another one yesterday when I was making cornbread: Crisco shortening is worth buying over other brands.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a5/125px-Louisiana_brand_hot_sauce.jpg

SONY ERICSSON!

this is the only really deeply-felt brand loyalty i've got, i think

diet coke
pumas
vans
dkny jeans
quaker motor oil
toyota

lol, I sent Tep a half gallon of Louisiana Hot Sauce for his b'day.

Somebody make me stop using "lol," it's stupid.

Stupid for me, anyway.

Colgate

Duracell
Apple

Fitz's Soda

this is a bad thread

Verizon Wireless
Starbucks
;-)

new one:

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only icelandic seamoss will do anymore.

just regular old icelandic moss even.

http://mcgeek.com/userdata/9/images/9_528057_L1.jpg

^ impossible to post after

Quilted Northern

i am loyal to swiffer. like any other cleaning system could compare! hahaha, yeah right! i'd like to see that! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

http://www.loveourchildrenusa.org/images/yvette_cindy_check_2_sf.jpg

http://www.planetcancer.org/html/images/swiffer.jpg

http://www.nerve.com/poetry/rachel/swiffer/comps/bigicon.jpg

because it knows that nothing can ever be clean enough, wiped down
enough, put enough in its place, buffed and dustless
for this, I love it, this slender sleekness masquerading
as a cleaning tool, what is not to love
about something with such purpose, slim
and hard, the heft of it, the glide
of its downy underside, the cloth
tucked neatly about the rubbery base, the tip
ready to burst, to squirt forth
quick ejaculations of cleanliness

not merely utilitarian and no mere
knick-knack, this thing understands
that part of me that would antisept the world, order
and organize, straighten compulsively, clear
clean, color-code and stack
everything into piles ready to be touched,
gone over, and made like new

there is a power in this, this swiffing
this nearly effortless polishing, this thing
always ready, waiting
to be taken out, sheathed
and danced across my smooth, hard-
wood floors, shooting at my command, a gentle squeeze
from my fingers, a clean sweep
everything left aglow
and just slightly wet

mmmm disposable proctor & gamble wiping system

http://www.technoserve.org/images/PeetsTZBlend.jpg

I have been a Plymouth Gin brand-loyalist since I went round their distillery the other month. I'm easily swayed.

i actually just like the little swiffer dusting sheets. so majikal. the way that water beads off of them...wow. you can wash them too! they last forever.

i put my swiffer wetjet out for the trash man after one use

Guinness
Weleda
Mariage Freres
Club Monaco

Apple and Adobe
Drum rolling tobacco
V8

oh, and it almost goes without saying:

http://www.kozyshack.com/Resources/productssidebarb.jpeg

can't get kozy shack coffee pudding here on the island :(

Did anyone clarify that DiSaronno is amaretto?

I try not to be brand loyal, but yeah: Heinz ketchup, Degree antiperspirant, Bombay Sapphire gin, Apple, Huggies diapers, Medela breast pumps (not that I have any use for those last two anymore). I don't drink it myself, but I always buy 15 year Balvenie Scotch for my FIL's birthday gift.

Oh,and M.A.C. is edging out everything else in the all important "lipstick" category.

i don't have any brand loyalty.

crown royal
cholula

that's about it, though... I like to EXPLORE

oh, i also have some almost loyalty to NARS makeup when it comes to blush and lipstick

My Caddy loyalty was tested this weekend when my engine went belly-up. Thank god for GM roadside assistance and warranties.

phew GM eh

Diet Coke
Dove Ultimate Clear Deoderant
Paul Newman salad dressings
M.A.C.
Loreal but only for Voluminous Mascara
DKNY Jeans
Quorn for soy/tvp type products
Seventh Generation Paper Towels/TP
Method for handsoap and household cleaners

levi's, converse, apple, popov

SONY ERICSSON!

this is the only really deeply-felt brand loyalty i've got, i think

-- Tracer Hand

yeah, this'll have to do for me too.

I HATE HELLMANS. hellmans make terrible, terrible mayo. any cheapo supermarket own-brand rival is superior.

that is seriously untrue--there is v little more disgusting than cheapo mayonnaise

i 8080 swiffer dusters and creepy mrclean magik erasers (dudes they clean stained coffee cups and stainless steel sinks and other stained things like nothing else. i bet they'd clean the tartar off teeth. i am not going to try this tho. mainly b/c i go to the dentist and don't have tartar right now. but maybe one day maybe.)

i am also pretty loyal to President's Choice storebrand things

xpost
i grew up on hellman's - maybe it's different in different countries? i always found it way better than any other brand. but then what did i know really. i haven't bought mayonnaise in years and years. because blaaargh, mayonnaise.

it's even worse than everything Ed has posted about mayonnaise combined

crosspost

there is v little more disgusting than cheapo mayonnaise

So people here have the most brand loyalty to MAYO and VARIOUS BEVERAGES?

xpost haha, question answered!

cheapo mayonnaise is v lots more disgusting than mayonnaise

Once my mom snuck a cheaper brand of mayo into a Hellmann's jar and my father, my brother and I all said "wtf, is spoiled, get ur money back!"

fine, let's break this down

1/ CONSISTENCY. hellmans is way too thick and gelatinous - you can almost slice it. this is not necess bad in itself (though unsuitable for everyday eating) cf certain aolis and soi-disant "french" mayos i have enjoyed, but i've also known hellmans to have a strangely curdled appearance on occasion, like old cottage cheese. this is morally incorrect.

2/ TASTE. hellmans has no taste as such. the sensation of eating h-mans is one of noticing the (curdled) extra matter it adds to its meal, and feeling the silent calories slathering around your heart. yet it's not satisfyingly heavy either - it's just fatty air, which somehow retains a sort of cruel brightness in your mouth so you don't ever forget it.

3/ there is no 3. unless you really want one.

I forgot one: Tropicana Pure Premium

is anyone brave enough to join me on this crusade

i like sainsbury's ownbrand currently.

who is r|t|c?

I forgot one brand I'm so loyal to it hurts my every fiber: dEUS! :-D

Delouis et Fils is the mayonnaise to get

Or make your own

i wld probably eat this fancy french mayonnaise

Vodafone, Aquascutum, Sega

tropicana pure premium, apple, duracell, listerine (cool mint baby), time-lag records, criterion collection (to a point), stoneyfield farms yogurt, j. crew, ray ban

In general I am not brand loyal. In order to earn my loyalty a brand needs to deliver a functional, well-made, well-designed product for a reasonable price. My loyalty then extends to the product itself, not to the brand.

For example, I buy Levi's 501 original shrink-to-fit jeans. I've bought them for almost forty years. I am very loyal to them. However, the Levi's brand appears on at least a dozen other kinds of jeans, on slacks, on shirts, on belts, even on billfolds and other merchandise. None of these interest me, despite the Levi's brand.

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a fucking collage.

about brand loyalty.

for Virgin.

Virgin seem to ruin every business they acquire. Crap.