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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

[–] 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 (13 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.

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

And no frills sells mainly that brand

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mandatory fuck Loblaws and Weston Galen. Fuck Jim Pattison too while we're at it.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

remember when Tesco products were white packages with blue stripes?

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

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I remember their orange juice being so thick and rich for something like 30p per litre. The richer parents bought the brands with pulp

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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

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

We had this in France in the 80s when big supermarkets started to open.

[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The UK never had a No Frills. The No Frills chain started in Toronto, Ontario in 1978 and originally had the black and white packaging before switching to the. yellow and black. No Frills is a major grocery store chain in Canada, though it is owned by the Loblaws who suck balls.

In the 1990s, the chain Kwik Save launched a No Frills brand, offering cheaper generic products, an idea that has since been taken up by all of the major supermarket chains

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwik_Save

[–] callyral@pawb.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 36 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Yeah, no one could like that. Not like there is a whole set of us that basically live off the stuff or anything.......

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am unreasonably upset by the chips bag having a picture and a splash of non-yellow on it.

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[–] pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Australia used to have a store called no frills

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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