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chips and a small range of ready meals: this range later expanded to include fresh food. Just Essentials by Asda products are almost always the lowest price option in a product category in Asda stores. Occasionally this difference is only a few pence; in others, however, it is a marked difference. For example, a box of Just Essentials Biological Washing Powder costs £2.30, while the equivalent Asda brand washing powder costs £5.00, and well known name brand alternatives can cost from £7.00 upwards (as of December 2022).
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itself on its own label items on quality and many of the Basics products cost more than what may be considered the equivalent products at Asda, Tesco and Morrisons. This can range from price differences of 1p for Basics Sultanas to Basics Spaghetti tin, where Sainsbury's price was nearly twice that of Asda Smart Price (the weight of the Sainsbury's product is very slightly more and of better quality).
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The Smartprice label was originally a food only brand; however, over the years it expanded to cover almost every product range in the store, including clothing and furnishings with the George Smart Price brand. Like early generic products in the US, some Smartprice products originally lacked what can
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Sainsbury's first lower tier range was called Sainsbury's Economy, which was launched in the 1990s to rival Tesco Value; it was later renamed Sainsbury's Low Price, then Sainsbury's Basics. When Basics was first rolled out, the name of the product and slogan was in a handwritten orange typeface with
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Farm Stores brand launched in the mid-1990s, which consisted of products that were offered at a lower price than the equivalent famous name brand product and Asda's own brand equivalent. The Farm Stores brand originally consisted of a small number of food only products, largely frozen such as frozen
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In 2018, following a merger between the Today's Group with its principal competitor, Landmark Wholesale, the Today's label was rescinded. The newly formed company was named Unitas Wholesale and elected to keep the popular Lifestyle brand, with its economy range of Lifestyle Value. In 2024, Unitas
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line at the time, but a further redesign in 2014 and 2017, removed the similarity in visual style. On 28 March 2022, Asda announced the Smartprice brand would be replaced by a new brand, Asda Just Essentials, commencing May 2022. The similarity between the new brand name and Waitrose's own budget
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was an economy range of around 550 lines, mainly food but also including other areas such as toiletries and stationery. The Basics range used minimal packaging with simple orange and white designs. Sainsbury's Local stores sold none or very few of these lines. Sainsbury's seeks to differentiate
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a simple outline hand drawing of the product. They later used a thin sans serif typeface for the product name, while retaining the handwritten typeface for the slogan. The hand drawn graphic was removed in favour of a coloured simple graphic with considerably more detail.
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centres around the tagline "quality you'd expect at prices you wouldn't". 1,600 new and existing products have been rebranded with this name using simple white-based packaging. In keeping with the rebranding across the John Lewis Partnership, these are now branded
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rather than the now more common flip cap, and the Smartprice range of crisps came in traditional clear plastic bags rather than the foil bags common to most name brand versions.
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In 2018 Tesco began phasing out Everyday Value in favour of "tertiary brands" such as "Ms Molly's", "Hearty Food Co." and "Stockwell & Co.", in effect imitating what
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These value brands are not value brands as such but are competing with the big five's own-label products, i.e. Asda's "Chosen by You" or Sainsbury's "by Sainsbury's".
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brand, Essential Waitrose, launched in 2009, has led to Waitrose issuing a legal letter to Asda, raising trademark concerns although this was later dropped.
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Asda's Smartprice logo and packaging has changed several times since its introduction. It was revised in 2012 to match the branding of Walmart's
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The same Facial Tissues were previously sold under the "House247" brand. The tissue box graphic and typeface for "2 ply" have been reused.
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and which was retained after Somerfield's acquisition but which was discontinued after 2016. (Simply Value had replaced the Co-operative's
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be thought of as 'frills' in the modern brand name or supermarket own brand; for example, the Smartprice toothpaste had an old fashioned
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A bottle of Asda Smartprice washing up liquid. The Asda logo is reminiscent of the one used by the supermarket in the early 1980s.
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https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/stores/ranging-and-merchandising/tesco-continues-own-label-overhaul-with-eastmans-range/567664.article
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in an effort to compete on price. These brands have become more popular in the UK with shoppers since the
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It is not uncommon for wholesalers to have their own value brand to help independents compete on price.
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Honest Value is the Co-operative value brand which launched on 4 November 2020. It replaced the
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The own label Sainsbury's Basics brand was used for its low cost products until the late 2010s.
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Sainsbury's phased out the Basics brand in favour of using tertiary brands similar to Tesco.
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Two cans showing the different branding utilised by Tesco for its "Exclusively at Tesco" range
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announced it was introducing a sixty-item "Everyday" range, with everything £1.50 or less.
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A picture of a box of Stamford Street Co Facial Tissues, demonstrating the branding used.
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The Grocer: Tesco continues own-label overhaul with chilled Eastman’s Deli Foods range
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issued their value brand, Simply M&S, in response to Waitrose's Essential range.
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In 2023 Tesco released a clothing range featuring the original Tesco Value branding.
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Wholesale began the process of rebranding it Lifestyle brand to 'Local Living'.
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A men's t-shirt available at Tesco, showing the 1990s utilitarian branding used.
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do and reviving a previous attempt in 2009 known as 'Discount Brands at Tesco'.
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Best-In Essentials, known previously as Best-In Economy is the value brand of
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A selection of products showing the "Just Essentials by Asda" branding
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The Independent: Supermarket price war escalates, 05 November 1993
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Streets ahead: Sainsbury’s moves value brands to Stamford Street
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In May 2023 Sainsbury's moved all of its value range under the
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in an attempt to compete with Aldi's Everyday Essentials.
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Grocer of the Year: Morrisons forges ahead despite blips
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Daily Basics is a brand owned by the Irish retail group
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Sainsbury’s drops Basics as part of new five-year plan/
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Asda to relaunch SmartPrice with Elmwood | The Drum
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