Is there any difference between national brands of ground coffee, such as Folgers and Maxwell House, and the store brands?
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Is there any difference between national brands of ground coffee, such as Folgers and Maxwell House, and the store brands?
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“Store brands” are usually end runs on the same line. So it may be older coffee or a misgrind that didn’t pass QC for the name brand but still usable. I haven’t bought canned ground coffee in 25 years with the exception of Community or French Market coffee with chicory.
I think Charles is right on the answer. However, he seems to imply that the store brand may be an inferior quality leftover, or dregs of the production run. I have visited brand food manufacturer facilities other than coffee producers, and the fact is that the brand name producer will complete the production run based on the marketing department demand for their product, and then continue to produce using the EXACT same product, facilities and quality. The difference is not in the canning department, it is in the labeling department. Store brands are contracted by the retailer in quantities based on their marketing demand. To do differently would require a complete change up of the production line and a recalibration of all monitoring equipment. The brand manufacturer will run their brand first and the labeling department will label and package their product. Then the private brands will run with the same equipment, batches, and canning process and are then labeled with the private label afterwards. Just a couple of years ago, there was a recall of peanut butter because of possible salmonella contamination. The sole factory it was traced to was responsible for 14 different labeled brands. Need I say more. There is an unusually persistent rumor that local or store brands tend to be inferior to the nationally branded products. If you visit a food production facility, you will note that the one place that they often do not show you is the labeling department. The reason is that food production and canning facilities require huge investments of time and money, and private branding helps the bottom line by allowing them to produce at full capacity while meeting their brand goals. So when it comes to a product like coffee, the chances are that the store brand came from one of the national brand facilities with nothing more than a different can.