Compare and Contrast: Generic-Brand vs. Name-Brand

Comparing and contrasting generic brand products and name brand products is simple, but the major question of why do consumers buy more name brand products. When you look at the products you can tell immediately which product is which. The most important aspect of this major question is that consumers can recognize the packaging of a name brand product and know that it "works", so they would naturally go with that particular product. I have heard every excuse and the most popular being, "it works better." This excuese is only to justify their purchase without looking at the ingredients label or active ingredients. If you look at both products you will notice that they contain the same exact things. When it comes to food, however, there may be a slight difference in taste, but that doesnt change the fact that the products are vertually the same. The major aspect that sets these products apart are the logos and the packaging. Even between different name-brand products packaging design is what catches the consumers eye. Some packaging designs look similar to name brand products, but will sometimes instead have the store logo or colors printed on the boxes, bottles, and wrappers. Through television, billboards, and advertisments name brand logos are ingraved into our brains so much that when it is time to make that big purchase, consumers buy what they know, what they have seen.

Here is some information on the differences between products: http://www.life123.com/career-money/frugal-living/ways-to-save/generic-versus-brand-name-nonsense.shtml
Here is an artical with a great photo example and suggestions on when to buy generic or name brand products: http://www.freeshipping.org/blog/generic-vs-name-brand-products-19-recommendations/
Here is the site where I got my photo for this blog: http://www.walletpop.com/specials/generic-vs-brand-name-products/