Brand Loyalty

I'm brand loyal to Branding Irons Unlimited branding irons

I imagine you have a Stetson and enjoy listening to Garth Brooks while doing a bit of line dancing.

Aldi own brand

Brand loyalty is as ridiculous as your employer expecting you to be "loyal" to them.

They are both in it to make money from you and will screw you over for that goal

So loyal to the brand that 2 of them are misspelt.

Coca-Cola classic/orginal.

This will sort you.

Why anyone would choose Budweiser is beyond me. Terrible beer for a premium. Funny how much damage their loyal customers did to them.

Company's spend billions on advertising as they know most people buy a brand they know eg the,ll pay extra for a brand eg Colgate toothpaste. Versus low cost brand x toothpaste and retailers order and stock brand names as customers expect certain brands to be in stock obviously if you are on a budget it's cheaper to buy Tesco or Aldi generic grocery's

I don't know why an Irish person buys a Budweiser beer when there's plenty of good beer available that's not American in any Irish supermarket

And only in the glass bottles

I buy Budweiser beer because I like it. Simples.

the answer to murphy's v guinness should always be....Beamish

nike soccer boots and gym shoes are about the only things id go out of my way to buy in terms of a specific brand, otherwise its always what i find to be the best value rather than a specific 'name' - have never owned an apple product for example

Lynx. There still isn't a decent alternative.

Brands exist all over the world, brand loyalties and brand battles exist all over the world, it's certainly not a unique Irish thing, try telling a certain cider drinker in Normandy to change brand to another one and you'll have a long education as to why one is better than the other, tell an Ozzy penguins are better than Tim Tams etc.... It goes on.

Apple tops it for the creative work I do, been using them since they came out, nothing comes near them I'm afraid, that's why they're the standard in my industry. Regarding ION, as already stated, tried - tested - trusted. Nothing beats trying something, reading about them is interesting and all that...

A good Android pisses all over Apple. Apple is years behind but use their cult like followers to drive sales

No loyalty. Why would I? Way over priced and not worth it.

Only thing I like is north face coats. Have been buying them for years. still doing ok.

Own brand washing powder/fabric softener/beans/bread/milk etc . Everything.

Most taste and are way nicer than the brands.

Even if I had money to burn still wouldn't waste it on names just for the sake of it.

Bord Gais

Sky

AIB

Aviva

Laya

Yes.

Firms exploit this, as expected, by charging higher prices.

Recall when Lidl entered the market, there were even newspapers articles about whether people would go into the store.

"Savvy customers go for wine and cheese", implying that nobody would buy the own-brand groceries.

I do the opposite I have not used a certain shaving company's products since Thierry Henry hand balled back in 2009 - he used to be sponsored by them. I threw all the stuff away immediately after the match.

I have come the conclusion I am the opposite to brand loyalty, I don't like fancy brands that have to hype themselves up. If they were that good why advertise it so much? I reluctantly brought an iphone, mainly because I changed bank and needed one for account security etc. Got it second hand. I was given a second hand Macbook as a present, was told iphone would be good because they interconnect etc Would have been happy with a phone that just had text on it.

I have no problem changing 'brands' if I see a cheaper product that does that same job. As long as it is has received decent reviews on neutral websites.

The only products I think am I am "loyal" to is Guinness and Tayto. Because I like the taste better than other products. As simple as that. But even so then I would not eat Tayto the week before Dublin play Meath. Because Tayto are a Meath based company. Used to sponsor them as well.

I would try house stouts/craft etc on occasion or even Murphy's if out "foreign" in Cork. But I would never drink Guinness outside this island tried it in England, horrible stuff

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I think if people are blindly brand loyal without trying other alternatives on the market, they are far too susceptible to advertising.

Maybe I am an advertisers worst nightmare. I always prefer items that have quality and are good value. That invariably means moving away from hyped up brands. In view it is just herd manipulation.

Take Aways for example - McDonald's is awful. I would much prefer an Italian chipper. Those delivery services brands that constantly advertise, I refuse to use them. If you cannot collect a take away yourself and are too lazy to do that you do not deserve a take away in my opinion.

Fair play to everyone who went to the bother of buying all the brands to test them. There are a lot of different crisps and cornflakes to compare. When I looked at the list of ingredients for cornflakes, a lot of them are identical. I wonder would people actually spot the difference if someone stuck a bag of cheap cornflakes into the fancy Kelloggs box.

He's not though.

What he does do though is point out how companies (famously Apple) create unnecessary proprietary features to force people to remain