r/Anticonsumption • u/RainyDay905 • 20d ago

Corporations Time to ditch Poppi

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Poppi is now owned by a mega corporation. The quality is probably going to go down. Time to ditch it.

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u/genericpleasantself 20d ago

this is degenerate. how disappointing. i know aldi is still a big company and stuff but they have a poppi knockoff now that is quite good. and i believe they are german owned still and dont mess around in american politics as much. but i am not positive

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u/Agent_Dulmar_DTI 20d ago

Dollars to donuts that poppi knockoff is made in the same factory as the real poppi.

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u/genericpleasantself 20d ago

that's true i have never really understood how the knockoff stuff works in terms of whether it benefits the original company....if it is made in the same factory i guess that means the original company/brand name is getting a cut?

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u/CraigMachine77 20d ago

Listened to a podcast on it. Knocks offs work 3 different ways.

  1. Original factory has access production. Makes exact same product with different packaging.

  2. Original producer uses a slightly different recipe (cheaper) for knock offs

  3. There are whole companies that just do reverse engineering food. And they grab an original and try to reverse the formula and once they are satisfied, it becomes the knock off. And they package and sell that under store brand names.