Top 10 Worst Grocery Store Brands

Dollar General's food line where the pricing is the only honest thing about the product — canned goods with ingredient lists that read like a chemistry midterm.

A regional store brand whose generic packaging and uninspired formulations exist solely to fill shelf space at the lowest possible cost to the retailer.

Supervalu's store brand that replaced multiple regional labels with one aggressively average line — essential in name only, everyday in its relentless mediocrity.

The mid-Atlantic chain whose private label products consistently underperform even modest expectations, with produce sections that treat freshness as a suggestion.

A beloved Southern grocery name attached to store-brand products that coast entirely on regional nostalgia rather than quality, consistency, or flavor.

Walmart's supposedly premium alternative to Great Value that proves upgrading from bad to slightly less bad is not the flex the marketing team thought it was.

Natural and organic branding slapped on products that charge health-food prices for ingredients only marginally better than their conventional counterparts.

Target's value line that proves even the most aesthetically pleasing store in America can produce house-brand mac and cheese that tastes like wallpaper paste.

Independent grocers united under the IGA banner with store-brand products so inconsistent that two locations in the same town can sell wildly different quality under the same label.

Dollar General's food line where the pricing is the only honest thing about the product — canned goods with ingredient lists that read like a chemistry midterm.

A regional store brand whose generic packaging and uninspired formulations exist solely to fill shelf space at the lowest possible cost to the retailer.

Supervalu's store brand that replaced multiple regional labels with one aggressively average line — essential in name only, everyday in its relentless mediocrity.

The mid-Atlantic chain whose private label products consistently underperform even modest expectations, with produce sections that treat freshness as a suggestion.

A beloved Southern grocery name attached to store-brand products that coast entirely on regional nostalgia rather than quality, consistency, or flavor.

Walmart's supposedly premium alternative to Great Value that proves upgrading from bad to slightly less bad is not the flex the marketing team thought it was.

Natural and organic branding slapped on products that charge health-food prices for ingredients only marginally better than their conventional counterparts.

Target's value line that proves even the most aesthetically pleasing store in America can produce house-brand mac and cheese that tastes like wallpaper paste.

Independent grocers united under the IGA banner with store-brand products so inconsistent that two locations in the same town can sell wildly different quality under the same label.