But attempts to convince people to look for a quality-assurance label has led to fake versions of those labels being stuck on bottles.
The quality of private-label goods has improved, making it harder for consumers to discern any difference between a store's brand and a more expensive rival, particularly for commodities such as paper towels or milk.
Espirito Santo Investment Bank analyst, Caroline Gulliver, said the news was "likely to, at least temporarily, reduce consumers' trust in the quality of Tesco's products", which was unhelpful at a time when the retail giant was seeking to promote "the quality underpinning Tesco own label and Everyday Value products".
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Targeted advertising, which directly compares the quality of a branded product with a private-label rival, is also a short-term solution for consumer-goods companies, which are keen to remind their customers why paying more is a good idea.
Dr. Wolf, of Northwestern University, and other researchers, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, recently completed a trial testing a pill-bottle label that provides more explicit instructions and larger font size.
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So while an algorithm might be able to sort out a collection of quality content like feature films, or music released by a label, or books distributed by a publisher, the shear volume of self-published books, or self-recorded music, makes the algorithmic approach less and less successful.
The private label brands have low prices, higher margins and are comparable in quality to national brands.
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Denmark's Kvadrat, whose colorful woolen fabric often has a rich textural quality, can be found upholstering furniture of Fritz Hansen, the country's prestige design label, and decorating the windows of Noma, the celebrated Copenhagen restaurant.
As a result, too many Chardonnay producers have decided that, as long as the bottle is just as heavy and the label is just as nice, they can take advantage of those customers by shirking on quality.
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"The holy grail is a heat-resistant varietal that provides quality coffee, " says Patrick Criteser, chief executive of Coffee Bean International, which supplies the private-label coffees to such retailers as Target and Kroger and is part of World Coffee Research.
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