Comment by gruez
2 years ago
>In the case of baked beans, you will always have Heinz. You might have one other choice, depending on the supermarket brand. Often the other choice is cheap, and nowhere near as tasty.
>Bigger stores have more choice.
So why isn't there a brand that's cheap and tasty? Does Heinz have some sort of proprietary bean tech that others can't replicate? Is there a fundamental trade-off between tastiness and price?
In many cases—yes, there is a straightforward tradeoff between taste—or quality, more generally—and price.
In particular, with most of the cheapest mainstream brands, they've spent years finding the cheapest they can produce the product for that customers will still accept.
Basically, if the beans could be made tastier, while still being that cheap, Heinz would have done that already, leaving no room for a competitor to do so.