GIANT Food Stores: Buy Theirs, Get Ours Free Challenge + $25 Gift Card Giveaway

Disclosure: GIANT provided me with a $20 gift card along with a sample pack of products. All opinions in this post are my own. The giveaway was provided by GIANT. Thanks!

Food budgets can sometimes be hard to set in stone especially when trying to buy the right kinds of foods for your family. You might know that as pharmacy has generic brands for brand name medications, grocery stores also have their brands to compete with national brands. Are you one to buy the store’s brand over the national brand? Well, you might want to check out GIANT’s challenge.

GIANT Food Stores is encouraging customers who haven’t yet tried their Own Brands to put them to the test in a new promotion. During the weeks of March 16 and March 23, customers who purchase selected national brand products, will receive GIANT’s Own Brands equivalent products for free in the Buy Theirs, Get Ours Free Challenge. Among the products included in this promotion are hot dogs, cola, paper towels, granola bars and soup.

All GIANT’s Own Brands products are subject to a testing program, which includes customer feedback, to ensure that the grocer is consistently delivering on quality, taste and value. Based on this testing, hundreds of Own Brands products have been reformulated in the past couple of years to improve upon taste and quality, while still offering affordable prices.

While our family regularly shops at GIANT we do not always try the Own Brands, so it was really great to sample and compare the products in our own home.

What did we receive?

GIANT Brand Toilet Paper and Charmin Toilet Paper
GIANT Brand Chewy Granola Bars and Quaker Granola Bars
GIANT Brand Paper Towels and Bounty Paper Towels
GIANT Brand Chicken Noodle Soup and Campbell’s Chicken Soup

I also had a chance to purchase a few more items on my own to compare to the brand and I was really surprised! The flavors of the food items and texture of the paper items were VERY close. The price difference is definitely lower with GIANT’s Own Brands than the brand items. Now even though I would not necessarily purchase all the items sent to me, it was really a great test the similarities and differences. Each GIANT product went through its own rigorous testing before it went on shelves.

We already purchase GIANT’s ice cream because my husband think it has a better flavor and it is a lot more economical. We will definitely be looking into adding GIANT’s paper products into our life since it is so similar.

So what will you get to try? Check each specific week to see what you will be able to test.

Week of March 16-22:
Buy Ballpark Beef Franks 15oz Get Own Brands Beef Franks for FREE
Buy Coke 2-Liter Get Own Brands Cola for FREE
Buy Charmin Bath Tissue 6-Pack get Own Brands Bath Tissue 6-Pack FREE
Buy Claritin Get Own Brands Allergy for FREE

Week of March 23-29:
Buy Bounty Paper Towels Single Roll get Own Brands Single Roll FREE
Buy Quaker Chewy Bars 8-Pack Get Own Brands Chewy Bars FREE
Buy Campbell’s Chunky Soup get Own Brands Chunky Soup FREE
Buy Ben and Jerry’s Pints and get Own Brands Pints FREE

Want something a little better? How about getting all the items for free?
Enter to win a $25 gift card to buy these groceries and more.