What is the difference with Heinz In Thailand?

[menzies233]

Does anyone know what the difference is between the two Heinz products offered from Tesco, Heinz Tomato Sauce ....

http://shoponline.tescolotus.com/en-GB/ProductDetail/ProductDetail/6000753939

and....

Heinz Tomato Ketchup?.....

http://shoponline.tescolotus.com/en-GB/ProductDetail/ProductDetail/6005558301

Apart from the price? I didn't know that I was buying Tomato sauce, I just assumed it was ketchup.

Big difference in price, 48 Baht compared to 130 Baht, and the tomato sauce to me tastes like ketchup, I admit I smoke and drink and my tastebuds may be shot, but I cannot tell the difference, is one imported?

[stoneyboy]

I would imagine the plastic bottle is imported and the glass one is made locally.

[OMGImInPattaya]

The Thai version is sweetened to accommodate local taste preferences. The imported "ketchup" is also western spiced...much better than that local muck.

[menzies233]

The Thai version is sweetened to accommodate local taste preferences. The imported "ketchup" is also western spiced...much better than that local muck.

Like I said then, my taste buds are shot as there is no difference in taste to me, sweet red tomato goop from both bottles..

[menzies233]

I would imagine the plastic bottle is imported and the glass one is made locally.

Does not really add up to the price difference unless one of them is imported -All I am querying is that like Coke Mc Donalds etc. they are pretty much the same junk the world over, seems a bit expensive to me to pay for imported junk as opposed to local junk food when they are probably almost identical.

I was curious about "Heinz Tomato Sauce" never noticed it before, I always thought it was Ketchup!

[Briggsy]

I used to work at the factory in Samut Prakan many years ago.

Why don't you e-mail them. They are a very nice bunch.

http://www.wcf.co.th/heinzthailand/

[Shot]

The ketchup tastes like it has more vinegar and I think it's better. However, I've gotten use to the other junk.

[i claudius]

I always use the ROZA tom sauce , our son is addicted to it and he cannot tell the difference between heinz and the local one and he lived in the UK all his young life, also it tastes the same to me .

[h90]

I always use the ROZA tom sauce , our son is addicted to it and he cannot tell the difference between heinz and the local one and he lived in the UK all his young life, also it tastes the same to me .

I buy the Brook. It seems less sweet...but I didn't compare many Ketchups. I don't like the Heinz company....

[AyG]

I would imagine the plastic bottle is imported

I'm guessing imported from Australia because they've stuck the label on upside down.

[Gonsalviz]

Sugar.

[PattayaClub]

Both are ketchup. For crying out loud, turn the glass bottle with the Thai label around. It says "Ketchup" in plain English on the back.

As to why there would be such a price variance, I can only assume you have not been in Thailand long. Once you have been here long enough, you will not come to understand the logic to the pricing system, you will come to understand that there is no logic, it makes no sense and you'll stop driving yourself crazy trying to figure it out. Okay, maybe the last part isn't true. Afte nine years, I still do that.

One pattern I have noticed that is different from Western style marketing. If a product is selling well, a Thai will suddenly jack the price up so high the product stops selling. I think the "logic' must be that, "Wow, this is selling so well that if I double the price, I'll get rich and be able to retire." I suspect that the plastic squeeze bottle of ketchup was selling much better than the glass bottle, so the price went up. I have the glass bottle. I would rather have the plastic squeeze bottle but I refuse to pay 3x for the same product in a more convenient (and probably cheaper) container.

Makro, here in Phitsanulok, had some delicious 2kg butt hams for 500 baht, which is a very fair price. And let me say, they were some of the best ham I have ever eaten. They weren't selling. A friend and I tried them and spread the word to our friends and those hams started rolling off the shelf. They had a hard time keeping them stocked. They also had some thick slices of exactly the SAME ham in one kg packages for 300 baht. That sounds like about the right premium for a smaller package, and sliced, too.

These 2kg/500 baht hams had been selling like hotcakes by word of mouth for about 6-8 weeks. Imagine my shock and chagrin when I came in and saw that the price had been suddenly raised a whopping 74% to 870 baht! And in case you are thinking that the price of pork went up or something about the processing went up, the identical thick sliced ham in the 1 kg packages remained at 300 baht. The same five 2kg hams have now been on the shelf for the five weeks since the price increased. They are no longer selling any. Maybe I can get a deal on one when they reach the expiration pull date. I think I'll check the date next time I go in and put it on my calendar.

Now if you can put some logic to this, you're a better man than I.