How do store brands get so close to name brand?

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Do they have food scientists just guessing and checking with taste testers? Or do they know the exact recipe somehow and just tweak it to avoid lawsuits? Or do big box stores require name brands to hand over their recipes as part of a contract to shelf their brand along with their own store brand? Do the name brands try to keep it a secret but they keep getting bested? I have no idea how this works.

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I had a co-worker whose wife worked at a pantyhose manufacturing plant, back in the UK and he told me the expensive ones and cheap ones come off the same production line, they just slapped different labels on them.
And I think he and I got into this topic because I used to believe that name brand stuff was better quality than “no name” brand / lesser name brand items.

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