However, in the West, plenty of people buy cheap "no-brand" nappies for their babies, which are perfectly good at a fraction of the price of the "huggies" or "pampers" brand names. At the end of the day, most of the benefit of the brand names comes NOT from the quality of the product, but from the advertising! When my father was a building contractor, he said he saw production lines (in this case of make-up) where exactly the same stuff was coming out of the machines and just getting diverted into different packaging .... I suspect exactly the same is true of nappies.
It just seems to me that Mainlanders in particular are extremely brand conscious rather than quality conscious - I agree - quality (of all kinds of products) is important; buying brand names is NOT the equivalent though.