I previously had a different brand food processor that broke and I replaced with the same one and was not satisfied with the performance.  I decided to go with this brand and have found that although it doesn't have some of the bells and whistles that my previous brand had this is far superior in terms of performance.  In the instruction book it says to tightly load the chute for shredding and slicing, I find when I do this there is hardly any waste of the product, when I wasn't able to tightly load the chute (due to the quantity I was using) the waste (the part that didn't get shredded) was greater but still a small part.  I would say so far the two negatives is that it didn't come with a case to hold all the compartments (I had to buy that separately) and I wish there was the ability to decide the shred/slice size.  I have no issues with performance and have been using this most days!