Different kinds of shine?

[SaerinRhoe]

While I was out and about this weekend I went shopping for a wash and wax kit from one of the bigger names in car care and, to my admittedly naive mind, half the stuff from Meguiar's or Mother's or Blue Coral or Eagle One all seems the same and the rest of it all seems like second class stuff.

One thing that stood out to me based on looking at the products and I've heard people talk about it before is that different brands will give you a different shine when you're done.

A different shine?

Without going into gobs of detail and such, can someone explain to me how the shine on my car is going to be different if I use product A rather than product B?

Thank you and Flame On ,

S.R.