7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
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Submitted 2 weeks ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Raos is good. Pretty consistently top rated. I basically thought all jarred pasta sauces were garbage before I tried it.
…it does always hurt a little when I splurge on a jar though. Also, Costco sells two packs of the 32oz jars for just a bit more than this and it goes on sale frequently.
Marthirial@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think ALDI’s Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I agree, its the next best thing to home made pasta sauce
Vegan_Joe@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Even Newman’s Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it’s one of the least affluent areas of the country.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like, where I am, the cheap classico sauce is about 3 bucks. And i dont doubt that the tomatoes they use come from Cali. Im across the continent, in a different country. I know some “ritzy” sauces here are encroaching on the 10$ mark. Its so fucked up
thallamabond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Most expensive one I could find with a simple google search in Germany is € 12.54 per kg,
the ones pictured above are 680g, so for $ 7.49 that’s $ 11.01 or € 9.55 per kg (at current exchange rate)Average price for pasta sauce in Germany seems to be around € 4.50 / kg, but then the Rao’s might be among the pricier sauces in the US?
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rao’s might be among the pricier sauces in the US?
It is. It’s a high-quality sauce made by a very famous restaurant in New York City. It’s one of those few products that immediately stands out when someone tries a blind taste test on you.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s the price if you buy five or more…
One to four jars is 8.49 each…
Flaco_waton@feddit.cl 2 weeks ago
Campbells has to make back the money they spent buying it from private equity somehow
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Your right, fuckin cheap! Pasta sauce around me is around 12.99. Well besides the store brand which is pretty much water now a days.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
raos is pricey, while the instore brand in wf, is like a cheap 2$.50cents
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t care how good it is, $8.50 for a jar of pasta sauce is highway robbery. It’s like Bachan’s BBQ sauce, sure it’s good, but it ain’t even close for those prices. I’d legit feel ripped off if I bought either.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The sign says “serving SoCal” so this is actually a below average price
Los Angeles grocery prices always make my eyes pop out of my head. It’s just the cost of existing down there.
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shit is getting ridiculous here too. Luckily I’ve really gotten into cooking over the last five years or so. Fresh ingredients are still pricey, but much much much cheaper than what these corps are slopping out. I can make pasta or pizza sauce in these quantities fresh for under $2.
Poxlox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No. Don’t spread misinformation/bullshit. Plenty of family in LA and lived there just two years ago. This is NOT a below average price. Maybe for Raos, not sure, but definitely not for pasta sauce as a whole. And no it’s not the cost of existing down there unless you have absolutely no shop savvy. Food4Less, Aldi, Super King, Costco, etc will absolutely have plenty of pasta sauce of that size for under 5 bucks
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
meanwhile me buying 400g canned sliced tomatos with herbs from supermarket own brand for 0.85€
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Kroger actively wants their employees to do this. (Source: worked in this hellhole for 13 years. Would choose homelessness/starvation over going back)
Its a psycholigical trick to make you think its cheaper than it is. Intended to make you think subconciously “It can’t be that expensive if they treat it this poorly.”
I do think they picked the wrong product for this treatment considering shrink and high price. It should be shit like dvds and other durable products.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
And oddly enough in order to prevent breaking the jars, the employee had to carefully position each jar haphazardly like that.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
As someone that spent the better part of their youth making other people money at a grocery store, I’m bummed that I never had to build a comically oversized pyramid of bean cans that:
A: A neurotic but lovable protagonist that is just trying to get through shopping day would make the whole stack implode by taking a single can.
Or
B: A random cat in a panic would scurry up and around it as I frantically keep the pyramid from collapsing. Once the cat has fled the scene I would utter a sigh of relief just before a dog who was after the cat would crash through the stack just in time for the manager to appear and scold me for the mess.
shweddy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Canto peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
slackarr@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
fuck kroger i dont blame them
Sprinks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I grew up shopping at Kroger and continued to shop there for a years after I moved out on my own. Cant say enough how much i fucking hate Kroger. Our local one decided to put in those stupid security gates at the door, forcing you to walk the ENTIRE LENGTH of the store and through the registers to get out. It was the last straw in a mounting hay pile of shitty changes that pushed me to start going to Meijers despite kroger being much closer. Cant state enough how much i fricken love Meijers compared to Kroger, Giante Eagle, Etc around here.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My wife (who has DOCUMENTED NUT ALLERGIES and told them about it) was put into the bakery and expected to pull all the frozen stuff to thaw before being baked.
Anyone see an issue with putting a worker with a nut allergy in the bakery? Because they sure as fuck didn’t. They were also very surprised when she no call/no showed to quit after they kept ignoring her complaints and expected her to do the work of 3 people and to train register people when she needed help to get shit done.
besmtt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really enjoy Rao’s sauce ☺️
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m gonna say the customers did this. It looks like the bargain DVD bin at Wal-Mart.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You think a customer went into a Kroger, printed a price sign, took the time to move like 6 cases of sauce haphazardly into a unsafe pile and nobody said anything? Possible but unlikely.
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean technically it would only be the last step and presumably the sum of multiple customers. But someone else has already claimed this may be an intentional psychological gambit.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Cause I’m digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, this kind of display is called a dump bin. It’s meant to look like a chaotic jumble, but doing it with jars seems like a bad idea.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This former Kroger employee explained that Kroger does indeed have a tendency to display their sale items like this.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rao’s is the most overrated pasta sauce on the market. Overpriced for no reason.
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pre-made pasta sauce in general is pretty overrated. It’s so easy to make your own pasta sauce, it’s pretty much ready in the same time as it takes to heat up premade pasta sauce. Only real advantage is that you don’t have to worry about seasoning
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The real avantage is fewer dishes and less prep time before the actual cooking.
However I usually find that pasta water takes enough time to start boiling that I can just chop up the ingredients and start the sauce while that’s happening.
With premade I’ve just chucked it in the hot pasta which heats it up enough AND cools down the pasta so I can eat it quicker.
Also locally made premade sauces in my country are 2-3 EUR which makes them actually cheaper than homemade because I usually put either mince or chicken in my sauces and those already cost more than the entire premade sauce lol. Of course homemade is way better but honestly sometimes I feel like I’d be saving money if I used premade.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i get the hunts pasta sauce in a huge fuckin can for like a buck. Raos is definitely for people that think a banana costing 10 dollars is cheap and affordable.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Really hoping the intent is that you use the taco noodles with the vodka sauce.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Here I started typing up a comment asking what the fuck ‘Taco noodles’ were, then I looked more closely. What the fuck, I’ve never seen taco-flavored ramen before.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jar sauce costing 8+ dollars? What is their excuse? Gold flakes?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s not even good sauce. Pour a couple of big cans of crushed tomatoes over some browned ground beef/pork, add lots of garlic and Italian herbs, salt & pepper, a few oz of red wine, and let it simmer all day.
Add more or less meat, perhaps mushrooms. I like to put in chopped spinach at the beginning, to let it break up into micro pieces, and amp up the nutritional value, but it’s not necessary.
It’s super easy, and way better than any jarred sauce, and much cheaper.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, jar sauces are rarely good. But an expensive one being substandard (as it seems to be the case here) is particularly bad.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
What would I change out if I can’t eat meat? I love mushrooms, is that enough on its own?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Great Rao!”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I saw Rao’s get recommended as the second best sauce outta all the store brand sauces in the US rated by some of Italy’s top chefs.
It isn’t that good. Newman’s Own is way better and, around here anyway, half the price of Rao’s.
Sprinks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Personally, i always thought Rao’s was nasty and never understood the hype.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I only like the arrabiata (spicy), the rest are not great.
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That sauce is so expensive but their spicy one is soooooo good
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
If I remember someone from a few months ago, displays like this tend to sell better than well organized ones. I can’t give any evidence other than remembering that statement though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they think its “past date, or on sale”
jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fuck i’m glad grampa taught us how to cook from tomato sauce or tomatoes
zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That edit made me laugh, 'cause I totally understand. For example, I had a ‘Gram’ and a ‘Gran’ and my whole life I can never remember for sure which goes by which. Makes me feel like an asshole, lol.
I’m glad he taught you how to make your own, by the way. It’s so damn tasty. Now I’m craving homemade tomato-based pasta sauce…
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dude i feel like i should make the title of my autobiography “Where did all these grampas come from” or something but like, grampas were pretty cool. I looked up to them enough that my friends started calling me grampa in high school
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m reading through all the comments and you seem to be the only one who has acknowledged what this post is actually about.
Everyone else is complaining about the price of pasta sauce.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao’s jars.