7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
I choose hating your job in unconventional ways.
Submitted 12 hours ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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T00l_shed@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
ccunning@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 9 hours ago
I think ALDI’s Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
I agree, its the next best thing to home made pasta sauce
thallamabond@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
Vegan_Joe@piefed.world 12 hours ago
Even Newman’s Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it’s one of the least affluent areas of the country.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Like, where I am, the cheap classico sauce is about 3 bucks. And i dont doubt that the tomatoes they use come from Cali. Im across the continent, in a different country. I know some “ritzy” sauces here are encroaching on the 10$ mark. Its so fucked up
thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours 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.
Enkrod@feddit.org 10 hours 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 10 hours 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.
SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 9 hours 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 8 hours 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 8 hours 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.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
shweddy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Canto peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
slackarr@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
fuck kroger i dont blame them
Sprinks@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 11 hours 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 12 hours ago
I really enjoy Rao’s sauce ☺️
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m gonna say the customers did this. It looks like the bargain DVD bin at Wal-Mart.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 11 hours 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 9 hours 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 11 hours ago
Cause I’m digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
Really hoping the intent is that you use the taco noodles with the vodka sauce.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 12 hours 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 10 hours ago
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That sauce is so expensive but their spicy one is soooooo good
jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 10 hours 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours 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 6 hours ago
Personally, i always thought Rao’s was nasty and never understood the hype.
Cort@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I only like the arrabiata (spicy), the rest are not great.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao’s jars.