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.
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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.
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.
Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao's jars.
7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
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.
Raos is watery and overpriced.
I think ALDI's Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
I agree, its the next best thing to home made pasta sauce
Even Newman's Own (a non-profit) is $4. $6-$10 is normal in my area, and it's one of the least affluent areas of the country.
Like, where I am, the cheap classico sauce is about 3 bucks. And i dont doubt that the tomatoes they use come from Cali. Im across the continent, in a different country. I know some "ritzy" sauces here are encroaching on the 10$ mark. Its so fucked up
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.
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 € 5.00 / kg, but then the Rao's might be among the pricier sauces in the US?
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.
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
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.
Cento peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
fuck kroger i dont blame them
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.
EDIT: I also worked Kroger bakery in 2019 and i got to see how they rolled back all pay and benifits over the years for new employees. They were also abusive as fuck with my hours.
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.
Im sorry she had to go through that. Kroger is a shit company to their employees and customers. I was there for maybe a month before i did the same, no show/call and quit. I specifically applied for the bakery, they hired me for the bakery, but on my first day they started dropping hints the bakery was over staffed and tried to probe my interest in working in the deli, which was a hard no and they knew that. The second week they kept trying to position me in deli and i refused every single time. By the third week they told me i had no choice, but to work deli, so i stopped showing up.
All in all, they gave me less pay than promised, less hours than promised, less benefits than promised, and work in a completely different deparment than promised. The hours, by the way, they kept just a hair shy, and well below what i was promised, of qualifying for benefits, which i was also promised.
"Fresh for everyone" my ass
I really enjoy Rao's sauce ☺️
I'm gonna say the customers did this. It looks like the bargain DVD bin at Wal-Mart.
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.
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.
Cause I'm digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.
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.
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. But you can also very easily and for a lot less than a jar, make your own pasta sauce and make it as good as you want.
Personally, i always thought Rao's was nasty and never understood the hype.
I only like the arrabiata (spicy), the rest are not great.
Safeway store brand is, oddly enough, the best I've found.
Really hoping the intent is that you use the taco noodles with the marinara.
Here I started typing up a comment asking what 'Taco noodles' were, then I looked more closely. What the fuck, I've never seen taco-flavored ramen before.
Here is my worst food abomination for you that I've ever seen. Yr welcome.
Wow. I can't even really conceptualize what that would taste like, nor do I want to find out.
Ass. It tastes like ass.
That sauce is so expensive but their spicy one is soooooo good
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.
Btw that sauce isn't worth the price. I tried it once, watery and bland.
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.