Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
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.
Nah, you can bowl with those Rao’s jars.
7.49 for fucking pasta sauce? Wtf
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.
I think ALDI’s Select pasta sauce is better for $3.60. Even at Costco price Raos is not worthed.
Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.
That’s the price if you buy five or more…
One to four jars is 8.49 each…
Damn, Trump even put tariffs on imports from Krypton!
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.
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.
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
meanwhile me buying 400g canned sliced tomatos with herbs from supermarket own brand for 0.85€
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.
And oddly enough in order to prevent breaking the jars, the employee had to carefully position each jar haphazardly like that.
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.
Cento peeled tomatoes and a little basil makes better sauce for less than 7.49 just saying
I really enjoy Rao’s sauce ☺️
Rao’s is the most overrated pasta sauce on the market. Overpriced for no reason.
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.
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.
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.
Cause I’m digging for the interesting stuff in the sauce bin.
This former Kroger employee explained that Kroger does indeed have a tendency to display their sale items like this.
And this comment .
“Great Rao!”
- Pasta Sauce Afficionado, Superman
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.
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…
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
Jar sauce costing 8+ dollars? What is their excuse? Gold flakes?
That sauce is so expensive but their spicy one is soooooo good
