Glass jars piled like that make me feel uncomfortable
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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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.
I agree, its the next best thing to home made pasta sauce
I was just wondering how they get away with writing homemade in the label.
good question, I spent a few minutes trying to look it up and it probably has to do with the size of the company and the size of the batches made being mostly human labor
its not easy to find a clear answer though
so I have a jar here and the packaging says it's made in Italy and follows a 120+ year old process. The ingredients are basic. The Homemade part has the Rights Reserved symbol, so it's just a trademark.
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Damn for 18 bucks it better be orgasmic
Spoiler: It's going to be pretty much the same as the $2 sauce.
im guessing the 'truffle" makes it expensive. if its the actual fungus i can see that.
They list the actual mushroom on the label
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
That's the price if you buy five or more...
One to four jars is 8.49 each...
It’s 8.50. It’s only 7.50 of you buy 5 other them or more.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Rao’s is the most overrated pasta sauce on the market. Overpriced for no reason.
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
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.
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.
Jar sauce costing 8+ dollars? What is their excuse? Gold flakes?
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.
Well, jar sauces are rarely good. But an expensive one being substandard (as it seems to be the case here) is particularly bad.
I find they can make a decent base for customization, but on their own, they're usually lacking something, like flavor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"Great Rao!"
- Pasta Sauce Afficionado, Superman
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