Stan Horwitz wrote:

Now that you mention it, I wonder why A1 and Heinz 57 sauces' prices
have risen so much while the price of a bottle of tomato ketchup hasn't
gone up much at all.

Restaurants and foodservice outfits get these products for dirt
cheap as advertising. Then the retail customers get to subsidize
the promotion.

Same thing with soft drinks; fast food places get them dirt cheap
yet you'll pay $1.25 for a 16oz bottle from the quickie mart.

-sw