The convenience food business is getting ridiculous while they test
just how much lazy people are willing to pay for "convenience". I
don't know how long these have been out, but I got a free package
for buying some meatballs that I would have bought anyway. It's
about 1/4lb of pasta cooked and packaged in a hermetically sealed
bag.

https://www.barilla.com/en-us/produc...sta?sort=alpha

My store sells them for $1.68. Which comes out to $6.72/lb. Normal
price for a pound of Barilla dried pasta is $1.25. So that's a 550%
increase in price.

Sheesh. I felt stupid jsut getting one for free.

-sw