Why is this the life cycle of every decent brand?>brand is bit pricier but known to be high quality>gets sold to large corporation hoping to use brand recognition while slashing quality>brand now sucks and everyone moves to something else
>>21979878That's what happens when (((private equity firms))) get a major share of the company.
who cares about customers, they'll eat whatever slop you serve themthink about the shareholder value
>>21979878Because it makes money???Why do people get a job and go to work? Same answer.Solution: do things that are good for you and don't get wrapped up in the affairs of strangers. Don't let the things you love become dependent on strangers.
I don't get buying premade sauce. If you dice up some onion and garlic and cook down passata for like 20 minutes it tastes great and is probably 1/5th the price
>>21979878lifecycle with jews
>>21979878You commie faggots don't understand capitalism, do you?If you are unwilling to pay more for the same product year after year, the product has to be made in a cheaper way. If you are opposed to this, you are a communist jew that wants to destroy the world's only functional economic system.
>>21979878Dodge v Ford.
>>21979948>the product has to be made in a cheaper way.you could do this with better technology cutting costs instead of lowering quality of the product
>>21979948I love these memes. They're so zesty lol
Oh no, I might have tο make my own 5 minute spaghetti sauce with actual fresh ingredients like a filthy fucking wop instead of buying artificially sweetened carcinogen
>>21979955what "better technology" is available for squirting sauce into a jar
>>21979878Heres an actual question. Can anyone actually provide evidence showing changes to the recipe or are these sheep just bleeting for no reason. Tons of this stuff made by the old recipe is likely still on the shelves and warehouse so this comes across as people bitching to bitch.
>>21979941Money buys back your time, spending a few dollars to save 20-30 minutes on homecooked pasta is a fair deal.
>>21979878It was always overpriced and nasty.
>>21979948I love capitalism but sometimes prices should be going down, especially when costs go down. But regardless of harvests, standards, employees let go, the costs only seem to go up. Strange how infinite growth can be the only way
>>21980068This. I thought it was a /ck/ meme like Aardvark hot sauce. Rao's is shit. Really shit, like worse than Prego and all that meh tier garbage.Do people actually like Rao's? That's crazy to me. I think people should have gone through the same process I did. Fall for hype, pay way too much, find out it's shit, then be angry at the brand forever.
>>21979878you idiots realize rao's was bought by private equity in fucking 2017https://www.fooddive.com/news/sovos-brands-buys-premium-italian-food-maker/444746/campbells bought it in 2023
>>21979941I make about $46 USD an hour, and I can work remote, so I can take extra time when I want. Then there's time and a half past normal working ours.In the time I could make a homemade sauce, I could make enough money to buy 25 jars of the stuff.Just simple math
>>21979878List of ingredients looks the same, but they changed the tomato type they use to cheaper, more sour, more watery ones.
>>21980141Hopefully you're not into mathematics as a profession, as you'll get fucking fired soon. 20 minutes = 1/3 hour.46 per hour / 3 = 15.33or(46 * 1.5) / 3 = 23So you're saying that you can buy 25 jars of premade sauce for between 15 and 23 dollars. What a stupid cunt.
>>21980159>trying to figure things out using mathThat's why you poors will always stay broke
>>21980159Yeah, I get them at Lidl for 99 cents a jar.
>>21979878I knew that these fucking faggots would ruin it, but I didn't guess they'd do it almost immediately. Jars now start at ten fucking dollars minimum here in Leafistan, too. I can't even buy DeCecco sauce, anymore, because they stopped making it right after the pandemic. Now I'm stuck with sugary Brooklyn-style bullshit for the rest of my life. Thanks a lot, Mr. Rosenblatz.
>>21979948It already costs twice as much as classico.
>>21980164Ah, an uncultured slob I see
>>21979951the dodge brothers weren't jewish, thoughbeit
>>21979878Didn't try it until after the buyout. It still blew me away compared to the usual prego shit I used to buy. Now I'm always left wondering what I really missed out on. I've tried a lot of the fancy sauce brands and to me raos is still the best but I rarely get it because I just can't justify paying 3x as much.
>and everyone moves to something elseThat's crapitalism, baby. Carbone is the move now.
>>21979878Pump and dump. Not joking, it is totally a thing, and it surely does happen. Usually, a large conglomerate purchases a high quality, but fairly expensive, small brand that's known for never compromising and has an excellent following. These brands usually have limited distribution and produce low yields because of expense of manufacturing, and, if it's a tool, the fact that the tool doesn't break and possibly has an excellent warranty.Cue the pump and dump. The conglomerate ramps up production, vastly increasing the distribution of the product and usually spending a lot on advertising. At the beginning stage, the quality doesn't drop. This is years 1-2. Next, the conglomerate announces that it's moving production overseas to save costs, or introduces "buttery spread" and "honey sauce" instead of butter and honey. The product quality drops rapidly over year 3-5, but never in blatantly obvious jumps. There might be a lower grade of steel used in a tool, or a cheaper plastic, or the butter might be cut with 10% soybean oil and the honey with 10% corn syrup to at the start of year 3. By the end of year 5, the tool is shit and constantly breaks, and the buttery spread is now pure margarine, and the honey sauce is now only 10% honey. This whole time loads of cash is being spent on advertising and the small brands loyal customers (who probably still have their old tools that haven't broken, or maybe haven't been to the restaurant in a while) keep recommending the brand to their friends as a good, quality purchase. Enter years 6-7. The customers, by this time, are beginning to catch on to the rapid decline in quality, and sales start to weaken slightly, which is when the large conglomerate begins advertising the brand as for sale. They show all the prospective buyers their rapid growth in sales, and the record profits in the last 3 years, and the now national or international brand recognition.
>>21980787They sell the brand for 15 billion dollars and with their profits in the end cycle years making up for the money they spent on advertising and ramping production in the first 2 years and then some, they come away with a cool 10 billion dollar profit. The conglomerates shareholders are super pleased, and the board of directors and C level officers all get huge bonuses, tens of millions of dollars each.However, the original brand is now a pale version of its original self. The quality has gone to absolute shit, the customer confidence in a quality product is shaken, the original employees who cared about quality are all replaced, and sales plummet. In response, the purchaser cuts quality even more to pad their profit margin. After 2-5 years, the product is in and endless loop of being sold and quality cut, and after a few cycles it's either retired completely or "spun off" into a "wholly owned subsidiary" to die.
>>21979878Because it makes money for the large corporation, duh.And the reason it keeps happening is because the public is too stupid to notice the pattern.
>Why is this the life cycle of every decent brand?>What is monopoly capitalism and how does it work?
>>21979948>If you are unwilling to pay more for the same product year after year, the product has to be made in a cheaper wayexcept under capitalism more often than you eventually pay more for a worse productyour response bootlicker?
