Pre-packaged pasta sides are a cheap and easy addition to your meal, and they’re even more affordable if you wait for a good sale. When we say a “good” sale, though, that doesn’t mean a sale like this one at the supermarket Giant.

Reader Kevin noticed this display, where someone was asked to go to the trouble to place shelf tags on every variety of Knorr pasta packets, even though the packets are effectively not on sale at all. Those shelf tags may have driven sales, since we’re drawn to bright and shiny signs, but not because there was an actual sale.

At least they didn’t raise the price when putting the pasta on “sale.” That’s a Target move.

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