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9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!
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$8.50 for filtered tap water. That's fucking insane. I'd just ask them to point me to the nearest hose.
A hotdog at a stadium is now cheaper than a burger at McDonalds.
$2 for Dasani is still about $3 too much.
Dasani water is just nasty though. How is it possible to make water taste so bad
Originally, a bottle of water is more expensive than soda before discount. :)
Most of the time, you're paying for packaging and shipping of a product. The soda is likely out of a fountain, so the cost is just the cup, minuscule amount of syrup, and some tap water that was run through a cooler/carbonation system.
That's one of the ways that Aldi keeps their prices down. The packaging is frustratingly crappy and the supposedly resealable bags and whatnot frequently fall apart when you open them. This is mildly irksome, but is easily fixed with a binder clip or some reusable silicone bags which I think is a fair exchange for a 30-50% discount from name-brand grocery stores. (The food itself is very nearly or exactly the same as name-brand foods.)
Most of the time, you're paying for packaging and shipping of a product
8.50
No.
There's obviously mark-ups at a stadium. I was offering an explanation for why the water bottle was more than the fountain drink, relatively speaking.
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Sports and entertainment are down across the board. They can't sell tickets because people can't afford a night out, so this is their attempt to drive sales. They aren't throwing families a bone, they are trying not to have to draft players with a much smaller budget next year. You can't sell any concessions if people won't buy tickets.
Man, that is not my experience here in Seattle. Ticket prices are up up up and they sell. I'm referring mostly to concert and stand up shows, but I hear from the sports people that it's even worse for them. Prices are up, tickets sell.
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Upliftingnews is close to the most corporate boot-licking forum on the internet
Post: "Company allow employees 2 extra days of PTO to deal with cancer treatment"
Actual report: company was obligated to add PTO days under federal law.
Commenters: omg yaas queen I love Company they treat their employees right love them 🤤🤤🤤🤤🍆🍆
Sounds like a good source of content for whatever /r/OrphanCrushingMachine is here
"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"
But where will I get my orphan paste you monster
Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water
You know how people say LaCroix tastes like carbonated water that sat open next to a bunch of fruit?
Dasani has that sort of deal going on but with a sewage plant.
I suspect it'll be the one mandated to be sold alongside the other Coca-Cola owned sodas.
The best(?) water I've ever had that wasn't from a tap is the mega cheap Kirkland Signature stuff from Costco. It's still largely the same taste as the tap water, though I am fortunate enough to live in an area with decent tap water.
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Soda isn't cheaper than water anymore? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!
Water? Like from the toilet?!? But Brawndo's got electrolytes
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The Seattle Mariners have a similar value menu. Also their local vendors charge the same as they would at their own brick and mortar places.
Ishbia’s purchase of the Suns was approved in Feb. 2023. Since he’s relatively new as majority owner of the team, I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt and assume in this situation he is working to make things better with his position and either only recently became aware of the price issue or was only just now able to change it, rather than simply making the change now for optics. You can be cynical about those who set the prices before him.
Now Im not in the US so I dont know ticket prices but seats are seats, maintenance on the stadium is largely a fixed cost. Empty seats generate $0 in food and ticket revenue.
If you can reasonably predict that a family of 5 can go have a great time for $50 + tickets you are going to get families coming, making it a thing the family does regularly which also sells merch and jerseys and creates life long fans, which creates a franchise that pays off in the long term. Its good long term business thinking. Nobody is going to the Basketball because the Hotdogs are amazing, your selling the experience not the food.
Costco hotdogs with a drink, still cheaper.
To be fair, those are 100% beef hotdogs that they sell at a loss. There's a reason someone suggested increasing the price despite being met with threats of violence from the CEO (president?) in response for that suggestion.
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Prices going down seems like good news to me. Are you thinking this equates to jumping up and down cheering and waving pompoms for a company and forgiving all their unforgivable evil misdeeds and sucking their dick? Cuz it doesn't. It just means lower prices are good news.
People tend to shit on good things just because they hate the people in charge of the decision.
We should celebrate bad people doing good things instead of flaming them for it. We want them to keep making good decisions, right?
Except this feels less of a "we're lowering prices out of the goodness of our hearts because they were too high all along" vibe and more of a "the working class has been nearly suffocated under the boot of capitalism but we need to keep you alive to extract the remaining pennies" vibe.
"After charging you $80 dollars for a night out, we have dropped it to $60. Please clap."
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For the rest of the world, 16 oz is approximately 500 g so I guess that's equivalent to a 500 ml bottle.
$2 for that is actually pretty reasonable for an event.
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People can try and be the helpers at any point. Life can be like that. You don't have to accept it. But it don't hurt to try.
That's still more than I would pay.
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