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A hotdog at a stadium is now cheaper than a burger at McDonalds.
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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.
Dasani water is just nasty though. How is it possible to make water taste so bad
Hey Dasani bottles from only the finest hydrants
The rust is just extra flavour!
The sweetness you taste is actual sweetener, not lead!
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.
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.
I do think if you worked those brain cells an extra 5-10 seconds you would have realized the conversation going on
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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.
Not really a loss either. They charge $60 for membership.
To my knowledge, I don't think you have to have a membership to get food at Costco. I'm pretty sure the optical shop and pharmacy are available to non-members as well.
You're probably still right about pharmacy but the Costcos around me now require you to scan your membership card at the food court registers before you can order anything.
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?
slow clap wooo you are charging only 100% profit on those goods in a completely closed high-security environment, good on you for not price gouging as much anymore!!!
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."
Yeah, steps in the right direction are steps in the right direction.
Previous practice outrageous? Yup. New practice awesome? Yup. It's ok to recognize both.
I feel like it'd be a miserable life if you took the negative part of this story and ran with that instead of the more positive side.
I mean... people like you are part of why shitty things stay shitty. If that's how you want to live you can, but this patronizing sense of superiority you seem to feel is what hurts society.
"How I want to live", or how I actually live, is by not paying exorbitant prices at events like this (or exorbitant prices elsewhere).
I'll go eat somewhere actually tasty before a game. In other areas I'm fairly frugal, as well.
Mobilizing some movement with enough people putting on an embargo to lower prices? Not even gonna try.
I do, think the OP is a step in the right direction and I'll focus on that. I understand everything, in general, is too expensive.
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Soda isn't cheaper than water anymore? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!
/me mumbles something about the law in Germany that water has to be cheaper than beer on the menu.
Tap water is supposed to be free in most places in the USA.
correction: the cheapest drink has to be non-alcoholic
Water? Like from the toilet?!? But Brawndo's got electrolytes
"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"
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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.
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