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A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, if the rules say you get to charge 500% the MSRP on shitty junk food, I am allowed to steal your profits by not being an idiotic consumer.

There is a singular reason why theaters are struggling; their misunderstanding of the profits they should be generating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You can also just not get food lmao

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days. Theaters have to pay a lot of money in fees to get the film reals, and tickets basically just offset that. To get a profit, it's food.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The model has always been based on food sales from back in the early cinema days.

That was almost 100 years ago. If they haven't updated their business model in a century idk what to tell you; the model is outdated and inadequate.

If your business model fails because I'm not stupid enough to pay $18 for a small bucket of popcorn, your business doesn't deserve to exist 🤷

You can be mad at it, but that's the way the corn pops, fella.

I download cams and haven't paid for a movie ticket in over a decade. If they want me to buy tickets they can make movies that are worth the ticket value.

Maybe if that happens I'll return to the theater to balk at the snack prices lmao.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure why you're taking exception with me for pointing out how an industry I have nothing to do with operates.