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9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!
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A hotdog at a stadium is now cheaper than a burger at McDonalds.
$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!
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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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.
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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.
Require or ask? I think technically it's not required, but you have to pass two polite barriers (entrance and to order) to get there so you reallllly have to want $1.50 hot dogs.
Around here you scan your card for store entry; it's no longer just flashing the card at the door employee, and the last Costco I visited had a smaller side door open for returns and membership lines. No more entry through the exit.
That one has the food court inside the store and I haven't stopped recently so I'm not sure if you need to scan the card to place an order there; however the Costco by my work has an exterior food court and you cannot use the register to place an order without scanning your membership card. They don't take orders at the counter.
The one near me no longer has people taking orders. To get food, you scan your card at a kiosk and order through a touch screen.
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.
In the college football world the secondary market for tickets has seemed softer this year than last year. A lot of it is the change to the playoff format making it so that people have more events to split their budget across, but a lot of people lost money selling tickets under the face value for the conference games when their teams didn't make it. And just this weekend, it seemed like tickets were pretty cheap for the first round of the playoffs.
Those prices might be up from 5 years ago, but my impression is that prices are down from last year.
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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
/me mumbles something about the law in Germany that water has to be cheaper than beer on the menu.
correction: the cheapest drink has to be non-alcoholic
Tap water is supposed to be free in most places in the USA.
"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"
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Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water
I disagree. I think arrowhead is.
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.
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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."
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!!!
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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.
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