9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!
$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.
I’ll give $3 to not have a Dasani. Dish water.
I wouldn’t give Dasani to my dog
I’d rather drink Flint tap water than Dasani.
Yes! Why does Dasani taste so much worse than any other bottled water?
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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I do think if you worked those brain cells an extra 5-10 seconds you would have realized the conversation going on
I disagree. I don’t think those 5 - 10 seconds would be enough time for those brain cells to spark much of a thought
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.
I’m several states to the east and I’d have to agree. Ticket prices for everything have skyrocketed, especially concert tickets. Bands I’ve seen before who are arguably less relevant now are charging 4x as much. It’s completely fucked.
That and they’ll probably understock some food items. When they run out they’ll be like “sorry sir, we’re out of hotdogs, but we do have Dasani sewage plant water!”.
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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
Synthetic orphan paste is just as good and you know it!
But that chemical aftertaste, eww.
That is the taste of freedom, of science, of progress!
Pshh, that’s horsecock
You do know they use crushed orphan puppy’s for synthetic paste, yeah?
All things considered, using synthetic orphan paste has a bigger carbon footprint, due to all the CO2 those orphans will create in the future
Yes, but there’s a clear surplus population of dogs! And the dogs cannot so easily work the mines and the fine machinery of the factories as can the orphans! You must consider the economy in these matters.
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.
Having good tap water is truly a blessing. I’ve never felt the need to have bottled at home
I’m so happy to see so many comments shitting on Dasani. I’ve sworn at random times to friends and family that Dasani tastes like garbage. Like wet dog runoff or water that was stewed with pennies. But nobody ever agrees. It actually tastes closer to my sulfur-y well water than any other normal bottled water.
My girlfriend’s house has sulfur-laden well water. I find it absolutely revolting, taking a shower feels like I’m in a pot of hard boiled eggs, but she swears she’s used to it.
I think it’s subconsciously the reason she’s always dehydrated.
Oh god, I don’t know if I could do that. Our showers are softened and… something else that removes the smell. And we have an under-sink 5-stage filter for drinking or cooking with because if you use the well water for, say, stew or pasta, it just tastes “off”
I disagree. I think arrowhead is.
It’s just tap water isn’t it? It got recalled here and never came back.
No, tap water is palatable. Dasani is runoff from an over-exerted kiddie pool filter.
Must be UK? I’ve seen the Tom Scott video on this lol. Unfortunately it’s still one of the big brands over here.
Straight from the tap
No, they add sodium.
then why does it taste sweet?
Microplastics.
Depends on where it was bottled
Do they really? That’s actually really good for some of us with certain medical conditions. I have to add sodium and other electrolytes on my own.
Dasani has water in it.
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.
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.
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.
That’s unfortunate. I kinda was chill with Costco’s membership when it was easy to bypass. Still use their tire pumps shhh don’t tell, hope they don’t add card readers to them too :(
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.
Oh damn I haven’t been to a Costco for a while I guess
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!!!
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.
I went to go check seat prices because I was sure this was an attempt to use low food prices to get people to buy expensive seats. I was pleasantly surprised to find 30 dollar seats.
