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.
Upliftingnews is close to the most corporate boot-licking forum on the internet
Sounds like a good source of content for whatever /r/OrphanCrushingMachine is here
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 🤤🤤🤤🤤🍆🍆
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.
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
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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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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!
9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!
That’s still more than I would pay.
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.
It’s confusing, but there are two different units: “oz” (ounces) and “fl oz” (fluid ounces). Ounces are a unit of weight and fluid ounces are a unit of volume. But it’s not always written explicitly as “fl oz”, sometimes it’s shortened to just “oz” and you get from context they mean the fluid ones.
So 16 oz in that context means 16 fl oz, which is about 473 ml.
For water, they’re actually equivalent, just like grams and milliliters. As the old saying goes, “a pint’s a pound the world around, but mainly in the U.S. and Liberia.”
They’re not equivalent. 1 g of water is 1 ml. But 1 oz is 28.3 g and 1 fl oz is 29.6 ml.
And not in the UK
So “about 500ml” like OP stated
Yes, about 500ml. I was addressing the first part, where OP said “16 oz is approximately 500 g”. That means they converted weight (and were very generous in the approximation, since the result is about 453g). And then converted weight to volume, since water density is about 1g/ml.
$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?
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.
Damn, imagine if you went to every game
If I was a fan I’d be sat wondering why they’d been happily talking a 75+% profit margin from me after I’d already bought a ticket to be there.
If they could just not, when they feel like it
First up, I want to say that your point is clear, even without this correction, but…
That’s not how percentages work. To make things neat, let’s assume they’re now selling things at cost (they’re not, they’ll still be making a profit).
A 75% reduction in price like this means that they were previously making 300% profit.
He is talking about margin, not markup. 75% margin = 300% markup
facepalm
Yep, you’re completely right. I’ll wind my neck back in now…
How much does a bulk purchase cheap-ass hotdog cost. Nothing. It’s cents.
I’m sure they are still making 75% markup, even on the new 2 dollar.price. before, it was several hundred percent markup.
Yes and no. Costco hot dogs are 100% vertically integrated and they get the soda basically for free from Pepsi and they still barely break even on them, if they even do anymore. You add in a farm, packer, and a distributor taking their percent and even a lower quality dog is going to be pretty lean on profit at 2USD in 2024
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!!!
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.
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.”
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.
“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!
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.
But that chemical aftertaste, eww.
That is the taste of freedom, of science, of progress!
A hotdog at a stadium is now cheaper than a burger at McDonalds.
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Word is that the nachos are stale, and come with pickles and cold cheese.
I’d much rather go to San Antonio, get some churros
Why? There’ll be a Filiberto’s mere minutes away. That’s like a whole day of driving from Phoenix to San Antonio.
