Costco hotdogs with a drink, still cheaper.
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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.
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.
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
“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.
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.
$2 for Dasani is still about $3 too much.
I’ll give $3 to not have a Dasani. Dish water.
Yes! Why does Dasani taste so much worse than any other bottled water?
I’d rather drink Flint tap water than Dasani.
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.
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!”.
People can try and be the helpers at any point. Life can be like that. You don’t have to accept it. But it don’t hurt to try.
Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water
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”
Dasani has water in it.
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
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.
Straight from the tap
No, they add sodium.
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.
then why does it taste sweet?
Microplastics.
Depends on where it was bottled
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.
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.”
So “about 500ml” like OP stated
$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery
It may be, but it’s a standard price that you would find outside of a sporting event.
Mother of face fucking god, that’s terrible pricing. We’re buying 6packs of 1.5L bottles of carbonated water sometimes and it’s like 2-3 Euros, and contains more than 24 times more water than this joke of a bottle o.O
$2.75 at the vending machine at work.
Well of course, that’s the point of being in a captive audience, like at the movie theater or airport. At least they aren’t bleeding you for $8.50 for the same bottle. Makes it hurt a little less if one of your treats in life is watching a game, and someone needs to start the precedent of slowing down the momentum of overcharging for basic goods
That’s still more than I would pay.
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
