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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 115 points 3 months ago (1 children)

$2 for Dasani is still about $3 too much.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'll give $3 to not have a Dasani. Dish water.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

I’d rather drink Flint tap water than Dasani.

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 94 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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!".

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 3 months ago (16 children)

Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

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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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But where will I get my orphan paste you monster

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Synthetic orphan paste is just as good and you know it!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

But that chemical aftertaste, eww.

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Soda isn't cheaper than water anymore? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Water? Like from the toilet?!? But Brawndo's got electrolytes

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

$8.50 for filtered tap water. That's fucking insane. I'd just ask them to point me to the nearest hose.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Upliftingnews is close to the most corporate boot-licking forum on the internet

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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 🤤🤤🤤🤤🍆🍆

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a good source of content for whatever /r/OrphanCrushingMachine is here

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Originally, a bottle of water is more expensive than soda before discount. :)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Most of the time, you're paying for packaging and shipping of a product

8.50

No.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

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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[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dasani water is just nasty though. How is it possible to make water taste so bad

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey Dasani bottles from only the finest hydrants

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago

That's still more than I would pay.

[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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?

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It may be, but it's a standard price that you would find outside of a sporting event.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

$2.75 at the vending machine at work.

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[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

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

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