I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles

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• SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love how some posters have a very specific taste in memes and I can tell who’s posting without even checking

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• mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The largest cinema corporation in Sweden (when asked about why they chose to restrict people from bringing their own snacks) infamously compared bringing snacks not bought at the cinema to brining your own food to a restaurant.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Putting aside the real reason is they don’t earn much from the movies themselves and profit more from concessions, his logic doesn’t even make sense lmao.

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    • mang0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I suppose if their only source of considerable income was from snacks, then the comparison would make sense. Although it doesn’t make sense from a customer perspective where you’re paying more than 20 $/€ for a ticket (at least in Sweden)

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I normally thought this way, but most cinemas make cents at best on movie tickets. Vast majority of the ticket price goes directly to the producer. The only way they cover the rest of their overhead (and stay in business) is thru concessions.

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  • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.

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    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      For years and years they convinced us we need bigger, better TVs with surround sound and all the add-ons. That every person should build their own home theatre

      Then they get mad that we stop going to their theatre.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well then they need to figure out a different arrangement with the studios then, selling overpriced popcorn is not a profitable business model, my local indie theater has fixed price tickets and their concessions include alcohol and THC products, it’s a better value for money than any of the chain theaters like AMC, Regal. Plus they run older cult classic Hollywood and international movies and it attracts a better crowded, not the loud people who are on their phones.

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s ironic, in my area a lot of small theatres had to close or pivot to arthouse cinemas once multiplex cinemas rolled in, but now we have a revival of the same small theatres since multiplexes have become obscenely expensive and are swarmed with obnoxious teenagers.

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  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s not my problem. If the Free Market™ works then prices will settle out where they need to so that I don’t have yo bring my own snacks and they don’t have to overcharge for them. Otherwise, the Free Market™ doesn’t actually work and they can get fucked anyway.

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  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They get 20-30% of the ticket sale. Considering the price of tickets, that’s more than cents.

    The share they keep increases the longer the movie plays.

    This idea that they get almost none of the sales is a story they sold people so people would feel guilty not paying for over priced concessions.

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A friend and I once took a dozen donuts and a 2 liter of Mug root beer into a movie theater. The guy doing bag checks looked at me and my friend and said, “Good choice in snacks” and let us in.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The same fucking person!

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  • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Baggy pants are coming back and me and my JNCOs couldn’t be more ready.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not the same size I was in highschool.

    Don’t you just hate it when your penis shrinks?

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Neither I nor my JNCOs were as ready as I thought we were.

      Axe never fails me tho.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  we would go to the dollar theater and bring all kinds of food. our favorite was the 7 part chinese dinner

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• gigachad@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  !trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine buys jujyfruits from the theatre smack counter even though she wasn’t watching the movie? Most unrealistic episode ever.

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