A Boring Dystopia

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

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.

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.)

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

But where will I get my orphan paste you monster

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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