So why not? It’s my snack, i’ll sneak it in to the movies. The last movie I went to see was avatar three. We should have been sneaking snacks in. My son and I went to Lowe Lincoln Square IMAX to see the film. The tickets were about $66 for the two of us. By the time we added snacks we were passed $100. Honestly, that was just totally ridiculous. I am quite sure that their theater accountant was very happy at the end of the shift having achieved their objectives. Perhaps overhead are just too high and causing these exceptionally high concession prices. Some folks probably do not care about the amount of money that they spend on movie snacks, but I do. I also know for a fact that I am not the only one.
Diehard movie funds need to eat, but they are not interested in mortgage in the house to do so. I first overheard friends talking about the whole idea of sneaking movie snacks into the Theatre. I never really thought of doing it mainly for ethical reasons, but can you really blame anybody for doing this ? Are the snacks even worth fighting for? What do I mean by this? Movie snacks are not the best food for your health. Excessive amounts of butter and salt. Definitely can wreak havoc with your body. The large cauldron-like cups of sugary soda are not helpful to the body and the vital organs.
In reading up on this “perplexing global crisis,“ The general consensus seems to suggest that movie theaters only get but a pittance of the percentage of the cost of the movie ticket we purchased. For this reason, in order to make money and cover overheads, they need to sell concessions with extremely high mark-ups. Sources on Reddit (todayilearned) as well as on LinkedIn (Bill Fanter) suggest markups on popcorn that are as high as 1275% above the cost of preparing popcorn in your own home.
Another way of looking at this is that there must be something utterly special about going to the movies that would cause us to not only ignore these prices, but still faithfully pay for concessions just for the sake of saying that we had a snacks.
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