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Fuck the giant corporations (europe.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/workreform@lemmy.world
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[–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

The price of cinema popcorn is a strange thing.

It's corn. It's literally just corn. Unless the butter came from the teet of St Mary herself, it's just corn. $2 should cover it including the inconvenience of shipping it, pouring it into a machine, and scooping it into a thin-walled cardboard cup.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    I have heard that movie theaters make most of their money from their concession stands, and that the ticket sales largely go to the movie distributors.

    So, their business model is marking up popcorn.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Same model applies to concert venues. Most of the ticket money goes to the artist

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Haven't I heard artists complain that the ticket sales monopolies like Ticket Master suck up a lot of the money from ticket sales? Was that bad info?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Not to defend Ticketmaster/Live Nation, as they still suck in other ways, but artists/artist management sets the ticket prices and receives the majority of it. Venues don't make nearly as much from ticket sales, including Live Nation themselves which own multiple large venues. Ticketmaster would rather take the blame for high ticket prices than the artist to direct anger in the direction that keeps making money.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

    The point is not to get goods to you in the most cost efficient way possible. The point is to seperate you from as much of your money as possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I think strange in the opposite way, considering the countless people involved in producing the end product somewhere near you. And strange that cinema business model is merely to give people a nice place to eat the snacks.

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