There's an interesting article floating around the Net about this. As it turns out, popcorn is foundation of the movie industry. Hollywood is utterly dependent on the theater chains (especially since DVD sales are down) and the theater chains are utterly dependent on the sale of popcorn in order to turn a profit. I found this amusing since I never eat or drink anything while at the movie theater.
Alcohol at the club. I ordered 2 mixed drinks and one smirnoff, total: $20.25 I never buy alcohol at the club, I prefer to get drunk before getting there. These drinks were for some girls that I was creeping on. FAIL. I didn't get any.
Lol I fill up an empty water bottle with Black Box red wine and put it in one of my cargo pockets. My contribution: James Coney Island. I love that place, but $6.81 today for the #2 (2 cheese coneys all the way, tots, drink). That's pretty steep imo for 2 dogs and freakin' tater tots.
Sodas to me are worse than the popcorn. $5 for a small for $5 I could buy 5 LITERS of soda. Plus you need 2 whereas the popcorn is more typically shared. Toilet paper and paper towels, razor blades. Also anything and everything to do with women. Including all women's personal needs. Body wash, shaving cream, waxing strips, shampoo, conditioner, makeup, nail polish, hair serum, etc. Getting their nails done, hair cut, dyed, and shampooed, spa treatments. Purses, shoes, flowers, candy, jewelry, weddings, etc. Anything and everything that has to do with women is overpriced. For you guys who are not married yet and are living decently on the $10-$15 hour job, you are in for a rude awakening when you can make more than twice that amount and have less disposable cash.
For movie theaters, if I'm going to pay for overpriced food/drinks, I'll pay for good overpriced food/drinks. I speak of the Alamo Drafthouse. And I'll second to the guy who said sports venues are worse.
$5 for a small drink is crazy expensive. I could easily get a larger sized drink for 75 cents somewhere else...
And I'll third it. I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, but I'd much rather go to a bar and watch games than go to the actual game itself. I'll have a better view on the TV than I would in the nosebleeds and I'll spend FAR less than I would at any game on better food and better beer.
Just really anything about College. The books are especially atrocious but at least for the most part you can bypass a lot of the markup by shopping on amazon... if you're an English major that is
College books for sure. I was sitting next to this girl today and she was asking me how much I paid for my book only to tell me that the 200 dollar used book I bought only cost her 14.... ....my urge to bludgeon her to death with her own book was subdued due to her attractiveness. Still mad though.
My school did not tell us our required textbooks until the Sunday before classes started, so we were pretty much forced to buy their crap. It cost me over $400 and I only bought used crap. And on top of that, at the end of the year (every ****ing year), they tell me they have already reached their quota and will not buy my books back, so I end up throwing them in the dumpster.
Athletic shoes and high end footwear. That argument will always exist of "its on a piece of paper" or "its on a piece of plastic". Always forgetting about the actual content. "Its on the internet" has worked in a similar vein, though I've still never used my Demonoid account
