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Topic: going to court over price of food & drink
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Marcel Birgelen
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Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 09-07-2012 02:45 AM
quote: Manny Knowles To my knowledge, AMC does not permit "outside" food and drink
Well, this might be exactly the point where a judge could be convinced that they're sort of exploiting a monopoly here. Additionally, most chains do not publicly advertise their menu pricing. So, hypothetically you could claim that, as a consumer, you could not make a balanced choice. "I didn't know that my Coke and Popcorn would be so expensive when I bought my ticket..."
quote: Manny Knowles He did not *need* the snacks in order to watch the movie.
You also do not *need* to eat or drink at a certain restaurant or bar. Yet if the law states that you cannot horrendously overcharge, compared with other, similar venues, then that's the law.
Obviously, those things are often open for multiple interpretations. What would be a similar venue for example? It is generally accepted that a glass of Coke in a bar will cost me several times the amount compared to that same glass of Coke from my fridge. Surely, that's because of the service that's being offered, the operational costs of running said "venue" and because of this little thing called profit. I guess it isn't generally accepted that many cinemas use their snacks and drinks to cover some of their operational costs not linked to F&B as well.
I didn't read the law personally, so it is all just speculation. I did a quick Google and all I found was an "Item Pricing Act" together with a 2011 revision, but that law does only seem to cover pricing advertisement.
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Manny Knowles
"What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???"
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Posts: 4247
From: Bloomington, IN, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-07-2012 02:10 PM
quote: Marcel Birgelen if the law states that you cannot horrendously overcharge, compared with other, similar venues, then that's the law.
You're actually re-stating my point, which is that all movie theatres charge pretty much the same amount for their concessions, so "compared with other, similar venues" AMC is normal and not overcharging. In other words, if other, similar venues are overcharging, then you can too.
Exception -- the highly overrated and overpriced Arclight in Hollywood, CA. They go too far.
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