This was in upliftingnews but imo, they've been overcharging for years and now they're framing this as a feel good story

$2 for Dasani is still about $3 too much.
- I'll give $3 to not have a Dasani. Dish water.
  
  I’d rather drink Flint tap water than Dasani.
  
  Yes! Why does Dasani taste so much worse than any other bottled water?
  
  I wouldn't give Dasani to my dog

Sports and entertainment are down across the board. They can't sell tickets because people can't afford a night out, so this is their attempt to drive sales. They aren't throwing families a bone, they are trying not to have to draft players with a much smaller budget next year. You can't sell any concessions if people won't buy tickets.
- 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.
  
  I'm several states to the east and I'd have to agree. Ticket prices for everything have skyrocketed, especially concert tickets. Bands I've seen before who are arguably less relevant now are charging 4x as much. It's completely fucked.
  
  In the college football world the secondary market for tickets has seemed softer this year than last year. A lot of it is the change to the playoff format making it so that people have more events to split their budget across, but a lot of people lost money selling tickets under the face value for the conference games when their teams didn't make it. And just this weekend, it seemed like tickets were pretty cheap for the first round of the playoffs.
  Those prices might be up from 5 years ago, but my impression is that prices are down from last year.
- That and they'll probably understock some food items. When they run out they'll be like "sorry sir, we're out of hotdogs, but we do have Dasani sewage plant water!".

Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water
- 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.
  
  Having good tap water is truly a blessing. I’ve never felt the need to have bottled at home
- It's just tap water isn't it? It got recalled here and never came back.
  
  No, tap water is palatable. Dasani is runoff from an over-exerted kiddie pool filter.
  
  Must be UK? I've seen the Tom Scott video on this lol. Unfortunately it's still one of the big brands over here.
- I'm so happy to see so many comments shitting on Dasani. I've sworn at random times to friends and family that Dasani tastes like garbage. Like wet dog runoff or water that was stewed with pennies. But nobody ever agrees. It actually tastes closer to my sulfur-y well water than any other normal bottled water.
  
  My girlfriend's house has sulfur-laden well water. I find it absolutely revolting, taking a shower feels like I'm in a pot of hard boiled eggs, but she swears she's used to it.
  I think it's subconsciously the reason she's always dehydrated.
- Straight from the tap
  
  No, they add sodium.
- Before and after you discover a sub for a hobby (ProZD)
- Dasani has water in it.
- I disagree. I think arrowhead is.

"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"
- But where will I get my orphan paste you monster
  
  Synthetic orphan paste is just as good and you know it!

Ishbia’s purchase of the Suns was approved in Feb. 2023. Since he’s relatively new as majority owner of the team, I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt and assume in this situation he is working to make things better with his position and either only recently became aware of the price issue or was only just now able to change it, rather than simply making the change now for optics. You can be cynical about those who set the prices before him.
- 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.

$8.50 for filtered tap water. That's fucking insane. I'd just ask them to point me to the nearest hose.

Soda isn't cheaper than water anymore? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!
- Water? Like from the toilet?!? But Brawndo's got electrolytes
- /me mumbles something about the law in Germany that water has to be cheaper than beer on the menu.
  
  correction: the cheapest drink has to be non-alcoholic
  
  Tap water is supposed to be free in most places in the USA.

Originally, a bottle of water is more expensive than soda before discount. :)
- 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.)
  
  Most of the time, you're paying for packaging and shipping of a product
  8.50
  No.

Upliftingnews is close to the most corporate boot-licking forum on the internet
- Post: "Company allow employees 2 extra days of PTO to deal with cancer treatment"
  Actual report: company was obligated to add PTO days under federal law.
  Commenters: omg yaas queen I love Company they treat their employees right love them 🤤🤤🤤🤤🍆🍆
- Sounds like a good source of content for whatever /r/OrphanCrushingMachine is here

Dasani water is just nasty though. How is it possible to make water taste so bad
- Hey Dasani bottles from only the finest hydrants
  
  The rust is just extra flavour!

For the rest of the world, 16 oz is approximately 500 g so I guess that's equivalent to a 500 ml bottle.
$2 for that is actually pretty reasonable for an event.
- 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.
  
  So “about 500ml” like OP stated
  
  For water, they're actually equivalent, just like grams and milliliters. As the old saying goes, "a pint's a pound the world around, but mainly in the U.S. and Liberia."

People can try and be the helpers at any point. Life can be like that. You don't have to accept it. But it don't hurt to try.

That's still more than I would pay.

A hotdog at a stadium is now cheaper than a burger at McDonalds.

The Seattle Mariners have a similar value menu. Also their local vendors charge the same as they would at their own brick and mortar places.

Costco hotdogs with a drink, still cheaper.
- 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.
  
  Not really a loss either. They charge $60 for membership.

$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery
- It may be, but it's a standard price that you would find outside of a sporting event.
  
  $2.75 at the vending machine at work.
  
  Mother of face fucking god, that's terrible pricing. We're buying 6packs of 1.5L bottles of carbonated water sometimes and it's like 2-3 Euros, and contains more than 24 times more water than this joke of a bottle o.O
- 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

Prices going down seems like good news to me. Are you thinking this equates to jumping up and down cheering and waving pompoms for a company and forgiving all their unforgivable evil misdeeds and sucking their dick? Cuz it doesn't. It just means lower prices are good news.
- 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?
  
  Yeah, steps in the right direction are steps in the right direction.
  Previous practice outrageous? Yup. New practice awesome? Yup. It's ok to recognize both.
  I feel like it'd be a miserable life if you took the negative part of this story and ran with that instead of the more positive side.
  
  slow clap wooo you are charging only 100% profit on those goods in a completely closed high-security environment, good on you for not price gouging as much anymore!!!
- 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.

9 dollars for a fucking hot dog?! 7 bucks for a bag of chips?!

Damn, imagine if you went to every game
If I was a fan I'd be sat wondering why they'd been happily talking a 75+% profit margin from me after I'd already bought a ticket to be there.
If they could just not, when they feel like it
- How much does a bulk purchase cheap-ass hotdog cost. Nothing. It's cents.
  I'm sure they are still making 75% markup, even on the new 2 dollar.price. before, it was several hundred percent markup.
  
  Yes and no. Costco hot dogs are 100% vertically integrated and they get the soda basically for free from Pepsi and they still barely break even on them, if they even do anymore. You add in a farm, packer, and a distributor taking their percent and even a lower quality dog is going to be pretty lean on profit at 2USD in 2024
- First up, I want to say that your point is clear, even without this correction, but...
  That's not how percentages work. To make things neat, let's assume they're now selling things at cost (they're not, they'll still be making a profit).
  A 75% reduction in price like this means that they were previously making 300% profit.
  
  He is talking about margin, not markup. 75% margin = 300% markup

Word is that the nachos are stale, and come with pickles and cold cheese.
- I'd much rather go to San Antonio, get some churros
  
  Why? There'll be a Filiberto's mere minutes away. That's like a whole day of driving from Phoenix to San Antonio.

How is selling garbage for cheap supposed to be uplifting?
- That's not cheap.

I can't help but assume they're still making a profit, however small. Which makes me sick.
- The concept of making a small profit makes you sick?
  I mean, I know they WERE overcharging......but what are you expecting them to do now? Give it away free?
  
  It's how much they were overcharging that makes me sick.

Calling a diabetes overload "family friendly" is the most cynical of all this.
Prohibitive pricing might at least have saved a few people.