RedWolf
Deity
Do you sneak food into the movie theatre?
I never used to - I always purchased their ridiculously overpriced food like a good boy until one day an incident happened that broke the camels back.
My girlfriend and I went to an AMC theatre and payed the admission price for 2 tickets - I think it was $12.50 and then headed to the concession stand.
She wanted to buy some water but a SMALL bottle of water was going to cost $3.60!!! (you can buy 1.5 Litre bottle of spring water for $1.99 in the grocery store) So instead she asked for a cup with tap water and they replied that since they count their cups they can only give her a "complimentary cup" which turned out to be a little tiny dixie cup (about one gulp of water!!). She then realized that she had an empty water bottle in her purse and tried to fill that up in the washroom but the taps outputted WARM water only - unsuitable for drinking obviously. This is "H2O Blackmail" as they do everything possible to make sure that you must buy their overpriced bottled water. Even restaurants will give you as many free glasses of ice water as you want.
I then proceeded to buy a package of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups which cost me $3.49!!!!! I can buy TWO packages of these at the dollar store for $1.00 Even assuming you were to buy them at a convenience store at 1 for $1.00 thats still a 300% markup!!!
I don't mind paying more for food for a "night out" as you do whenever you go to a restaurant but at some point it becomes an obscenity. They've forced us into a dramatic course of action.
After that evening we swore we'd do everything possible to avoid purchasing snacks from those robber barons and now sneak chocolate bars and bottled pop/water into the theatre with us.
This will work until the theatres start employing "Snack Nazi's" to sit in the theatres and snitch on people like us. I fear that those days aren't far away at all.
I never used to - I always purchased their ridiculously overpriced food like a good boy until one day an incident happened that broke the camels back.
My girlfriend and I went to an AMC theatre and payed the admission price for 2 tickets - I think it was $12.50 and then headed to the concession stand.
She wanted to buy some water but a SMALL bottle of water was going to cost $3.60!!! (you can buy 1.5 Litre bottle of spring water for $1.99 in the grocery store) So instead she asked for a cup with tap water and they replied that since they count their cups they can only give her a "complimentary cup" which turned out to be a little tiny dixie cup (about one gulp of water!!). She then realized that she had an empty water bottle in her purse and tried to fill that up in the washroom but the taps outputted WARM water only - unsuitable for drinking obviously. This is "H2O Blackmail" as they do everything possible to make sure that you must buy their overpriced bottled water. Even restaurants will give you as many free glasses of ice water as you want.
I then proceeded to buy a package of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups which cost me $3.49!!!!! I can buy TWO packages of these at the dollar store for $1.00 Even assuming you were to buy them at a convenience store at 1 for $1.00 thats still a 300% markup!!!
I don't mind paying more for food for a "night out" as you do whenever you go to a restaurant but at some point it becomes an obscenity. They've forced us into a dramatic course of action.
After that evening we swore we'd do everything possible to avoid purchasing snacks from those robber barons and now sneak chocolate bars and bottled pop/water into the theatre with us.
This will work until the theatres start employing "Snack Nazi's" to sit in the theatres and snitch on people like us. I fear that those days aren't far away at all.
I've been known to take 12 oz cokes, king size cany bars, even a bag of chips. 
to Immortal and the blue whales; I love those things.
, they'd eventually run outta business. The worst thing for me, is when stores, including movie theatres start getting primitive in their way of formulating rules, for example, in a computer store they have signs comfortably informing you that "By opening this ????, you will be turned over to the police". I'm really disgusted by this. If that's somekind of sales trick, I guess I don't belong in that kind of business. 
