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

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

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

Dasani water is just nasty though. How is it possible to make water taste so bad

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.

Originally, a bottle of water is more expensive than soda before discount. :)

Upliftingnews is close to the most corporate boot-licking forum on the internet

Costco hotdogs with a drink, still cheaper.

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.

Soda isn't cheaper than water anymore? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!

$2 for Dasani is still about $3 too much.

"in the spirit of the holidays we will crushing 75% fewer orphans until January 1st!"

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.

Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water

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.

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.

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.

Word is that the nachos are stale, and come with pickles and cold cheese.

That's still more than I would pay.

$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery

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 is selling garbage for cheap supposed to be uplifting?

Err "$2 value meal" total meal cost .. $6

Calling a diabetes overload "family friendly" is the most cynical of all this.

Prohibitive pricing might at least have saved a few people.

I can't help but assume they're still making a profit, however small. Which makes me sick.