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                  Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive?
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                 Yes, $7 popcorn is a ripoff. But it’s also the lifeblood of most movie theaters’ business model.
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                 In March of 2012, Justin Thompson, a 20-year-old security technician from Livonia, Michigan, decided to go to the movies.
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                 Inside, he encountered an atrocity we’re all familiar with: the movie theater concessions stand, with its $8 popcorn, $6 sodas, $5 candy bars.
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                 Left with no alternative, Thompson indignantly bought a treat at an 800% markup. Then, he went home and
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                 “He was taken for a ride,” Thompson’s lawyer, Kerry Korgan, told
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                 . “I’m sorry, but you can go and get a bag of popcorn at any convenience store for next to nothing.”
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                 The lawsuit was later dismissed, but it raised a question we’ve all asked:
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                  Why the hell are movie theater concessions so expensive?
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                 We set out to find an answer — and it took us right to the heart of a declining industry’s business model.
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                  The movie concessions “racket”
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                 Before we dive into the
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                 let’s take a quick look at just how much you’re overpaying for snacks at the movie theater.
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                 We dug through concessions data from AMC, Cinemark, and a number of other theater chains to compile rough averages of how much certain items cost. Then, we compared these prices to the typical street price you might pay at a convenience store.
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                 It should be said that movie food and beverage prices vary widely by geographic region, theater size, and a number of other factors. In the course of our research, we saw popcorn prices as low as $0.99 and as high as $13.75. The figures you see here are rough, non-definitive industry averages — but they still paint a bleak picture.
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                 Moviegoers pay the highest premium for popcorn.
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                 At most major movie theaters, you’re looking at around $8 for a medium-sized bag of buttered popcorn — nearly the price of the
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                 ($9).
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                 At 11 cups, the average medium-sized movie popcorn goes for $0.73/cup. By contrast, a 175-cup bag of genuine movie theater popcorn can be had on Amazon for
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                  $48.23
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                 , or about $0.27/cup.
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                 A movie theater ICEE ($6.49) runs 4.4x more than a 7-Eleven Slurpee (which is the
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                 ), and a soda ($5.99) is 3x the cost of a store-bought Coke. One box of movie M&amp;M’s ($4.79) could buy you nearly 3 boxes at your local Walmart.
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                 For a simple date night (let’s say a popcorn to share, two sodas, and some Red Vines), you’re looking at $24.79 — more than the price of two average tickets ($18). For a family of 4, the cost of snacks might run up to $50 or more.
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                 When we examine the markup (profit minus cost) on these products, the figures are even uglier.
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                  Richard McKenzie
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                 , a professor at the University of California, Irvine,
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                 that it costs the average theater around $0.90 to produce a bag of popcorn. At $7.99, that’s a
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                  788%
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                 markup.
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                 Including the cup and a free refill, that $5.99 soft drink costs a theater $0.91 (a 558% markup); candy, which can be purchased wholesale for ~$1.16, isn’t far behind.
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                 It’s easy to write this all off as simple price-gouging. After all, movie theaters have a captive audience — and once you’re inside, they have a monopoly on every secondary good you choose to purchase.
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                 But the pricing of these concessions isn’t as simple as it seems.
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                  Theaters don’t make much on tickets
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                 Allen Michaan was just 19 when he
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                 his first movie theater in the 1970s. In his 40-year career, he’s operated more than 20 cinemas, including the historic
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                  Grand Lake Theatre
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                 in Oakland, California.
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                 As he tells it, pricey popcorn isn’t some diabolical price-gouging scheme — it’s the lifeblood of a theater’s business model.
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                 “After the distributor takes its cut, we barely make money on ticket sales,” he says. “We have to make up for that somehow.”
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                 When a theater wants to show a film, it must agree to pay the distributor a percentage of all ticket sales. This percentage is
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                  higher
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                 during the first few weeks of a film and decreases over time, but generally averages out to ~
                 <strong>
                  70%
                 </strong>
                 .
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                 So, if a theater sells a movie ticket for $9, its cut is only $2.70 — and that’s without accounting for other expenses.
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                 Theater owners
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                  could
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                 price tickets higher, but it wouldn’t do them much good since 70% of any increase goes straight to the studios. Instead, they think of movies as a
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                 : their primary goal is to get as many people through their doors as possible, even if it means breaking even (or losing money) on the price of admission.
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                 In fact, the price of a movie ticket hasn’t gone up much in the last 90 years. In 1929, a ticket was $0.35; today, it’s $9. Adjusted for inflation, that’s a fairly reasonable price increase of 108%.
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                 The same can’t be said for movie popcorn: Over the same period, its price has gone up a whopping 1,188% — more than 10x the increase of a movie ticket.
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                 Movie theaters’ margins are made not on their primary product (movie tickets), but on secondary products at the snack stand, where customers guzzle ICEEs and shove buttery kernels down their gullets.
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                 "If we didn't charge as much for concessions as we did, the tickets to the movies would cost $20," the CEO of Regal Cinemas, the nation's second-largest theater chain, told the
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                 in 2008.
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                 To survive, Regal and other cinemas adhere to an old
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                 : “Find a good place to sell popcorn and build a movie theater there.”
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                  The popcorn business
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                 Unlike tickets, concession sales are not shared: theaters keep 100% of the revenue they generate. And this revenue generates much higher profits.
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                  The Hustle
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                 looked through annual reports (2015-2018) from two leading movie chains (
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                  AMC
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                 and
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                  Cinemark
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                 ) and found that concessions account for ~30% of total gross revenue, yet make up 45-50% of gross profits.
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                 In 2018, Cinemark sold $1.8B in tickets at a cost of $1B (distributor fees). By contrast, concessions brought in $1.1B at a cost of just $181m — an
                 <strong>
                  84% profit margin
                 </strong>
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