$4.00 For a Mini Can of Pringles. Really?

[FayeW]

We stayed at the most upscale hotel in our city last night. I always get such a kick out of the ridiculous prices in the hotels for their snacks and drinks. A mini can of Pringles: $4.00...a chocolate bar: $3.50....bag of almonds...$7:00!

Does anybody actually buy that stuff at those prices? I would think that the offerings in some of those rooms must be ancient, I would be afraid to even eat it.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

Yes, people actually buy it. If you're really hungry, it's still only $4 or so, even if it's a lot for that particular item in a grocery. Also, when you travel on business, you get that reimbursed.

 

[MichelleVW]

yep...my DH does all the time...I want to kill him, but he does it anyway!

 

[happygirl]

We stayed at the most upscale hotel in our city last night. I always get such a kick out of the ridiculous prices in the hotels for their snacks and drinks. A mini can of Pringles: $4.00...a chocolate bar: $3.50....bag of almonds...$7:00!

Does anybody actually buy that stuff at those prices? I would think that the offerings in some of those rooms must be ancient, I would be afraid to even eat it.

I bet you would be shocked by how many they sell. Business people who have been on the road all day don't want to go back out.

If I'm traveling and I don't want to load the kids in the car and go some where I would get one

 

[kydisneyfans]

If you fly in for a meeting and take a cab or train to your hotel, where else would you be able to purchase these items outside of the airport? Most are written off for business.

 

[BelleWDW]

We stayed at The Four Seasons in Houston and were starving after a concert-and downtown Houston at midnight-we weren't going looking for food-ya know
We ordered the small pizza-like REALLLY small-with tax and delivery fee it was $30!!!

 

[Piecey]

I would pay $4 for a can of Pringles right now.

 

[Imzadi]

I was browsing in Saks Fifth Avenue once. (I say browsing because I couldn't afford anything.) I saw a plain, black wool skirt hanging up. It wasn't part of a set, ensemble or matching outfit. It looked exactly like a generic, black, straight-line skirt. No special stitching even. Not even cashmere. The same as you can get at Kohls or Macy's.

Curious, I picked it up. It had some designer label stitched inside and the price tag read $500. I thought if I ever have enough money to drop $500 on a plain, black skirt, I'll buy an $80 one at Macy's and donate the extra $420 to charity.

But, I'm sure it's pretty routine for someone like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian to drop $500 on a plain, black skirt without even blinking an eye.

There are plenty of people who will over-pay for anything if they have the money.

 

[RangerPooh]

DH has done it. Like PP have said, late night munchies, late night arrivals, or screaming kids and now clue where to go for food. The price bites, but you just suck it up. DH and I would take our DDs for a weekend away (shopping, Disney on ice, etc) and would end up ordering room service late at night becuase no one wanted to go out to find food after the event had ended. And of course at that point you're paying the over inflated late night prices to boot.

 

[MizTink]

I would pay $4 for a can of Pringles right now.

 

[FayeW]

Wow, I had no idea that so many people actually bought that stuff. I guess they charge so much because desperate people will pay for it!

 

[englishteacha]

I thought it was part of a new diet plan! Charge so much for food that no one will eat it.

 

[AustinTink]

We paid $5 for a mini can of pringles at the Louvre in Paris. We had our then 7 year old with us. He had eaten nothing but plain crepes for a week. Those pringles were looking really good to him right about then.

 

[C.Ann]

I always travel with my own "stash" of goodies, so there's no way in heck I would pay those prices..

But obviously there "are" people out there who don't have an issue with it though, so there's no need to lower the prices to a more reasonable level..
"Supply and demand" - ya know?

 

[kaytieeldr]

Does anybody actually buy that stuff at those prices?

Not that stuff, but a couple of years ago I was in Las Vegas with such a miserable cold, I didn't want to leave the hotel. I paid $2+ per dose for cold medication.

 

[NAB]

Heck we pay those prices at the movie theater all the time...now that is a rip off.

Never go into the mini bar but I guess if we were hungry enough.

 

[IDoDis]

A bit off topic, but I'm sure others who buy Pringles have noticed that the cans shrunk to half the size and cost what the full size cans used to cost a few months ago? I didn't buy them often, but once in a while I'd buy a can and keep it at work to eat with my lunch. Last spring I could buy a full-size can of Pringles at Wal-Mart for $1.00. Suddenly the price got jacked up to $1.50. I stopped buying them and waited for a sale -- which never came!

Then, just a couple of weeks ago, I see the 1/2 sized cans at the store for the bargain price of... you guessed it -- $1.00 and the full size cans went up to $2.00! The manufactures obviously know what they are doing if they can double the price in the course of a few months and get away with it, but they lost me as a customer.

If I won't pay $2 for a large can of Pringles, there's no way I'd EVER pay $4.00 for a small can. I'm way too frugal to do that.

 

[DarthKTrava]

I always travel with my own "stash" of goodies, so there's no way in heck I would pay those prices..

But obviously there "are" people out there who don't have an issue with it though, so there's no need to lower the prices to a more reasonable level..
"Supply and demand" - ya know?

I usually take a stash of snacks and drinks when I go to Atlanta every year. I do eat out in the food court but have taken the food back to the room and then open a can of Pepsi to go with it.

 

[FayeW]

Heck we pay those prices at the movie theater all the time...now that is a rip off.

Never go into the mini bar but I guess if we were hungry enough.

You know, I never thought of the comparison to the movie theatre prices, but you are right. However, at least at the theatre, while you are over paying, you are getting a jug o' drink and a bucket of popcorn. You are paying outrageous money for what you are buying, but you are also getting a huge portion.

 

[Pakey]

I indulge in the mini fridge goodies (love Godiva chocolate and the bottled water) every time I go on a business trip.

Once I was a true daredevil and did the $15 can of macadamia nuts.