Do you take your own candy to the movies?

[Beauty]

We do buy the popcorn but we have known to sneak things in, candy, drinks, wine coolers and beer when we were teenagers....LOL!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Originally posted by Beauty
We do buy the popcorn but we have known to sneak things in, candy, drinks, wine coolers and beer when we were teenagers....LOL!

 

[ballroombelle]

No...but that's because I am lazy.

I don't have a problem with people bringing things in but PLEASE make sure they are in "QUIET" packaging! The crackling and crinkling of most candy packaging in a movie theater...that drives me insane.

I once saw someone bring in a whole hoagie...with onions!

 

[Talking Hands]

Yes but not for the reason stated. You can't buy diabetic candy at the movies so I take what I can have.

 

[monarchsfan16]

Unfortunately.
My stepdad even used to make us smuggle in cans of soda in my mom's Mary Poppins style purse. There is nothing more humiliating than pulling out cans of soda when everyone around you is drinking from cups bought at the theater. And the cans of soda don't even last through previews.
We never smuggled in candy-we don't eat that at the theater. Instead we smuggled in cheeze-its, goldfish, chips, carrot stick, etc. We usually got to buy popcorn, but of course stepdad had plastic bags to split that into too.
Now I get to see movies on my own with friends. LOL. Nothing gets smuggled in. Yes we pay the outrageous prices-because we want the big sized stuff. Besides-smuggling food in is humiliating. Or at least it is if you're a teenager.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

I answered yes - but only candy and not every time we go. It usually will cost over $50 for the 4 of us to get. The price of the candy is just outrageous - but then so is the cost of the soda & popcorn.

I can verify that the theater only gets about 20% of the admissions the first week a new movie runs. The percentage they get to keep goes up each week they hold the film over. There is definately a correlation between the amount of money that the snack bar makes and the net profit that the theater will make. It's much less than you would think. There are financial studies out there that show on average the theaters net profit is around 5% or less of what the total income is. Which is really pretty low. This would be why you don't see too many family owned theaters - they are usually large corporations with several theaters in different cities.

 

[powellrj]

we will take our own snacks when we go to the drive-in, but for a regular theater, we will buy them there, or usually eat before we go.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Originally posted by monarchsfan16
Besides-smuggling food in is humiliating. Or at least it is if you're a teenager.

we always smuggle food in ..we make sure we have purses, and the guys put stuffi n their pockets..theres a target next to the movie theater, so we buy tix, go to target, then back to the movies....never bothered us!

 

[Mishetta]

Wow! You guys can afford to go to the movies!!! Truthfully, the last movie I saw at the theatre was Lilo & Stitch (don't remember when that came out.) I do smuggle in candy & our own soda (cans) but we do buy the popcorn since it's always sooooooo good!

I have to comment to the teenager's post about being humilitated about bringing in her own snacks....yes, I felt that way too when I was younger but trust me, once you're in your 40's & have a house payment, car payments, trying to save for private school tuition, a vacation & hopefully saving a little bit to help your children when it's time for them to go off to college, you're not embarrassed about bringing in a box of candy to a movie theatre, you're just very discreet!

 

[katerkat]

So.... It's been noted that the theaters don't make their money off the tickets so much. So that leaves the concessions. So we all don't want to pay the prices for the food. So we bring stuff in. So the ticket prices go up, since the theaters need to recoup some money somewhere. Then we all complain about the ticket prices going up.

Did I get that right?

 

[Doesney]

We bring our own drinks, (no soda allowed in this house) and the kids get popcorn.

 

[Roxter79]

If I go to the movies [whish isn't often and I go in the next town over] I usually take my Audrey Hepburn purse. I can fit a soda bottle in there [actually 3 jones bottles] and a bag maybe 2 of candy. Depends on the size. Prices are high. and no refills

If I go to the one in my town [one screen . . . not a small town just a small movie place] I usually buy drinks and stuff becuase it's cheep and free refills on drinks and popcorn

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Originally posted by Roxter79
If I go to the movies [whish isn't often and I go in the next town over] I usually take my Audrey Hepburn purse. I can fit a soda bottle in there [actually 3 jones bottles] and a bag maybe 2 of candy. Depends on the size. Prices are high. and no refills

Breakfast at Tiffany's, right? My absolute favorite movie!

 

[Annette_VA]

Originally posted by MeanLaureen
I needed the option of - yes, I do if I'm going somewhere that sells candy beforehand. I normally wouldn't make a special trip to get candy before the movie and normally don't have candy around the house.

Same here!

 

[Robinrs]

Originally posted by katerkat
So.... It's been noted that the theaters don't make their money off the tickets so much. So that leaves the concessions. So we all don't want to pay the prices for the food. So we bring stuff in. So the ticket prices go up, since the theaters need to recoup some money somewhere. Then we all complain about the ticket prices going up.

Did I get that right?

That will always be a point with any profit making entity. With movie going the ticket prices will not hurt me because I just won't go. I'm on a very limited budget and only go about 2 times a year and only to matinees.

On the other hand, if I buy $4.00 raisinettes I doubt if the ticket prices will ever go down because I did.

 

[mom2of2]

We sure do! The $ store is right next to the movie theater and everytime we are there to stock up on candy there are ALWAYS people doing the same thing. I also bring in yoohoo and water for my kids since they don't drink soda. I usually hit the matinees since they are cheaper ($5.75). Still last week it cost us $30 for 4 of us to see Shrek2 and we only bought one bag of popcorn.

 

[Sirius]

We usually just split a popcorn and soda.

I had a friend smuggle in Burger King once. The lady in front of us kept saying "I smell a Whopper!"

oh well

 

[helenabear]

Wow, I must be in the very small minority here... I haven't "smuggled" anything in since I was poor and in highschool. We have signs that say no outside food or drink allowed (they will allow coffee from next door since they don't sell it) so I figure that's the rule and I follow it. I don't go that often and I don't always buy something, but I guess I figure they have to make their money somehow.

 

[*Flower*]

I wish I could vote twice!!!

I think that the candy prices are ridiculous, and I am doing Atkins. I bring in SF candy now- but you'd better believe that I used to go to Wal-mart and buy the stuff that DH loved when we went to the movies.......

We just saw Shrek 2 last night.......FUNNY!!!

Even if I am a Disneyholic!!!

 

[Desiree]

I voted for morally wrong.

Since I was a manager at a movie theatre I know the hassle that goes around with cleaning up smuggled in items after the movies are over. I mean, it's bad enough cleaning the regular trash, but when you add subway sandwiches, alcoholic beverages, a box of chicken to be picked up it's just a filthy mess!!! Plus and what was said earlier is true. They only make about 1% profit from Box Office sales, so I always try to buy at least one thing from Concessions each time we go. (It helps the theaters per capita so less haggling from District Managers).