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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Bud lite is a deal here for 11.25

It’s 17.20 at the local concert venue near me.

I guess concert pricing has reached the K
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Not sure if it carries over to the lodge, but I can confirm a fiddlehead is $16.75 at the outside stand.

If those prices hold, this could be the last beer I buy this year.

That’s just crazy.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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They are still happy with you only having one beer. That is perfect for them, they make ~$15 dollars, less labor, less materials and less liabilities with you only having one and them not being the one serving you until you were intoxicated. It used to take 3 or 4 beers for them to make that money, and that was a liability, now they do it with one cashless exchange, and the money is straight in their bank accounts.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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GlenPLake wrote: Nov 24th, '23, 18:06 They are still happy with you only having one beer. That is perfect for them, they make ~$15 dollars, less labor, less materials and less liabilities with you only having one and them not being the one serving you until you were intoxicated. It used to take 3 or 4 beers for them to make that money, and that was a liability, now they do it with one cashless exchange, and the money is straight in their bank accounts.
And that’s fine. I went into this evening knowing I was having one beer - and part of my motivation was to confirm what pricing actually was. I was hoping it would be the $13 reported elsewhere in this thread.

At $16.75, I won’t be buying many, if any others this season.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Wow thats crazy. i thought it would be standardized across resort since they have certain contracts. i was told they cant sell pbr becusue of their annheiser bush contract. just checked credit card recedipt. it was 13 at peak on nov 15. this is crazy
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Crippity wrote: Nov 25th, '23, 17:08 Wow thats crazy. i thought it would be standardized across resort since they have certain contracts. i was told they cant sell pbr becusue of their annheiser bush contract. just checked credit card recedipt. it was 13 at peak on nov 15. this is crazy
Maybe they bumped prices for World Cup? Or maybe the difference is draft at a bar vs can at a “pop up” beer stand / tent? Not sure?

Either way $16.75 is nuts… $13 is certainly more palatable (although still pricey)
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Craft beer can in tent next to stage Friday night at bib party was $13 and change
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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fdskier56 wrote: Nov 25th, '23, 19:03 Craft beer can in tent next to stage Friday night at bib party was $13 and change
What craft did you order? Fiddlehead was $16.75
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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fdskier56 wrote: Nov 25th, '23, 19:03 Craft beer can in tent next to stage Friday night at bib party was $13 and change
Might have been tall boy can of long trail …
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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fdskier56 wrote: Nov 25th, '23, 19:55
fdskier56 wrote: Nov 25th, '23, 19:03 Craft beer can in tent next to stage Friday night at bib party was $13 and change
Might have been tall boy can of long trail …
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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A record number of fiddle head sold this weekend maybe leave setting the prices to the number crunchers out west and not the curmudgeon‘s booting up in bay one
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Bayfive wrote: Nov 27th, '23, 09:37 A record number of fiddle head sold this weekend maybe leave setting the prices to the number crunchers out west and not the curmudgeon‘s booting up in bay one
You don't say - you had a captive audience of 10,000 people in an controlled space and they sold a record number of beer?!?

See how it evens out when people can throw a few beers in their coat and sit on deck at K1 or don't have to pay $90 to park in the K1 lot and can tailgate.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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SPORE wrote: Nov 27th, '23, 10:46
Bayfive wrote: Nov 27th, '23, 09:37 A record number of fiddle head sold this weekend maybe leave setting the prices to the number crunchers out west and not the curmudgeon‘s booting up in bay one
You don't say - you had a captive audience of 10,000 people in an controlled space and they sold a record number of beer?!?

See how it evens out when people can throw a few beers in their coat and sit on deck at K1 or don't have to pay $90 to park in the K1 lot and can tailgate.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

Post by Southside_Bobby »

$11 for a Fiddle at Okemo on opening day.

$9.75 for a Fiddle at Jiminy (Christianson's) on opening day. Nothing on the menu was particularly cheap, but $10 now feels like a steal compared to $16.75.
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Re: $16+ for a beer?

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Southside_Bobby wrote: Nov 27th, '23, 11:58 $11 for a Fiddle at Okemo on opening day.

$9.75 for a Fiddle at Jiminy (Christianson's) on opening day. Nothing on the menu was particularly cheap, but $10 now feels like a steal compared to $16.75.
Something is wrong when bar prices are cheaper at Okemo than Killington, but we have always known that powdr wants to get rid of the clientele they inherited with K and replace it with the clientele that frequents Okemo.
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