zztop11
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Post by zztop11 on Jul 1, 2017 17:18:54 GMT
I'm at the Minneapolis airport getting ready to fly home. The price of a People magazine is $6.99 plus tax. That price is printed on the cover. I asked the guy if People had a price hike. He told me that it was the airport addition. Was surprised. I know my home airport BWI is not allowed to inflate prices. Wha is the cost of People at a regular store?
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Post by peano on Jul 1, 2017 18:02:15 GMT
I'm not sure what the price of People is at a regular store, but I just assume I'll be paying $25 for a small bag of nuts or $50 for a phone charging cord (hyperbole, kind of) at an airport.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 18:33:18 GMT
I have one here at home and it's marked $3.49. Wow, twice the price at an airport. That's crazy!
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Post by bc2ca on Jul 1, 2017 18:43:43 GMT
Interesting. I often pick up a magazine at the airport but don't buy them regularly so hadn't noticed a price difference. Given the price of everything else in the airport store, I shouldn't be surprised but I am.  |
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 1, 2017 21:06:35 GMT
I'm not surprised. I'm a Minnesotan from birth, but the MSP airport just sucks monkey vomit. They don't let military automatically through the pre-check line--you have to pay the $80. And if some of your party has pre-check and some do not, they send you through the regular line, even if the boarding passes print out on the same sheet of paper. At both Dulles and Reagan National, military are automatically put through the pre-check line and our bags are frequently comped.
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Post by baslp on Jul 1, 2017 21:37:21 GMT
Wow. I never checked out the prices. I just assumed it would be the same as one in the grocery store. Guess I will be buying them before had !
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Post by hollymolly on Jul 1, 2017 21:58:24 GMT
I picked up a tiny bag of chocolate covered cashews at DFW yesterday. Went to pay and the cashier asked if I was aware they were $9.99. Um, no. I can get it reimbursed on my expense report, and my company would never question it. But I don't think anyone should pay 10 bucks for a handful of chocolate cashews. I went with a slightly less overpriced dove bar.
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Post by annabella on Jul 1, 2017 22:14:34 GMT
I never buy single magazines. Through discount sites you can get a whole years subscription for $6.
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Post by bunnyhug on Jul 1, 2017 22:50:38 GMT
Last weekend I was in an arena with completely awful cell coverage on a Sunday morning before the closest mall was open--and I finished my book 😱 --with still 90 minutes left to kill before my son's game! Three magazines at the convenience store cost me just over $20 😖 I hate reading on my phone, but I've now thrown a couple things on there now in case I ever have a book emergency again!
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The Birdhouse Lady
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Jul 1, 2017 23:08:05 GMT
I bought a People magazine last weekend at the Seattle Airport and I also paid 6.99.
I don't really buy magazines on a regular basis but I thought it was a bit much. I also thought that was the price of them everywhere not just in an airport.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2017 23:42:07 GMT
The Minneapolis airport is THE most expensive airport to travel through in the entire USA according to the travel and expense office at my corporate office. They do everything they can to avoid booking travel in to, out of, or through Minneapolis because of what appears (as likely is) to be price gouging on every item possible.
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Post by mom on Jul 2, 2017 2:06:13 GMT
Ugh! That is quite the price hike! I am traveling at the end of the month and will have to remember to buy any magazines before I leave my local store.
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zztop11
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Post by zztop11 on Jul 2, 2017 2:16:55 GMT
I never buy single magazines. Through discount sites you can get a whole years subscription for $6. Where can you get a subscription for People for a year for $6.00? I'll take it! |
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 2, 2017 3:04:58 GMT
Airports raising the prices of things? Shocking.
Not.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 2, 2017 4:38:54 GMT
that's why I always try to hit up the local used-book store before I go on a trip... people subscribe to magazines, read them, then trade them in for store credit. Barring that, I at least try to buy them in the grocery store beforehand (along with some snacks). Otherwise, I assume I'll be paying thru the nose for anything at the airport store.
eta: related note, one of the magazines I bought was National Geographic, for either $4.99 or $5.99 (I can't remember). Anyway, there was a subscription card in the magazine: 12 issues for $12. I haven't subscribed to a magazine in YEARS, but that price is way too good to pass up.
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craftymom101
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Post by craftymom101 on Jul 2, 2017 5:08:07 GMT
crimsoncat05 I love NatGeo, and for that price, I would pick up a subscription, too. $6.99 for a PEOPLE magazine is insane.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jul 2, 2017 5:17:41 GMT
Note to self -- bring everything I need in my carry on!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 2, 2017 5:19:30 GMT
unless you want to pay $6.50 for a small bag of trail mix or $3.50 for a protein bar!! lol!!
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Post by sierra821 on Jul 2, 2017 17:49:22 GMT
I am currently at the Fort Lauderdale airport and a bag of Gummies bears is $6.99. Guess I can wait!
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Post by annabella on Jul 2, 2017 19:59:34 GMT
The prices constantly change: www.magazinediscountcenter.com/www.discountmags.com/Going through my email receipts: This year I ordered 10 issues each of HGTV Magazine, Health, and Women's Health's magazine for $2 each. And 6 issues of National Geographic Traveler for $2. In December I bought 12 issues of Money magazine for $10 and Kiplinger's Personal Finance mag for $8. A year ago I ordered 24 issues of Oprah for $8, 12 issues of Conde Nast Traveler and Allure for $5. |
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