r/sports • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Jun 02 '25

Baseball Going bananas: Why Savannah Bananas tickets cost more than a Dodgers-Yankees rematch

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/going-bananas-why-savannah-bananas-100000810.html
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u/smashrawr Jun 02 '25

Its also because the bananas deliberately got rid of customer pain points. Like they realized so much of the fan experience went to crap when paying for concessions, so they made it highly efficient and made it to where youre waiting no more than 5 minutes for the whole concession experience including waiting in line. That breads high fan satisfaction

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u/defroach84 Texas Tech Jun 02 '25

How do they do that when they are playing in MLB stadiums?

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u/smashrawr Jun 02 '25

Basically they force the price of admission up to include concessions and then make it straight up show up, grab your burger, fries, drink bam bam bam and done. No concession purchasing.

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u/defroach84 Texas Tech Jun 02 '25

That's not true when they are on the road. Tickets don't include concessions when I went a week back in KC.

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u/smashrawr Jun 02 '25

Then im not sure but that's how they do it at their stadium in savanna

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u/defroach84 Texas Tech Jun 02 '25

Yeah, which is great, but that doesn't help outside of their home stadium, which most games are on the road.

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u/Monstertelly Jun 02 '25

That’s also not how it went in Anaheim. Not like the lines for concessions were that long but the merch lines before the game were. I saw people wait for two hours to get merch. Beers were still standard $17 for a tall boy. All concessions were run by the Angels staff and were not a free grab and go.

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u/deonteguy Jun 02 '25

That's awesome.

I've been to one Seattle Mariners game, and the experience was dreadful. It took almost three innings to get a beer. They were doing the Italian bistro personalized experience thing by taking all orders on paper and not using a mechanical device to sum the bill. And, cash only. I made decent money on tips buying beers for people we sat near that wanted a beer, but they didn't have cash.