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Is it fully accurate (or helpful) to think of Google only as an advertising company? Movie theaters and gas stations earn most of their profit on concessions an
by spinchange 11y ago
Is it fully accurate (or helpful) to think of Google only as an advertising company? Movie theaters and gas stations earn most of their profit on concessions and ancillary stuff that isn't the central product or service, yet we don't think of either as strictly a "concession" or food service business.
- ksk 11y agoI'm not a 100% sure about this, but maybe you know. Do movie theaters and gas stations provide their core service at a loss so as to profit from the ancillary stuff? I'd agree with you if movie theaters were giving the ticket away for free in order to get you to buy a $20 hotdog.
- guiomie 11y agoGas stations make barely a profit of selling gas.
- guyzero 11y agoThe movie ticket receipts go to the studios. Tickets alone don't make the theatres any money. For a bunch of historical reasons (antitrust) studios don't own the theaters. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/united-states-v-paramount-movie-theater-concessions-got-expensive/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/united-state...