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human
Is movie popcorn not moving with inflation?

Sorry if this is a weird question, but I’ve been at movie theaters in multiple different states over the last couple weeks, both rural and urban, major chain and local, and in every case movie popcorn is about $7-8 for a medium popcorn. However, every internet search I have done has movie popcorn in 2019 being around $8.

Movie ticket prices seem to be going up (perhaps limited because they want to encourage people to start coming back, which may be the same as popcorn), but popcorn doesn’t seem to be rising like other food costs.

Maybe I’m crazy or wrong or this is the wrong subreddit but idk thoughts?
gpt
Inflation measures are simply a weighted average of price increases - it's not even across the economy.

This is one of the core reasons why inflation is damaging: it interferes with price discovery, disrupting the smooth operation of markets. If all prices & wages increased by 10% per year in a uniform and predictable manner, people would just factor it in and inflation wouldn't matter so much.