Beef Jerky At Miami Airport Costs HOW MUCH?!

You should just save that $$ and fly on Delta more. Earn medallion status and valuable SkyPesos while you're at it. Quit spending money on needless concessions and give your hard-earned money to the deserving folks at Delta!

I hate the trend of not showing prices at airport stores. As a result, I almost never buy anything from airport retailers. Buying snacks on board the flight tends to be cheaper than in the airport.

Any true beef lover knows that corn-fed is more flavorful than grass-fed. Salt on a wound.

I believe NYC airports have that price gouging law. Came into effect after the infamous $20 LGA beer a couple years ago. Gary has a few posts on it.

I had a Mexican meal for one, no alcohol, at Charlotte airport and it was $60 all-in. One entree, chips + salsa, and a soda if I remember correctly. The trick they employ is they ask you for the tip amount before displaying the total amount - to which they automatically add a service fee.

Nobody reads Gary anymore.

OMAAT is where it's at.

Airport pricing alone make having a premium card with lounge benefits (PP or any other) worth it. Save so much not having to eat/drink in the terminal.

Could be worse. My wife and I stayed at the Aria in December for 3 nights. Had a bottle of water in the room. Had to many drinks and needed water. Didn't want to go downstairs. I figured how much could this be 5 or 6 bucks? Nope, I found out next day that damn bottle of water cost me $25!

At first I thought that not displaying a price was a one-off mistake for this product, but now realize it had to be intentional. Terrible.

My best guess here is they originally had a much larger package that probably retails for around $10 outside the airport and then settled on this price but at some point it got replaced with a smaller one but the price stayed the same.

Well, at AUS a Luna Bar was $4 and this costs $1 at Trader Joe's = 4X markup at the airport. Sounds like they applied the same markup for the jerky. What is more obscene is that there's a sales tax on food items that would have no sales tax if sold in a grocery store in Florida.

I believe the Mpls airport has a cap on prices. I think the airport location can’t charge more than their non-airport locations. (Or at least that was the before Covid rule)

"Many airports have pricing caps for concessions, whereby retailers can’t charge more than a certain amount over what retailers outside of airports would charge."

No thanks to price controls. If price controls are good for the airport why not have the federal government dictate weekly what every single product sold in the United States will cost?

How much did you tip? I hope at least 25% - that is appropriate for minimum wage employees who serve you. Or did you not tip at all and stiff the employees? [sarcasm]

I paid $20 yesterday at PVD for what turned out to be the most disgusting sandwich I've ever encountered. I threw most of it away. For me an AA AC membership is easily worth the annual $700 and the food quality is much better than the to go food in airports. I hate when I'm stuck in an airport with no AC.

I realize that you and Ford of gentlemen of some means, but why on God’s little green Earth would you go ahead and complete the sale given the price of that mediocre jerky? I would have had them cancel the sale.

In India all items are required to have prices printed as the MSRP. You will find many places selling at MSRP. The MSRP is an over inflated price since there are bigger chains that sell up to 25pct below MSRP.

It's not a weekly price that would be unworkable.

lol that'd be peak American moment

As a traveller, rip-offs really affect my view of a destination and my willingness to return. I tend to travel to destinations where honesty and transparency are the rule, so I can relax and enjoy myself.

For example, it took me 30 years to return to Rome after a railway ticket inspector attempted to rip me off. And I haven't returned to Turkey in 30 years after encountering multiple instances of deceitful pricing in the country when backpacking there.

This behaviour reflects badly on the USA, on Florida and on Miami. The relevant governing authorities should think how much their failure to act against these people is harming their city's reputation amongst holidaymakers.

We're not here for Ben. We're here for you, TravellnPenis.

Are you okay after slipping down that slope?

Did you tip the self service machine that sold it to you when prompted?

Well someone has to pay for the backroom deals (ie bribes) with the Miami-Dade County Commission. Their antics lately have been worthy of You Tube.

Today Miami Dade Mayor Cava announced major upgrades to the airport, including escalators and elevator replacements. SkyTrain not operational until March, and not all stations. We'll settle for working elevators and escalators Mayor Cava.

Welcome to MIA.

I'm curious, since you seem to think that an Airport Terminal is a competitive area, rather than one where natural monopolies are granted, please describe for me what you think the process is to be able to set up a shop in an airport. They're like Disney World - a captive audience that only has choices restricted to those that have paid to play in the airport. It isn't anywhere near a competitive market, so necessarily it won't be able to reach a market clearing price/quantity.

Literally in Introduction to Microeconomics, they teach that cost-free entry and exit in the market and mobile labor and capital are basic requirements for a competitive market. An airport terminal isn't either of thse things.

B...b...but gluten free!

What's the point of complaining here, since you've paid for the item?

The price you pay is the price you accept. If you weren't happy with the price, you should have refused. Instead by going ahead with the purchase, you've told the vendor you're fine with that price so they should keep charging it - or maybe even try for more - for all future customers.

Beat em at their own game. Remove the tag, drink the water, then fill it back up from the tap, screw the cap and reattach the tag. 9/10 times housekeeping never checks … winning

If price controls are not good then why is Florida going to import prescription drugs from Canada?

Hopefully there at least wasn't a self checkout kiosk that forced a tip to be added for credit card payments, which is the case at EWR or some other airport concession stand that was reported.

Try that at Cancun airport. Just a couple weeks ago there was a 4 hour+ waiting list to get into the PP lounge there in the terminal for US bound flights where our phone number was taken to receive a message when our turn came.

We flew to NYC and then during our ride home from airport the text message came that its our turn for the CUN lounge 🙂

Sometimes the tip button is pre selected to 20% at the news stand checkout so before you hit the check and sign you have to press the no tip button.

My favorite concession at DFW is aunties pretzels mini dogs. The ones they used to pass around at cocktail hour of bar mitzvahs.

Good people in NH. I think we paid like $11.99 for a chicken Caesar salad at MHT. Fair enough.

Honestly, this is why we carry our own snacks and a water bottle. I still get ripped off for sodas but try to keep that to a minimum.

The worst was a restaurant at JFK. 3 of us for breakfast, nothing major and the bill was over $130. Unfortunately was still under covid rules and not many options.

Just left HNL on Hawaiian and purchased a 20 oz of Aquafina "Hawaii" water for $3.59. Ridiculous!

Where's the tip???

It's easy to blame greedy corporations and corrupt government officials for things like this, but if we really care about the well-being of the employee at the store who can't even buy a bag of jerky after working for one hour, maybe we should stop participating in these schemes. The cost of living is truly out of control for them, not us
We're ultimately the enablers here.

Does rewarding a company like that really align with your beliefs?

Have you seen how much they charge for a water bottle at MSP? It is arm robbery.

Knowing how MIA and the corrupt government here works, that the jerky is $20 for a reason: so that a decent cut of that goes into some county commissioner/Levine Cava's pockets.

We're talking about the airport with broken elevators and escalators galore. Poop water dripping from the ceilings. Shutdown SkyTrain with crumbling columns. But don't worry! Millions have been set aside for more friendly contracts with MCM (FIU bridge collapse company) because they kickback to the local government while literally killing residents.

Saw this at LAS on Monday. Highway robbery.

Probably wouldn't work in Vegas - they're on sensors and you get charged as soon as you lift it off.

The last time I bought anything at an airport, was years ago at the arrival duty free in Liberia/Costa Rica, because 1L Bacardi bottles are probably the cheapest anywhere on the planet, something like $ 9, limit is 5L. Apart from that, I just don't buy at airports. I just don't support rip-off.

Prices will remain like this as long as their are buyers. Simple supply and demand.

Prices in the airport do not follow supply and demand. There is a captive audience.

It’s incredible how uniformly inflated the airport concession prices are. My home airport of LAX caps concessions at no more than an 18% markup compared to similar establishment / franchise in a 25 mile radius around the airport. Clearly either the venders have found a loophole or the city isn’t actually enforcing it. In the link below they even spell out penalties, but clearly this isn’t stopping it. I will say the new city comptroller did such a good job auditing the police helicopters. This should be his new project.

http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2017/17-0530_misc_1_05-05-2017.pdf

I can't remember the last time I purchased anything at an airport.

I have the same question about why was sales tax charged. Perhaps you should open a case with the Florida Department of Revenue.

Nope. These are FIJI water bottles that are placed in the room. I ran into the same issue with Aria and assumed as a status matched Globalist water in the room would be free. Wrong and the mistake is indeed 25 USD per bottle. And they replenish every day. In fairness to Aria: they didn’t charge me in the end.

You live in a Republican state, what do you expect?

Agree with other comments, not sure why you purchased it in the end. Oh, just for the review or post I guess.

Why are you focusing on why he purchased it and not the price?

So wait you're suggesting because he purchased something that means he shouldn't complain about the price? Weird take. Maybe he was hungry?

As an example as to how it can be done, in DUB, they sell 500ml bottles of water for €1 in an honesty box system.

Good jerky is always expensive; if that stuff you bought for $18 was good then you got a fine deal.

I didn’t read all the comments so may e others have pointed this out…but I own a retail franchise company and we have looked at airport locations for many years. There are three main drivers of why things cost what they do at airports. As many have pointed out- captive audience. Second, the spaces are limited and thus you often have to know someone to get into a space there. These days that also often means having a minority person involved even as a “silent” partner because minority status is required. Third, if you saw the rent in those spaces, your jaw would drop. Not a set amount of rent but upwards of 50% of sales dollars are usually charged. All these things end up with a $7 bag of snacks costing $20. We actually are in the beef jerky business coincidentally and we could never make the math work.

people need to stop supporting these outrageous prices. just stop buying this crap

Now that store is going to have a beef with you 🙂