Taiwan considers lifting ban on outside food at theme parks

Only a 60% markup....amateurs!!! Here in the US we pay a 133% markup on bottles of coke at Six Flags!! ;)

133% markup on a 20oz bottle of Coke that costs the park 75¢ would be $1.75/bottle. :)

...and if the park charged $1.75 for a bottle of Coke, I would drink too many of them all day long.

I suppose I should thank the parks for sparing me from my own vices!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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I was comparing the price you pay 'on the street' of $1.50 - compared to the park price of $3.50...and I am pretty sure that is what they are referring to in Taiwan, too...

I was referring to what "mark up" means.

Ready the quote from the article...they were referring a markup from retail price, not the wholesale-retail markup...

Some vendors sell beverages that normally cost NT$25 for NT$40, Chang said, adding that that amounted to a 60 percent markup in price.

That's not really markup though. There's no such thing as markup from another seller's price.

I typically think of "markup" as being from cost to sales price. The increase in price from an off-site retailer to a captive audience situation I think of as a "convenience (and/or resort) surcharge". Don't think there's any official economics dictionary, though... ;)