I mean I don't get it, they talk about bringing in more families and completely neuter our fanbase's rowdiness, but then continually raise the concessions prices. It'll cost a family of four $80 to get four orders of chicken fingers and water bottles? I can go to a few of my favorite Newark restaurants and get an awesome dinner for just about that price.
I legit never eat there, probably can count on one hand the amount of times I've eaten there since the building opened and I barely miss a handful of games a year. I absolutely refuse to pay the prices they charge for food or drinks. The prices for water are infuriating. It's like $5 bucks for an entire case of water and they have the balls to basically charge $5 a f***ing bottle.
I've put in the surveys every time that changing it to fan friendly concession stand prices would get me to eat there way more often, would get people inside the building earlier, etc.
There are so many teams in different sports that have adopted this strategy and it's shown to work every single time. They have no excuse anymore to keep doing it, they must have some excuse, tri-state area, high costs blah blah blah blah we can make more money ripping people off. I don't get it. We really need just 1 damn arena of the almost dozen in this damn area to adopt it and the rest would eventually fall in line when other fans realize this is how it should be, no excuses.
Don't even get me started on the merch, the damn player t-shirts are up to like $40, a zip up hoodie is $100+. Literally everything is a rip off. They give season ticket holders a whooping 10% discount. I get a 25% discount on Red Bulls merch and my season tickets there equal out to about 4 Devils games.
If they don't ever want to adapt to what things should be and want to just keep raising merch and food I'll just keep going to the games and never spending money besides the tickets like I've been basically doing since the arena opened, it is what it is.