Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need

Posted by lisper on Monday June 18, 2018 @01:49AM
from the quartzy.qz.com dept.

https://quartzy.qz.com/1306733/why-are-american-airports-so-bad/

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Re:Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need by pavel_lishin on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:56AM (#17338256)

I don't think the article actually answered the implied question in the headline.

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Re:Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need by theandrewbailey on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:22PM (#17340952)

American airports are publicly owned, and get most of their income from parking, and no one wants to change it.

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Re:Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need by pavel_lishin on Monday June 18, 2018 @03:35PM (#17341032)

But the individual shops aren't, right? Why wouldn't they want to sell more things that travelers are interested in buying?

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Re:Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need by yetanothername on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:32PM (#17341858)

If you're ever at Pittsburgh International Airport (KPIT), there's a full-service Rite Aid in the air terminal, post-security. It sells everything that a normal drug store sells, at normal drug store prices.

It's awesome. I'm surprised that more airports don't have something similar.

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Re:Why American airports don't sell anything you actually need by aventrix on Monday June 18, 2018 @10:41PM (#17343409)

I'm from the US, but I noticed that a lot of train stations in Europe had full drug stores inside - with normal drug store prices as well. Super convenient.

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