A Little Public Grooming With Your Popcorn
Evidently movie theaters don’t have enough of a problem attracting customers. According to this report from Movie City News scribbler Gary Dretzka, a new concession stand product was unveiled this week at the annual ShoWest industry convention in Las Vegas: dental floss.
The single most intriguing new concession item was StaiNo’s Floss ‘N’ Toss, which qualifies as one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-it ideas. The product is sold in the same vending machines that typically dispense plastic capsules filled with cheap trinkets and candy. The company simply has crammed its retail dental floss device into the bubbles, in hopes of attracting consumers who enjoy a good floss after their popcorn. Each 50-cent capsule contains four flossers, which, one hopes, will be disposed of in an empty popcorn box or napkins, instead of being thrown on the floor with the uneaten nachos.
Commercials, ringing cellphones, rude moviegoers jabbering—and now public flossing? Can disposable nail clippers be far behind? No wonder the DVD industry is booming.
Public flossing is one of my biggest peeves. It is disgusting. Encouraging people to fling chewed-up food out from between their teeth onto unsuspecting moviegoers is a VERY BAD idea.