Cineplex Inc T.CGX

Alternate Symbol(s): T.CGX.DB.B | CPXGF

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Cineplex Inc. is a Canadian brand that operates in the film entertainment and content, amusement and leisure, and media sectors. The Company's segments include Film Entertainment and Content, Media, and Location-Based Entertainment. It offers over 170 movie theatres and location-based entertainment venues. In addition to being a film exhibitor, the Company operates Canada's destination for Eats & Entertainment (The Rec Room), complexes specially designed for teens and families (Playdium), and an entertainment concept that brings movies, amusement gaming, dining, and live performances together under one roof (Cineplex Junxion). It also operates businesses in digital commerce (CineplexStore.com), alternative programming (Cineplex Events), motion picture distribution (Cineplex Pictures), cinema media (Cineplex Media) and digital place-based media (Cineplex Digital Media). The Company is a partner in Scene+, Canada's entertainment and lifestyle loyalty program.

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Cineplex’s shady, carnival charge of an extra $1.50 for online bookings

Corey Mintz

Corey Mintz is the author of The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After.

Did you even notice when Cineplex CGX-T started charging an extra $1.50 for each ticket purchased online? I had been paying this for a year, unaware of the change. If it feels like Canada’s biggest movie exhibitor is being sneaky with those fees, the Competition Bureau agrees. In a case before the Competition Tribunal, a lawyer for the Competition Commissioner describes Cineplex’s method as “drip pricing,” a marketing technique in which “a price is unattainable, because consumers must pay additional charges or fees to buy a product or service.”