Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
Tricks it is, then.
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Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
As a kid I yearned for the mines
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Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
I mean.. Those look like normal Canadian prices.
However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.
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At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s
Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.
Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF
Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you're not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars
Okay, complete tangent, but...
When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said "Sure!" and gave him another, then followed up with "You can have the whole box, if you want..."
My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.
So that's how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.
Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
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Odd that products made and packaged in the US, from government subsidized corn syrup, and not the most affected by tarrifs, still jump in price. Maybe inflation will be the scariest thing this Halloween
This is not odd at all. Competitors prices are now (say) 30% higher, everyone else can raise 29%.
A majority of Hershey products have been made in Mexico for some time! It was "somehow" cheaper - possibly in part to tricklin' down trade agreements - to ship the ingredients there and then send the finished product back. As much a "fun" fact as the "fun-sized" candy. Even the JustBorne/The Peeps peoples of Pennsylvania manufacture a bunch in Canada.
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I think everyone should collectively decide to hold Halloween 2 days after Halloween so everyone can get in on that reduced price candy.
Takes the sting out of inflation a little bit and everyone still gets their good time in.
Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
Thanks Obama!
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I'm a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.
I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it's not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.
I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I'm considering doing that exclusively.
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IKEA has full size bars for a dollar each. I think 30 of those would be better than a bag of small candies for $30
You don’t want to get known as the full bar house unless you wanna spend $500 bucks a year on candy at minimum
Mini bags at Costco tend to run $0.25 or less a piece
Jesus fuck. Almost $30 for those big bags?
I am definitely going to WinCo and getting 5 pounds of peanut butter cups. They're only ~$2 or 3/pound from the bulk bins!
They're not Reese's but they are just as good.
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At that price, I think I'll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
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What the hell is up with these prices?
it's what happens when you elect economic geniuses
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I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family... This bums me out on their behalf.
Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn't candy and won't be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?
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Buy your candy at the end of August like I do and they are half price or even lower. This is what happens when you wait until what you would think the opportune time to buy your Halloween candy is.
"The most opportune time to buy halloween candy is when its 90% off november 1st of last year, the second best time is now" - Sun Tzu
I get about 50 kids in average every year.
So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I'll spend a couple hundred on candies. I'm not wealthy but I can afford it once a year .... I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.
Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I've made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they're getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don't care of the kids age ... they could be two or twenty (as long as they're polite and non aggressive) they're getting candy.
I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses .... I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.
American pricing be like.
This can't be real. Someone please confirm?
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Its real. Its price gouging as only walmart can do it.
Confirmed. Same price on my Walmart app.
They all look like from same brand that probably wants to have a 500% profit margins from reporpusing sugar
My wife bought rice krispie treats for super cheap, dumdums, some lesser known candy, little Halloween toys and stickers, and made goodie bags.
If you avoid the mainstream big name candy, it's not so bad.
What are you, some kind of socialist? But seriously, people always complain about how things are so expensive but keep buying the same overpriced trash.
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We stopped giving out candy and instead do chips, juice, gummies, cracker packs, etc. The cost is roughly the same, he kids send to love it, and we don't want to be stuck with a bunch of leftover candy.
All tricks no treats this year kiddos.
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