Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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They all look like from same brand that probably wants to have a 500% profit margins from reporpusing sugar
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
Tricks it is, then.
I checked Walmart on Ohio and the most expensive one is $19 for 2.5 lbs of mixed mini chocolate bars.
To be clear, a 2.5 lb bag is pretty damn big. $.47 per oz.
In the photo shown, its the one with the green witch face.
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
This can’t be real. Someone please confirm?
-(sent from the UK)
Its real. Its price gouging as only walmart can do it.
Confirmed. Same price on my Walmart app.
But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!
Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.
the rollerblade wheelchairs with reflector stripes for long exposure photography fancy.
American pricing be like.
What the hell is up with these prices?
It’s just your typical Trump economy.
it’s what happens when you elect economic geniuses
it’s called ecofascism and you’re gonna love what comes next.
it’s called ecofascism and you’re gonna love what comes next.
…did you think “eco” meant “economy?” 😂🤣😂🤣
ecofascism
What kind of BS is that?
“Ecofascism is “environmentalism through genocide”, opined Klein. Political researcher Alex Amend defined ecofascist belief as “The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity.””
Basically all the right wing nut bags that are popular now deny climate change. Trump even has his famous drill baby drill bit
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.
TIL, thx for insight
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.
WinCo FTW. Love that place.
Trick or Candy mortgage!
Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
Thanks Obama!
Almost as if the currency is in the toilet.
I’ll start: Ribeyes were over $20 each the other day.
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the “mine!”
As a kid I yearned for the mines
The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.
Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.
I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.
Wife and I both work, everything is carefully calculated to have us constantly worry about bills and unexpected expenses. If one of us misses 1 day of work there is 1 bill that won’t be paid, which means multiple phone calls from bill collectors. A lot of them are super fast about sending to collections. I no longer fret about my credit score.
Have you been to a dollar tree? And everything is $3 or more
Well then the Midwest shouldn’t have voted for it lol
You’d be paying about $150 for a bag that size in Australia. Halloween - that special month of the year when confectionary prices triple. Mendelez and Nestle strangling the goose before it even arrives…
I like a couple of years ago they tried going “aspirational” - 200g bags of florentines and dried fruit for $35 - super Jeremy ! 95% of it ended up being fed to hogs…
No, you would not. $150? Try just over $50.
Random example bag - https://www.walmart.com/ip/M-M-S-Milk-Chocolate-M-M-S-Peanut-SNICKERS-TWIX-MILKY-WAY-Milk-Chocolate-Individually-Wrapped-Halloween-Candy-Trick-Treat-Variety-Pack-200-Ct-Bulk-Ba/5175566490
2.18kg for $24.96 USD. ~37.71 AUD.
We simply don’t make bags that big, because that size is pretty ridiculous. But, you can buy 20-packs of Snickers, Twix, Milky way standard price $7.50 at Coles. They’re between 300 and 320 grams so you’d need about 7 bags for the equivalent content and weight = ~52.50 AUD.
Yeah, about 40% more expensive, but these are made in Australia with cane sugar and real milk, not whatever hugh-fructose corn syrip + sawdust filling the US ones have nowadays thanks to endless Republican deregulations.
