Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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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.
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.
Tricks it is, then.
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
They all look like from same brand that probably wants to have a 500% profit margins from reporpusing sugar
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.
What the hell is up with these prices?
It’s just your typical Trump economy.
but what about the price of 3ggs!
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?” 😂🤣😂🤣
oh no…my fragile ego! my only weakness!
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
American pricing be like.
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.
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 is incredible. At first, I was annoyed at them not accepting credit cards. But after seeing the prices, and how credit card companies work, I understand it.
Things are higher quality/cheaper than Walmart, without the “Walmart tax” of cheating the manufacturer.
WinCo FTW. Love that place.
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
Wait, you don’t just throw candy down the mine holes?
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
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.
