Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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And it tastes worse than ever.
All that delicious palm oil
And hfcs
Mmmnnn Hershy’s Vomit bars
Ok, I’m not the only one.
I’m pretty sure American commercial chocolate companies are why I don’t really like chocolate. I can eat it and it’s not literally revolting, but I sure as fuck can’t imagine passing a rack of hershey bars and going “ooh!”
I like chocolate. I like European chocolate much more than American chocolate.
But it’s just those particular candy bars that have a vomit aftertaste to me now & they didn’t use to when I was a kid.
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.
Most wholesome diabetes origin story.
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A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, ‘Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy…’
TIL I’m special needs
Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I’m surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?
Just go for flour/sugar based snacks instead of chocolate then. Few packs of Aldi version of hobnobs, job done.
I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they’re still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.
We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in 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.
Have you been to a dollar tree? And everything is $3 or more
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.
Well then the Midwest shouldn’t have voted for it lol
And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the “mine!”
Wait, you don’t just throw candy down the mine holes?
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?
“Heres a baggie with a toothbrush, a travel size toothpastea box of raisins, 50 pennies, and an apple”.
I’ve been a full size candy bar house for a while. Buying bulk candy bars spiked in 2021. Boxes usually average about $1.25 per bar, but you can find sales at Costco at $0.60 each if you aren’t picky on exact candies.
Non-candy options I sprinkle in that are hits are rice krispy treats, bags of microwave popcorn (unpopped) and the packaged 2 pack of cookies.
You literally just have to do 5 seconds of planning and not buy from the top manufacturer 3 weeks before Halloween. Everyone is just looking for reasons to bitch with this rage bait.
Shit is getting stupidly expensive. People are gonna bitch. You’re gonna complain about them. I’m gonna make a comment about that because i can’t help it. We’re all fucked. Let the person air their grievance about overpriced candy. Fuck’s sake 🫠
Ah the ol “blame the consumer” bit
Yes. I spent $20 last year. It’s not hard.
I mean, looking at just this picture, $20 will do you fine. So even your idea of 5 seconds of planning seems a wild exaggeration. Buuuut, we can still complain about prices going up and up and up.
MAGA nuts calling inflation a skill issue is wild
Such fanciful stories. Do you write fanfic?
Found the house that gives those shitty buttercorns.
At that price, I think I’ll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
We are doing stickers and glow sticks. Bought the “rave family special” online. It was still cheaper than candy.
Worst case Ontario - we now have emergency lightning, and an activity that will take hours for the kids.
Worst case Ontario
It’s water under the fridge.
Gnomewhatimsayin?
Water you saying?
It’s not rocket appliances, Ricky.
We are doing the same. No candies. My partner will give out stickers, pencils, and some organic savoury puffs that she managed to snag somewhere in bulk.
I would have to assume that if you handed out single dollar bills, kids wouldn’t really know what to do with it.
Pool it together and buy bags of candies at 70% off on November 1sr
the stripper bar is only two blocks away…
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when I was a kid, people would give out pennies when they ran out of candy
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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.
I got excited at this idea until I remembered that American cider isn’t alcoholic. Should make some proper scrumpy!
I fully plan on making Adult Cider
We just call it cider here
American cider isn’t alcoholic
So, it’s just apfelsaft?
Where do you get roasted chestnuts?
You need to find an open fire
Well first I have to pick them. I go here https://ohiochestnuts.com/#visit
And then I plan on roasting them the day of, I’ve got an antique cast iron chestnut pan and a grill.
¡Hecho en México!
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.
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.
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
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
This is not odd at all. Competitors prices are now (say) 30% higher, everyone else can raise 29%.
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.
That overprized trash gets flung into everyone’s faces with ads constantly and is placed at eye level in optimal shelf locations so you see it first and can grab it the easiest. It’s placed at the counters when you have to wait (in overpriced small / singular packages), and if the advertising machine detects you might be perceptible to being convinced into buying it (e.g. through analysis of your previous purchases collected by the payback program or store itself together with your social media posts showing you’re sad or depressed) you’ll receive tailored ads at the right moment via Smartphone, websites, Music streaming service and (soon) car infotainment + “smart” camera-enabled digital ad screens in public.
Don’t blame people for being manipulated by the manipulation machine, none of us is safe against it. Our resources for full awareness are sucked dry and monetized until we’re tired and defenseless; and at that point you can’t blame anyone who just wants to buy something that makes them a littlr bit more happy and less tired. Of course everyone ultimately has free will, but in the dystopia we live in that free will requires phenomenal energy to truly act on.
Smash the system, not everyone else’s desire to feel happy. 🙂
Dumdums, sure, but where did you find rice krispie treats that are cheaper than this candy? Just spitballing, but 140 pieces for $20 works out to something like 8 cents per piece, while just a quick search shows prices for rice krispies to be way higher, up to 50 cents per, with a few options scattered that bring the prices close (I think I saw a 100 pack for $21, and a 45 pack for $9).
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.
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.
Tricks it is, then.
I only got about five groups last year, maybe 15 kids total.
I noticed a couple of days ago that the Halloween candy was out at Walmart, but I didn’t check prices. If this is accurate, then, yeah, porch light off this year. It’s not even worth putting out a pumpkin. Also, I’d end up eating the leftover candy, so that’s not good either.
If homemade cookies weren’t shunned, then I’d do that, but I can’t imagine parents letting their kids eat them. The fearmongers have won.
Nothing’s spookier than fear mongering
I just bought 40 lbs (big neighborhood) at US$4.44 a lb for snack-size name-brand ‘chocolate’ at Costco
Nominal price for the past four years has been $5 a lb here. Given that’s kirkland’s packaging with mars/hersheys candy in it.
Looks like my local grocer is $24.99 for the 3.4lb bag which is over US$7 a lb so … yikes.
