Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)

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    2 hours ago

    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.

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    3 hours ago

    you might as well go to WF and buy more 'cleaner" candy, also prime members get discounted on certain halloween candy.(i would still wait til your closer to halloween, since its not that much discounted right now), also employees get extra discounted on top of the prime ones(recent changes)

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        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

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    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…

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    12 hours ago

    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

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      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.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    12 hours ago

    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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        9 hours ago

        Other places that don’t use USD can still complain about overpriced goods. Collapse already so the rest of the world can get on with our lives.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

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        12 hours ago

        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.

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    14 hours ago

    Learn how to bake the awesomest shortbread you can, & wrap some of that edible-gold up in wax-paper for each kid.

    Flour, cornstarch, oats, butter, salt, do not add-up to the extortion-prices charged by the flavored-sugar-in-plastic-wrappers companies.

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  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.

    I am not one of those people.