Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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Tricks it is, then.
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.
This can’t be real. Someone please confirm?
-(sent from the UK)
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.
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)
Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here’s NASA’s recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/
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.
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
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…
Trick or Candy mortgage!
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.
Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
Almost as if the currency is in the toilet.
I’ll start: Ribeyes were over $20 each the other day.
Is this USD or?
That was my same thought. I feel like this is maybe disingenuous.
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.
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.
Well then the Midwest shouldn’t have voted for it lol
Have you been to a dollar tree? And everything is $3 or more
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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Yeah I’m not trusting random bread from people especially during Covid season.
But have you tried their sourdough? That starter is going to be the next generation’s most valued inheritance.
Lmfaoooo
That’s just paranoia tbh
Plus you can stick razorblades in them real easy if you bake them yourself.
The sad part is this may be the first time in history that there are enough randomly psychotic and violent people on the loose in the US that this is something parents should suddenly have reasonable fear of.
I’d be less afraid of razorblades and more afraid of my kid getting shot on some hick nazi’s doorstep tbh. MAGA nuts have already gunned down kids on their front lawn for less.
Has there actually been a case where this happened?
Not on Halloween, but yes.
hope you dont end up like the mom in freaks and geeks. that was a sad episode :(
OK that’s actually a fantastic idea. Cookies it is. If parents have a problem with unwrapped corpo-candy then their kids don’t have to eat them. I can spend a day banging out ten dozen cookies and not give the monthly-sugar-holiday any more money.
