Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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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.
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
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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Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
🫡
Kind of a nice counter-point to ‘the early bird gets the worm’.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
*mouse
Fixed, thanks.
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.
I mean… Those look like normal Canadian prices.
However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.
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.
They are usually sold at half price, they only sell at the standard price in October, Colesworth troll.
Is there Australian supermarkets or are Aussies stuck having to suck off the evil Walton family?
No, they have a crushing duopoly that makes the Waltons look like Father Christmas.
And an army of internet trolls like the poster above.
Yeah there are supermarkets, but it’s a bit of a duopoly between the two market leaders Coles and Woolworths.
Aldi entered the market about a decade ago but there are fewer of those, there are also lots of independent grocers that have their own cooperative brand called IGA (independent grocers association iirc), but they’re generally the most expensive.
We don’t have enough kids in my neighborhood to justify buying candy
Neither do we, but I still buy it, pretend we do, then eat the bag over the night!
Like a true American. I also want to lose weight so I keep stuff like this out of the house.
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”.
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.
Well, this year it looks like there’s one little bag on the bottom shelf that’s ~$9, the rest is $19+. Not including tax.
Found the house that gives those shitty buttercorns.
MAGA nuts calling inflation a skill issue is wild
Such fanciful stories. Do you write fanfic?
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.
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
Who else handing out cups of water this year??
Who’s got cup money?!?
Just have them drink from a giant hamster tube thing hanging outside your door.
Don’t let Nestlé know you have water
It would be fucking hilarious to be giving out bottled water and one of the trick or treaters comes as the Quick rabbit.
“Oh shit, here they come!”
Oranges are a traditional treat for Christmas. I reckon with its orange hue, it’s gonna make a killing for Halloween this year!
Cups, in this economy?!?
Just have them cup their hands, pour some water in, and then send them on their way. Fortunately, eggs and toilet paper are expensive as well, so you shouldn’t have to worry about any repercussions.
Fortunately, eggs and toilet paper are expensive as well
Jesus christ, I cannot imagine being a kid in this generation of the US.
No treats or tricks under the MAGA regime. I hope they at least remember how to do a t-shirt ninja. If their parents even let them go outside, that is…
People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.
I am not one of those people.
Always has been (in countries that do not celebrate Halloween). The prices of grave candles seem okay for now though.
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
I just hate being sick
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.
Plus you can stick razorblades in them real easy if you bake them yourself.
Has there actually been a case where this happened?
Not on Halloween, but yes.
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.
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
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.
Tricks it is, then.
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.
