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

  • Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

  • Dohnuthut@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

  • eletes@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    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

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      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

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    16 hours ago

    They all look like from same brand that probably wants to have a 500% profit margins from reporpusing sugar

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    23 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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      17 hours ago

      “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

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        it’s called ecofascism and you’re gonna love what comes next.

        …did you think “eco” meant “economy?” 😂🤣😂🤣

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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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    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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    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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      8 hours ago

      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.

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      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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        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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          18 hours ago

          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.