And it tastes worse than ever.
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Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
All that delicious palm oil
And hfcs
Mmmnnn Hershy's Vomit bars
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.
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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.
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.
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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".
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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.
A couple hundred on candies 😳 The US are crazy
Spending money on stuff is the essence of American existence. When you stop doing it, America will die.
How nice. Better get to it then
How do you manage to exist without spending money? How are you online? Do you live at a library or something?
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Am american and I have never ever heard of someone spending “hundreds” of dollars on halloween candy. 99.9% of americans are not doing that.
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At that price, I think I'll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
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Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
As a kid I yearned for the mines
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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.
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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. 🙂
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should be plenty of clearance Nov 1st at least
Leave a note on Your porch saying "come back tomorrow".
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Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
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.
laughs in danish
To clarify; danish candy prices are fucking ridonkoulus.
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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.
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Oh, so that’s what it looks like inside a murican supermarket. That’s a metric shit ton of plastics from an UE pov.
I’ve never seen bags like that, some seems dumb with the numbers, 195 or 310 but why not plain and round 200?
Definitely a US grocery store.
195 or 310 is piece count. The bags are usually sold by rounded weight (3 or 5lbs).
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I guess you’ve never seen the Asian fascination with putting everything in individual plastic wrappers. Definitely not just an “American” thing.
If you’re going to jump on the America Bad train, at least put some fucking effort into it. There’s plenty of non-hypocritical stuff to make fun of.
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I refuse to believe Europe, broadly a consumer of the same products as the US and the rest of the world, has never seen individually bagged candy.
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fuck that
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!
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Exactly why I haven’t done it in a couple of years. I hate it, cause I love this holiday. But get fucked with these prices. Maybe this is all the winning.
Candy canes for my house again. They remain cheap. You just have to wait for this stuff to sell and they put out the Christmas stuff.
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