Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
They all look like from same brand that probably wants to have a 500% profit margins from reporpusing sugar
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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.
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.
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Always has been (in countries that do not celebrate Halloween). The prices of grave candles seem okay for now though.
We’re doing no candy too. These little birth control advertisements running around leave trash around on purpose and destroy property repeatedly in my neighborhood.
Their neglectful parents can buy them candy.
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