Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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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.
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.
And it tastes worse than ever.
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
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.
This is not odd at all. Competitors prices are now (say) 30% higher, everyone else can raise 29%.
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
Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US
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.
That’s just paranoia tbh
I just hate being sick
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?
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.
You assumed that, the murican supermarket and the plastic quantity are two different sentences separated by a comma.
And the murican supermarket is only because I’ve never been in one, nor seen candy packaging of that size.
It’s a singular shelf of candy. This isn’t representative of any market, super or otherwise. A quick trip by your image search engine of choice could probably elucidate the mystery better than a Lemmy shitpost.
This is literally representative of the current state of big box stores in the US, which you can confirm by any of the numerous comments here giving their personal accounts.
Cope harder.
I wasn’t referring to the prices. I’m not sure how else to explain it, so I guess I’ll just repeat myself and hope it clicks for you?
A couple of shelves of candy is not representative of what a market - small or large - looks like. Markets sell more than one type of product.
Any other coping I should be working on, smart ass?
i see you are the comment police all over the place! lol you’re a loser I’m blocking you
Genius.
BOO! 😂
Cope harder, bitch.
At that price, I think I’ll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
We are doing stickers and glow sticks. Bought the “rave family special” online. It was still cheaper than candy.
Worst case Ontario - we now have emergency lightning, and an activity that will take hours for the kids.
Worst case Ontario
It’s water under the fridge.
Gnomewhatimsayin?
Water you saying?
But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!
Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.
What the hell is up with these prices?
It’s just your typical Trump economy.
but what about the price of 3ggs!
The avian flu caused egg shortage? Also easily linked back to policies put in place by the GOP.
