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

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[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 2 points 39 minutes 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.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

This can't be real. Someone please confirm?

-(sent from the UK)

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

the rollerblade wheelchairs with reflector stripes for long exposure photography fancy.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

you might as well go to WF and buy more 'cleaner" candy, also prime members get discounted on certain halloween candy.(i would still wait til your closer to halloween, since its not that much discounted right now), also employees get extra discounted on top of the prime ones(recent changes). funny thing its somewhat cheaper too.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

Baking cookies from scratch is easy and cheap. Here's NASA's recipe: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sunspot-cookies/en/

American pricing be like.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What the hell is up with these prices?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

it's what happens when you elect economic geniuses

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] bier@feddit.nl 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

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...

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 8 hours ago

Trick or Candy mortgage!

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 17 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

This is not odd at all. Competitors prices are now (say) 30% higher, everyone else can raise 29%.

[–] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 minutes ago

TIL, thx for insight

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] noisypine@infosec.pub 5 points 9 hours ago

WinCo FTW. Love that place.

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 26 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago

Almost as if the currency is in the toilet.

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago

I'll start: Ribeyes were over $20 each the other day.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
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