"I normally wait until the last minute to pick up candy for Halloween. This entails going to the supermarket during my lunch break on Halloween only to find that all of the Halloween-themed bags have already been replaced with Christmas ones. This usually leaves me with no option but to buy the only candy that normally comes individually wrapped in bulk: blow-pops and stacks and stacks of fun-sized chocolate bars. Beggars can't be choosers."
"It was supposed to be a quick shop. In and out. Instead, I stared at the bags of Snickers and Reece's Cups like I was picking which arm to get amputated. A big bag of assorted Hershey's candy was almost $17. That couldn't be right. I checked again. Ouch. I went for a small bag of Butterfingers. It was $6.59. That would not be nearly enough."
"The irony, of course, is that I do not need nearly this much candy. I always have a ton left over, sitting in the bowl and rotting my teeth through mid-November. But what if this year is different? What if busses of children roll up to my street demanding dispensation? Better safe than sorry. And so I pay to subsidize the fat cats at Mars and Hershey. Apparently I have it easy. One particularly grim thread on the inflation subreddit tells a different story."
Halloween candy prices are rising while package sizes shrink, increasing the cost of supplying trick-or-treat bowls. Last-minute supermarket trips yield limited selections, often leaving shoppers with only individually wrapped bulk items like blow-pops and fun-sized bars. Store visits produced sticker shock—assorted Hershey's bags near $17 and small Butterfinger bags at $6.59—prompting tough choices about quantity and cost. Many households overbuy to avoid running out, resulting in leftover candy. Online communities report extreme examples of expense, such as spending $95 on several small mini-candy bags that still may not last the night.
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