Soaring Inflation Pushes Halloween Candy Prices Scary High

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Maybe we can release some from our candy reserves.

The cost of candy ingredients, such as flour and sugar, has surged more than the overall inflation rate, leaving many customers with sticker shock ahead of Halloween

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Soaring Inflation Pushes Halloween Candy Prices Scary High
The cost of candy ingredients, such as flour and sugar, has surged more than the overall inflation rate, leaving many customers with sticker

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Soaring Inflation Pushes Halloween Candy Prices Scary High

The cost of ingredients such as flour and sugar has surged more than the overall inflation rate

By Alyssa Lukpat
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Updated Oct. 25, 2022 10:32 am ET

Soaring inflation has already strained home buyers, drivers at the gas pump and people buying plane tickets.

Now it’s coming for shoppers in the Halloween candy aisle, too.

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[dem4decades]

1. Why post WSJ articles that push the inflation narrative? The local news did a story on the "high"

price of turkeys, so high that some poor Trump supporter said she was going to have to have chicken instead. It's all to push how bad Biden has made inflation, and it's all bullshit.

BTW. the story said turkey was $4 a pound, my wife looked at the local flyer and it was $1.69.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Who benefits from real or pretend high prices of food and gas right before an election?

[global1]

3. Don't Buy The Candy....

Leave it on the shelves of the stores. They will have to discount it to get rid of it after the 31st.

Was out shopping yesterday and have already seen 50% sales of halloween candies and merchandise because its not moving.

The discounts after the 31st will be greater.

My folks gave pennies and nickels out when I was a kid. Cheaper and it saves dental bills.

Greed has hit the corps and they are just taking advantage of the situation and creating a false inflation.

I talked to a worker at a local Wal-Mart where they've raise prices of food items and were told to keep the shelves looking sparse like there is a shortage of the item.

People react to the limited amount of stock on the shelf by buying more than one item because they fear the next time they shop there won't be any. All the time there is ample backup in the storerooms.

Most of what we're seeing is artificial shortages created to raise and justify the marked-up prices.

We're being conned. Corps are making record profits off their greed and our fears and blaming all this on the Dems & Biden.

[jimfields33]

5. It's still the cheapest holiday there is.

Even if you buy $100 worth of candy, it’s cheaper than Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even birthdays sometimes. Just enjoy the damn day and make it all about the kids.

[DURHAM D]

4. Time to Trick or Treat for UNICEF. nt

[Demsrule86]

6. I paid less this year. Please stop posting right wing garbage from right wing sites.

Wsj is a right wing source.