Most junk food in the US has gone off the rails in terms of price. Like seriously, don't spend money on food that has zero nutritional value and is actively harmful to your health. You'll feel so much better and your bank account will be so much bigger.

I guess I have corporate America to thank for no longer buying chips, candy, or baked goods that I might've otherwise splurged on as a treat. Can't justify it with prices the way they are.

Wow they really do make it hard to find the "And I raped kids" version

At least it's snap eligible

But if you break it in half, you'll have 2 bars, and that's like 50% off! Break it again, 50+50 that's 100% off! Why stop there?! Trump did say he was gonna cut prices by 700%.

Promises made, Americans wept 🙃

Canadian here, I remember years ago going to the US, we were at par for money, and a candy bar in the US was like $1 or $2. So the $2 chocolate bar was $2 for us too.

Now this US$6.49 is basically CA$10, it is insane!

What type of store is this in?

Gas stations, or department stores around me gouge the shit out of you for snacks/candy. Easily $5-6cad for a chocolate bar. A dollar store though, usually sells an Oh Henry (~58g) for $1.25 or $2 for a 'share size' (the 2 smaller bars in one package ~82g).

Still not great, but much better than $6.50 (USD I assume)

a king sized snickers costs 3 bucks.

this candy bar is a deal compared to that, lol.

edit: I'm wrong, that says 2 Bars on the edge, not 2 pounds (why is lbs short for pounds anyway?!)

How big are they? There is zero indication that I can see.

I just looked up the prices for a chocolate bar here in Denmark, The price for a 40-50g chocolate bar is around $2 USD in supermarkets.
We don't have the ones OP posted, but the price for a 50g Mars bar is $2.20 USD. And that price includes 25% VAT.
Without VAT it's $1.84 USD.

So the price in the image seems insane.

I am so glad I am not the only one who thought that this was a 2 pound bar..

This follows my conspiracy theory that grocery stores in areas with high SNAP benefits ussge increase the prices on everything significantly. I have some family in an area where a lot of people rely on SNAP, and spent $20 on a pack of five hot dogs.

Don't buy it?

They better get used to people not buying their candy bars.

It's junk food, not fancy nice food. It's bad for you, full stop. Nobody is going to pay that price for junk food. This also goes for fast food that now thinks it's some luxury food, it's not, it's still junk. For God sakes, stop giving these soulless,oney sucking corporations your money. It's that simple. This bs stops when the money stops.

One bar is 5.25 oz so... 43.6 USD/kg In Norway a 51g bar cost me 684.31NOK/kg. At today's Google fex rate is 73.33 USD.

But then it's an import from the US and who knows what gets tariffed and taxed like fuck these days

Funny how they say it's 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that's how people eat candy bars.

1/8th at a time.

The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.

Or I'm reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the "king size," which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it's a "super king 2 bars."

Just deceptive marketing and shrinkflation, all wrapped up in one shitty package!

Pure lunacy, I'd never.

Any amount of money for most US 'chocolate' is too much.

Im willing to bet most people do not look at the price tag before buying it. Same with soda, chips, etc. Maybe they don't even look at the register. They just swipe their card, same as always.

Huh. And hereabouts I can generally get a good 250g block of chocolate for the equivalent before tax of US$3.40.