At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars

Okay, complete tangent, but...

When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said "Sure!" and gave him another, then followed up with "You can have the whole box, if you want..."

My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.

So that's how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.

A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, 'Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy...'

All that delicious palm oil

As a kid I yearned for the mines

The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.

And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the "mine!"

Wait, you don't just throw candy down the mine holes?

I got excited at this idea until I remembered that American cider isn't alcoholic. Should make some proper scrumpy!

Where do you get roasted chestnuts?

¡Hecho en México!

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.

I would have to assume that if you handed out single dollar bills, kids wouldn’t really know what to do with it.

when I was a kid, people would give out pennies when they ran out of candy

I mean.. Those look like normal Canadian prices.

However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.

Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I'm surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?

I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they're still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.

We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.

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

Thanks Obama!

Almost as if the currency is in the toilet.

What are you, some kind of socialist? But seriously, people always complain about how things are so expensive but keep buying the same overpriced trash.

Dumdums, sure, but where did you find rice krispie treats that are cheaper than this candy? Just spitballing, but 140 pieces for $20 works out to something like 8 cents per piece, while just a quick search shows prices for rice krispies to be way higher, up to 50 cents per, with a few options scattered that bring the prices close (I think I saw a 100 pack for $21, and a 45 pack for $9).

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%.

WinCo FTW. Love that place.

Winco is incredible. At first, I was annoyed at them not accepting credit cards. But after seeing the prices, and how credit card companies work, I understand it.

Things are higher quality/cheaper than Walmart, without the "Walmart tax" of cheating the manufacturer.

Nothing's spookier than fear mongering

it's what happens when you elect economic geniuses

It's just your typical Trump economy.