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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,347 posts)
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 08:11 AM Oct 2022

Soaring Inflation Pushes Halloween Candy Prices Scary High

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

wsj.com
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



BUSINESS

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
https://twitter.com/AlyssaLukpat
alyssa.lukpat@wsj.com
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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Soaring Inflation Pushes Halloween Candy Prices Scary High (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 OP
Why post WSJ articles that push the inflation narrative? The local news did a story on the "high" dem4decades Oct 2022 #1
Who benefits from real or pretend high prices of food and gas right before an election? Irish_Dem Oct 2022 #2
Don't Buy The Candy.... global1 Oct 2022 #3
It's still the cheapest holiday there is. jimfields33 Oct 2022 #5
Time to Trick or Treat for UNICEF. nt DURHAM D Oct 2022 #4
I paid less this year. Please stop posting right wing garbage from right wing sites. Demsrule86 Oct 2022 #6

dem4decades

(11,950 posts)
1. Why post WSJ articles that push the inflation narrative? The local news did a story on the "high"
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 08:18 AM
Oct 2022

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.

global1

(25,943 posts)
3. Don't Buy The Candy....
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 08:49 AM
Oct 2022

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

(19,221 posts)
5. It's still the cheapest holiday there is.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 10:23 AM
Oct 2022

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.

Demsrule86

(71,033 posts)
6. I paid less this year. Please stop posting right wing garbage from right wing sites.
Sun Oct 30, 2022, 11:04 AM
Oct 2022

Wsj is a right wing source.

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