{"id":319221,"date":"2025-10-20T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319221\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:41:12","slug":"dallas-halloween-candy-prices-five-years-of-frightful-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319221\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Halloween Candy Prices, Five Years of ‘Frightful’ Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Halloween
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBe prepared to be scared: candy prices are brutal\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Hank Vaughn<\/p>\n

OK, listen. We\u2019re just kidding about the carrots. Do not drop snack bags of baby carrots in any child\u2019s Halloween bag. That\u2019s just traumatizing. Besides, that neighborhood tyke you foisted veggies on might grow up to be a teen someday and seek revenge. Given the price of candy<\/a> this year, you might be better off just leaving your porch light off and keeping away from windows when little boys and ghouls come calling.<\/p>\n

According to a recent report by the finance website FinanceBuzz, candy prices<\/a> have increased by 78% since 2020. \u201cA 100-piece bag of assorted Halloween candy<\/a> averages $16.39 this year \u2013 up $7.20 over the past 5 years,\u201d according to their study, based on a review of archived grocery flyers. \u201c\u2026The majority of that cost increase has come in the last two years, as the cost for a 100-piece bag of candy went up by $2.45 from 2023 to 2024 and another $2.34 from last year to now, for a total increase of $4.78 in just two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

FinanceBuzz collected prices for bulk bags of mixed Halloween candy from Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons. They excluded sale prices and included information on at least 25 different bags of candy in each year.<\/p>\n

Their information is supported by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, which tracks inflation data. Its graph for the last year for candy and gum prices tracks a steep slope. <\/p>\n

\"GraphThis graph of candy and chewing gum prices from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis assumes a base starting unit of 100 in 1998.<\/p>\n

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

So yeah, it\u2019s going to be an expensive Halloween, and, checking out some prices online at Dallas grocery stores, we\u2019re frankly a little suspicious of FinanceBuzz\u2019s 25 bags of candy. Does that variety include Sixlets or, God forbid, candy corn?<\/p>\n

Tom Thumb had a 200-count variety pack of some of the good stuff \u2014 M&Ms, Snickers, etc. \u2014 for $29.99, or $24.99 for a 160-count bag. The prices seemed similar at Walmart, where you could order a 180-count Hershey\u2019s variety for $19.88. The prices don\u2019t include any loyalty discounts and vary by whether you\u2019re buying the \u201cfun\u201d size of \u201cmini\u201d bars, or we call them, \u201cchintzy\u201d or \u201cchintizier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this is surprising to anyone who has gone shopping lately or who read our recent story on how inflation is hitting vendors at the State Fair of Texas<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big one, though, is chocolate,\u201d long-time concessionaire Mark Zable told Observer Food Editor Lauren Drewes Daniels. \u201cLast year, for 20 kilos I paid $339.29, and this year it went up to $580.51. That is a huge change [71%]. I think that is probably the most terrifying change for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, Americans do spend a ton of money on Halloween, including treats and costumes, FinanceBuzz reported. \u201cAccording to S&P Global, Americans spent a record $4.1 billion on Halloween candy last year, which comes out to about $31 per household. With more than half of Americans reporting that rising prices will change how much they spend on Halloween candy in 2025, that record may stand for another year,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

For no particular reason, we checked estimates of the average price of eggs in Dallas, $3.44 a dozen, and toilet paper, $4.17 for four rolls. Wait! JUST KIDDING, KIDS! Do not even think about it, carrots or not. People are cranky in 2025, and there are too many damn guns out there.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, grown-ups, enjoy your Halloween<\/a>. We will \u2014 silently crouching behind the couch until the coast is clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Be prepared to be scared: candy prices are brutal Hank Vaughn OK, listen. We\u2019re just kidding about the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,79,17810,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-319221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-halloween","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115407964397552376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}