High Chocolate Prices Slow Halloween Candy Sales

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHalloween candy sales dropped six point seven percent in the month that ended October seventeenth, and NielsenIQ puts a lot of the blame on chocolate prices.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSmall bags are the only size still growing. Large and extra-large took the biggest drops, so people are basically on the free trial of Halloween.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHere's a deal, though. Aldi has a hundred and thirty-five piece variety pack of Mars chocolate bars for nineteen dollars and eighty-seven cents this week!

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's almost what a two hundred and fifty piece pack cost five years ago.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the savings are... in the past. Sorry. Who pays for the old ones?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGas is four twenty-nine a gallon, up nearly forty percent, and NielsenIQ's Chris Costagli says high gas prices are dampening demand for treats too.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou can't trick-or-treat if you can't drive to the good neighborhood.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNon-chocolate candy is about three percent cheaper, at six dollars and eight cents a pound.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd sales didn't rise. Nobody's switching to the gummies. They'd rather cancel.