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U.S. consumers are dealing with double-digit Halloween candy inflation for the second year in a row, with prices being an average of 13 percent higher this month compared to last October.
Retail price tracker Datasembly’s latest Grocery Price Index, based on “data collected from over 150,000 stores that represent 200+ retail banners” across the nation, revealed the spooky numbers on October 11. The index shared that sweet treats inflation “over-indexes the entire Grocery category at 6.7 percent for the same time period.”
According to the tracker, high inflation drove a national increase of 19.9 percent last year across the “Candy and Gum” category, so an additional 12.8 percent increase from October 2022 through October 7, 2023 “makes for more of a trick than a treat for consumers.” More
Prices of sugar and cacao are way up.
^^ Had been buying 8oz 90% dark chocolate bars for $2.50 for almost an entire year and the past couple months went up to $3.50 and more recently $3.79. That makes me buy cheaper 76% dark and it lasts longer cause I don’t like the sugar.
and the sizes (portions) are smaller.
itz all poison
And yet, COLA is at 3.2%
But the SSA cost of living will increase 3.2%
So who called it fixed income
Screw Halloween.
We turn off lights in the front part of the house and disconnect the doorbell.
People fill up their cars and hit our subdivision with their kids. These people have no connection with our neighborhood. The just assume that because it is an upscale neighborhood, that they can hit us up for free candy.
Sorry kids need to learn there’s nothing free.
when the SSA income is less than the rate of inflation (pay attention here kiddies) … the ‘fixed income’ is even less $$$ than the going rate of consumer prices …. making the ‘fixed income’ even lower than COLA’s
call it what you want, Communist/Socialist policies may make you feel good at first, but never give back more than they take in … just as the retirement scams of the USSR, ChiComs, the National Trust of GB, or the SSA
I will never recoup the $$$ I put into SSA throughout my retirement … regardless of my ‘fixed income’ inflation increases … ‘inflation increases’ are just another part of the government scam … just give me back my $$$ & allow me to invest it in a capitalist system & I’ll out-perform it every time by just investing in a short-term fund … get a clue … buy low, sell short … effin’ Zoomers don’t know shit & are even less interested in learning about it
clue: did you know that the average American, that paid their whole lives in to the SSA, get less $$$, on average, than the illegal aliens get from your government as soon as they cross the border?
look it up, enlightened one … you keep telling us you are so ‘modern world’ & internet-savvy … do it!
get a basket, catch a clue