{"id":4113,"date":"2025-10-31T00:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/chocolate-crunch-sends-halloween-candy-prices-soaring\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:08:15","slug":"chocolate-crunch-sends-halloween-candy-prices-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/31\/chocolate-crunch-sends-halloween-candy-prices-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate crunch sends Halloween candy prices soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-b2eee0\" class=\"body-graf\">Halloween treats are as sweet as ever, but the rising costs of candy may make consumers feel tricked this year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-26ef4a\" class=\"body-graf\">Data shows Halloween candy prices are increasing faster than inflation, a squeeze experts attribute to conditions in the cocoa crop climate and increases in confectionary manufacturing costs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboolaReadMoreBelow\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"anchor-2ebfae\" class=\"body-graf\">Five years ago, a 100-count bag of assorted Halloween candy would have cost around $9 a bag. Today, this bag would cost around $16, according to research from the personal finance website FinanceBuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween treats are as sweet as ever, but the rising costs of candy may make consumers feel tricked this year. Data shows Halloween candy prices are increasing faster than inflation, a squeeze experts attribute to conditions in the cocoa crop climate and increases in confectionary manufacturing costs. Five years ago, a 100-count bag of assorted <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketsfortress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}