Tips to Save Money on Halloween Candy
Where to find the sweetest deals on Halloween candy. Walgreens offers the cheapest prices if you're looking to get a few hundred fun-sized candies for trick-or-treaters. The drug store has all of the popular brands on sale for in-store purchases.
Bags of candy (up to 12 oz. in size) that are more than $2.00 but less than $3.00 are a good deal (up to $0.25 per ounce). This won't get you that extreme price but is good enough to buy if you are in a hurry or need some candy asap.
Tip: Buy your favorite candies the day after Halloween (or any holiday). They are often immediately discounted 50 percent or more. Wait a week, and they'll drop to 75 percent off or more.
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Halloween candy price per ounce
We found Target has the cheapest bag overall. A 64-ounce bag of Child's Play candy there sells for $8.54; that's 13 cents an ounce. ... But, Costco sells a mix of Hershey, Mars and Nestle candy in its Kirkland Signature All Chocolate for 18 cents an ounce.
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Target and Walmart will both mark their Halloween items down 50% the day after the holiday, but there will be a second markdown a couple days to a week later.
The best time to buy candy is slightly less than 12 months before Halloween.
In a recent analysis, Ibotta discovered that shoppers got the best deals on candy four days before Halloween, when the average price was just $1.94 per unit. For those who waited until the day before All Hallow's Eve, the median cost rose more than 80 cents to $2.75 per unit.
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