Maker of Snickers and M&Ms is raising prices

[Food Network Fan]

Maker of Snickers and M&Ms is raising prices AP - 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
Sent 259 times HARRISBURG, Pa. - The maker of Snickers bars and M&Ms candies said it is raising wholesale prices on various items to offset the higher costs of raw materials, packaging and energy, the second major candy company in the past week to announce such a move.

[Pluff Mudder]

What isn't going up in price?

[BerryBaby]

I remember when candy bars were a nickel!

[Pluff Mudder]

I do too... and they were bigger.

[ibcheft]

They have been shrinking the candy bars for a couple years now, but they can not do that now, it would disappear. Use to be able to get the one for a .05 was the size of the .99 today.

[Bentley Green]

Originally Posted by BerryBaby

I remember when candy bars were a nickel!

I do also!

Boy, have things changed drastically since then!!! We as kids, used to go to the store store and get a whole small little bag of penny candy filled to the top for only 20 cents!!!

There was Hollywood, Big Time. Kunch Bar and Zero Bar. All for only 5 cents apiece!!!
Back then, if you had a dollar or two, you were FILTHY-RICH!!!

[aoneil]

I remember when they were 35 cents at Arbor Drugs.

Luckily we have Mars and Nestle as clients here. We get a lot of free candy...but I swear, everything is going up except my paycheck.

[BerryBaby]

I loved going to the penny candy stores. They were the 7-11 of our day.

We had three of them to chose from and even with a dime you could get 10 pieces of different things....bull's eyes, jawbreakers, Chum Gum, candy buttons, licorice records, licorice whips, Mary Jane's, pretzel sticks, Tootsie rolls, Sputnik blue gum balls coated in sugar, wax bottles filled with liquid, Lik-a-maid, Pixie sticks, for a dime you could get a caramel apple. Those were such fun times!

[Bentley Green]

Don't be too surprised if Twinkies and other small cakes are next! Looks like the might have gone up already!!

[Pluff Mudder]

Originally Posted by BerryBaby

I loved going to the penny candy stores. They were the 7-11 of our day.

One of my favorites from those stores was BB Bats (the banana ones), Bit O' Honey and Bulls Eyes.