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Halloween candy

Patty Neal reports her local Stop & Shop now has Halloween candy on the shelves.

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Update: Dollar Store in Allston is selling fake rats and other Halloween-y things!

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are a big seller all year round.

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Market Basket has the stuff too, but not able to deliver to stores until the Demoulas family gets their act together.

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Does anyone actually like candy corn?

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I love candy corn!

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Enough that you'd buy a few bags for right now?

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I bought a bag last October and didn't get through it until March. I don't think I'm allowed to buy another this year.

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Absolutely!

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I have friends who lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove candy corn.

I, on the other hand, think you should just drink a gallon of corn syrup.

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... to get corn syrup by the gallon, so I stick with the candy corn.

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We don't need no stinkin' gallons in Central Square. The Tootsie Roll factory on Main Street gets regular tankloads delivered by tractor trailer trucks, and pumped in by a nozzle on the outside of the building.

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The only thing I hated worse than candy corn were those wafers that Necco makes.

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I love Necco wafers!

Mmm, sugar.

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I like the clove flavored chalk disc in that roll of sugar hosts.

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I love it! Though I won't be buying any until October, otherwise I'll eat way too much of it. Putting it out in July is just ridiculous.

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But Circus Peanuts make me queasy.

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Give or take a few dozen.

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I think "The Straight Dope" did something on that fetish, moxie.

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it's way too early to have all those Hallowe'en candies on the shelves! It's crazy.

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Yes! And the candy pumpkins are even better!

But it is too early. I like seasonal treats. Stretching the retail season out just dilutes the excitement for me.

AC Moore has fall stuff out too.

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I'd rather they have the Halloween stuff out in July than the Christmas stuff out in September.

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Which they will anyway, so....

I can't think that anyone actually buys FOR Halloween this early. I have to think that the manufacturers need to get the Halloween stuff off the machines before they can start making the Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines' Day, and Easter packaging, so the take the "Ordinary Time" stuff out of production until the candy holidays are over.

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that the best way to counter "less than forecast" sales of this unnecessary crap stuff is to start the season a little bit earlier the following year.

Of course, the idiocy of this "policy" is that everyone knows when Halloween, Christmas, etc. is, and are highly unlikely to actually buy the stuff earlier. So what happens next year? You guessed it, the companies decide to put the stuff on the shelves even earlier.

We will be much better off as a society once the mid-1980s MBA graduates running these places, who were trained that the only thing that matters is profits, profits, profits, ....... and even more profits, are dead and gone. Then perhaps we'll be able to interject some actual common sense in how we deal with holidays.

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There goes my diet.. I cannot resist halloween candy...

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explains why clothing stores don't have any more summer clothes.

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Man, those are going to be in real good shape three months from now. Hard enough to bounce off a pumpkin.

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...around the weekend before the end of school, it was pretty epty, it might of been the year the stores closed, and I saw on the shelves "Back-to-School" signs throughout the store. We not out of school and they already putting signs up.

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I love candy corn, but candy pumpkins are even better.

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... go dressed as CVS shelves stocked with Xmas items.

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MORE CANDY CORN!!!!

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... there's not another candy-binge holiday until Halloween. Be glad they didn't start with this a couple of months ago.

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for dentists.

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in the late 1960s - early 1970s, we had three dentists living in the neighborhood. They ALWAYS gave out the best Halloween candy.

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just celebrate Halloween the 31st of July or August!

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Last week I was in Family Dollar in 01830 looking for Miracle Gro for my outdoor plants, and the gardening section was 3/4 empty.... filled with Christmas decorations.... I was confused for a minute..WTH!

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I worked in a drug store for many years in high school (Fay's SuperDrug, yes there was ONE in NH in 1980s/early 1990s) and learned all about the season changing because it meant the displays were constantly changed.

First off many products arrive at store's distribution center (DC) far in advance. This is because, unlike daily items (perishables, BHA's, etc that are made continuously), many items are not made year round so stores tend to order their quantities far in advance, usually based on last years sales. So its a set amount. Yes a store can order from the DC to replenish from stock the DC has, but the DC rarely re-orders more seasonal items outside of an initial few deliveries from the manufacturer.

With that said, combine this with a 'set stock' amount at a the DC, pretty much makes any seasonal item a 'sell down' item, which basically means sell it until its gone. So constantly the staff is condensing the shelves to add more product and make them look fuller (stores do not want empty shelves, ever!). And eventually the DC stops sending a certain season's items, and moves on to the next. It's just simply that.

It's not some big conspiracy that the stores are trying to push another holiday onto us sooner, it's just that it's what's next to fill the shelves after another seasons's stuff has been sold. Usually most stores wait until there's enough space to setup another season, which is why you have a week or two of near empty seasonal items between seasons.

And this is also why you'll go to a smaller, less busy store and still see the outgoing season's stuff, but go to a larger, more busy store in the same store chain and it'll be totally switched out to a new season. It's just simply sell down and what people are buying at that store.

I know it's annoying.. I loathe Christmas stuff early, but I understand why. Stores don't want to be left with seasonal merchandise. We've all been thru the discount bin at Stop & Shop in late March and still find Halloween and Christmas stuff.. it's tragic. So the stores try to prevent that by not overbuying. It's just frustrating to try to buy a cooler in late July! (Target near me was out because they were converting to Back to School)

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I once saw the store manager explaining this to a new stocker in the Allston's Shaw's. It was around early July and the summer stuff was selling down, and he told the shelf stocker, "Yeah, I knowthe college kids won't be back until the end of August, but we can't have the shelves be empty in the meantime. It's here, so we have to put it out."

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...unsold surplus from 2013?

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Is this an advance Halloween sale or just an unsold stocks from last year? LOL

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