Speaker 1: Back with Eddie and Jason Williams in for Rocky Today.
Speaker 1: On a Friday around about this time, we always talked
Speaker 1: to this fella right here from w CPO nine News,
Speaker 1: our good friend John matteries, don't waste your money, and Johnny,
Speaker 1: I was in the I was in the Kroger today
Speaker 1: picking up a couple of items, and here we are
Speaker 1: what There were still four weeks out from Halloween, and
Speaker 1: I walked by display for Thanksgiving cards. I'm surprised they
Speaker 1: didn't see it. But but anyways, so but anyway, speaking
Speaker 1: of Halloween, the candy this year, I also saw, you know,
Speaker 1: they obviously got racks of that stuff out, and man,
Speaker 1: I just you're gonna go brook feeding them kids?
Speaker 2: You are this year? Yeah, candy price is higher than
Speaker 2: ever for anything chocolatey. And you know everybody wants those
Speaker 2: Reese's peanut butter cups. They're by far the most popular,
Speaker 2: you know. And then you have twigs and Hershey's bars,
Speaker 2: and oh my goodness, we're in Kroger. Four ninety nine
Speaker 2: is the current price of a small snack bag. I
Speaker 2: mean a few years ago, those are like two seventy five,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah, they're four nine five Bucks went over
Speaker 2: to Walmart. There are also five bucks over at Walmart.
Speaker 2: And this is a small bag. I mean, if you're
Speaker 2: in a busy neighborhood that has a lot of kids,
Speaker 2: Oh that'll that little bag will last year about ten minutes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How many pieces are in it? I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: Not too many, Like you get thirty pieces or something.
Speaker 2: Then you have the bigger bags and you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: well let's get some of the bigger bags. Well, those
Speaker 2: are fifteen or twenty dollars for the bigger bag, and
Speaker 2: you get a lot more pieces. But before you know it,
Speaker 2: you've spent you sent over one hundred bucks for your candy,
Speaker 2: and you're hoping that's all you need. You're hoping. It's
Speaker 2: not a beautiful night, and you got to say, honey,
Speaker 2: run out to Walgreens because we're running low and it's
Speaker 2: only uh six fifteen. No, it's just crazy how expensive
Speaker 2: it Skinddy.
Speaker 1: I think you John. Last year we did the same
Speaker 1: segment and it woul had gone up from the previous year,
Speaker 1: and now it's going up again. And where does this
Speaker 1: stop at?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it's it's a lot of factors, a
Speaker 2: lot of is the cocoa prices. You've been hearing that.
Speaker 2: We've been hearing that all year at the cocoa prices
Speaker 2: are up, just like coffee beans. Because I drink a
Speaker 2: lot of coffee. That's getting expensive. And the candy prices,
Speaker 2: the chocolate prices are up. So question is people are saying,
Speaker 2: like what can I do about it? But one thing
Speaker 2: is be cheap like John matter Reson, and don't buy
Speaker 2: the chocolate. You know, give them the the nerds and
Speaker 2: give them the kiddle and that's my little rock.
Speaker 1: Give them exactly like what I used to do. Give
Speaker 1: them to Smartie, get one of those little just throw
Speaker 1: one smartiesay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Just just don't be like grandma and give
Speaker 2: them a penny. Here you go, a penny.
Speaker 1: There's an apple and a penny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't get I'm not even I'm not even that cheap.
Speaker 2: So you know that, you know, you could downgrade to
Speaker 2: some of the some of the other candies. Here's now
Speaker 2: something though that I would say, I would say, don't
Speaker 2: buy your candy this weekend. Do not. You're gonna be tempted.
Speaker 2: I know you're gonna be out in Kroger or Walmart
Speaker 2: this weekend. It's like, honey, we better start stocking up
Speaker 2: on this. I would not buy it this weekend. And
Speaker 2: here's why. Next week there are a bunch of big sales.
Speaker 2: There's Walmart's deals going on, there's Amazon's October Prime Days
Speaker 2: going on. Target has a Circle week going on, So
Speaker 2: the big fall sales are actually happening. Next week, you're
Speaker 2: gonna find candy mark downs, and a lot of people
Speaker 2: don't think of buying candy on Amazon. Check it out.
Speaker 2: You may find some really good deals. So that's going
Speaker 2: on next week. Here's the magic day. You gotta wait
Speaker 2: a while for it. October sixteenth. Okay, we're talking almost
Speaker 2: almost two weeks, just under two weeks. October fifteenth, that's
Speaker 2: when Kroger holds its annual candy sail that goes on
Speaker 2: for four days. They do it every year, and they
Speaker 2: mark down candy about thirty to thirty five percent. It
Speaker 2: used to be fifty percent off. Now it's about thirty
Speaker 2: to thirty five percent off. But it's still a really
Speaker 2: good deal. So those four ninety nine bags, you know,
Speaker 2: those would be down to you know, three ninety nine
Speaker 2: or something. Uh. Basically, October fifteenth is the key date
Speaker 2: for Kroger, So you might want to hold off for that.
Speaker 2: You might want to check some stuff online. I have
Speaker 2: a whole story on my John Mattery's Facebook page in
Speaker 2: WCPO dot com listing a whole bunch of sales that
Speaker 2: are coming up.
Speaker 1: And then you got to you know, if you live
Speaker 1: in a neighborhood, you have to put out your fire
Speaker 1: pit and set up a bar for all the moms
Speaker 1: and dads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got you gotta get beers.
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen guys out there got beers.
Speaker 2: Definitely, you got to get those those. Yeah, you got
Speaker 2: to get high noons, you got to get beers. You
Speaker 2: got to get some some wood for the fire pit,
Speaker 2: set up a whole thing on your driveway. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: trick or treaty and costs me about two hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: You're right cool, And that's why I hand it. That's
Speaker 2: why I hand out one piece of cant of that
Speaker 2: what's that old yellow candy corn? Yeah, one piece of
Speaker 2: candy corn.
Speaker 1: Here you go, se don't choke on it, Johnny. What
Speaker 1: else are we talking about? What's what the non refundable
Speaker 1: stuff going on these days?
Speaker 2: As far as Yeah, I've done some travel lately at
Speaker 2: a college reunion, went in to see mom and I
Speaker 2: tell you, you go to buy an airfare now, and
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, you could spend four hundred dollars or
Speaker 2: you could spend three hundred dollars for the non refundable
Speaker 2: Basic Economy. You guys flow basic Economy.
Speaker 1: I've done.
Speaker 2: Oh miserable. You know, you're the last people to board.
Speaker 2: You don't get a seat, Like you go to the airport,
Speaker 2: you have no idea what your seat is. Then they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you can't put your bag in the overhead bed. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just awful. And it's non refundable. Mean you can't
Speaker 2: change it. You got to you gotta seat on the flight.
Speaker 2: And if you want to change it now, baby nah,
Speaker 2: because you bought Basic economy. Hotels are doing the exact
Speaker 2: same thing now with prepay. You can get that hotel
Speaker 2: room for one hundred and seventy five a night or
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five a night if you prepay,
Speaker 2: no changes. And it's becoming a real dilemma because you're like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I think I'm going away this weekend. You know I
Speaker 2: might want to go see, you know, a UC game
Speaker 2: out of town or just visit family or something. But
Speaker 2: it's like, what if I need to change something, life happens,
Speaker 2: you know, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that happened to us on vacation. We flew
Speaker 1: over to London with our sons and I had already
Speaker 1: I had pre paid for hotel rooms. Well, they canceled
Speaker 1: our flight, so we had to fly out all the
Speaker 1: next morning. Well that that night was dead. So I,
Speaker 1: you know, I call the people and try to convince
Speaker 1: them like a victim of circumstances. They're like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: a non refundable. There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch out, watch out for that non refundabal Yes,
Speaker 2: especially for a big vacation. If you're going to do it,
Speaker 2: the thing to do is pay for that. We'll electra
Speaker 2: for that travel insurance. Usually fly twenty five bucks. You
Speaker 2: can get that Alliance travel insurance to a lot of
Speaker 2: airlines that'll cover if something happens. Otherwise you get stuck
Speaker 2: paying that hotel room. Your flight's light, you still pay
Speaker 2: two hundred bucks for that hotel room. So it's one
Speaker 2: of those things where they're really pushing this non refundable
Speaker 2: travel anymore to save money because they love it. Airlines
Speaker 2: and hotels of it because they're being paid in advance
Speaker 2: and they know you can't change anything because they're getting pretty.
Speaker 2: But I tell you, if you need to make any changes,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just horrible. And it's a debate. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm booking a flight. Do I spend another fifty bucks
Speaker 2: for a refundable changeable flight? I don't know, But you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know about you guys. I want a seat.
Speaker 2: I hate getting down to the gate and I don't
Speaker 2: have a seat yet. I don't know if I'm sitting.
Speaker 2: And then you end up, you know, the seat right
Speaker 2: at the bathroom door. That's the most pleasant flight you
Speaker 2: will ever have.
Speaker 1: Or between two big, giant fat people and both of
Speaker 1: them holding babies.
Speaker 2: Crying baby, yes, in the middle seat, yeah, in the
Speaker 2: middle seat next to the crying baby and the giant
Speaker 2: guy who's like Norm from Cheers. Uh. And and then
Speaker 2: you're back by the by the bathroom with that door
Speaker 2: flap and open his shut every two minutes. And now
Speaker 2: you just love that.
Speaker 1: Well between all that, you know, if we didn't have
Speaker 1: stuff to complain about, John, you'd be out of work.
Speaker 2: You know what, that's the beauty, you know, the fact
Speaker 2: that there's something to complain about and somebody getting schemed
Speaker 2: every day. I hate it, but you know, it gives
Speaker 2: me things to talk about. So guys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Don't waste your money, all right?
Speaker 1: Thanks sEH. So coming up here next, we're going to
Speaker 1: be talking to the Lions beat reporter from the Detroit
Speaker 1: Free Press about. Uh, I've heard something about this team
Speaker 1: being pretty good the Detroit I watched them against Baltimore
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, dismantled. I mean, just put it on that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, and uh up from and and again
Speaker 1: Baltimore a pretty good team. They haven't put it all
Speaker 1: together yet, but you know that, you know, round about right.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: But we'll h we'll talk about the Lions coming to town.
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