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Speaker 1: In the age of inflation and tariffs, our trips to

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Speaker 1: the grocery store get costly or by the minute. If

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Speaker 1: you thought your Halloween candy would be spared from spending pain,

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Speaker 1: think again.

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Speaker 2: Normally we'd get a couple bags. This year, it's only

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Speaker 2: two bags.

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Speaker 3: They've got you candies, and the hard candies are a

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Speaker 3: little cheaper.

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Speaker 1: A few shoppers outside of the market basket emplymouth telling

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Speaker 1: me they plan on scaling back and that chocolate candy

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Speaker 1: prices are up.

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Speaker 4: That's what Fred from Middleborough really wants.

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Speaker 5: And that's not even the good candies either, are the

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Speaker 5: ones I want.

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Speaker 1: Cocoa prices have been rising over the course of the

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Speaker 1: year and that's not helping the cause. Many tell me

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Speaker 1: they're bargain hunting with the best of them to load

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Speaker 1: up the trick or treater trough.

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Speaker 4: For others, it's buy what you can to stay within budget.

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Speaker 4: We're doing Bronmenti in Plymouth. Jim McKay WBZ, Boston's news

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