Are you being tricked by your treats? Some Halloween candy multipacks have shrunk in size, but not in price

Here's a frightening fact: you might be paying more for your chocolate treats this Halloween due to a recent spike in cocoa prices.

And if you don’t get hit with higher prices, you might still wind up paying more due to shrinkflation, a tactic where companies quietly reduce the weight of a product, but not the price.

After digging up online ads for Halloween candy from October 2024, CBC News discovered two major candy makers, Mars Inc. and the Hershey Company, had reduced the weight of several Halloween chocolate bar variety packs this year — by as much as almost 17 per cent.

The changes might be difficult for shoppers to detect, because this year's variety packs contain the same number of candy bars as they did in 2024.

Both U.S.-based companies said their products may change due to c