Disappointed there are no Halloween sweets this year

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I’ve had a look in several supermarkets and found that while they’re selling own-brand stuff (mainly jelly sweets and bags of chocolate pumpkins) for Halloween, there’s no Cadbury or Nestle products.

I know for certain that in previous years we had little milkybar ghosts and pumpkin heads filled with mini-smarties, Cadbury goo heads and chocolate shaped like spiders. There was a display of Halloween sweets in Sainsbury’s where there was a big cardboard stand that had pumpkins on but the sweets inside were just standard haribos.

Have I missed something here - I’m sure I could get this stuff last year. I’m starting to doubt myself!

When there are still shortages of raw ingredients, massive supplier inflation, staff shortages, etc., then it's pretty unreasonable to expect the "big brands" to waste their resources on what customers expect to be cheap gimmicks.

It's different for the cheaper brands, supermarket own labels, etc., because they'll be using cheaper ingredients, probably cheaper labour (if not made in the Far East), so can still produce mass produced crap at a low enough price for the average cheapskate customers in pound shops.

It's just the new reality when you have inflation along with materials and labour shortages. The big brands will use their limited resources to continue to make their best selling, higher profitability, products.

I’ve seen loads.

To be honest, and in my opinion, Nestle and Cadbury's are not exactly quality.

The Lidl catalogue is absolutely full of them.

Oh I see you don't want own brand. Sorry.

My local Tesco has a whole aisle of Halloween goods including all of the sweets you have mentioned. As does my local B and M and Home Bargains. We even commented about how they seem to have even more than previous years

Agreed. I find the ones from cheaper brands and shops like Lidl and Aldi are much nicer.

The title of this thread is weird though because there's bloody loads of Halloween sweets available. I mean Lidl for example had half an aisle full when I was in yesterday including chocolates, jelly sweets, chewy sweets, lollipops, jellybeans, chocolate bars and marshmallows. Not sure what other kinds of sweets anyone would need.

Loads in sainsburys yesterday! (And morrisons last week..)