"Target's lowest price on Halloween candy bags is $5.99 now," said Edgar Dworsky, founder of the website Consumer World, which has tracked inflation in consumer food prices since 1995. "That is not low to me. And I have seen unit prices of over $9 a pound, with over 50 cents an ounce being common."
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Dworsky said he's concerned that the packaging could lure consumers into thinking they need to buy it.
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