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Easter Candy Price Increase · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of six point seven light FM. Good morning Jack
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  Speaker 1: and Christine Cubby in Ireland and uh, we're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for Easter and the Easter bunny candy. Yes, Easter bunny bunch.
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  Speaker 1: You still like solid Easter bunnies like solid chocolate. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't really bite into them anymore, a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: We should get you that ten pound one from Costco.
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  Speaker 2: They said, break it, yeah, but yeah, it's it's expensive
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  Speaker 2: to be the Easter bunny. So we're finding candy prices
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  Speaker 2: have jumped sixty seven percent since twenty twenty, so the
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  Speaker 2: families are paying now, like a typical the easter basket
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  Speaker 2: around ninety three dollars to take you string family.
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  Speaker 1: Ten pound bunny is like one hundred and thirteen dollars. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, because you have to hack that up
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  Speaker 1: and put a little baggies exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's fun for the whole family. But if you get
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  Speaker 2: your little guys like Greesea's Eggs and Cadbury Eggs and
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  Speaker 2: Hershey Bars, they have risen from three fifty to four
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  Speaker 2: dollars to as high as eight dollars plus shrink flation.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is smaller than it used to be. They think
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to catch it. Experts say the surge
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  Speaker 2: is tied to earlier spikes in cocoa costs and years
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  Speaker 2: of gradual price hikes, and that's why everything is more
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  Speaker 2: expensive this year. But people don't plan on cutting back.
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  Speaker 2: We still want to have our chocolate and our Easter bunnies.
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  Speaker 1: Things we want.
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  Speaker 2: There are things we want. And speaking of things we want,
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  Speaker 2: if we could please help out Easter Bunny producer Kristen
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  Speaker 2: because she is searching for fru Freu. So Zootopia's free Freu,
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  Speaker 2: which is a Funko mini apparently is sold out every way,
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  Speaker 2: but somebody loves it a lot of people love it.
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  Speaker 2: Because Kristin can't find it. It's sold at five below
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  Speaker 2: and I guess on Funko's website and it is just gone.
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  Speaker 2: It's this tiny, tiny little thing. But they have.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple ones, right, they have multi, but they have multiple,
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  Speaker 1: but only the fruit.
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  Speaker 2: He wants free Fruit.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's.
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  Speaker 2: From Zootopia, which is a tiny little rat again, sold
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  Speaker 2: it five below from New York. That's sure. Can't can't
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  Speaker 2: find it, So if you happen to see it, could
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  Speaker 2: you let us know four four three sixty three. Because
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  Speaker 2: the Easter Bunny can't disappoint