This Halloween, Cindy Verchere is expecting over 3,000 kids to visit her home in Vancouver’s Douglas Park neighborhood, a trick-or-treating hotspot.

She has spent just under $500 for this year's stock, an increase from previous years.

“It starts to add up,” she said. “I find things that are on sale, if I can.”

According to the 2025 Halloween Treat Cost Report — where the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University looks at candy prices every year before Halloween — prices have increased between 10 and 20 per cent across the country compared to last year.

For B.C. specifically, Statistics Canada data shows confectionery items went up 11.9 per cent last year.

Candy prices are one of the scariest sights this Halloween

A few years ago, Verchere reduced the amount of candy she gives t

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