Not all Halloween Candy is a Deal

Just because it's packaged for Halloween and sold with the rest of the candy, doesn't mean it's a good deal.  My mom likes to give Teddy Grahams or Goldfish to the little kids that come to the house, trick or treating.  We talked about going to the outlet mall to see what they had to offer in terms of individual, small packages of crackers but we went to Target first.  We had some gift cards from there that we got to use for Halloween candy, and they had a good deal going on candy.  We bought a 25 count box of Goldfish for $5. 

After doing our shopping there, we went to the outlet mall, stopped at the Pepridge Farm store and saw a bag of goldfish for $3.  We decided to pick it up to add to our stash, and picked up a few other things while we were there.  When we got home, I counted and there were 20 in the bag.  Doing the math the outlet package is cheaper although you get more with the Target package.  However today we found something interesting.  My mom opened the Target package and found that those goldfish packets are half the size of the outlet packets. 

The one on the left was from the outlet mall, 0.75 oz, where as the one on the right was from Target, 0.4 oz. 

Now that we've seen the packages marketed for Halloween, we won't waste our money on that and will simply go to the outlet mall for their $3 bags.