Cocoa prices hit all-time highs in 2024 and 2025. Producers in West Africa sold hundreds of thousands of tons to buyers in China, and poor growing conditions led to record prices for Western chocolate companies.
But over the past year, cocoa prices have plunged by 70%, as weather improved. Yet chocolate candy prices have increased, despite collapsing input costs.
“Shrinkflation” and “Skimpflation” were deployed by candy companies in Europe and the United States. Smaller packaging, and the substitution of cocoa butter with inferior oils, resulted in booming profits even while cocoa prices soared.
Now that input costs have fallen, chocolate companies have maintained those strategies, and are more profitable than ever.
: “Who said I was required to let my customers get the savings and not me?”Yeah, it’s not savings it’s just unrealized profit or some bull
I’m going to have to start a black market/underground chocolate business that operates like a cannabis dealer with delivery by bicycle. All the regional varieties will be named in the style of cannabis strains.
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who tf expects them to put coco butter etc back?
you’re huffing wite-out if you think it’s going back to how it was, whatever that even means.
“Why don’t you reduce prices if costs are down? As an idealistic liberal, I don’t understand!”
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Cool, another item I will simply no longer buy because it’s dogshit now.
To be fair, companies did so much skimpflation that there’s barely any chocolate in most of chocolates now.
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