Even years later, as a world-weary adult, I can clearly remember the excitement of getting a full-sized candy bar while trick-or-treating on Halloween. Households that handed them out were rare enough ...

Patrick Bucco strolled through the candy aisle at BJ's Wholesale Club in Haverhill, his 2-year-old daughter, Riley, in tow. He bypassed the fun-size, bite-size and miniature-size chocolate candy bars ...

In 2019, 95% of the 172 million Americans celebrating Halloween planned to buy candy, according to one survey. That was significantly higher than the number of people planning to purchase decorations ...

Full-size candy bars are the holy grail of Halloween. For many trick-or-treaters, they are seen as the ultimate bounty—a proper, grown-up Snickers or Milky Way with which to mock less-fortunate peers ...